The Power Of Anger (And Comedy) with Aamer Rahman

See Something Say Something

Ahmed Ali Akbar

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 550 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Aamer Rahman's viral stand-up bit on "Reverse Racism" is a sharp, thoughtful, and hilarious take on a microaggression that has always been a struggle to respond to. Aamer joins us on the show this week to continue schooling us on political change, why Muslims have a right to feel angry, and why Desi food and Coke go oh-so-well together.

And, some sad news. See Something Say Something will soon be ending its run at BuzzFeed News. Over the next couple of weeks, we will be preparing a finale of some sort. In the meantime, share some of your favorite memories with us on Twitter and via email, we'd love to hear from you. Thank you so much for listening and being a part of this show.

Watch Aamer's new series, "Can We Kick It?" on IST's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL_-ZpLklew&list=PLGxN3JVgPDgP4EserlrbJIcp2tf6wvusV
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0:00.0	Hey everyone. You may have read that there is some news about See Something Say Something,
0:04.4	which is that the show is ending its run here at BuzzFeed News. This is an episode that we did
0:09.3	where we interviewed Amr Rahman. We are going to give that to you as it is without any sort
0:15.0	of commentary on the ending of the show, but we are planning a send-off episode. I don't know
0:20.4	exactly when it's coming. We need
0:22.0	some time to prep it because we don't want to rush it. The show has meant so much to us and to our
0:25.9	fans. So please stay tuned to listen to that.
0:32.1	Hey everyone. I'm Amadale Yadber, and this is See Something Say Something. This week we're
0:36.4	talking to Australian comic Amir Rahman, who you may know from his viral reverse
0:40.5	racism bit.
0:42.0	I could be reverse racist if I wanted to.
0:45.6	All I would need would be a time machine, right?
0:49.6	And what I do is I get in my time machine.
0:52.5	I'd go back in time to before Europe colonize the world, right?
0:56.0	And I'd convince the leaders of Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Central and South America
1:01.0	to invade and colonize Europe, right? Just occupy them, steal their land and resources,
1:06.0	set up some kind of like, I don't know, trans Asian slave trade, where we exported white people to work on giant rice plantations in China.
1:14.6	If you see something, you better, you better say something.
1:23.6	Nothing at all, nothing at all.
1:33.7	So I'm joined by Ammer Rahman, the comedian you just heard.
1:36.9	His most recent work is a video series at Ist called Can We Kick It?
1:41.4	Where he talks to a lot of really great comedians and actors and activists.
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