Using the N-word, Wives vs Mothers, Defining Britishness & Family WhatsApps | ETHNICALLY SPEAKIN

The ladies debate whether it’s ever okay to use the N-word if you’re not black, if a man’s partner or mother should be the most important woman in his life, whether a passport should determine your Britishness, and overzealous family members sending too much spam in WhatsApp group chats.

00:00 Intro
01:23 Is it ever okay to use the N-word if you’re not Black?
16:21 Who should be the most important woman in a man’s life, his partner or his mother?
32:23 What makes someone “British”
44:55 Do we need to take WhatsApp away from our elders to stop the spam?

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LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

https://unitedmelaningroup.com/es008
(Website – Show notes)

https://www.theatlantic.com/id....eas/archive/2019/08/
(Article – The Idea That Whites Can’t Refer to the N-Word – John McWhorter for The Atlantic)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/I-Am-....Not-Your-Negro/dp/B0
(Documentary –I am not your Negro – James Baldwin)

https://akala.tmstor.es/cart/product.php?id=65051
(Book* – Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire – Akala)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4pSp3Km6Mw
(Video – Actor Delroy Lindo challenging white newscaster to say the N-word – The Good Fight, Season 2, Episode 6)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEcugkqcHO8
(Video – Kendrick Lamar pausing concert after white fan raps the N-word)

https://youtu.be/lyslrqzL0SM
(Video – Wife curses out her mother-in-law for refusing to move to the back seat of the car)

https://www.rina.online/
(Website – Rina Sawayama)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53607595
(Article – Shamima Begum: Bid to return in citizenship fight goes to Supreme Court – Analysis by Dominic Casciani for BBC News)

https://www.independent.co.uk/....news/uk/crime/robyn-
(Article – Met Police sack Supt Robyn Williams after decorated female officer convicted over child abuse video – Lizzie Dearden for The Independent)

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