Champagne Sharks

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We talk about the most recent rally by racists taking place in Boston, the Free Speech Rally, and the counter-rally scheduled to fight it, #FightSupremacy.

We also cover a host of other topics in the news.

Resources mentioned:

Filmmaker Xavier Burgin: How It Feels to Explain Nate Parker to White Hollywood http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/filmmaker-xavier-burgin-how-feels-explain-nate-parker-white-hollywood-952467

Circling the Square of Trump's Relationship With Race https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/us/politics/trump-blacks-african-americans-girlfriend-charlottesville.html

Boston Rally Touting Free Speech http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/19/us/boston-rally-latest/index.html?sr=twCNN081917boston-rally-latest1214PMVODtop

Counterprotesters Being Marching Ahead of Controversial Boston Rally http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/19/us/boston-free-speech-rally/index.html

I Think For Myself: Trump Voters Voice Their Support Despite Charlottesville Comments https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-voters-charlottesville-virginia-car-attack/?ftag=COS-05-10aaa0g

Crowdfunding for the Fight Supremacy Rally https://www.youcaring.com/blmnetworkblmcambridgeresistanceresponsefund-903133

These Trump Supporters Fall for a Ballot-Destroying Hoax https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/trump-drudge-post-office-troll/

My President Was Black by Ta-Nehisi Coates https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/01/my-president-was-black/508793/

Obama Administration Earmarks $12M for Holocaust Survivors https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/01/my-president-was-black/508793/

U.S. Government to Pay $492 Million to 17 American Indian Tribes

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I sit down with D. Mills (https://twitter.com/mdmills79/) and Mike (https://twitter.com/blackexception1) to discuss the Charlottesville Unite the Right protests, a recent Essence article, Blavity Blacks, and Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Articles and tweets discussed:

* Protestor who confronted the Alt Right with chains https://twitter.com/Alice_N_Chains_/status/896512399947177984

* Thread by the Women's March people about Charlottesville https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/896393677244964865

* Tweet where I put up where the Alt Right said they didn't want women or anyone who wasn't able-bodied on the frontlines. https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/896282610745446400

* Essence article, which admittedly isn't as divisive as the headline suggests: "Dear Cis People: It's Time To Turn To Black Trans Leadership" http://www.essence.com/culture/black-transgender-non-binary-activists-to-know

* Twitter thread giving background on Brittany Ferrell and her controversy with Darren Seals https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/895069484603633665

*  Various instances of Darren Seals refusing to join forces with white people trying to join with him to throw his enemies in Black Lives Matter under the bus https://twitter.com/KingDSeals/status/685546986708180992, https://twitter.com/KingDSeals/status/684864645115453440, https://twitter.com/KingDSeals/status/685546776389005312

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Mike (https://twitter.com/blackexception1 on Twitter) and I discuss the controversy surrounding Dave Chappelle's trans jokes as discussed in a recent Jezebel article:

* Dave Chappelle is Still Telling Transphobic Jokes According to Report by Rich Juzwiak http://jezebel.com/dave-chappelle-is-still-telling-transphobic-jokes-acco-1797475330

Materials discussed in this episode:

* How the Alt-Right Is Using Sex and Camp to Attract Gay Men to Fascism By Donna Minkowitz http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2017/06/05/how_alt_right_leaders_jack_donovan_and_james_o_meara_attract_gay_men_to.html

* No Asians, no black people. Why do gay people tolerate blatant racism?  by Owen Jones https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/24/no-asians-no-blacks-gay-people-racism

* Shocking survey finds racism is endemic among gay men by Benjamin Butterworth http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/05/23/shocking-gmfa-survey-finds-racism-is-endemic-among-gay-men/

* A New Survey Claiming That LGBT People Are Less Racist Misses the Reality of Racism in the Queer Community By Preston Mitchum http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2017/07/25/are_white_lgbt_people_really_less_racist_than_their_cisgender_straight_counterparts.html

* ‘No Blacks’ Is Not a Sexual Preference. It’s Racism by Samantha Allen http://www.thedailybeast.com/no-blacks-is-not-a-sexual-preference-its-racism

* An Open Letter To Gay, White Men: No, You’re Not Allowed To Have A Racial Preference by Donovan Trott http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/an-open-letter-to-gay-white-men-no-youre-not-allowed_us_5947f0ffe4b0f7875b83e459

* In Trump’s America, racism on gay dating apps is getting worse by Nico Lang https://www.dailydot.com/irl/racism-gay-dating-apps/

* Gay Bars Can be Mind-Bogglingly Racist by Mikelle Street https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d7bd9k/gay-bars-can-be-mind-bogglingly-racist

* Michael Sam Sees More Racism in Gay Community Than Homophobia in Black Community

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Today D. Mills (https://twitter.com/mdmills79) and I talk with Dr. Tommy Curry (https://twitter.com/drtjc) on the need for black male studies in academia and the media. Dr. Curry has also been in the news recently for a controversy he's been embroiled in thanks to a witch hunt started by conservative white supremacist Rod Dreher. We also go into whether such a thing as Black Patriarchy exists in the black community or if it's a myth,

