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Today Kenny (http://twitter.com/BlackSportsNW) joins us to talk about Portland and one of the weirdest Twitter takes we’ve seen in a while.

Mentioned in this episode:

A thread summarizing the slave privilege conversation: https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/1062845621000921089

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This is the first solo episode I’ve done in a while. I discuss various things about the Charleston, SC Black church shooting by Dylann Roof and the Pittsburgh, PA Jewish synagogue shooting by Robert Bowers.

Discussed in this episode:

• Synagogue families refuse to meet with Trump https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/413825-family-of-synagogue-shooting-victim-declines-meeting-with-trump
• “Pittsburgh Rabbi Hailed a Hero for Saving Congregants Amid Gunfire” https://www.insideedition.com/pittsburgh-rabbi-hailed-hero-saving-congregants-amid-gunfire-47990
• “Anguished by ‘Spiral of Hate,’ Charleston Pastor and Pittsburgh Rabbi Grieve as One” https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/03/us/pittsburgh-synagogue-charleston-emanuel.html
• “Jewish Staffers Among First to Treat Accused Synagogue Gunman” https://www.kaaltv.com/national/synagogue-massacre-suspect-robert-bowers-court-latest/5126658/
• “Safety in churches: faith community responds to shooting” https://www.lagrandeobserver.com/news/local/6643535-151/safety-in-churches-faith-community-responds-to-shooting
• Story behind Amazing Grace: https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200149085/
• Transcript of Obama speech: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/06/26/transcript-obama-delivers-eulogy-for-charleston-pastor-the-rev-clementa-pinckney/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.051aedc1a604
• Video of Obama’s Charleston Eulogy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9IGyidtfGI

Intro music is “Sun Scope” by Maricopa. All songs that have been or eventually will be used on this show can be found in our monster Champagne Sharks Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5emXF3iqhZLU6IuszSRvun

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Mike is back and for the first time in a while all three Sharks are sitting in at once.

Discussed in this episode:

• “Rich people are less likely to notice you, according to this study”https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/09/study-rich-people-are-less-likely-to-notice-or-care-about-you.html
• “Most people can tell if you’re rich just by looking at your face”https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/02/study-most-people-can-tell-if-youre-rich-from-your-face.html
• “If You’ve Never Seen the Top of Your Tinder Date’s Head, Perhaps You’re Being Hatfished” https://www.thecut.com/2017/08/if-youve-never-seen-your-dates-hair-is-he-hatfishing-you.html

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In Part 1 of a 5-part series, D. Mills discusses with guest Malika Bee how the educational system affects Black students and families specifcially, but families in general.

• Hairspray 1988 Special Ed scene https://youtu.be/Wo0pcXqIBjk
• Articles about the controversy regarding black children being funneled into special education: (1) https://www.brookings.edu/research/race-poverty-and-interpreting-overrepresentation-in-special-education/; and (2) https://www.racialjusticeproject.com/black-youth-in-the-special-education-system-overrepresented-or-underrepresented/
• “African-American Students with Disabilities Suspended at Disproportionately High Rates” https://edsource.org/2018/african-american-students-with-disabilities-suspended-at-disproportionately-high-rates/597052
• Standardized Testing discrimination http://parentsacrossamerica.org/civil-rights-discrimination-standardized-testing/
• Information on the Individuals with disabilities education act (IDEA) https://sites.ed.gov/idea/
• IDEA offer of FAPE – http://www.pause4kids.com/training/three/Written_Offer_of_FAPE.pdf: “The “Written Offerof a Free and Appropriate Public Education” (FAPE) is a formal offermade by the local education agency (LEA) of educational placement, including supplemental aids and services. It meets the requirements outlined in IDEA for “written prior notice.”
• Difference between a section 504 plan vs an IEP Individualized education plan  http://schoolpsychologistfiles.com/which-is-better-a-504-plan-or-an-iep/
• Links to a wide array of resources including regulations, codes, laws etc… The California site also contains links to national resources: (1) California https://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/se/sr/selinks.asp; and (2) New York http://www.p12.nysed.gov/specialed/quality/parents.htm

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• Mark’s articles on Adoptees without citizenship: https://planamag.com/adoption–without–citizenship–is–human–trafficking–787d81ac2152?source=false–––––––––0 and also https://planamag.com/the–existence–of–adoptees–without–citizenship–is–an–indictment–of–american–justice–2075f42d4c0?source=false–––––––––3
• Articles on Christian Adoption fever: https://newrepublic.com/article/127311/trouble-christian-adoption-movement and https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/04/christian-evangelical-adoption-liberia/
• “Taking on South Korea’s adoption taboo” https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30692127
• Brene Brown on empathy vs. sympathy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Evwgu369Jw
• UN’s definition of genocide: http://www.un.org/ar/preventgenocide/adviser/pdf/osapg_analysis_framework.pdf
• “Ethiopia will no longer allow foreigners to adopt its children” https://qz.com/africa/1176618/ethiopia-bans-foreign-adoptions/
• “Foster Care as Punishment: The New Reality of ‘Jane Crow’” https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/21/nyregion/foster-care-nyc-jane-crow.html
• Clip from the movie Rabbit-Proof Fence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wEkLnxfZ3g

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Today we speak to Bo (https://twitter.com/eBoPeep) about a recent controversy revolving UK-born Nigerian-descended actress Cynthia Erivo and the announcement that she would be playing Harriet Tubman in an upcoming American movie production. Bo pulled up and documented a lot of Cynthia Erivo’s problematic tweets on Twitter about American Blacks to make the case that Erivo shouldn’t be playing an American Black icon like Harriet Tubman.

