Episodes
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Ep. 52: Catch Up With #MelloReadsTheMeter 2/Reading Mr. & Mrs. Hare's Crisis in "Black" Sexual Politics
As with the first time I caught up with you all, there had been a hiatus... But. That does not mean reading and intellection stopped, though! So I recap you all on how this YEAR PLUS since last episode had been for me, Meter-wise...I also read a bit of Julia and Nathan Hare's "Crisis in Black...
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The Racialization of “We”...
This Mellosode, 3ye deal with the generalizing nature of contemporary ideals of race and identity in the “Black” community and how the racializing of “us” makes for an easy answer to complicated, multipronged issues.
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Mellosode Mash Ups: Pre Show - @theearthprecise (Shots Fired...)
This time around, we are doing things differently to reinvigorate fruitful dialogue on pressing issues of the day with the sister Precise (@theearthprecise) before our actual mash up of pertinent thought.
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On and Beyond Situational Kinship
This time around, 3ye discuss this idea of Situational Kinship and how it pertains to marketing so called Black Americans as one thing, and how that could be highly dangerous for us all.
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Catch Up With #MelloReadsTheMeter 1
This episode, Mello catches you all up on his one month hiatus from updating his anchorsodes. He discusses his two texts he’s reading this month, inebriated 😎...Enjoy!
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Lost Cultural Value Under Guise Of "Progress"
This episod, 3ye use the work of Amos Wilson and others to identify a point about what is lost, what is gained, allowed, and disallowed With Each Cultural shift, with Black culture as the example.
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Twitter’s Blue Check Status As An Absolver
This time around, 3ye discuss my thoughts on the Twitter Blue Check symbol, digital king-making, and how many do not understand the social-media environment space in and around us.
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Few Thoughts on Neighborhood Nip and Lack of Leaders Today
On this recording I parse a few feelings regarding Nipsey Hussle, his humanistic/realistic leadership, and the lack of any leaders today.
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Please Don’t Have A Facebook Fit Today
I briefly check in with those listening in on me, Facebook included.
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Negroes and Technical Science: What Happened?
This time around I share some of my thinking on the nadir of Black technical acumen and how big media and tech turns us into Digital Laymen again vis a vis my private readings of Postman/Powers's book, "How To Watch TV News".
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More From Ira Berlin, Buttressed By Bobby E. Wright
In my episode 37, I mention Ira Berlin’s text “Slaves Without Masters”. This time around I couple some things this scholar is saying with that of Dr. Bobby E. Wright in his paper, Pychopathic Racial Personality.
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Comments Captains and Media Moderation
This recording I speak to the changes in social media populations and why we need to give these spaces a break.
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We Need A BLACKNESSGate
This time around I offer the idea that US Blacks need a cultural transformation that solidifies as much as it secures.
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Overdone As A Form Of Preservation
Thinking through a couple ideas about doing things, being in things that happen constantly as a form of getting some thing done.
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My Aversion to Addictive Associations
This time around 3ye dove into my thoughts on group dynamics in the public sphere, be it online or on the ground.
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Total Memory Recall, Intercommunal Classes, & Yearend Musing
This Episode 3ye do some acknowledgement of the people and ideas I enjoy and what I was taught from said readings.
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Non-Monolithic US Slaves: a Black Indigenous Rejoinder
This conversation is an addition to a previous Anchor discussion (‘Why 3ye Go So Hard for Black Indigeneity’) and a light reappraisal of US slave history.
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Virality =\= Veracity
This time around, 3ye deal with going viral online and the costs it has on online community making.
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The Cons, Contours, and Conscripts of Connotation
A quicker than usual freestyle on the abuses of individual meaning, known as Connotation.
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There Is No "Black Journalism"...Only Yellow Journalism
This time, 3ye discuss the dearth of real, local scholarship in what’s considered to be “Black Journalism”...
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On Dangerous Familiarity
This segment explains my ideas of familiarity and relying on the intuition can be a dangerous aspect of group dynamics.
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Integration vs Black Identity Formation...for what???
This segment, Mello puts down some freestyled knowledge on the needs to dismantle the tension between integration and Black community’s ability to self-identify.
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What 3ye Learned Working a Milwaukee WI Polling Site 11/6/18
Here 3ye was delving into the firsthand experience of his with a polling election site this passed national-local election. He discusses a need for a more politically astute Black electorate and the resemblance of Black top-down approaches in his communities’ current political afflictions and...
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Why 3ye Go So Hard For Black Indigeneity
This time around Mello attempts to situate African-American history in its true indigenous contexts relational to the US State and how exploring our history from that lens empowers in ways unimaginable.
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Civil Rights Liberalism Pigeonholing of Black Politics
In this episode, 3ye parse two books on Black politics and working class environment in relation to the civil rights movements of the 20th century and how Black politics have long been relegated to stay one way.
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Harold Cruse's Theory of Black Cities
In this episode 3ye summarize a paper written by Harold W. Cruse in 1971 dealing with Black US migratory patterns and how they effect Black social life and study.
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Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘Barracoon’
In this segment, 3ye read a small chapter from Zora’s latest published book, ‘Barracoon’, entitled ‘Freedom’.
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Making Page Perusal a Habit
In this episode, 3ye discuss my thoughts on being dilligent online as learning new information is concerned.
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Saying No To Social Media Understanding Pt. 2
Extended a conversation on social media platforms and their ability to be foundations for societal change.
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Against Policing Black Thought
Mello muses a little bit about his family ties to the Choctaw tribe, communal communication, and identity in fhe context of policed Black perspective.
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Racial Fatalism, Black Middle Class, and Respectability
Mello (@3yeamhe) muses about his new inclinations to a term called Racial Fatalism. He also references two books and a Black Media platform he enjoys. Tune in to #MelloReadsTheMeter
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#MelloReadsTheMeterAndOtherMusings: Paul Robeson
Mello (@3yeAmHe) reads the meter on Paul Robeson's Here I Stand and his timely comments on Negro action, organization, and leadership.
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Black Revolutionary Fine Tuning And Troubleshooting
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