Discussion Materials:

Dr. Curry's book The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood http://amzn.to/2wj8YwS

Dr. Curry's Academia.edu page where you can find his academic papers: http://tamu.academia.edu/TommyCurry

The Chronicle article about the Curry/Dreher/TAMU controvery: http://www.chronicle.com/article/who-s-left-to-defend-tommy/240757?key=f15y8715k1n0EpJg1p9khe9nkj7TkzwTZX8waDzm-XB91giqSV5o9bjJHYi2An7uekdiM0pUNEhUQllnaGszX0dZV3lqMGNsbVlvMzZyaHpPakJvMFNDWW1qbw

Contested Memories: A Critical Analysis of the Black Feminist Revisionist History Project by Valethia Watkins, Ph.D., J.D. http://www.jpanafrican.org/docs/vol9no4/JuneJuly-17-Watkins.pdf

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Doc Ock (@OckyJ83 on Twitter) joins me today and we talk about the group of people in media and online who we refer to as Representation Matters Twitter and some of their favorite shows and movies, like Dope, Moonlight, and Insecure.

Article and Video Mentioned:

I’ve Been Insecure About Not Loving ‘Insecure’, But I Realize It’s So Much More Than That by Ezinne Ukoha  https://medium.com/@nilegirl/ive-been-insecure-about-not-loving-insecure-but-i-realize-it-s-so-much-more-than-that-a2acb15c59a8

Yvette Carnell on Issa Rae: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N7nmXrg0xY

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Book mentioned this episode:

The Victims of Democracy: Malcolm X and the Black Revolution by Eugene Victor Wolfenstein http://amzn.to/2w1A3Ev

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This week I discuss the psychodynamics of a recent false rape accusation by a white college student against two black athletes, and how it ties into the history of America and the fears of white supremacist men.

Articles mentioned:

Police Say Woman Lied About Rape By College Football Player And Other Man by Ron Dicker http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/woman-allegedly-lied-about-rape-by-football-player-and-another-man-for-sympathy_us_58af174de4b060480e05b177 

Teen Charged With Lying About Being Raped by College Football Players by Joshua Rhett Miller http://nypost.com/2017/02/22/teen-charged-with-lying-about-being-raped-by-college-football-players/ 

Book mentioned:

White Women, Black Men by Martha Hodes http://amzn.to/2eNhTmK 

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Chopping it up with D. Mills (https://twitter.com/mdmills79) and Mike (https://twitter.com/blackexception1) about Black people chasing White definitions of success.

Articles, Books and Movies Mentioned:

* The Story Behind Jared Kushner’s Curious Acceptance into Harvard by Daniel Golden (https://www.propublica.org/article/the-story-behind-jared-kushners-curious-acceptance-into-harvard)

* The Farce of Meritocracy: Why Legacy Admissions Might Actually Be A Good Thing by Josh Freedman (https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshfreedman/2013/11/14/the-farce-of-meritocracy-in-elite-higher-education-why-legacy-admissions-might-be-a-good-thing/#46ea20330125)

* Black Longshoremen and the Fight for Equality in an ‘Anti-racist’ Union by Jake Alimahomed-Wilson (http://www.thecyberhood.net/documents/papers/long.pdf)

* Spook Who Sat by the Door (The Book) by Sam Greenlee (http://amzn.to/2gYG1mW)

* Spook Who Sat by the Door (The Movie) (http://amzn.to/2vDw9CA)

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Recently Wal-Mart got in trouble for describing the color of a product on their website as "Nigger-Brown." In this episode I wanted to go into why exactly so many people are doing so much racist spontaneous acting out  and how it relates to the alt-right's obsession with "free speech."

Discussed in this episode:

The movie clip that starts off the episode is from the 1974 movie Trick Baby, based on Iceberg Slim's book of the same name: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pQ-YPjasGc

Breakdown of Wal-Mart's Nigger-Brown Snafu: https://www.vibe.com/2017/07/walmart-n-brown-wig-cap/

Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Joy DeGruy

The book: http://amzn.to/2uAhF8l

The video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFm93vMPUZw

That video link is especially a good video for elaborating on my points from this episode about how and why it's psychically necessary for white sanity that black people remain some level of subhuman status in a system of white supremacy. I highly recommend watching the linked video or reading the linked book to get the most of this episode.

Books challenging genetic determinism mentioned in this episode:

* The Dependent Gene by David S. Moore

* The Trouble with Twin Studies: A Reassessment of Twin Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences by Jay Joseph

* The Gene Illusion - Genetic Research in Psychiatry and Psychology Under the Microscope by Jay Joseph

* The Missing Gene: Psychiatry, Heredity, And the Fruitless Search for Genes by Jay Joseph

* Monkeyluv by Robert Sapolsky