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May 4, 2018Uncategorizedchampagnesharks

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Introduction Song:

“When I’m Gone” by The Jones Girls

Discussed in the episode:

Gary Owen Wife Kenya Duke Calls Michael Blackson The N Word https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MULaK62MNTU
Chyna Fox commentary on Black men and Stephon Clark aka; the bedwench perspective…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LByEY4RpPY0
MTO exposes Chyna as a bedwench https://mtonews.com/stephon-clarkebed-wench-caught

CS 083: The Throwaway People Pt. 1 (04/03/2018)

April 24, 2018Uncategorizedchampagnesharks

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Mentioned in the episode:

- Update on whether Devonte Hart was intentional murder-suicide: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-hart-family-crash-intentional-report-20180401-story.html
- “Allison Williams Reveals What White People Ask Her About Get Out” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AE0tMvL-aM
- Story describing how the Hart parents made Devonte and his siblings dance on camera in their underwear to put on social media: http://www.crimeonline.com/2018/03/30/devonte-hart-and-siblings-appeared-in-unusual-youtube-videos-before-fatal-suv-plunge-that-may-have-killed-the-entire-family/
- Stories that updated the Devonte Hart abuse history that came out after we recorded this episode: http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2018/04/devonte_hart_family_crash_dece.html; https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2018/04/devonte_harts_biological_mom_t.html; http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2018/04/other_new_developments_in_the.html
- 3 disturbing tweets by Tariq Nasheed about Devonte Hart https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/979542114974425088; https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/979564656367779840; https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/979566402729209856
- Open Secret Documentary, available free online: https://vimeo.com/142444429
- Jerry Sandusky’s Black victims: http://blackyouthproject.com/jerry-sandusky-penn-state-black-victims/
- Ohio teacher molested her black foster son and had his baby — as crimes went on for years despite red flags” [took two years to be charged]https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/ohio-teacher-molested-foster-son-baby-crimes-went-years-despite-red-flags/
  https://newsone.com/3786811/lauren-lynn-cross-white-teacher-akron-black-teeanger/
- “Neely Fuller – We Are Throwaway People” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmRp6DWPm8w

Teaser for CS 078: Donald Glover, Liberal White Racist Shade, and Tokens Pt. 1 (03/31/2018)

April 5, 2018UncategorizedAtlanta, Blavity, Daria, Donald Glover, Jodie Landonchampagnesharks

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This is part one of two-part episode. We discuss a recent Donald Glover interview, the ways in which “good white people” are adept at throwing racist shade in a very gaslighting, subtle way and how Blavity Blacks love and fetishize the token black person experience.

Mentioned in this episode:

Music is “WW III” by Ruff Ryders
The scene from “Don’t Be a Menace” we discuss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8gP9GX2udI
Donald Glover New Yorker Article by Tad Friend: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/05/donald-glover-cant-save-you
The Jodie Landon Daria video in a Buzzfeed tweet: https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/968892505080016896
“James Davis – Token Black Friend” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBaGQQKkt7I
“Not Another Teen Movie – Token Black Guy” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWhhPWyWCv0
“The Token Black Guy and His White Friend” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esc8gPYYIn8
“Un-Token” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmNfR9B4-FU

CS 077: Devonte Hart (03/28/2018)

March 30, 2018UncategorizedDevonte Hart, Hug, Photo, Police, Viralchampagnesharks

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Mentioned in the episode:

An example of the original framing of the photo: https://www.cnn.com/2014/11/29/living/ferguson-protest-hug/index.html
Various stories about how Devonte’s famous photo hugging the cop was staged: “The Famous “Ferguson Hug” Photo Was Reportedly Staged” http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2014/12/was-the-ferguson-protest-hug-photo-staged; “The touching hug photo from Ferguson protests is a blatant lie” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/02/hug-photographs-ferguson-protests-lie; “
Coverage from a website: “Devonte Hart’s family remembered as loving, unconventional; neighbors, court records suggest strains” http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2018/03/family_in_northern_california.html
“Freaky Friday” video by Lil’ Dicky featuring Chris Brown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZla1ttZHaw

CS 065: Blavity Black Brunch (01/28/2018)

February 7, 2018UncategorizedBlack Brunch, Blavity, Eater, Funny, Thinkpiecechampagnesharks

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Today we discuss an article that appeared about Black brunch as self-care.

