EPISODE · Sep 6, 2017 · 1H 33M
DACA Cruelty; Digital Blackface?; Black Cherokees + More, TheGrind@7pm ET
from Afronerd Radio · host Afronerd Radio
Hujambo with a warm piece of sweet potato pie, folks! Listen to a new episode of The Mid Week in Review (MWIR)m courtesy of Afronerd Radio Machine Works! Check out the latest meanderings of your hosts, Dburt and Capt. Kirk as they shed light on the following topics: the nation grows angrier and more divided as President Trump attempts to dismantle former President Barack Obama's DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) immigration policy and potentially deporting 800K law abidiing and contributing undocumentated workers; is the viral passing of memes depicting Black people in humorous and contorted poses a type of high tech minstrelsy?; descendants of enslaved Africans owned by the Cherokee Nation are finally granted tribal citizenship; with Confederate monuments being threatened with removal and a Memphis theater dropping the Hollywood classic, Gone with the Wind from their 2018 roster of films, is history being rewritten to society's detriment?; And lastly, after reading an HuffPo article by a Black mother lamenting her biracial daughter's timidity about Blackness, Dburt laments about the need for a new Black Power movement. Call the hosts live at 646-915-9620.
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Hujambo with a warm piece of sweet potato pie, folks! Listen to a new episode of The Mid Week in Review (MWIR)m courtesy of Afronerd Radio Machine Works! Check out the latest meanderings of your hosts, Dburt and Capt. Kirk as they shed light on the following topics: the nation grows angrier and more divided as President Trump attempts to dismantle former President Barack Obama's DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) immigration policy and potentially deporting 800K law abidiing and contributing undocumentated workers; is the viral passing of memes depicting Black people in humorous and contorted poses a type of high tech minstrelsy?; descendants of enslaved Africans owned by the Cherokee Nation are finally granted tribal citizenship; with Confederate monuments being threatened with removal and a Memphis theater dropping the Hollywood classic, Gone with the Wind from their 2018 roster of films, is history being rewritten to society's detriment?; And lastly, after reading an HuffPo article by a Black mother lamenting her biracial daughter's timidity about Blackness, Dburt laments about the need for a new Black Power movement. Call the hosts live at 646-915-9620.
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DACA Cruelty; Digital Blackface?; Black Cherokees + More, TheGrind@7pm ET
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