Friday, July 10, 2020

PODCAST EPISODE #4: Why Karens Keep Losing Their Minds: The Antiblack Fantasy

Carolyn Bryant had 14-year-old Emmett Till murdered in 1955"Permit Patty"




















What does it mean when white people just irrupt against Black people and it's caught on video?

What would we have seen if 14-year-old Emmett Till had had a smartphone and Instagram to record his interaction with Carolyn Bryant, the woman who had him murdered?

Today, G & O discuss the videos of "karens" and "chads" losing their minds and policing Black and brown people's public appearances and behaviors when they ought to mind their own business. The "karen" and "chad" videos are little documentaries exposing the violent antiblack fantasies of individual people that reflect a broader collective antiblack fantasy. This fantasy shapes the antiblack social structure we live in, including things like the urban geography and disposal of environmental toxins. G & O also go into how the same structure of antiblack fantasies that created the modern world 500 years ago is still visible in the "karen" and *chad" videos.

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