Discussed in this episode:

“The Joy of Black Brunch” https://www.eater.com/2018/1/24/16920824/black-brunch-woodland-brooklyn
“Thank You God, For Black Thanksgiving” https://www.bonappetit.com/story/rembert-browne-thanksgiving
“CS 043: Cultural Quadroons,” the episode where we discussed the Black Thanksgiving article http://champagnesharks.blubrry.net/cs-043/
“Bill O’Reilly Shocked that Sylvia’s Harlem Restaurant is Normal” https://www.villagevoice.com/2007/09/24/bill-oreilly-shocked-that-sylvias-harlem-restaurant-is-normal/

CS 057: The Lyin’ King feat Michael Brooks (@_michaelbrooks) (12/18/2017)

January 1, 2018UncategorizedAlt-Right, Michael Brooks, Mike Cernovich, Roman Polanski, Sam Sederchampagnesharks

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We recorded this a while ago but I just fell behind on my editing.

We welcome Michael Brooks, host of The Michael Brooks Show and cohost of The Majority Report with Sam Seder to discuss the recent controversy The Majority Report got into thanks to the lies of Mike Cernovich and the alt-right trolls. The Michael Brooks show can be found and supported at https://www.patreon.com/TMBS

Discussed in this episode:

“MSNBC Brings Back Sam Seder, Weird Mike Cernovich Flips Out On Twitter” by Michael Brooks https://trofire.com/2017/12/08/msnbc-brings-back-sam-seder-weird-mike-cernovich-flips-twitter/
Articles documenting how Milo and Mike Cernovich were antigamer and antinerd until they saw an opportunity to hop aboard gamergate, (1) http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2014/10/20/gamergates-gamerhater-heroes-milo-yiannopoulos-and-mike-cernovich/ and (2) https://storify.com/x_glitch/the-gamergate-supporting-journalist-who-hates-game
“Alt-Right Hyped Sexual Harassment Hoax to Attack Schumer” by Kelly Weill https://www.thedailybeast.com/mike-cernovich-chuck-johnson-alt-right-hyped-anti-schumer-forgery-that-plagiarized-conyers-complaint

Teaser for CS056: Sweet Home Alabama (12/18/2017)

December 26, 2017UncategorizedAlabama, Black Women, Doug Jones, Election, Roy Moorechampagnesharks

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We discuss the Doug Jones and Roy Moore election in Alabama, the aftermath with the media and Black women, and the opportunistic forces of the black misleadership class in media, politics and academia trying to capitalize on the grassroots effort done by poor black women on the ground.

Things discussed in this piece:

My twitter thread on the Alabama election: https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/941346154750636032
Another twitter thread by me: https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/941002908635680778
Thread on how black women are being turned into political mammies: https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/941100228312170497
Mic.com’s article describing the grassroots work done in Alabama and the responsible parties “Black women fueled a grassroots movement in Alabama — and may remake state politics”: https://mic.com/articles/186790/black-women-fueled-a-grassroots-movement-in-alabama-and-may-remake-state-politics#.TxGfk56fi
Another article describing the work done on the ground: “How a former sharecropper in an SUV helped drive Doug Jones to victory in Alabama’s Black Belt” http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/12/how_a_former_sharecropper_in_a.html
Another article describing the grassroots work done in Alabama “Black Women Are A Political Organizing Force. They’re Not Unicorns.” https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/black-women-doug-jones_us_5a318dede4b091ca268508c2
Examples of figures coopting the voter turnout as a way to self-aggrandize and divert attention and money to themselves, cronies, and affiliated organizations like Angela Rye (https://twitter.com/OG_Humble_One/status/941326893835587586), Brittany Packnett https://www.thecut.com/2017/12/black-women-turnout-roy-moore-doug-jones.html, and Taylor Crumpton https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-to-support-black-women-after-the-alabama-senate-election
Twitter user Darkskintdostoevsky weighing in the opportunist celebrity activists coopting the narrative away from local Alabama grassroots organizers, here https://twitter.com/daniecal/status/941324456470786048, here https://twitter.com/daniecal/status/941325047850926081, here https://twitter.com/daniecal/status/941365868453175302, here https://twitter.com/daniecal/status/941370471072677888, here https://twitter.com/daniecal/status/941364373792071680, here https://twitter.com/daniecal/status/941363666909151232, here https://twitter.com/daniecal/status/941333445258633216, and here https://twitter.com/daniecal/status/941334067311558656
Darkskintdostoevsky’s list of all the ways to actually support the people and organizations who helped to make
The conditions for black people in Alabama currently, “Hookworm, a disease of extreme poverty, is thriving in the US south. Why?” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/05/hookworm-lowndes-county-alabama-water-waste-treatment-poverty; “UN poverty official touring Alabama’s Black Belt: ‘I haven’t seen this’ in the First World” http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/12/un_poverty_official_touring_al.html
Robin Thede’s post-election black women superhero movie tweet https://twitter.com/robinthede/status/940788397597130752
Jemele Hill calling Robin Roberts “Auntie Robin” https://twitter.com/jemelehill/status/941420670566715393

