Champagne Sharks

This is a preview of a bonus premium episode. Support the show and get double the episodes by subscribing to bonus episodes for $5/month at http://patreon.com/champagnesharks. Also, remember to review and rate the podcast in Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/champagne-sharks/id1242690393?mt=2. Mike (https://twitter.com/blackexception1 on Twitter) and I discuss the controversy surrounding Dave Chappelle's trans jokes as discussed in a recent Jezebel article: * Dave Chappelle is Still Telling Transphobic Jokes According to Report by Rich Juzwiak http://jezebel.com/dave-chappelle-is-still-telling-transphobic-jokes-acco-1797475330 Materials discussed in this episode: * How the Alt-Right Is Using Sex and Camp to Attract Gay Men to Fascism By Donna Minkowitz http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2017/06/05/how_alt_right_leaders_jack_donovan_and_james_o_meara_attract_gay_men_to.html * No Asians, no black people. Why do gay people tolerate blatant racism?  by Owen Jones https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/24/no-asians-no-blacks-gay-people-racism * Shocking survey finds racism is endemic among gay men by Benjamin Butterworth http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/05/23/shocking-gmfa-survey-finds-racism-is-endemic-among-gay-men/ * A New Survey Claiming That LGBT People Are Less Racist Misses the Reality of Racism in the Queer Community By Preston Mitchum http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2017/07/25/are_white_lgbt_people_really_less_racist_than_their_cisgender_straight_counterparts.html * ‘No Blacks’ Is Not a Sexual Preference. It’s Racism by Samantha Allen http://www.thedailybeast.com/no-blacks-is-not-a-sexual-preference-its-racism * An Open Letter To Gay, White Men: No, You’re Not Allowed To Have A Racial Preference by Donovan Trott http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/an-open-letter-to-gay-white-men-no-youre-not-allowed_us_5947f0ffe4b0f7875b83e459 * In Trump’s America, racism on gay dating apps is getting worse by Nico Lang https://www.dailydot.com/irl/racism-gay-dating-apps/ * Gay Bars Can be Mind-Bogglingly Racist by Mikelle Street https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d7bd9k/gay-bars-can-be-mind-bogglingly-racist * Michael Sam Sees More Racism in Gay Community Than Homophobia in Black Community

Support the show and get double the episodes by subscribing to bonus episodes for $5/month at http://patreon.com/champagnesharks. Also, remember to review and rate the podcast in Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/champagne-sharks/id1242690393?mt=2. Today D. Mills (https://twitter.com/mdmills79) and I talk with Dr. Tommy Curry (https://twitter.com/drtjc) on the need for black male studies in academia and the media. Dr. Curry has also been in the news recently for a controversy he's been embroiled in thanks to a witch hunt started by conservative white supremacist Rod Dreher. We also go into whether such a thing as Black Patriarchy exists in the black community or if it's a myth, Discussion Materials: Dr. Curry's book The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood http://amzn.to/2wj8YwS Dr. Curry's Academia.edu page where you can find his academic papers: http://tamu.academia.edu/TommyCurry The Chronicle article about the Curry/Dreher/TAMU controvery: http://www.chronicle.com/article/who-s-left-to-defend-tommy/240757?key=f15y8715k1n0EpJg1p9khe9nkj7TkzwTZX8waDzm-XB91giqSV5o9bjJHYi2An7uekdiM0pUNEhUQllnaGszX0dZV3lqMGNsbVlvMzZyaHpPakJvMFNDWW1qbw Contested Memories: A Critical Analysis of the Black Feminist Revisionist History Project by Valethia Watkins, Ph.D., J.D. http://www.jpanafrican.org/docs/vol9no4/JuneJuly-17-Watkins.pdf

This is a preview of a longer bonus premium episode. To access the full episode as well as get access to all older bonus premium episodes, subscribe for only $5/month over at http://patreon.com/champagnesharks. Doc Ock (@OckyJ83 on Twitter) joins me today and we talk about the group of people in media and online who we refer to as Representation Matters Twitter and some of their favorite shows and movies, like Dope, Moonlight, and Insecure. Article and Video Mentioned: I’ve Been Insecure About Not Loving ‘Insecure’, But I Realize It’s So Much More Than That by Ezinne Ukoha  https://medium.com/@nilegirl/ive-been-insecure-about-not-loving-insecure-but-i-realize-it-s-so-much-more-than-that-a2acb15c59a8 Yvette Carnell on Issa Rae: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N7nmXrg0xY

