The Literate ApeCast

National Museum of African American History & Culture put out a graphic this week defining Aspects & Assumptions of Whiteness & White Culture in the United States. The Gentlemen Apes go through each criteria to see who is the most stereotypically white and wonder if being self reliant, objective, hark working, being punctual, and optimistic are elements of white supremacy, what is the museum saying about everyone else?

Note: The graphic has since been removed from the Museum’s site and physical location with an apology for posting but not for somehow thinking it wasn’t completely ludicrous.

The Letter

https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/

Falling Down

https://g.co/kgs/uqZXiL

Hamilton

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A liberal enclave in Minneapolis decides to stop calling the police and their neighborhood is overrun by homeless, drug addicts, and criminals. Major corporations are boycotting Zuckerberg and his mealy wish-washy approach to hate speech online. Carl Reiner dies at 98 years old. These among other randomness are here for your listening edification.

Today’s episode has Don quizzing David in the spirit of James Lipton. We find out how he feels about diversity training, which Friends character he identifies with, why the movie Cocktail is better than Roadhouse, and that he doesn’t know the difference between Pocahontas and Sacagawea.

David’s dog is basically a racist relative. Don decides to bag in the wokeness of Brian Sweeney without any provocation. Don then makes an argument in favor of reparations for black Americans. As an alum, David has a few things to say about the woke decision to “retire” the UNLV mascot. Oh, did you here that Chicago arts is going through a summer of reckoning and revenge?

Don has taken 80% of social media and bid it farewell and David can’t understand how he will function in society. David then admits he kind of wishes his son stayed with his grandparents, Don breaks down why the term “systemic racism” is quickly becoming a meaningless and thus useless term. Oh, and also Second City comes up as well.

The Apes decide, in the wake of social change, to have a quick competition: which of the two of them has the *most* white privilege and continue talking about how to handle a bloated, brutal police state including ending the worship of police on television. Also, reparations. Best idea ever.

After the massive unrest and nationwide protests rocked the fragile COVID-countryside, D & D sit down and solve the problem of the brutal policing in our country. Also, apparently Don is in favor of better training for cops and, in a side note, is fine with killing babies.

David turns the corner from 40 to 41 and, in keeping with tradition, he details a few things he has learned in the past year.

Which author is writing your life? Which director is helming the film? Also a bit of Game of Thrones yapping, frustration at anti-shutdown protesters, and dancing the Re-Opening of Work tap dance.