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What's Ray Saying?

WRS Classic: Black in the City

What's Ray Saying?

Ray Christian

Blackhistory, Storyteller, Blackculture, History, Story, Storytelling, Arts, Slam, Africanamerican

5625 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Ray explores Black American association with the South and why Black are concentrated in urban areas of the country.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to a throwback edition of What's Ray Singh, recorded during the early development of the show.

0:06.4

If it sounds different, well, I used to do this whole damn thing on my own.

0:11.7

I've got a bigger team now, but these early episodes were made with love and are absolutely worth listening to.

0:18.8

Enjoy the show.

0:20.8

You're listening to What's Ray Sane, the podcast?

0:27.0

You know, it seems like to me the word urban is synonymous with black and American culture.

0:35.7

Urban culture. The urban scene, urban art, urban blight, urban crime, urban

0:44.7

renewal, overpopulation, substandard housing, ghettos, gangs, hip-pop, blacks live in cities, big cities of the South, bigger cities

0:58.5

of the Northeast and the Midwest, the West Coast.

1:02.6

Now, I really can't even recall in my lifetime, ever meeting another black person that is more than one generation from the South,

1:13.6

or who can't draw their family roots from the South in some way.

1:19.6

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1:28.3

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1:31.3

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