Champagne Sharks

This free episode debuted first to Patreon subscribers for 24-48 hours before being unlocked and made free to everyone on the main podcast feed. This will be the norm for all free episodes going forward. To become a Patreon subscriber for $5/month and get early access to this episode and over 50 archived past subscriber-only episodes, go to http://patreon.com/champagnesharks. Today we discuss various topics from beefing with Talib Kweli on Twitter to Marc Lamont Hill getting fired from CNN. Unfortunately we have to end the episode on a somber note as well. Co-produced & edited by Aaron C. Schroeder / Pierced Ears Recording Co, Seattle WA (piercedearsmusic@gmail.com)

Today is a D. Mills solo episode discussing homeless epidemic in LA. Patient Dumping: The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights chose to focus on Enforcement of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act for its annual 2014 Statutory Enforcement Report. This report examined compliance with the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), a federal law that requires Medicare-participating hospitals to treat emergency medical conditions of any person regardless of capacity to pay, and makes unlawful the discharge of patients prior to stabilizing any medical condition. The purpose of EMTALA is to prevent hospitals, states and/or localities from prematurely discharging indigent people in need of emergency care and transporting them to other entities, a practice colloquially called “patient dumping.” Specifically, the Commission’s report focused on disabled individuals with a psychiatric medical condition. The examination resulted in five observations: • Hospitals are not keeping adequate data on such patients • There is insufficient regulatory oversight • There should be non-punitive methods of obtaining accurate treatment reports on patients • Hospitals do not have sufficient funds to comply with EMTALA in treatment of patients • Hospitals and their staffs need more training and education in this area Mentioned this episode: * "Are LA area Hospitals really dumping homeless on the streets?" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/04/los-angeles-hospitals-homeless-patients-skid-row * Patient dumping settlement in LA Silver lake area https://www.latimes.com/business/la-me-patient-dumping-20180702-story.html * San Francisco and Nevada reach a settlement in homeless dumping dispute https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-Nevada-reach-tentative-settlement-in-6552026.php * Orange County is making the same hapless mistakes on homelessness that L.A. did a decade ago https://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-oc-homeless-housing-20180410-story.html * San Jose “Hope city” homeless camp https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Sweep-of-Homeless-Encampment-Near-San-Jose-Airport-Delayed-493170281.html * Link to United States Commission on civil rights statement regarding “Patient Dumping” http://www.eusccr.com/2014PATDUMPOSD%209282014-2.pdf

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 Support the show and get double the episodes by subscribing to bonus episodes for $5/month at patreon.com/champagnesharks.  If you can’t subscribe right now for whatever reason, do the next best thing and tell as many people as you know about the show. Co-produced & edited by Aaron C. Schroeder / Pierced Ears Recording Co, Seattle WA (piercedearsmusic@gmail.com)Opening theme composed by T. Beaulieu. Closing theme composed by Dustfingaz (https://www.youtube.com/user/TheRazhu_)

This is a preview of a premium bonus episode. To get access to this episode subscribe for $5/month at patreon.com/champagnesharks.  This will not only give you access to this current premium episode you’re previewing, but also all the back premium episodes you may have missed as well and all future bonus premium episodes. 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

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 Support the show and get double the episodes by subscribing to bonus episodes for $5/month at patreon.com/champagnesharks.  If you can’t subscribe right now for whatever reason, do the next best thing and tell as many people as you know about the show. Co-produced & edited by Aaron C. Schroeder / Pierced Ears Recording Co, Seattle WA (piercedearsmusic@gmail.com)Opening theme composed by T. Beaulieu. Closing theme composed by Dustfingaz (https://www.youtube.com/user/TheRazhu_)

This free episode debuted first to Patreon subscribers for 24-48 hours before being unlocked and made free to everyone on the main podcast feed. This will be the norm for all free episodes going forward. To become a Patreon subscriber for $5/month and get early access to this episode and over 50 archived past subscriber-only episodes, go to http://patreon.com/champagnesharks. 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

This is a preview of a premium bonus episode. To get access to this episode subscribe for $5/month at patreon.com/champagnesharks.  This will not only give you access to this current premium episode you’re previewing, but also all the back premium episodes you may have missed as well and all future bonus premium episodes. In this episode, we shoot the shit about a bunch of issues. This episode is late because I was having post-surgery complications. Sorry.

