Who Is 'Us,' Anyway?

Code Switch

NPR

Society & Culture

4.6 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

"Shouldn't you help out your own community first?" That's the question we're exploring this week via our play-cousins at Latino USA. A black celebrity is criticized for helping a Latino immigrant. On this episode, that celebrity makes his case.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	La la la la la, you're listening to Coz Witch.
0:02.4	I'm Shireen Marisol Maraji.
0:03.8	And I'm Gene Demi.
0:04.5	Welcome back, homie.
0:05.8	Thank you.
0:06.4	It's good to be back.
0:07.5	All right, so what we got this week.
0:09.4	This week we have a story from our friends over at LatinoUSA.
0:12.2	And if you're not listening to the podcast,
0:13.6	you really need to be coming up.
0:15.5	You're going to hear about what happened
0:17.2	when a pretty famous person from one community of color
0:21.3	went out of his way to help someone
0:22.9	from another community of color, dun, dun, dun,
0:25.8	and then the internet found out.
0:27.3	Oh, the internet.
0:28.4	I'm a guest, the internet.
0:29.8	I felt some type of way about it, like, you know, I mean,
0:31.9	always having that other man,
0:33.1	and not having that brother man.
0:34.7	Right.
0:36.4	There are all types of feelings about it.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from NPR, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of NPR and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.