Bo is a proud descendant of American and Caribbean enslaved peoples, and particularly passionate about current American DOS issues. She believes in applying a long-term, holistic and sober view to “I’m rooting for everyone Black.” She also believes in the immediate necessity of honoring and protecting our respective and unique cultures, lineages, boundaries, experiences, and justice claims throughout the Diaspora.

Discussed in the episode:

• Twitter handles of other users who have been beating the drum of this cause: @TylerCollins101, @Behembaba, @PeachesJenkins3, @Blackcowork. Also @ebonyteach’s deep thread on this
• The Change.org petition regarding Erivo playing Harriet Tubman: https://www.change.org/p/boycott-recast-a-black-american-actress-to-play-harriet-tubman
• Beyond Culture by Edward T. Hall https://amzn.to/2Cb3NW2
• The post by white guy Jordan Prescott aping black slang to defend Erivo https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/1044652485640687618
• Bo’s two threads about this issue collected onto single pages: first https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1044181901706178560.html and second https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1041006197581774848.html
• Two Champagne Sharks episode that provide extra context to these issues, CS 112 about Luvvie http://champagnesharks.blubrry.net/cs-112-luvvie-ajayi-and-black-blackface-double-length-08-26-2018/ and CS 120 with Yvette Carnell http://champagnesharks.blubrry.net/cs-120-diasporic-divisions-feat-yvette-carnell-breakingbrown-09-29-2018/
• Issa Rae’s Black sitcom photoshoot in GQ: https://www.gq.com/story/issa-rae-insecure-profile

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• “How College Basketball’s Rule Changes Could Backfire” by Jesse Einhorn and Nathaniel Friedman https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/opinion/ncaa-basketball-rules-agents.html
• “What Fresh Hell Is Barstool Sports?” by Will Leitch http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/09/what-fresh-kind-of-hell-is-barstool-sports.html
• “Nike Nearly Dropped Colin Kaepernick Before Embracing Him” by Julie Creswell, Kevin Draper and Sapna Maheshwari https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/sports/nike-colin-kaepernick.html
• Nathaniel’s 2 recent Baffler articles, “Bridges to Nowhere” https://thebaffler.com/salvos/bridges-to-nowhere-friedman and “Something for Nothing” https://thebaffler.com/latest/something-for-nothing-friedman
• The recent Chapo Trap House episode we discuss, “Episode 250 – Big Dickinson Energy feat. Alena Smith (10/1/18)” https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-250-big-dickinson-energy-feat-alena-smith-10118 
• The 2003 Common and Mya Coke ad I mentioned which co-opted the desire for authenticity and not selling out to sell soda https://vimeo.com/156748900
• “Generation Like: The Kids Sell Out (But Don’t Know What That Means)” https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/generation-like-the-kids-sell-out-but-dont-know-what-1524517417 
• “The Mainstreaming of Colin Kaepernick’s Protest was its Destruction” by Champagne Sharks host Trevor Beaulieu https://theintercept.com/2017/10/05/colin-kaepernick-national-anthem-protest-trump-nfl/ 

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We discuss the new Chapo Trap House book, The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason https://amzn.to/2pFWyhd and the origin story of the Chapo Trap House podcast. We also cover a lot of stories in the news and some of the worst people in media and public life, and break down the Chapo Extended Universe for neophytes.

Discussed in the episode:

• John Derbyshire praising Amy Chua’s Tiger Mom book https://www.johnderbyshire.com/Opinions/HumanSciences/tigermom.html; Charles Murray praising the book as well http://www.aei.org/publication/amy-chua-bludgeons-entire-generation-of-sensitive-parents-bless-her/
• “How the ‘Tiger Mom’ Convinced the Author of Hillbilly Elegy to Write His Story” by Caroline Kitchener https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/06/hillbilly-elegy-mentor/529443/
• Southpaw’s tweet showing how National Review has done a 180 on Trump https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1047696035726934017
• Bret Stephens’s NYT piece “For Once, I’m Grateful for Trump” https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/opinion/trump-kavanaugh-ford-allegations.html; Eli Lake praising Bret Stephens’s piece https://twitter.com/EliLake/status/1047839053721358337
• The Federalist creating a petition of conservative thought leaders to send to The Washington Post demanding the firing of Jennifer Rubin as their resident conservative blogger https://twitter.com/approject/status/1047848947002294272

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