This is a preview of a premium bonus episode. To get access to this episode subscribe for $5/month at patreon.com/champagnesharks.  This will not only give you access to this current premium episode you’re previewing, but also all the back premium episodes you may have missed as well and all future bonus premium episodes. Today we welcome Mark, a South Korean transracial adoptee who was raised by White American parents and has a lot of thoughts on issues involving transracial adoption. Mark writes and podcasts over at Plan A magazine (http://planamag.com). 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

This free episode debuted first to Patreon subscribers for 24-48 hours before being unlocked and made free to everyone on the main podcast feed. This will be the norm for all free episodes going forward. To become a Patreon subscriber for $5/month and get early access to this episode and over 50 archived past subscriber-only episodes, go to http://patreon.com/champagnesharks. 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

This is a preview of a premium bonus episode. To get access to this episode subscribe for $5/month at patreon.com/champagnesharks.  This will not only give you access to this current premium episode you’re previewing, but also all the back premium episodes you may have missed as well and all future bonus premium episodes. We welcome back returning guest Nathaniel Friedman (https://twitter.com/freedarko) and first-time guest Jesse Einhorn (https://twitter.com/silverbird5K) to discuss their recent article on NCAA basketball and other recent sports topics. “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/ 

This free episode debuted first to Patreon subscribers for 24-48 hours before being unlocked and made free to everyone on the main podcast feed. This will be the norm for all free episodes going forward. To become a Patreon subscriber for $5/month and get early access to this episode and over 50 archived past subscriber-only episodes, go to http://patreon.com/champagnesharks. We have Youtube personality Taurean Reign (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoOookRnK-P0tabOv-0dDGg) on to discuss what we've dubbed Blue October, a phenomenon that started in September 2018 but is continuing to gain ground going into October: a rebellion of Black Twitter against the Black public personalities designated as the spokespeople for Black America by the White media. The latest incident is Jamilah Lemieux being dragged by Black Twitter for her consistent attacks on Black men and calling Black people "Negroids". Discussed in this episode: * "Black Activists Called Out for Loyalty to White Woman Appointed to Curate Hip-Hop Exhibit at African-American Museum" https://atlantablackstar.com/2018/09/24/black-activists-called-out-for-loyalty-to-white-woman-appointed-to-curate-hip-hop-exhibit-at-african-american-museum/ * "Deray McKesson Exposed at University of Chicago" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy2PjUMAks0 * "Roxane Gay: I have feared white men and I have loved them" https://www.newstatesman.com/2014/10/roxane-gay-i-have-feared-white-men-and-i-have-loved-them * "Roxane Gay on Financial Independence: 'The Most Important Thing a Woman Can Do for Herself'" https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-us/magazine/money-diary-roxane-gay  * Roxane Gay advocating for famed racist eugenicist Margaret Sanger to be put on the $20 bill https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/03/18/putting-a-woman-on-the-20-bill/roxane-gay-margaret-sanger-a-womens-fighter * Amber Phillips rude meltdown on the Roland Martin show https://www.facebook.com/rolandsmartinfanpage/videos/10154069381867831/ * Jamilah Lemieux's original controversial tweet https://twitter.com/JamilahLemieux/status/1045747713361563648 * Tariq Nasheed's first thread on Jamilah Lemieux https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/1046945937585713153https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/1046945937585713153; Tariq Nasheed's second thread https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/1047155275415805954 * The FBI's suppression of the movie "The Spook Who Sat By the Door"

This is a preview of a premium bonus episode. To get access to this episode subscribe for $5/month at patreon.com/champagnesharks.  This will not only give you access to this current premium episode you’re previewing, but also all the back premium episodes you may have missed as well and all future bonus premium episodes. 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

