Champagne Sharks

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We discuss the recent Very Smart Brothas "Straight Black Men are the White People of Black People"

Discussed in the episode:

* Straight Black Men Are the White People of Black People by Damon Young http://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/straight-black-men-are-the-white-people-of-black-people-1814157214

* "What Are The Drums Saying, Booker?" by Adolph Reed https://libcom.org/files/ReedWhatAreTheDrumsSayingBooker.pdf

* "Black Like Mao" by Robin D.G. Kelley and Betsy Esch http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccbh/souls/vol1no4/vol1num4art1.pdf

* Yvette Carnell's definitive takedown of the Damon Young article: "Straight Black Men are the White Men of Black People ???? Really?!?! 9/20" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xc4K5UDDZs

* My Twitter thread in response to this article: https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/910261591219871749

* "My Response To ‘Straight Black Men Are The White People of Black People’" by

Talitha V. Anyabwele http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/black-girl-responds-to-straight-black-men-are-the_us_59c630ede4b0f2df5e83ae88

* "It’s Funny How 1 Title Can Fuck Up the Game: Thoughts on the Response to Damon’s Piece About Black Men" by Panama Jackson http://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/it-s-funny-how-1-title-can-fuck-up-the-game-thoughts-o-1818726125

* White Gay Pay Wage Gap: "Unequal Pay: The Gay Wage Gap" by Joe Pinsker https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/gay-men-women-lesbian-earnings-wage-gap/396074/

* Black Gay Pay Wage Gap: "Alarming Princeton Study Reveals Gay Black Men More Likely to Get Higher Salary Than a Straight Ones" by BRAINUSER1 http://www.eurweb.com/2015/03/alarming-princeton-study-reveals-gay-black-men-more-likely-to-get-higher-salary-than-a-straight-ones/

* The thread listing so-called Black male privileges https://twitter.com/commandr_nchief/status/911217859858243584

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We open up discussing recent developments with the Michael Slager case, then we go into the topic of blerds (Black Nerds) in response to a question from a listener about why I always go in on them.

Discussed in this episode:

* Recent Michael Slager developments http://www.postandcourier.com/news/as-michael-slager-sentencing-nears-demise-of-north-charleston-police/article_ca264d16-98b6-11e7-a700-f76ce6d98c30.html

* Tariq Nasheed discussing the character Finn and how bad his character was in Star Wars: The Force Awakens http://ytcropper.com/cropped/t259c21e849e373

* Twitter thread full of the type of black creator-owned comics full of black representation that your typical blerd will ignore: https://twitter.com/ChocCityComics/status/893929667257921536

* The terrible T-Dog vs. Merle scene from Walking Dead, which was actually worse than I remembered. As the black thug gets beaten up by the white supremacist, the Asian guy and swarthy guy are looking on ineffectually and afraid and white women and a black women are also cowering, so basically everyone, including white women and men and women of color are all cowering before the white male supremacist until the other white alpha male comes in to take him down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpN3xl1pO3Q

* Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films, Updated and Expanded 5th http://amzn.to/2wFJVnG

* "Humanity Not Included: DC’s Cyborg and the Mechanization of the Black Body" by sonofbaldwin https://themiddlespaces.com/2015/03/31/humanity-not-included/

* A thread about GothamGirlBlue's weird Hillary Clinton monarchy fantasy tweet: https://twitter.com/Bluepurplerain/status/909369406072827904

* Luke Cage chasing down Dr. Doom for $200, "Where's My Money, Honey?" http://www.cbr.com/i-love-ya-but-youre-strange-wheres-my-money-honey/

* Thread by writer Myles Johnson about how a type of blerds, the Blavity Blacks (named after a website they tend to write for, Blavity.com) exoticize hood black people like Cardi B. in problematic ways, not too differently from how white people eroticize ratchet people: https://twitter.com/hausmuva/status/895502317931438080

* A twitter thread doing exactly what Myles Johnson was bashing Blavity Blacks for doing with Cardi B. https://twitter.com/prezmomobologna/status/909061698191073280

* Harmontown fans reacting, largely negatively, to GothamGirlBlue's appearance on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Harmontown/comments/6opl7a/episode_252_epeephany/

* Postmodern geekdom as simulated ethnicity

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Today D. Mills (http://twitter.com/mdmills79) and Mike (http://twitter.com/blackexception1) join me to discuss a Black immigrant conservative's response to Ta-Nehisi Coate's book Between the World and Me that appeared on the website Commentary and go onto a tangent about the cafe Summerhill that was opened by a tone-deaf gentrifier in Crown Heights.

