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🗓️ 14 November 2018
⏱️ 71 minutes
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0:00.0 | We're talking a shit. |
0:08.2 | Small doesn't give a real, small doesn't give me an end. |
0:13.5 | So funky. |
0:16.7 | So I mean, I don't know if you all saw this episode coming, but it's here. |
0:26.0 | To all my people out there who know they black, but grew up talking like this. |
0:31.4 | And possibly still talk like this. |
0:33.4 | This episode is for you because we for quite some time have heard statements like, |
0:40.6 | you think you all like because you talk white or you ain't black. |
0:44.3 | Look at your top or you think you white. |
0:47.7 | Nope. |
0:49.0 | I just talk with the diction of an individual that was raised in a private white institution. |
0:56.9 | And that for a lot of us has to do with like being raised in the immigrant background or |
1:01.5 | maybe you were like the choking black kid in your neighborhood or maybe your parents |
1:05.9 | were like Republicans. |
1:06.9 | I mean, there's a number of reasons why this can happen. |
1:10.5 | But we're going to get into what it means to be a Oreo. |
1:14.1 | We're going to get into what it really means to be like, okay, why can someone say |
1:19.5 | that you're a Oreo like what is the bottom, the grit of that? |
1:23.4 | Because where does the blackness come out of that to make you say that somebody is black |
1:28.3 | on the outside and white in the middle? |
1:30.0 | And I'm even going to perform my poem Oreo that was featured in my first book, |
1:36.4 | Young Skin, Wise Mind, Old Soul, which I'm thinking about republishing. |
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