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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.

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CS 001: The Black Image in the White Imagination

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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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFm93vMPUZw
•	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
•	Anything by Alfred Adler or 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	Narcissim Books by Heinz Kohut and Otto Kernberg
o	Willpower’s Not Enough by Arnold Washton and Donna Boundy
o	Shame: The Underside of Narcisssm by Andrew Morrison
o	Sam Vaknin’s books and videos on Narcissism
o	The Hidden Dimension: Psychodynamics in Compulsive Drug Use by Leon Wurmser, MD
o	The West and the Rest of Us by Chinweizu

Papaer on How Intersectional Black Feminists Conflate Black Feminists and Black Women:
•	Contested Memories: A Critical Analysis of the Black Feminist Revisionist History Project by Valeria Wathkins

Twitter Threads About Intersectional Feminists Blaming Black Men For Everything:
•	https://twitter.com/DOC_So_Serious/status/851933690754191361
•	https://twitter.com/Y2Dre/status/854898235151921153

CS 002: Listener Questions 1

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.

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Champagne In Seashells EP

CS 003: Why I Hate Hamilton the Musical

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. 

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CS 004: Bill Maher and Civility Rights

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.

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Preview of CS 005: The Negrolarity, Not the Singularity feat. Brandon Sutton

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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.

CS 006: What Fanon Said feat. Dr. Lewis Gordon (06/13/2016)

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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)

CS 007 Preview: Afro-Pessimism feat. Dominick/@FanonsDream (06/18/2017)

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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. http://amzn.to/2t49T65

I’m black, but I’m uncomfortable around black people by Danielle Small http://www.salon.com/2015/08/24/im_black_but_im_uncomfortable_around_black_people/

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?utm_campaign=hp_fb_pages&utm_source=qv_fb&utm_medium=facebook&ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000050

CS 008: Discussing Neely Fuller, Jr. (06/24/2017)

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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

CS 009 Preview: Interracial Dating and Staged Authenticity

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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.

CS 010: Discussing Gentrification (07/02/2017)

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

CS 012: Black Girl Magic, Black Boy Tragic

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

Preview Clip of Bonus Episode CS 013: Why The Word Nigger Is So Powerful (07/12/2017)

Books challenging genetic determinism mentioned in this episode:

The Dependent Gene by David S. Moore http://amzn.to/2uxJ2AO
The Trouble with Twin Studies: A Reassessment of Twin Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences by Jay Joseph http://amzn.to/2v6XtZE
The Gene Illusion - Genetic Research in Psychiatry and Psychology Under the Microscope by Jay Joseph http://amzn.to/2usEYkv
The Missing Gene: Psychiatry, Heredity, And the Fruitless Search for Genes by Jay Joseph http://amzn.to/2tusS6j
Monkeyluv by Robert Sapolsky http://amzn.to/2vrbVuP

CS 014: Shame, Guilt, Nigger, Race Science

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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.

Preview of CS 015: Racial Tourette's or Walmart's Nigger-Brown Snafu (07/18/2017)

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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)

CS 016: Chasing White Mirages (07/23/2017)

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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

Preview of CS 017: It's All Rape (07/26/2017)

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Book mentioned this episode:

The Victims of Democracy: Malcolm X and the Black Revolution by Eugene Victor Wolfenstein http://amzn.to/2w1A3Ev

CS 018: Listener Questions  - The Black Non-Savior Trope

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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

Preview of CS 019: Intellectual Ratchetry feat. @OckyJ83 (07/30/2017)

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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

CS 020: The Man-Not feat. Dr. Tommy Curry (07/31/2017)

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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 https://www.queerty.com/michael-sam-sees-more-racism-in-gay-community-than-homophobia-in-black-community-20160330

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