* The Commentary article decrying Ta-Nehisi Coates by Jamaican immigrant Jason D. Hill, "An Open Letter to Ta-Nehisi Coates" https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/open-letter-ta-nehisi-coates/

* Some background on Summerhill controversy: "Here’s That Press Release Summerhill Sent About Its Bullet Hole Wall, in Full" https://ny.eater.com/2017/7/24/16019934/summerhill-crown-heights-press-release-nyc

* The Summerhill owner's debacle at the Community Board meeting, including the infamous face palms we describe: "Crown Heights Bar Owner Refuses To Remove 'Bullet Hole' Wall: 'I'm Sorry I Have A Sense Of Humor'" http://gothamist.com/2017/08/25/summerhill_meeting_crown_heights.php

* An interview with Becca Brennan, owner of Summerhill, after the community board meeting, where she continues to be tone deaf: "https://theoutline.com/post/2197/a-conversation-with-brooklyn-s-most-controversial-restaurant-owner

* "Hello, Fellow Kids." https://media.giphy.com/media/ifxLK48cnyDDi/giphy.gif

* Ta-Nehisi Coates addressing Black-on-Black Crime, "Black People Are Not Ignoring 'Black on Black' Crime" https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/08/black-people-are-not-ignoring-black-on-black-crime/378629/ and "The Myth of Black-on-Black Crime" https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/03/the-myth-of-black-on-black-crime/253829/

* Kamala Harris's aunt saying that all of Kamala's positive traits came from growing up immersed in Indian culture: "My Niece, the U.S. Senator" http://www.rediff.com/news/special/my-niece-the-us-senator/20161111.htm

* Other groups who have asked for and gotten reparations that Jason D. Hill conveniently ignores "Obama administration earmarks $12m for Holocaust survivors": https://www.timesofisrael.com/obama-administration-earmarks-12m-for-holocaust-survivors/ and "U.S. Government To Pay $492 Million To 17 American Indian Tribes" https://www.timesofisrael.

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D. Mills (http://twitter.com/mdmills79), Mike (http://twitter.com/blackexception1), and I discuss Hillary Clinton's new book "What Happened?", some funny meltdowns among the cult of diehard Hillary supporters including Joy Reid, and discuss Peter Daou and his new support group website for Hillaryites, Verrit.

Discussed in this episode:

* Twitter threads by Joy Reid (https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/906612443736145920), Charles Clymer (https://twitter.com/cmclymer/status/906657832359137280), and GothamGirlBlue (https://twitter.com/GothamGirlBlue/status/906012059191541766) melting down over Hillary

* When Prophecy Fails by Leon Festinger, the book: http://amzn.to/2wafGd2 and a Wikipedia summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Prophecy_Fails

* "The Sapphire Caricature" (whole website is a good resource in general) https://ferris.edu/HTMLS/news/jimcrow/antiblack/sapphire.htm

* Peter Daou and Verrit: 1) https://theoutline.com/post/2207/the-strange-life-of-peter-daou, 2) http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/09/07/an_interview_with_peter_daou_verrit_founder_and_hillary_superfan.html

and 3) https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/09/the-boy-in-the-bubble-peter-daous-verrit-is-peak-c.html

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In this episode, I answer some listener questions. If you want to ask some questions of your own that may be answered on-air in the future, go to https://curiouscat.me/ChampagneSharks or write us at [email protected].

Topics include the role of white women in white supremacy and the concept of black people identifying with white values.

