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2008 STAND UP ROUTINE KILL THE MESSENGER AND IT'S ABOUT ALPINE, NEW JERSEY, THE POSH TOWN WE LIVED IN A MULTIMILLION DOLLAR ZONE. HIS NEIGHBORS INCLUDE...
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| 00:02:34 |
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HE DON'T GET AS HIGH AS THE FISHER GO, IT WILL STILL DRIVE YOU CRAZY AND SHOW YOU THAT YOUR ABILITY IS NOT FULLY RESPECTED. BLACKNESS IS EXPANDING A...
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| 00:14:58 |
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GOOD. >> SO I THINK WE'VE GOT TO
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| 00:15:01 |
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DIARY BACK BECAUSE I THINK SO SINISTER AND COMPLETELY COVERED TO TALK ABOUT AND MANY, MANY TIMES IN THE READING YOU JUST SAID, WHICH GOES DEEP INTO THE...
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| 00:15:25 |
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COMES FROM THE ART WORLD, THELMA GOLDMAN THE GREAT DEAR READER AND THE ART OF SCORING TOGETHER TO TALK ABOUT A GROUP OF ARTISTS THEY SAW WHO WANTED...
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| 00:16:36 |
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POST-RACIAL. >> POST-RACIAL. THE POST-RACIAL DOES NOT EXIST. [APPLAUSE] POST-RACIAL SUGGESTS RACE DOES NOT MATTER OR MAYBE IT SUGGESTS THAT RACISM IS...
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| 00:17:36 |
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YOU SAY IN THE BOOK AND FOR THOSE OF YOU HAVEN'T READ IT, SHE GIVES AN ENTIRE CHAPTER TO DAVE CHAPELLE AND THE CHAPELLE SHOW AND IT'S THE CLEAREST EXAMPLE...
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| 00:17:53 |
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IT'S AN INCREDIBLY COMPLEX SHOW. WE SEE THE RACIAL MORPHINE IN THE REAL WORLD. WE SEE MULTIPLE WAYS OF PERFORMING BLACKNESS WITHIN ONE PERSON BECAUSE...
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| 00:18:54 |
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BRADY EPISODE OF CHAPELLE SHOW IS ONE OF THE MOST BILLION EPISODES BECAUSE AS YOU SPELL OUT, ALL WE KNEW ABOUT WAYNE BRADY UP UNTIL THAT SKIT WAS THAT...
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| 00:19:28 |
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MEAT OF THIS IDEA OF HERE IS THE WAY THAT WAYNE BRADY IS BLACK OR THE WAY SOMEONE ELSE'S BIKE AND IT CAME FROM A VERY ORGANIC PLAYS DEWAYNE SAW DAVE...
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| 00:21:39 |
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AS YOU WERE READING THE CHAPTER FOCUSING ON RACISM, IT MADE ME THINK ABOUT ANOTHER CHAPTER IN THE BOOK, WHICH THROUGHOUT THE BOOK IS ABOUT THIS WHOLE...
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| 00:22:24 |
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THINK THAT'S RIGHT. I STARTED DEALING IN HASKELL IS SOME OF THE PEOPLE STARTED DEALING IN HIGH SCHOOL THAT RESPONDING TO THE WEIGHT IS ONE LEVEL OF...
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| 00:23:29 |
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GAVE RISE TO THIS WAS IN COLLEGE WHEN SOMEONE CAME TO YOU AND SAID, TOURE, YOU AIN'T BLACK. TELL THAT STORY BECAUSE HE SAYS THIS TO YOU AND YOU HAVE...
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| 00:23:47 |
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I WAS LIVING IN THE BLACKOUTS WERE ONLY THREE PEOPLE LIVED HERE YOU HAD TO FIGHT TO GET IN THE BLACKOUTS. WE WERE STANDING IN THE BLACKOUTS ON THIS HAPPEN....
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| 00:25:25 |
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WOULD ASSUME. I'M ACTUALLY WAITING FOR HIM TO JUMP OUT BUT ONE OF THESE READINGS. LET ME TELL YOU ANOTHER THING. >> YOU HEARD ABOUT
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| 00:25:38 |
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WAYNE BRADY? BUT IT WAS AN EXTRAORDINARILY PAINFUL MOMENT. I THINK A LOT OF US IN THIS ROOM ARE BEYOND THE STAGE OF FORMING OUR IDENTITIES SO WE KNOW...
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| 00:27:01 |
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GOING TO OPEN THIS UP TO QUESTIONS FROM YOU GUYS. SHOULD THEY GO TO THE MIKE'S? WHAT DO YOU SAY WE GIVE THE AUDIENCE ON STAGE A FIRST CRACK AT IT? ...
