The Politics of Interracial Friendships with Some Of My Best Friends Are

Small Doses with Amanda Seales

Amanda Seales

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 9.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Here’s a preview of another podcast, Some of My Best Friends Are, from Pushkin Industries. Harvard professor Khalil Gibran Muhammad and journalist Ben Austen are friends, one Black and one white, who grew up together on the South Side of Chicago. As adults, Khalil and Ben are still best friends, but they know that interracial friendships aren't going to solve the problems of a deeply divided country. On Some of My Best Friends Are, Khalil and Ben have real talks about the absurdities and intricacies of race in America. They invite guests --like actor Chris Rivas, restorative justice leader Danielle Sered, and TikTok historian Sherman "Dilla" Thomas -- to join critical conversations that are at once personal, political and playful. In this preview, Khalil and Ben talk with author Saladin Ambar about his new book, Stars and Shadows: The Politics of Interracial Friendship from Jefferson to Obama. Through famous bonds ranging from Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe, to Barack Obama and Joe Biden, they explore the dynamics, benefits, and difficulties of cultivating interracial friendships. Hear more from Some of My Best Friends Are at https://podcasts.pushkin.fm/sbfs2?sid=doses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey y'all, it's Amanda here.
0:01.5	We'll be back tomorrow with a new episode of Small Doses.
0:03.6	But in the meantime, in between time,
0:05.1	I'm switching things up a bit
0:06.6	and bringing you a preview of another podcast I've been loving.
0:09.2	It's called Some of My Best Friends Are.
0:11.5	Harvard Professor Khalil Gibramahamed and journalist Ben Austin,
0:15.1	are friends.
0:16.0	One is black and one is white.
0:18.7	They grew up together on the South Side of Chicago.
0:21.2	Now, as adults, Khalil and Ben are still best friends,
0:23.1	but they know that international friendships aren't going to
0:25.0	solve the problems of a deeply divided country.
0:27.2	On some of my best friends are,
0:28.4	Khalil and Ben have real talks about the absurdities
0:31.0	and intricacies of race in America.
0:32.9	They invite guests like actor Chris Revis,
0:35.1	restorative Justice Leader Danielle Serid
0:37.2	and TikTok historian Sherman Dillatomis
0:39.5	to join critical conversations that are personal,
0:41.8	political, and playful.
0:43.6	We talk about race in the context of pop culture
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Amanda Seales, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Amanda Seales and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.