'Back Issue' Podcast Revisits Black Culture's Most Defining Moments
And we went down the list. Like,"Of the things on this list, what are the 10 that you can't wait to get on the microphone and scream and yell and have friendly fights about?" We narrowed them down that way. That list is always changing and keeps getting longer and longer.
Absolutely. I am obsessed with everybody liking me and the whole entire world. And everybody liking everything that I've put out, which, of course, is a fool's errand. Which I talk to my therapist about all the time. Now, storytelling is not just the job of the gatekeepers of media, or the gatekeepers of journalism. We're at a point where I'm just like,"You know what? I do remember how Black TV shows were in the '90s." And thedidn't write about that when I was growing up. But now I'm in a position where I can podcast about it.
You've dedicated your career to analyzing and talking about pop culture. Why is that important to you? I think it's as important to insert ourselves and include representation. Even when looking back at times that have already passed. Something that you want people to know when they're reading history books about this time is that we were here and we existed. It feels as fulfilling to me to increase representation in, like, 1995, as it is to increase representation now in 2020. We need to know that we exist today, but we also need to know that we've always been here.
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