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Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized Podcast

The Light Skin Elephant in the Room---Colorism

Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized Podcast

iHartEricka

Society & Culture

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2019

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Join us for one of an ongoing conversation on colorism--the light skin elephant in the room; seldom talked about but no less visible when we walk down there street, turn on the television, roll over next to your partner in bed, scroll IG, go to the racial justice workshop or slide to the function. Highly Recommended Reading: My Face is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations by Mary Frances Berry https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/12958/my-face-is-black-is-true-by-mary-frances-berry/9780307277053/ Highly Recommended Viewing: Eight Black Women Discuss the Politics of Skin Tone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3rEZnxOWcw The Inventor--Story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos Edit: I mentioned that Elizabeth Warren is offering 50 million toward HBCUs as part of her reparations support--the correct (heretofore imaginary) number is 50 billion, still a pittance in comparison to most contemporary calculations that put the number somewhere in the trillions like in this article: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/40-acres-and-a-mule-reparations-in-2019-190018747.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=fb&utm_content=bufferf8266&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer&fbclid=IwAR1zHBtViUGJdRRfqsPxqqQV5stJ0ArD4dMAAdqgPAPfCF-Me4wQDvCxdiI Music by Benjamin Earl Turner ("Apathy Happy")

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm the sounding girl

0:02.0

In the home

0:05.0

I solve all the sound issues

0:09.0

Put that on you

0:12.0

If you were like skin

0:15.0

That would go by wood

0:18.0

But I'm black, dark, mixed dark.

0:23.6

Mixed all.

0:24.6

Hey.

0:29.6

Okay, have you got.

0:32.6

All right, testing, one, two, three.

0:35.6

Test the mic, babe, test the mic. Test the mic. Check it out. Check it out. Check it out. Check it out. Check it out. Check it out. Check it out. Check it out. Keep going. I'm a rapper now. Nina Simone now. And Miles Davis now. And Nina Simone and now. Just a Bean Baker now. I'm a siding now and Miles Davis now and Nina Simone and now Josephine Baker now I'm a star in now and James Baldwin now

0:58.6

You just reading the step off of the while

1:00.7

No no no I'm spitting sweet game shotgun

1:03.8

Walker now all right

1:05.7

We just need hooey we've been overwhelmed

1:12.6

We're trying to save everything

1:15.6

We even save ourselves

1:18.6

So the only fuck I got to give is for some copulation

1:22.6

I figure that's the best place to head in this combination

1:25.6

It's probably the bed I'm too tired to be woke But that's where they kill to head in this combination. It's probably the bed.

1:27.8

I'm too tired to be woke, but that's where they kill Fred.

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