What is Black? Happy April Fools Year & the Words They Say to Make us Think They Aren't Bigots.

Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized Podcast

iHartEricka

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 2 April 2019

⏱️ 96 minutes

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And what exactly do ya'll mean by "woke" when you say it in response to people resisting their own subjugation? Why would Van Jones applaud right wing views and also herald Kim K as the next coming of Malcolm in criminal justice reform? Why is the Mayor of Chicago so upset with one case, considering this: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theroot.com/feds-confirm-that-the-chicago-police-dept-is-as-corrup-1791173264/amp Are you melting too? Also, what is the line between conservatism and racism? Well, there is no line so why does that word conservative exist? What could possibly be conserved? Join us as we parse out "bold, left leaning ideas", red, blue, progressive, liberal and all the ways that white supremacy is upheld by any other name. The rhetoric is deadly. Recommended Reading: The Sarah Lawrence Protests, please stand with them and demand the university to meet the students' demands https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/03/13/students-sarah-lawrence-want-review-tenure-conservative-professor-who-criticized What happened there in New Zealand isn’t isolated, it becomes inevitable when islamaphobia is fostered in our government at the federal and state level it’s connections to all of the aforementioned (There is in danger in not considering all forms of violence and how they lead to death—- Ilhan Omar vilification leads to this kind of islamaophibia that is fatal) Excellent article on the white terror attack in New Zealand by Sahar Ghumkhor https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/hypocrisy-zealand-claim-190319104526942.html?fbclid=IwAR1-8BMzamsE04e1Zz5s07an6MgV2PWDTs5jj_0aq7dQoL7U4oTapCpxdhM Ebony and Ivy by Craig Steven Wilder (black author) https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/ebony-and-ivy-9781608193837/ Alexandria Ocasio Cortez's Comments on Reparations https://medium.com/@SIIPCampaigns/the-congressional-black-caucus-needs-to-pass-a-reparations-bill-before-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-c3ef3c6ee438 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bet.com/news/national/2019/03/19/_who-is-black-_--alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-erasure-of-blackness-.amp.html Willie McCoy https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theroot.com/bodycam-footage-shows-vallejo-police-shoot-willie-mccoy-1833688793/amp Theme Music: Apathy Happy by Benjamin Earl Turner https://open.spotify.com/album/56MVukuaZLRsSvMHErDNo0 This episode is dedicated to Victor McElhaney and Ashanti Carmon

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0:00.0	I'll beat around about
0:02.9	The words will make you out and out
0:07.4	You spent the day your way
0:11.0	Call it morning driving through the sound
0:15.1	And in and out the valley
0:16.7	Going on and out
0:21.7	You're going on the drought
0:25.5	I don't know the lyrics
0:28.9	Why would you start the podcast singing something I don't know
0:32.5	I'd rather have a heart on and a hard heart
0:37.1	Put your pussy on the chain wax solid cart
0:40.1	While I know the world's problems like an oligart
0:43.1	Free love in this bitch like it's behind bars
0:46.1	Shake shake shake shake shake
0:47.2	Just because it just describes how I feel
0:49.7	Can I give a ball?
0:52.0	Who's that buck?
0:53.0	That's the roundabout body yes It's, it's for players only, but, you know. Because I got to give, but like I know we're saying. You know, the Players Association told me not to, but, you know, it's to be sold. And I told each one to, each one reach one. You know what I'm talking about. So, hi, everybody. Welcome to another episode, a hood rat, your head, right? We're just going to get right into this mother. We got to say hi. Hi. Because it's been a while. Be like white people don't speak. Just walk right past y'all. Be like, hi, welcome to the podcast. Just walk right into the podcast. How are you doing? I'm fine. Or they do that little smile where
1:10.8	it's no
1:11.2	teeth
1:12.3	it's just like, y'all can't see me, but y'all know that smile. White people do where they lips kind of go up a little bit. And it's like just like a very quick smile, like a fake smile. I'm great. I'm great. I'm great. So it's great. Very short.
1:44.3	Like a sacado smile. If you can smile. Socado. If you can smile faking, just imagine out there. Like a fake smile. Do your fake smile. That's what white people normally do. That's probably where we got it from. But, you know, black people speak. So we aren't going to be like that. You're right, Erica. Okay.
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