Support the show and get double the episodes by subscribing to bonus episodes for $5/month at http://patreon.com/champagnesharks. If you're interested in asking questions that may eventually be featured, go to https://curiouscat.me/ChampagneSharks. Book mentioned this episode: The Victims of Democracy: Malcolm X and the Black Revolution by Eugene Victor Wolfenstein http://amzn.to/2w1A3Ev

This is a preview of a longer bonus premium episode. To access the full episode as well as get access to all older bonus premium episodes, subscribe for only $5/month over at http://patreon.com/champagnesharks. This week I discuss the psychodynamics of a recent false rape accusation by a white college student against two black athletes, and how it ties into the history of America and the fears of white supremacist men. Articles mentioned: Police Say Woman Lied About Rape By College Football Player And Other Man by Ron Dicker http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/woman-allegedly-lied-about-rape-by-football-player-and-another-man-for-sympathy_us_58af174de4b060480e05b177  Teen Charged With Lying About Being Raped by College Football Players by Joshua Rhett Miller http://nypost.com/2017/02/22/teen-charged-with-lying-about-being-raped-by-college-football-players/  Book mentioned: White Women, Black Men by Martha Hodes http://amzn.to/2eNhTmK 

Support the show and get double the episodes by subscribing to bonus episodes for $5/month at http://patreon.com/champagnesharks. Also, remember to review and rate the podcast in Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/champagne-sharks/id1242690393?mt=2. Chopping it up with D. Mills (https://twitter.com/mdmills79) and Mike (https://twitter.com/blackexception1) about Black people chasing White definitions of success. Articles, Books and Movies Mentioned: * The Story Behind Jared Kushner’s Curious Acceptance into Harvard by Daniel Golden (https://www.propublica.org/article/the-story-behind-jared-kushners-curious-acceptance-into-harvard) * The Farce of Meritocracy: Why Legacy Admissions Might Actually Be A Good Thing by Josh Freedman (https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshfreedman/2013/11/14/the-farce-of-meritocracy-in-elite-higher-education-why-legacy-admissions-might-be-a-good-thing/#46ea20330125) * Black Longshoremen and the Fight for Equality in an ‘Anti-racist’ Union by Jake Alimahomed-Wilson (http://www.thecyberhood.net/documents/papers/long.pdf) * Spook Who Sat by the Door (The Book) by Sam Greenlee (http://amzn.to/2gYG1mW) * Spook Who Sat by the Door (The Movie) (http://amzn.to/2vDw9CA)

This is a preview of a longer bonus premium episode. To access the full episode as well as get access to all older bonus premium episodes, subscribe for only $5/month (a measly $1.25 per episode!) over at http://patreon.com/champagnesharks. Recently Wal-Mart got in trouble for describing the color of a product on their website as "Nigger-Brown." In this episode I wanted to go into why exactly so many people are doing so much racist spontaneous acting out  and how it relates to the alt-right's obsession with "free speech." Discussed in this episode: The movie clip that starts off the episode is from the 1974 movie Trick Baby, based on Iceberg Slim's book of the same name: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pQ-YPjasGc Breakdown of Wal-Mart's Nigger-Brown Snafu: https://www.vibe.com/2017/07/walmart-n-brown-wig-cap/ Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Joy DeGruy The book: http://amzn.to/2uAhF8l The video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFm93vMPUZw That video link is especially a good video for elaborating on my points from this episode about how and why it's psychically necessary for white sanity that black people remain some level of subhuman status in a system of white supremacy. I highly recommend watching the linked video or reading the linked book to get the most of this episode.

Books challenging genetic determinism mentioned in this episode: * The Dependent Gene by David S. Moore * The Trouble with Twin Studies: A Reassessment of Twin Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences by Jay Joseph * The Gene Illusion - Genetic Research in Psychiatry and Psychology Under the Microscope by Jay Joseph * The Missing Gene: Psychiatry, Heredity, And the Fruitless Search for Genes by Jay Joseph * Monkeyluv by Robert Sapolsky

Expanding on an insight from Neely Fuller, Jr. regarding why the word "Nigger" has the power it does.