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| 00:27:20 |
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THAT YOUR QUESTIONS ARE INDEED QUESTIONS AND THAT THEY ARE SHORT SO AS MANY PEOPLE CAN ASK A QUESTION AS POSSIBLE AND FOR WARNING BECAUSE I'VE GIVEN YOU...
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| 00:27:50 |
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REACHES. >> MY QUESTION
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| 00:27:51 |
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RELATES TO KEEPING OUR VOWS -- [INAUDIBLE] [INAUDIBLE] [INAUDIBLE] >> I MEAN, I THINK
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| 00:28:27 |
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THAT'S A REALLY INTERESTING QUESTION. WE DO NEED TO PICK OUR BATTLES BECAUSE THERE ARE ISSUES OF RACISM THAT WILL HURT YOU AND THEIR ISSUES OF RACISM...
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| 00:30:25 |
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THE STAGE. WE'RE GOING TO COME TO YOU GUYS NEXT. [INAUDIBLE] [INAUDIBLE] >> SHE'S VERY ADAMANT THAT
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| 00:30:57 |
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THEY DON'T CARE WHO'S WHITE, WHO'S BLACK, HIS AGENT, THEY JUST DON'T CARE. DO YOU KNOW IF THAT'S A GOOD THING OR BAD NAME? DO THINK IT'S UNREALISTIC?...
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| 00:31:22 |
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INTERESTING. ONE OF THE THINGS THE SOCIOLOGIST, IS THAT THE DENIAL OF RACISM IS RAISED AS A MINION OF ITSELF. THAT IS A FORM OF MICRO-AGGRESSION OR...
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| 00:33:18 |
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THE NIGHT. I [INAUDIBLE] [INAUDIBLE CONVERSATIONS] >> REMEMBER, QUESTIONS
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| 00:33:32 |
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PLEASE. >> WERE GOING TO COME BACK
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| 00:33:41 |
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HERE. I [INAUDIBLE] >>
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| 00:33:48 |
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ARRAY. >> YOUR
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| 00:33:53 |
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TURN. >> A QUESTION FROM A
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| 00:33:56 |
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DIFFERENT ERA. YOU ARE SAYING THAT RACISM STILL AT THIS. IT SAINT ANNE COME YOU SAY WE ARE NOW IN AN ERA WHERE WE PERMIT PEOPLE TO HAVE THE LUXURY...
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| 00:34:46 |
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BE INDIVIDUALLY TAKE AN COMMUNITARIAN AT THE SAME TIME. I WOULD TAKE ISSUE WITH THE COMMENT THAT RACISM WAS DEFEATED, BUT I THINK YOU'RE TALKING...
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| 00:36:14 |
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ALL RIGHT. THE DIFFERENCE OF OPINION IS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. >>
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| 00:36:20 |
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OBAMA WAS ELECTED PRIMARILY BECAUSE BLACK PEOPLE GOT TOGETHER. AND SOUTH CAROLINA -- [INAUDIBLE] >> I WANTED TO KNOW HOW
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| 00:36:31 |
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YOU DEFINE -- HOW DO YOU DEFINE LIKENESS BECAUSE BASED UPON A QUOTE THAT I READ ON AN INTERVIEW THAT YOU DID WITH KM, BASICALLY -- I GUESS MY QUESTION...
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| 00:37:19 |
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I'M SAYING IS WE ALL HAVE THE ABILITY TO DEFINE IT FOR OURSELVES. BEFORE THERE WAS A MULTIPLICITY OF VISIONS OF WHAT HE MEANT TO BE BLACK AND NOW THERE'S...
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| 00:38:04 |
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AN EXTENSION. >> ONE QUESTION AND ONE
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| 00:38:10 |
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QUESTION ONLY. >> I MEAN, ASKING PEOPLE WHAT
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| 00:38:15 |
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IS THE THING COYNESS ALTOGETHER? NOBODY HAD AN ANSWER. THE QUESTION IS FALLING APART AND WE HAD TO ABANDON IT BECAUSE NO ONE HAD ANYTHING CLOSE TO...
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| 00:39:11 |
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OKAY. I FOLLOW YOU ON TWITTER AND I KNOW YOUR TWEETS. I THINK YOU'RE A CREDIBLE IN YOUR MIND IS VERY EXPANSIVE. I NOTICED DURING MUSICAL JOURNALIST...
