To Trade or Not to Trade | Episode 33

Fly on the Wallin with Amber and Ben

The Sci-Fi Sigh Podcast

Tv & Film

5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

We got a short story, with a long dialogue. We discuss “The Space Traders” by Civil Rights activist Derrick Bell. This small tale is more prescient now than its first publication in 1992. Tune in for a discussion of unhealthy patriotism, unwritten traditions and unfit congressmen in the sunken place. Georgia Voting Law https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/georgia-voting-rights-fiasco/618537/ Dark Matter ed. by Sheree Renee Thomas Obama and Bell https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/03/the-sci-fi-story-that-offends-oversensitive-white-conservatives/254232/ Nisi Shawl’s Article https://www.tor.com/2017/12/06/old-and-cold-the-space-traders-by-derrick-bell/

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0:00.0	Welcome to the SAFISI, a podcast under the Believe podcast network about black science
0:08.7	fiction, fantasy, and staying on the same page in this marriage.
0:14.0	Greetings everyone, this will be episode 33 of the show we are here to discuss the short
0:18.3	story, The Space Traders by Derek Bell.
0:21.8	Before we get started today, I just want to let everybody know there will be spoilers
0:24.6	for everything.
0:25.7	So mute us and let us play for more listens, come back later, reunite us.
0:29.9	You know, if you ain't read it yet, read it first.
0:32.6	It's a 13 page short story, Ben, before we jump in, how you doing today with your key
0:37.4	share?
0:38.4	I'm feeling really overwhelmed.
0:40.4	About what?
0:41.4	Well, yesterday was May the 4th when we were recording this on Cinco de Mayo.
0:49.2	And I have a full time job and I can't catch up on all the new Star Wars content that's
0:56.4	coming out.
0:57.4	Well, speaking of Star Wars and aliens, we read a pretty, uh, whew, disquieting story.
1:08.8	Why don't you talk to us about why you chose the story, Ben?
1:11.3	It's hard to talk about the story without giving a summary of it.
1:14.4	So I want to give the summary before the background.
1:17.0	Okay.
1:18.0	So the summary of the space traders is very, very simple.
1:23.1	aliens arrive to the U.S. and they offer resources to solve America's financial and ecological
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