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Pass The Mic

This is America: A Video Review

Pass The Mic

The Witness

Christianity, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

It’s time to Pass the Remote! Jemar and Tyler are back to talk about Donald Glover’s provocative viral music video, “This is America”. The conversation gets...interesting. Listen in as we discuss: Is Donald Glover better than Kanye West? What does this video’s racial symbolism mean? What can this video teach us about black joy? Is Donald Glover leading a new movement of artistic activism? Episode 204 Support this podcast on patreon at www.patreon.com/PassTheMic Hosts: Jemar Tisby (twitter.com/JemarTisby) Tyler Burns (twitter.com/Burns23) Producer: Beau York (twitter.com/TheRealBeauYork) Podastery Studios (twitter.com/Podastery) Lean More: Pass The Mic - www.PassTheMicPodcast.com (twitter.com/_PassTheMic) The Witness - www.TheWitnessBCC.com (twitter.com/WitnessBCC) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This episode is brought to you in part by the chronological life application study Bible, Second Edition.

0:08.0

Helping put the story of the Bible into its cultural context so you can apply it to your life.

0:14.0

Learn more at life application.com.

0:19.0

Dynamic Voices for a diverse church. This is Pass the Mic.

0:27.0

Greetings and God bless. Welcome to another episode of Past the Mike,

0:34.0

dynamic voices for a diverse church powered by the witness of Black Christian collective.

0:39.0

I'm your host Tyler Burns. You can follow me on Twitter at Burns 23 follow at your own risk and joining me as always is the man the myth the legend the president of the witness

0:49.8

Mr Blue Check verified himself Jamartisbee was going on brother.

0:53.0

Hey man, it is a good day.

0:55.0

Do you know why?

0:57.0

Why is it a good day, bro?

0:59.0

Because as we record this, the Black Panther has been released to the masses.

1:05.0

He's in the wild. He's in the wild now.

1:07.0

See this is the thing. A couple of episodes ago I was like man going to get in a Black Panther reference in every single episode of this podcast.

1:16.2

We stepped away from it for a little bit, I think.

1:18.8

Here's what we did. We supplemented that by giving you all a Black Panther podcast,

1:23.4

literally a podcast just about Wakanda. So. Yeah, let's shout that out if you all

1:27.9

haven't listened to it. We've got what there's six episodes that y'all

1:32.1

recorded. They didn't include me because apparently I didn't know enough but that's okay I learned a lot

1:37.0

Nah, I mean don't even don't even go there

1:40.3

You see if you would have asked to be on we would have been like okay blue check verified

1:44.4

that's yeah but it's called once upon the time and what kind that you can look it up in all

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