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We welcome Michael Brooks, host of The Michael Brooks Show and cohost of The Majority Report with Sam Seder to discuss Sorry to Bother You, the recent movie by Boots Riley of the rap group The Coup. The Michael Brooks show can be found and supported at https://www.patreon.com/TMBS.

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Opening intro song is “Guillotine” by the Coup.

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This episode we talk about an array of things, with a common theme being (I guess) light-skinned energy. We discuss Luke Cage Season 2, Drake’s new album, Eddie Murphy vs. Martin Lawrence in terms of standup comedy, and the latest developments with Terry Crews testifying before Congress.

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Today Mike and I discuss a weird array of topics from Taye Diggs’s dating life to white people’s weird porn fixations, including the genre known as “pussy pump” porn:

Mentioned in this episode

• Event page for live interview at Starr Bar between NYS Senate candidate Julia Salazar and Virgil Texas from Chapo Trap House https://salazarforsenate.com/events/virgil-texas-interview
• “Taye Diggs Says No One Told Him the Entertainment Biz Was Racist” http://atlantablackstar.com/2018/06/22/taye-diggs-says-no-one-told-him-the-entertainment-biz-was-racist/
• “Taye Diggs Says It’s Hard To Date White Women Again Because Black Women Caused Him Trauma” https://www.essence.com/celebrity/taye-diggs-dating-white-women-resents-black-women
• “Taye Diggs denies comments slandering black women” http://blackyouthproject.com/taye-diggs-denies-comments-slandering-black-women/
• Film Daily article: “WTF is “blavity black” and why are Issa Rae and Donald Glover accused of it?”
• The book When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson https://amzn.to/2NluMS1
• The book The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein https://amzn.to/2u2JuUR
• The book The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran https://amzn.to/2u1VbeK
• Intercept article on NY State Senate candidate Julia Salazar https://theintercept.com/2018/07/03/julia-salazar-state-senate-new-york-dsa/; Julia Salazar’s campaign site: https://salazarforsenate.com/

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