Champagne Sharks

Become a subscriber to premium bonus episodes for only $5 a month at http://patreon.com/champagnesharks. Review and rate the podcast in Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/champagne-sharks/id1242690393 Today we discuss the work of Franz Fanon with Dr. Lewis Gordon (@lewgord on Twitter), Professor of Philosophy and Africana Studies, with affiliations in Judaic Studies and Caribbean, Latino/a, and Latin American Studies, at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. His bio can be found at http://www.lewisrgordon.com/biography/. He is the author of What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought (http://amzn.to/2rtzdha). We talked about the worldview of Fanon and how he still matters today.    

This is a short preview from Episode 5, my talk with fellow podcaster Brandon Sutton (@PrettyBadLefty), host of The Discourse, about the happenings of the week, including Hillary renting slaves and the UK election. Unlock the full episode at http://www.patreon.com/posts/11658339 You can find The Discourse at https://soundcloud.com/expandthediscourse To hear the whole thing along with all other premium exclusive episodes, head on over to www.patreon.com/champagnesharks and become a $5/month member.

Become a subscriber to premium bonus episodes for only $5 a month at http://patreon.com/champagnesharks. This week I discuss Bill Maher using the word nigger, the impotence of black public intellectuals, and the concept of Civility Rights. Articles discussed include "What Are The Drums Saying, Booker?" Book discussed briefly is The Image by Daniel Boorstin. Review and rate the podcast in Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/champagne-sharks/id1242690393

Become a subscriber to premium bonus episodes for only $5 a month at http://patreon.com/champagnesharks. My episode all about why I hate Hamilton the Musical. This is a double sized episode clocking in at over two hours, but we'll be back to 1 hour episodes from this point forward. Since I didn't post any episodes last week consider this making up for last week's missed episode. Update: This is an edited version to fix sound issues that were there previously. Link to the full notes at: http://champagnesharks.blubrry.net/003-full-show-notes/

Become a patron! For a small monthly fee, you get access to the weekly bonus Problematic Premium episode in addition to the weekly free episode: https://www.patreon.com/champagnesharks Books and Videos Mentioned: * Neely Fuller, Jr.’s books and videos: * Tariq Nasheed, Iceberg Slim, everything they’ve written * Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Joy DeGruy. Also the Youtube speech: * Books on Middle Class and Upper Class Blacks: Black Bourgeoisie by E. Franklin Frazier, Rage of a Privileged Class by Ellis Cose, The Black Anglo-Saxons by Nathan Hare, Our Kind of People by Lawrence Otis Graham * Black Players by Richard and Christina Milner * Psychopathic Racial Personality by Bobby E. Wright * American Directory of Certified Uncle Toms * Daniel Boorstin’s The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America and Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman. They go very well together. If feeling ambitious, add Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan * Simulacra and Simulation by Baudrillard, or anything discussing hyperreality * Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture by Heath and Potter * On Bullshit by Harry Frankfurt * Understanding Human Nature or anything else by Alfred Adler * Neurosis and Human Growth or anything else by Karen Horney * Eckhart Tolle (a New Earth and Power of Now) * I and Thou by Martin Buber * Richard Rohr, True Self and False Self * Class by Paul Fussell * Tally’s Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men by Elliot Liebow * Richard Bernstein – The East, The West and Sex * Transactional Analysis books, like Games People Play by Eric Berne, I’m Ok, You’re Ok by Thomas Harris, Born to Win by Muriel James, and Scripts People Live by Claude Steiner. * Denial of Death by Ernest Becker * A Reader’s Manifesto by B.R. Myers I believe Racism White Supremacy is race-based narcissism, and that narcissism itself is an addiction to narcissistic supply and putting down other people you designate as different, so I tend to read a lot of books on narcissism and drug addiction to understand RWS: o Narcissism Books by Heinz Kohut and

Become a subscriber to premium bonus episodes for only $5 a month at http://patreon.com/champagnesharks. T. tests out his newfound audio engineering prowess by recording a solo test episode and answering a listener question about why white people don't just exterminate black people.