My issues with this current trend of Black Girl Magic as a form of activism, and the weird political earth-mother intersectional blerd cult that seems to have arisen around this trend, especially on Twitter. Articles and twitter threads mentioned: Who Gets to Own "Black Girl Magic" by Clover Hope: http://jezebel.com/who-gets-to-own-black-girl-magic-1793924053 Black Like Mao by Robin D.G. Kelley http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccbh/souls/vol1no4/vol1num4art1.pdf Luvvie thread: https://twitter.com/Luvvie/status/854755202238476288 Black PhD's thread: https://twitter.com/prof_carrington/status/854728891524567040 Thread of Black woman pseudo-worship: https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/882719599300685824 Skateboarder and the Black Women thread: https://twitter.com/koopa_kinte/status/865269838700199936 My twitter thread on Black Girl Magic and how it unwittingly plays into the Magical Negro and Mammy stereotypes: https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/883681773875601408  

Discussion topics today include the new Jay-Z album (barely), the cancellation of the Carmichael Show, and the upcoming Mayweather vs. MacGregor fight and the racial politics behind it. Milestone episode, no technical difficulties.

Support the show and get double the episodes by subscribing to bonus episodes for $5/month at http://patreon.com/champagnesharks. Also, remember to review and rate the podcast in Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/champagne-sharks/id1242690393?mt=2. We had a whole agenda of topics for discussion today, but due to technical difficulties with losing co-host Mike (@blackexception1 on Twitter) and stalling while waiting for him to resolve his tech issues and come back (he never did), remaining co-host D. Mills (@mdmills79 on Twitter) and I ended up having a pretty fun unplanned discussion on gentrification.

This is an excerpt from the latest premium bonus episode. To get access to this episode as well as all past premium episodes, subscribe for $5/month at http://patreon.com/champagnesharks. Also, as usual, please review and rate the show on Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/champagne-sharks/id1242690393?mt=2. After a bunch of technical difficulties and delays, I finally bought a new laptop and this is the first episode using it. So far, so good. Today we discuss answers to reader questions, including the topics of Black consciousness/liberation, the dynamics of interracial dating in a supposedly post-racial, gentrified landscape, and Twitter Hoteps. The book The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class by Dean MacCannell is discussed: http://amzn.to/2s348lH

Become a subscriber to premium bonus episodes for only $5 a month at http://patreon.com/champagnesharks. Also, review and rate (do both, don't just rate) the show over at Itunes to help with the rankings: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/champagne-sharks/id1242690393?mt=2 Today D. Mills (@mdmills79 on twitter) and I discuss lessons we've learned from Neely Fuller, White Privilege discourse, the White Ally Industrial Complex, Coffee Creamers, and the formula white allies can follow if they truly want to help black people. Mentioned in this episode: The book The United-Independent Compensatory Code/System/Concept Textbook: A Compensatory Counter-Racist Code by Neely Fuller, Jr. * I’m black, but I’m uncomfortable around black people by Danielle Small * An Open Letter To Gay, White Men: No, You’re Not Allowed To Have A Racial Preference by Donovan Trott  

This is a preview of a premium bonus episode. To access all premium bonus episodes for only $5 a month, subscribe at Patreon, http://patreon.com/champagnesharks. Also, please review and rate the podcast on Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/champagne-sharks/id1242690393?mt=2. Today I'm joined by fellow Sharks and co-hosts D. Mills (@MDMills79 on Twitter) and Mike (@blackexception1 on Twitter). Our guest is Dominick (@FanonsDream) who schools us on Afro-Pessimism, a particular school of antiracism. Books and articles cited: Scenes of Subjection by Saidiya V. Hartman (http://amzn.to/2sOEO6v) Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe by Hortense Spillers (https://people.ucsc.edu/~nmitchel/hortense_spillers_-_mamas_baby_papas_maybe.pdf) Gramsci's Black Marx: Whither the Slave in Civil Society? by Frank Wilderson, III (https://theloon2013.wikispaces.com/file/view/Wilderson+-+Gramscis+Black+Marx.pdf)