Starting with this episode, free episodes will now be available exclusively to Patreon subscribers for 24-48 hours before being unlocked and made free to everyone. This episode has already been available over on Patreon for 24 hours. To become a Patreon subscriber, go to http://patreon.com/champagnesharks and subscribe for $5/month. You'll not only get two episodes a week instead of one, but you'll also get access to all the previous premium bonus episodes as well. Today we're joined by Yvette Carnell from Breaking Brown to discuss the relationship or lack thereof between Black American Descendants of Slaves, Caribbean Black people, and Africans, and what, if any, joint Black political vision can be forged between all these groups. Yvette Carnell discusses politics, international and cultural issues as the founder of Breaking Brown. Her weekly videos can be found on the Breaking Brown Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/YCarnell and her Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/ycarnell. She can be found on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/BreakingBrown/ and on Twitter at https://twitter.com/breakingbrown. Mentioned in this episode: * The twitter conversation we mentioned of an African commentator launching into an anti-American DoS diatribe against someone after they said they disliked her politics * Our episode on Luvvie Ajayi, which overlaps with many of the topics discussed in this episode https://www.patreon.com/posts/21114704 * A good recent article on how Black immigrants are changing the American landscape: "The Rihanna generation: How black immigrants are reshaping America" by Daniel Rivero https://splinternews.com/the-rihanna-generation-how-black-immigrants-are-reshap-1793855054 * Antonio Moore's response to Ta-Nehisi Coates's "First White President" article, "Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Wrong, Donald Trump Is Not Our First White President" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elba5h60uQE and his corresponding article on the same topic "Donald Trump isn’t our First White President and he wont be our last" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-isnt-our-first-white-president-and-he_us_59baf98ee4b02c642e4a1511 * Yvette Carnell's response to the Very Smart Brothers article about straight Black men being the White people of Black people https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xc4K5UDDZs Intro music is "DPGC Muzik" by Dogg Pound. Outro music is Mustafa by Khidja. All songs that have been or eventually will be used on this show can be found in our Champagne Sharks Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5emXF3iqhZLU6IuszSRvun Co-produced & edited by Aaron C. Schroeder / Pierced Ears Recording Co, Seattle WA (piercedearsmusic@gmail.com). Opening theme composed by T. Beaulieu.

This is a preview of two premium episodes we recently uploaded over at patreon.com/champagnesharks.  Both episodes, 118 and 119, are listener question episodes where we answer questions people pose to us. If you want to hear some of the questions we answer in these episodes, and also gain access to our archive of almost 60 premium episodes that you would not have heard before if you've only been listening to the free episodes, subscribe for only $5/month over at patreon.com/champagnesharks. Episode 118 can be found here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cs118-listener-q-21726614 Episode 119 can be found here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cs119-listener-q-21728040 Remember that you don't need an Apple product to rate and review the show; just click here to create the AppleID needed to rate and review: https://appleid.apple.com/account#!&page=create. Then click here to review and rate the podcast in Itunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/champ…d1242690393?mt=2. Co-produced & edited by Aaron C. Schroeder / Pierced Ears Recording Co, Seattle WA (piercedearsmusic@gmail.com) Opening theme composed by T. Beaulieu. Closing theme composed by Dustfingaz (https://www.youtube.com/user/TheRazhu_)

I recently put it up to a vote which Premium Bonus episode listeners would most like to see unlocked to free listeners, and our latest episode was the one most people voted for. So here it is. In this episode, I take a concept created by author Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, and apply it to Black people to create a concept I call Black Pathology Realism, the idea that Black pathology and squalor is taken as such a given in society, by both Black and White people, that no one can truly even imagine a world where it doesn't exist, that it's just taken as the natural state of things. Something that can only be managed but not eliminated or cured. We discuss other things too, but we keep returning to that theme. Discussed in this episode: * Thread by Tariq Nasheed showing the now-deleted tweet by Sophia A. Nelson blaming Black men for Serena's recent tennis loss while praising White men https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/1039016711855329280 * The book Capitalist Realism by Mark FIsher https://amzn.to/2QFNTaQ * The Wikipedia entry for Capitalist Realism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalist_Realism:_Is_there_no_alternative%3F * This link of Jake Tapper grilling Ocasio-Cortez on how she plans to pay for her radical socialist platform is interesting because of all the unapologetically proactive and socialist propositions she stands by in the course of a single interview. Think about how such things never happen in political interviews about the Black condition, which usually are just filled with empty platitudes and Civil Rights reminescing https://www.mediaite.com/tv/jake-tapper-grills-ocasio-cortez-over-how-to-pay-for-40-trillion-platform-guess-im-not-going-to-get-an-answer/ * Compare that to this Beto O'Rourke speech that was being praised by Black and White people alike for being so brave and progressive on race https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGWmh-maevk * Two breathlessly romantic pieces memorializing a recently deceased woman who lured Nazi men to their deaths via seduction and even killed a few by her own hand. Compare it to the narrow range of historical resistance Beto O'Rourke was allowing himself to praise in Bla * ck people. From the Inquisitr: https://www.inquisitr.com/5063183/freddie-oversteegen-who-as-teenager-lured-nazis-into-a-forest-to-make-out-then-had-them-killed-dies-at-92/  From Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/freddie-oversteegen-dutch-resistance-fighter-who-killed-nazis-through-seduction-dies-at-92/2018/09/16/7876eade-b9b7-11e8-a8aa-860695e7f3fc_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.65fb9a70540e Co-produced & edited by Aaron C. Schroeder / Pierced Ears Recording Co, Seattle WA (pierc...