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| 00:39:49 |
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A QUESTION. I LOVE THAT SONG. IT'S ONE OF MY FAVORITE SONGS. I ACTUALLY THINK THE TITLE IS BRILLIANT. HERE'S THE THING IS THAT WHEN YOU STEP ON STAGE...
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| 00:41:07 |
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REALLY THAT. MY QUESTION IS IS THEIR RESPONSIBILITY FOR INTERNATIONAL SUPERSTARS NOT TO USE THAT WORD? I DON'T USE IT. I DON'T WANT ANYONE AROUND USING...
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| 00:41:28 |
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VALUE OF THE WORD THAT WE STILL FEEL IS PART OF WHAT HE'S DOING AS A PERFORMER, AS A PERSON ONSTAGE SHE'S TRYING TO GET A RISE OUT OF THE AUDIENCE. ...
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| 00:42:09 |
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WOULDN'T HAVE IT CHECK THOSE WHITE GUYS AT LATINO GUYS USING THE WORD IF THEIR FAVORITE ARTIST WASN'T USING IT IN SONGS OF THEIR OWN. >> YOU'RE RIGHT,...
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| 00:42:24 |
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SHOULD HAVE THE INTELLIGENCE TO KNOW THAT'S NOT FOR YOU. AND MANY OF THEM DO KNOW THAT. >>
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| 00:42:31 |
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TRUE, BUT THAT'S A MIGHTY HIGH BAR FOR A LOT OF FOLKS. >> AS I TOOK LITTLE BIT
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| 00:42:41 |
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DEEPER. I COME FOR ME TO CULTURE BACKGROUND, BOTH OF THEM BLACK AND MY CONNECTION IS GHANAIAN AFRICAN-AMERICAN.x SO I HAVE ALWAYS STRUGGLED WITH WHAT...
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| 00:43:46 |
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THAT I UNDERSTAND THE QUESTION OF THE CONCEPT OF ASKING PERMISSION TO BE MEN.qn I SEE LACK MEN BEING EXTRAORDINARILY MASCULINE.q. WE TALK ABOUT THE...
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| 00:44:15 |
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ABOUTq>qh IS BEING IN A MULTICULTURALqn SITUATION ANDqh HOLDING BACK BECAUSE SOMEWHEREah BACK HERE, MAYBE I DON'T FEEL LIKE IMS HIGH ON THE MAN TOTEM...
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| 00:44:40 |
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FULLYq. UNDERSTAND OR I DEFINITELY DON'T AGREE THAT BLACK MEN THINK WE ARE LEFT ON THE TOTEM POLE. A PSYCHOLOGIST TALK TO ME THAT WE UNDERSTAND THIS...
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| 00:45:04 |
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EXAMPLE. DIVORCE OR BABY MAMA SITUATION, CAN'T GO SEE MY CHILD BECAUSE THE MAN HAS A BORDER OUT AND I HAVE TWO ADHERE TO THIS AND THAT. THE MAN --...
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| 00:45:38 |
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OKAY. >>
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| 00:45:39 |
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YOUNG LADY. >> SO YOU DISCUSS HOW BLACK
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| 00:45:43 |
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ART, PARTICULARLY BLACK MUSIC CONTRIBUTES TO A CLASS OF IDENTITY AND NO ONE CAN DENY WHAT MICHAEL JACKSON AND JIMI HENDRIX HAS CONTRIBUTED TO A MAINSTREAM...
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| 00:46:18 |
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I JUST WROTE ON SALON.COM WIDENESS THE MONOCULTURE. I'M TALKING ABOUT AS FAR BACK AS THE EARLY 90s, 80s, 70s, 60s, THE SYSTEMS OF DISTRIBUTION OF CULTURE...
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| 00:49:29 |
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THE CONSUMPTION OF POP CULTURE IS FACILITATING THIS POST BY IDENTITY? IT ALLOWS US MORE FREEDOM TO FIND THEIR OWN WAY BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE THE SEMINOLE...
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| 00:49:46 |
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PERHAPS. I MEAN, I THINK IT'S BEING DRIVEN MORE BY THE REGIONAL DIVERSITY, EDUCATIONAL DIVERSITY, CLASS DIVERSITY WITHIN THE CULTURE, THE SORT OF...
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| 00:50:24 |
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LIVES -- WHERE WAS THAT? SOUTHEAST. ON THE TOP YOUR LIST WHERE? >> SOMEWHERE UP
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| 00:50:35 |
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THERE. [LAUGHTER] SO THOSE ARE THE THEMES THAT ARE DIVIDING US. I FIND IT INTERESTING THAT THE BIGGEST ARGUMENT WHEN I PUT I.T. OUT ON TWITTER THAT THERE...
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