While White People Didn't Create Country Music, They Did Manage to Invent Colorism feat. Mayowa

Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized Podcast

iHartEricka

Society & Culture

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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...it is now a multiracial collaboration, an amerikkkan "folk" tradition, if you will. From its pseudoscientific, colonial roots to nick cannon, join us for another episode of Black People Tell Black History and a deep deep conversation with one of the leading voices drawing attention to and upending colorism as it iterates itself in all facets of life, across the globe, @mayowasworld. We cover what it is, what it's not and how to stop it. Mayowa is a writer, stand-up comedian, and discourse girlie who has spent the past decade between London, Berlin, Lagos & and now back in Atl. Their work discusses anti-blackness and how it shows up within: colorism, texturism & desirability. Support for Mayowa: Instagram: @mayowasworld venmo @mayowasworld PayPal.me/Mayowasworld linktr.ee/mayowasworld Intro Music: Patience (@patience.sings)

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0:00.0	Black people tell black history.
0:05.0	Welcome to another episode of Black People Tell
0:10.5	People Tell Black History.
0:11.8	We are joined with an amazing human being,
0:15.6	somebody that I've been following for quite some time,
0:18.5	and have been very moved by their advocacy around colorism,
0:22.3	texturism, featureism, they're comedy, they're actually absolutely
0:26.8	hilarious and an advocate and activist for black people, black futures, black queer people, all the things.
0:34.0	Yes.
0:35.0	Maio, please, for the few people in the world who do not know you, please introduce yourself.
0:40.0	Okay, hi y'all, okay, so my name is Myoa, and I am a, I do YouTube, I do
0:47.0	Instagram, I do Tik-talk, but I feel like you really introduced me really well. I
0:50.4	really like talking about things under the umbrella of anti blackness colorism
0:54.1	features and texturism just all that stuff I'm like really fascinated in I love discourse I love
0:58.8	chat yeah yeah
1:00.0	thank you so much for being here what I also say is like I acknowledge you before
1:04.9	is that you've been here with doing black people
1:07.4	tell black history with us for several years now.
1:10.4	And so I said to Mel, I said, even if it don't seem like it because people seem to not grasp the concept of colors or people are really struggling with that either on either end, people who perpetrated,
1:23.2	people who are the victims of it,
1:25.2	I think people are really struggling with this concept.
1:27.4	It really, it tricks people up.
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