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Ratchet & Respectable

The Curious Un-Blackness of Kamala Harris

Ratchet & Respectable

Demetria L. Lucas & Studio71

Tv & Film, News, Entertainment News, Society & Culture

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Demetria muses on how initial Jussie Smollett supporters should handle the fallout of his alleged hate crime hoax, examines the questionable Blackness of Kamala Harris (with the help of an an expert on race, Christina Douyon), fawns over Showtime's documentary on Teddy Pendergrass, clowns Floyd Mayweather for shopping at Gucci and dissects Steve Harvey's integrity in that ill-fated interview with Mo'Nique.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, you are listening to Ratchet and Respectable with

0:15.5

Dimitria L. Lucas.

0:18.0

Boys, girls, everybody, I need to let you know in advance that this week's show is going

0:25.1

to be absolutely fucktacular and all the best and worst ways.

0:30.6

I have so many things that I want to talk about.

0:32.9

Last week I did an amazing interview with Kenny Robinson, she had amazing insight, but

0:36.8

it also means that we skipped a week of talking about respectable things, right, but also

0:43.1

about fuckery and foolishness.

0:44.9

So I have to make up for lost time.

0:46.9

And there's so much going on, starting with the obvious, which is the never ending Jesse

0:51.8

Smollett catastrophe.

0:54.0

From the very beginning, there were people who were skeptical about his story, but with

0:57.9

more information coming out over the last few days, it's seeming more and more and

1:03.6

more like, oh boy, just pulled a hate crime hoax.

1:07.8

I have many thoughts, many, many thoughts about that.

1:10.5

I want to talk about this amazing documentary on showtime about Teddy Pindagrass.

1:15.2

I haven't saw him.

1:16.8

So I was scrolling through Facebook late one night and I saw a mention of it and I was

1:21.2

like, oh, and so the next day, like I just, I gave it a watch and I was like, oh my God,

1:25.8

this is amazing.

1:26.8

And then I went and watched it with my mother who I was like, I'm about to leave you in this

1:30.5

kitchen by yourself because some of your commentary is inappropriate in the presence of children

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