I'm Jane Marie, and this is The Dream.

Recently, I've been inviting people on the show to answer a pretty straightforward question

that's been bothering me.

Is everything racist in America right now?

Why does it feel so much more racist around here than it has been forever?

We've had W. Kamau Bell on the program and Melinda Hale go back and listen.

And this week, I've invited my friend Andrew T. to the studio. Andrew has a very unique

perspective on race. He's been running an advice service, I guess, I don't know what you'd call it.

A clearing house, let's say a racism clearing house, for about a decade where average folks

ask him questions like mine or even dumber ones.

Yo, Is This Racist, is the show that I started a long time ago off of a Tumblr blog where it sort of did a thing that

I feel like other people have done better in the intervening years.

But it was a little bit just like baiting white people into asking questions that were

relatively to extremely ignorant about other races

and shooting those fish in a barrel because it was just sort of like, yeah, dude, of course

that's racist. That was the general tenor is like, what's wrong with you for even having to ask

whether that's racist?

The first one was about, is it racist when Yosemite Sam says cotton pickin' minute?

Is it?

Yeah.

Yeah, dude.

I'm kidding.

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