Discussed in this episode:

Women of the Klan by Kathleen Blee http://amzn.to/2eXfenw

Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement by Kathleen Blee http://amzn.to/2xzb9RB

White Women's Rights: The Racial Origins of Feminism in the United States by Louise Michele Newman http://amzn.to/2jsmWv1

'When and Where I Enter': The Racist Expectations of Whites-Only Feminism by Kirsten West Savali https://www.theroot.com/when-and-where-i-enter-the-racist-expectations-of-whit-1790855079

"Really? This Is How High Achievement is Greeted?" by Karin Chenowith http://www.huffingtonpost.com/Karin-Chenoweth/really-this-is-how-high-a_b_6910700.html

Example of Issa Rae's relationship to "ratchetness" (would actual black people with a so-called "authentic" black experience even need to have ratchet defined? Who is this video for?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtJOaBer5kk

Black Mirror on Netflix https://www.netflix.com/title/70264888

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This episode we have Emmet Penney (https://twitter.com/ChknNugtDeepSt8) on to discuss his article on a recent controversy that happened with DSA, the Democratic Socialists of America, regarding the election of Danny Fetonte to the organization’s National Political Committee (NPC), which manages and directs the organization, Fetonte, a union organizer, was accused of covering up his involvement with organizing on behalf of police unions. Penney is the Membership Co-Chair for the Santa Fe DSA as well as one of the people who helped vote Fetonte in before discovering his involvement with police unions.

Emmet's article "How the DSA Screwed Up with Danny Fetonte" can be found here:

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/09/how-the-dsa-screwed-up-with-danny-fetonte.html

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On this episode, D. Mills (http://www.twitter.com/mdmills79), Mike (http://www.twitter.com/blackexception1), and I discuss white moderates and their attempt to create a moral equivalency between Antifa and Nazis in the wake of incidents in Charlottesville and Berkeley.

Discussed in this episode:

* My Twitter thread cataloguing a bunch of anti-Antifa takes by centrists in the media: https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/902926678221082625

* Martin Luther King's feelings on White Moderates, excerpted from Letters from a Birmingham Jail

* Trevor Noah on Antifa http://www.thedailybeast.com/the-daily-shows-trevor-noah-rails-against-antifa-they-are-vegan-isis

* Gang Presence in the US Military, Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_presence_in_the_United_States_military

* Gangland episode on gangs in the military, "Basic Training" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykwh1gySyrY

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D. (http://twitter.com/mdmills79), Mike (http://twitter.com/blackexception1) and I (http://twitter.com/rickyrawls) discuss the plantation dynamics involved in a weird, random encounter I had in a bar this week.

Mentioned in this episode:

* "Comedian Artie Lange Sent Some Really Disgusting Tweets About ESPN First Take Host Cari Champion" by Chris Yuscavage: http://www.complex.com/sports/2014/11/artie-lange-sent-disgusting-tweets-espn-first-take-host-cari-champion/

* Street Harassment viral video, "10 Hours Walking in NYC as a Woman": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1XGPvbWn0A

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D, Mike, and I start off discussing last night's Mayweather vs. McGregor fight and the conversation ends up going to some interesting places.

Mentioned in this episode:

Johnny Knoxville twitter thread and the meme response twitter.com/lewbarth/status/901677017669750788

"Joe Louis and Jack Johnson" by CLR James (it turns out JR Johnson was a pen name of CLR James, leading to the confusion in this episode when I can't figure out why both names appear attached to the article). twitter.com/lewbarth/status/901677017669750788

"Why The Elites Always Rule" by Hugo Drochon www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/20…es-always-rule

The Mind and Society Vol. 1 by Vilfredo Pareto amzn.to/2wh55JZ

Malcolm X on Liberals and Conservatives, #Clip 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJPLx7TEeY0, #Clip 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jfp0_vIn2U

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A solo episode talking about why the obsession with integration is a misguided antiracism strategy.

Links to materials discussed:

* An example of the studies and articles about how school diversity helps white students that some black pundits were linking to, "3 Ways White Kids Benefit Most From Racially Diverse Schools" http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/01/white-kids-benefits-diverse-schools/

* Understanding Jim Crow: Using Racist Memorabilia to Teach Tolerance and Promote Social Justice by David Pilgrim http://amzn.to/2vBfLkY