CS 080: Donald Glover, Liberal White Racist Shade, and Tokens Pt. 2 (03/31/2018) (Patreon)

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This is part one of two-part episode. We discuss a recent Donald Glover interview, the ways in which "good white people" are adept at throwing racist shade in a very gaslighting, subtle way and how Blavity Blacks love and fetishize the token black person experience.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Music is "If This Ain't Love" by Nicole Willis and the Investigators
• Donald Glover New Yorker Article by Tad Friend: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/05/donald-glover-cant-save-you
• My thread on the New Yorker Donald Glover article: https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/974739510570504192 
• The Jodie Landon Daria video in a Buzzfeed tweet: https://twitter.com/AM2DM/status/970368961765302272 
• "Is Jodie Landon The Most Important TV Character Of The 90s?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqJ9XNw07-0 
• Ishmael Reed's discussions on The Wire: "Should Harvard Teach A Course On The Wire?" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/01/harvard-wire-course_n_746896.html; "No, it relies on clichés about blacks and drugs" http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/09/30/no_it_relies_on_clichs_about_blacks_and_drugs/; "Faking the Hood" https://www.counterpunch.org/2008/03/15/faking-the-hood/; 
• "This Isn't The First Time Network TV Discovered Black People" by Gene Demby https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/04/01/395777889/this-isnt-the-first-time-network-tv-discovered-black-people 
• The weird cottage industry of Blavity Buzzfeed style blerds doing thinkpieces about Jodie Landon from Daria over the years: "Jodie Abigail Landon, Queen Of The Negroes." http://www.postbourgie.com/2010/05/12/jodie-abigail-landon-queen-of-the-negroes/; "On Race, Feminism, and Jodie Landon" http://www.geekquality.com/jodie-landon/; "Jodie Landon" https://lovelymelanin.wordpress.com/2017/07/12/jodie-landon/; "Reclaiming My Blackness: How I Realized I Was More than a Daria Wannabe" http://www.bkmag.com/2015/12/21/reclaiming-my-blackness-how-i-realized-i-was-more-than-a-daria-wannabe/; podcast episode of Carefree Black Nerd "Jodie Landon" https://soundcloud.com/carefreeblacknerd/cbn-season-2-issue-23-jodie-landon