Just in time for the holidays and Black Friday! The five-minute Aunt Jemima Program: proof that in the Golden Age of Radio, "product placement" was not necessary, as the product WAS the show. Of course, since corporations are "persons," and "persons" have SUCKY memory skills, we may see this kind of entertainment again. After all, commercial encroachment into our minds has already been established; we should be able to accept it better this time around, eh?
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Originally broadcast December 2, 2008. DJNewStyle and Germfreak have had their turkey, but they’re not quite ready to light up for Christmas - so they talk to a formerly homeless woman who used to do a lot of coke. Calls from Ruth Ann, Mike Nyce, and Barb.
A brief rundown of a few highlights:
* Being a bad friend, Thanksgiving, Black Friday.
* Christmas time, decorations, sweaters.
* Ruth Ann calls in for Question Time.
* Frank does some list related show prep!
* The Awful Hour challenges us?
It can be argued that perhaps the key issue which separates the United States from the other 17 world democracies is that this nation was built in no small way on the backs of chattel slavery, an institution which has had an impact not only on the “race” of people whom were enslaved, but the entire sociopolitical structure of the nation itself. Not only has slavery, and the justification of slavery and domination which we know today as racism, affected the relationships between those of African-Americans and the dominant “race” (Caucasians) - as well as other people of color whose entrance and experiences in this nation, however problematic, were different by the very nature of how they came to be in America - but it has also blurred the line between the powerful and rich and the rest of us who share a class consciousness’ (or who should!)
The tangled issues of race and privilege in our society come to a boiling point on the internet. Exploring the complicated place of race in society, this presentation examines the ideas of race in the digital environment with a specific focus on social media.
Kety Esquivel New Media Mgr, NCLR
Jay Smooth Ill Doctrine
Phil Yu Angry Asian Man
Latoya Peterson Editrix, Racialicious.com