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Nina, Jamel, Q, Reny and Ali talk about rappers who can't rap, the inconsistency and selectiveness of "cancelling" people and what it actually accomplishes, and this circus of a failure of an election cycle, as well as why it's good to be distrustful of folks online and in online political spaces because these folks are not our friends.

Jamel, Nina, Reny and Ali get into conspiracy theories, speak to which ones we believe are real and the validity and utility of conspiracy theories as a means of questioning the movements and motivations of our government and powerful people and groups. We also speak to our own political journeys, how we developed our politics, and how we hold grace for each other and Black people throughout our growth.

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Reny and Ali speak with Darryl "Waistline" Mitchell - cofounder of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers and the Communist Labor Party - as he walks us through the history of 1960s Detroit and the conditions that set the tone for Black freedom movements.

In this episode, Jamel, Reny, Q and Nina talk about the economic impacts of COVID on Black people economically, including small businesses, and the fact that how money is produced and circulated in the US is a lie. Additionally, we discuss Black liberal academics and media pundits trying to scapegoat Black men to elevate Joe Biden in the hopes of getting more jobs, access and validation from whiteness via the democratic party.

Reny, Q, Nina and Ali return to our roots laughing at the contradictions in electoral politics and neoliberal support of Joe Biden, the "Get Well Fascism" campaigns from Ava Duvernay and other Black folks in the entertainment class when Trump was announced to have COVID, Trump as the Typhoid Mary of the Republican party, and the weird democratic allegiance to "decorum" and "honor" with folks who have neither.

Nina, Ali, and Jamel dive deep into analyzing colorism and anti-Blackness as a white supremacist power structure with a genocidal logic.

Nina, Ali and Reny talk about the impact that COVID has had on socialization and navigating school, work, day to day existing, how we have been holding up in quarantine and impacted by COVID, the lack of support and interventions from our government, and what a "return to normal" looks like and how the effects will be felt by Black folks.

Jamel, Reny and Nina welcome back Q. Anthony (on a probationary, guest host basis) to talk about the current political reality for Black people and the importance of promoting Black politics that are shaped by the realities of actual Black people being impacted by them. We discuss Breonna Taylor's murder, defunding/abolishing the police, and the infantilization of Black people politically that promotes ideas that we are completely unable to contextualize, theorize around, understand our experiences on a ground level and that what we truly need is celebrities, politicians and academics to save us.

Ali, Nina and Reny are joined by friend of the pod Keyma discussing music, Black political unity, Netflix's "Cuties" and what role Hollywood should play in Black political and social futures as a means of representing Black experiences and telling our stories.

This week, Jamel, Reny, Ali and Nina get into the failings of the Democratic party to engage Black people and our political needs beyond shallow, performative displays of "solidarity" and recognition of identities, the DNC, and the harm in the idea that we can hold politicians who have never displayed any concern for or allegiance to anyone or anything but their careers "accountable."