Hey there everyone,

everyone welcome to fan tie the podcast for all those complex

and complicated conversations about the gray areas in our lives.

I'm entertainment journalists and film critic Travel Anderson.

And I'm politics and pop culture journalist Jared Hill coming up on the show today

we're talking about the mainstream of blackness the mainstreaming of blackness

because of a lot of the feedback we've been getting from you people yes you people yes we've been getting a lot of the feedback we've been getting from you people yes you people yes we've been

getting a lot of messages from you all about the show and how much you love it and we thank

you for that and we wanted to talk a little bit about some of the feedback that we've been getting in a full show and like not just like reading feedback to you guys but having a discussion around some of the feedback and talking about that. So that is going to be really really cool but as always we're also

going to have our dishonorable mentions later on in the show but before we get into all that we've got a tough

question to tackle yes a tough question is our recurring segment we do when we're faced with a situation where there is no clear answer.

And today, in honor of Super Tuesday, right.

And today, in honor of Super Tuesday, which is the day that we are recording, we want to talk about voting.

And particularly whether journalists should be voting.

So the other day, the New York publisher's story about some of the steps

there journalists take to remain quote-unquote objective. It featured a quote by

Chief White House correspondent Peter Baker that reads in part he says as reporters our job is to

observe not participate and so to that end I don't belong to any political party

I don't belong to any non-generalism I don't belong to any non-generalism, I don't

belong to any non-generalism organization, I don't support any candidate, I

don't give money to interest groups, and I don't vote. I try hard not to take strong positions on public issues even in private for me it's

easy to stay out of the fray if I never make up my mind even in the privacy of the

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