Teaser for CS 050: Watching the Watchers feat. Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonnyc) (11/29/2017)

December 2, 2017Uncategorizedchampagnesharks

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Adam H. Johnson comes on the show today to discuss developments in media coverage of world events and historical events. Adam is a media analyst at Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (http://FAIR.org) and is the co-host of the podcast Citations Needed (https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded).

Discussed in this episode:

The opening scene from the Newsroom TV series where the main character gives an American exceptionalism speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTjMqda19wk
“Van Jones Starts To Cry As He React To Trump’s Message Blaming The Left” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmhE-fa-Xkk
An article by Evgeny Morozov discussing solutionism, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/20/rise-of-data-death-of-politics-evgeny-morozov-algorithmic-regulation and Morozov’s book on solutionism To Solve Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism http://amzn.to/2i8CdNZ
Slavery by Another Name, the book http://amzn.to/2BDyoZp and the documentary http://amzn.to/2kgxkqa

CS 030: Chamoane Sharks (09/10/2017)

September 13, 2017UncategorizedCults, Hillary Clinton, Peter Daou, Verrit, When Prophecy Failschampagnesharks

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D. Mills (http://twitter.com/mdmills79), Mike (http://twitter.com/blackexception1), and I discuss Hillary Clinton’s new book “What Happened?”, some funny meltdowns among the cult of diehard Hillary supporters including Joy Reid, and discuss Peter Daou and his new support group website for Hillaryites, Verrit.

Discussed in this episode:

Twitter threads by Joy Reid (https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/906612443736145920), Charles Clymer (https://twitter.com/cmclymer/status/906657832359137280), and GothamGirlBlue (https://twitter.com/GothamGirlBlue/status/906012059191541766) melting down over Hillary
When Prophecy Fails by Leon Festinger, the book: http://amzn.to/2wafGd2 and a Wikipedia summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Prophecy_Fails
“The Sapphire Caricature” (whole website is a good resource in general) https://ferris.edu/HTMLS/news/jimcrow/antiblack/sapphire.htm
Peter Daou and Verrit: 1) https://theoutline.com/post/2207/the-strange-life-of-peter-daou, 2) http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/09/07/an_interview_with_peter_daou_verrit_founder_and_hillary_superfan.html
and 3) https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/09/the-boy-in-the-bubble-peter-daous-verrit-is-peak-c.html

Preview of CS 025: Mayweather vs. McGregor (08/27/2017)

August 28, 2017Uncategorizedchampagnesharks

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D, Mike, and I start off discussing last night’s Mayweather vs. McGregor fight and the conversation ends up going to some interesting places.
Mentioned in this episode:

Johnny Knoxville twitter thread and the meme response twitter.com/lewbarth/status/901677017669750788
“Joe Louis and Jack Johnson” by CLR James (it turns out JR Johnson was a pen name of CLR James, leading to the confusion in this episode when I can’t figure out why both names appear attached to the article). twitter.com/lewbarth/status/901677017669750788
“Why The Elites Always Rule” by Hugo Drochon www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/20…es-always-rule
The Mind and Society Vol. 1 by Vilfredo Pareto amzn.to/2wh55JZ
Malcolm X on Liberals and Conservatives, #Clip 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJPLx7TEeY0, #Clip 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jfp0_vIn2U