What's So Wrong With African Americans Wearing African Clothes?

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Leila Day and Hana Baba are hosts of a new podcast called The Stoop. It features conversations black people have amongst themselves — but rarely in public. The pair swing by to talk with Shereen and Gene about their show, and share an episode about a very thorny question: Can African-Americans wear clothing and accessories that originated with African cultures they're not familiar with?

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0:00.0	Just a quick heads up before we get started.
0:03.5	This episode is going to contain some language that some people may find defensive.
0:07.5	Alright, let's go.
0:09.7	What's good everybody?
0:10.7	You're listening to Coat Switch.
0:11.7	I'm Gene Demby.
0:12.7	And I'm Shariin Marisol Maraji and on this week's episode we have some special guests.
0:17.6	Lila Dei and Hanababa, they host a podcast called The Stoop, which tackles issues around.
0:23.9	Black identity that aren't always discussed out in the open.
0:27.5	And we're going to play one of their episodes for you this week.
0:30.4	But before we get to that, Lila, Hanab, welcome to Coat Switch.
0:33.2	Hey guys.
0:34.2	Hey.
0:35.2	So The Stoop, how did The Stoop come to be?
0:37.3	And who would you say is your audience?
0:38.7	So The Stoop came out of these conversations that me and Hanab would have at work at KLW
0:44.9	and San Francisco.
0:45.9	And there was these conversations we have about a lot of our experiences were both black.
0:50.9	I'm African American.
0:52.5	Hanab is Sudanese.
0:55.9	We had very similar experiences, but very different black experiences too.
1:01.3	So we started talking about all of these issues and we thought we need to actually podcast
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