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The Minimalists

T.K. Coleman Responds to “You Ain’t Black”

The Minimalists

Joshua Fields Millburn

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🗓️ 5 June 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Joshua and Ryan discuss Joe Biden's "You ain't black" comment with T.K. Coleman. Listen to “Maximal” episodes of The Minimalists Private Podcast exclusively at patreon.com/theminimalists

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0:00.0

that minimists

0:03.1

speaking of being rebellious when you hear someone like like Joe Biden it doesn't have to be Joe Biden either this could be anyone who made a

0:08.9

statement when he told charlamagne that if you're having trouble choosing between me and Donald Trump then you ain't black right

0:16.5

um now

0:18.9

and i imagine that that that actual statement comes up and in various ways

0:25.8

and even in the black community you said you move from west side of Chicago to the suburbs and that can even be if you go back to the west side then all the sudden

0:36.6

well now you don't live here so you ain't black or you you can you you there different contexts for a

0:44.6

um

0:47.2

statement like this it's the wrong word even it it seems so i would make a distinction for when black people use that first

0:55.0

i i don't i don't think that's something that black people do to each other a lot that you know hold it like you ain't black

1:02.9

right i i i i definitely saw it growing up me no it's definitely a reality it's definitely reality but but here's what i think black people in general tend to mean by that

1:11.8

usually when black people say something like you ain't black there's usually a sense of

1:18.3

you must think you ain't black you must think that because you live with the white people over there

1:23.7

will be because you come from money or because you don't live on the streets you must have forgot that you black

1:28.5

you must think that because you left the neighborhood just because you left the neighborhood right

1:32.5

um and sometimes that's directed at a real thing so upedinus is also a thing in black communities right

1:42.0

it is possible to be a black person and think you better than other black people because maybe you grew up in

1:47.7

you grew up in the suburbs or maybe you date somebody outside your race or maybe you have more money whatever

1:53.2

and now you think you're better and if you go around black people talking to black people as if you are

1:59.6

you know um you know some higher level of blackness black people will quickly remind you of your

2:06.3

blackness and usually that kind of statement is kind of like it's getting at that it's a very nuanced

2:12.0

thing what Joe said was not nuanced at all i just think it was completely stupid silly ignorant and

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