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Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"brownskin" Discussed on Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"Hitters in baseball every year. It's not just that he does vote. It's that he does both better than practically anyone else in the sport does either. It's completely unheard of. And the Babe Ruth comparison that I want to circle back to buster doesn't just, it's not just this notion of someone being able to do both of these things so well. Like Babe Ruth, popularized the sport in a way that nobody possibly could have before. And nobody really has since. In the case of Shohei Ohtani, what we learned over the last two weeks is that he is the face of the international pastime as I'm calling it. Baseball has become the international pastime. And Shohei Ohtani is a universally beloved figure who is at the epicenter of extremely positive conversation, the kind of person now that you're going to see on national shows, talked about amongst people. They don't really care much for baseball. These conversations about baseball are always, well, how can we fix baseball? How can we better market Mike Trout? These problems have been solved. Baseball is going to enter the year of ohtani now. Hopefully we get shohei October at the end of it, but I'm not counting on it. Baseball is entering a season right now in which he is going to be at the forefront of all discussions that we're having. And there is not a better human that has walked the face of Planet Earth since I have been alive to be at the center of that discussion. Yeah. Now, and he's handling it great. And I think you'll all year because he just plays with such confidence right now. And I said on the podcast last week, it feels like he's the 12 year old who hit puberty for the first time. In the little league World Series, he just seems so at ease. Total domination. I love the fact I mentioned before that Mike tried. You could hear in his voice. He was still chapped. Like 15 minutes after it was over, he was still mad about being struck out. And I would love to be a fly in the wall and trout in Otani wouldn't let us behind to see this. But I'm sure at some point they'll talk about that plate appearance. I got to tell you, is I was watching it play out where he just blows fastballs past trout a hundred, 101 mph, and trout swings and misses, but he was on the pitch. Like he was on the fastball, I'm thinking big brother little brother, three two count, he knew ohtani didn't want to walk trout in that situation. I thought for sure he was going to challenge him with a fastball. And I think Mike Trout thought for sure he was going to try to dunk on him with a fastball, pure power, you played it a game a higher level than I did and I'm curious to see if you felt the same way. And you know, in the end, oh, Tony course winds up throwing this beautiful slider, which is perfectly placed just a little bit off the plate. Look like a strike, then it became a ball. That's a great pitch, but I also watching trot, I thought he's thinking, man, really? You're not gonna challenge me in that spot? Yeah, so trout, trout had swung through two pitches already in the at bat. And the pitch and he had previously set up sort of a middle middle fastball, which he swung through. And that's exactly the same plane for which ohtani broke off that slider. Mike Trout took a fastball swing on just an absolutely nasty pitch. And to have the audacity to have the gumption in that moment to throw a frisbee slider up there to Mike Trout, who had swung under two fastballs already, theoretically would not be something that you want to do. You must or you watch Mike Trout a thousand plate appearances, right? What you do there is you climb the ladder with a fastball, right? That's the book. And like trout knows that, Mike Trout took that swing and show hey Otani, who I guess knows that book better than anybody else through the wrinkle up there. It was a sight to behold and it was the most significant moment in the careers of both players and I'm hoping that's not the case moving forward, but at least to date, I would have to say so. Yeah, were you surprised? Just as a competitive person, did you think in that moment that Otani was going to say, I'm going to blow this past you, big brother. Yeah. Fastball at the letters. Fastball at the letters has been the book on trout, trout was behind the fastball. And after the second fastball that trout swung through, he saw him do sort of nod to himself to almost acknowledge like, okay, he won't be able to do that again. I don't know if that was a tell. I don't know if a Connie just didn't feel like climbing a ladder once again. Or maybe he just had so much confidence in that slider. But what a pitch it was. Like that was just the coolest that that you could have ever imagined. And when we're going to play over and over and over until the end of time. Yeah. You're a 100% right. All right. We're going to be talking with Alden Gonzalez more about the WBC coming up in a little bit when he joins us. But we're going to do a little preview superlatives from you before we start that we heard the news yesterday. Very interesting, David brownskin. Head of baseball ops of the Phillies come out and says, you know what? We're not going to put Bryce Harper on the 60 day injured list. What'd you make of that? I was stunned. I had no reason to believe that Bryce Harper had a chance to return before the end of May. May 29th, I believe, is the cutoff for this. And that's a very surprising development for the Phillies and for Bryce Harper, who clearly is ahead on his rehab. But perhaps also the possibility of again, which was an enormous deal last year, the national league moving to the DH, perhaps Bryce Harper can slide his way back into the lineup as he continues to rehab. And he might have to be a different checkpoint to get back into the lineup, then of course he would to be able to play full fledged right field. So I'm very surprised by it. Obviously very encouraged by his development. And I have to go back to the very beginning. Oh, is dead wrong about this? I thought Bryce Harper should have gotten Tommy John surgery. Last whatever it was last June. He was hitting that hand in the hand with a Blake Snell pitch, right?
Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"brownskin" Discussed on Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"Tweets already buster bleacher tweets for a glorious Tuesday. We have Stephen ottley at Steve attlee up first. He writes in his Paul Goldschmidt the most overlooked player in baseball. He's in great form top 5 an average OPS. Slugging, hitting, and RBI, and seeing it seems to go unnoticed, what does he need to do to get more love now? And what does he need to do to get in the Hall of Fame? Taylor will back me up on this, Steven, before we start the podcast, I asked him kirchen about, hey, what do we need to talk about today? And I came in with like a list of 7 things and he was like, we got to talk about Paul Goldschmidt. So goalie, Tim kirchen as Goldie's back. Yeah, he's on Timmy's radar. No worries there. Eric sobiech at underscore sobs underscore rates. And hey buster, you've used the term hitter ish on the pot a few times to describe someone who consistently has high quality at bats regardless of the outcome of said at bats. Who is the most hitters player in the league right now and why is it Luis RAs? You answered your own question. Well, and the reason why is because he's hitting 360 with four 54 on base percentage. But I'd say this, like I think of that hitter is term to be connected with people who hit home runs. That you look at a guy like, that guy looks like he's going to do some damage. Like Vladimir Guerrero junior last September, that guy was hit or ish. Aaron judge first two months of this season to almost looks like the pitcher's lucky if judge doesn't hit a home run. Does that make sense to you, Taylor? Yeah, that makes sense. I'm glad you formally defined it, though, because yeah, I agree with Eric, you've used it a couple of times. Yeah, I mean, and I covered Tony Gwynn, but early in Tony's career, I talked with opposing pitchers who would say, you know what? I throw a strike and, you know, he slapped it to left field and I'll give him a single. And they didn't really, Tony was always hitters because he was a great hitter, but he was more of a contact hitter, but hitter issues won a guy looks like, oh my God, that guy's about ready to hit the ball in the third deck. Let's go to Kevin sciple at global travel 62. He writes in. Could anyone explain to me why 6 Major League Baseball teams are not playing a Memorial Day and why some games in nice climates are being played at night, who at Major League Baseball makes these decisions. Yeah, I don't know about the night games. But I feel the same way about Memorial Day, like everybody should play on a Memorial Day. You know, if you need to give teams off days, give them today off. Give them a Tuesday off. I don't get that. Yeah. Lots more eyeballs, people available to go to the stadiums and spend dollars. PK Steinberg's up next to rates and where does the blame rest for the bad news Phillies will lame doctor RD be the scapegoat for clin tech and dabrowski's failures, particularly in the bullpen. Yeah, I think probably at some point, maybe at the end of the year, he will, because look, he can't fire the players as the old saying goes. And I think it's complicated how they got to this point. They tanked a number of seasons and they didn't get the payoff. We're seeing, you know, we saw the asteroids get to pay off the cubs get the payoff. The Phillies really didn't get the payoff for tanking. They didn't come out with this huge pipeline of prospects the way that the Orioles are hoping for as we move forward. And I got to say, you know, David brownskin to me, someday I'll make a speech in cooperstown, but we talked in spring training like, boy, is that defense going to work? And I know that Bryce Harper's elbow injury is complicated things and they didn't necessarily count on having to play schwarber and Castellanos and the outfield every day. That's where they are. And it's a mess. Last one for today, Billy flanagan, at Billy flann rates and Joey Gallo dropped to the 9th spot in the order. Isaiah kind of falefa has an OPS of 35 points higher than Gallo, even though he has zero home runs, tons of strikeouts and men lost on base. When will he go? Yeah, he will go, I think before the trade deadline, we've talked about the question of whether or not he's comfortable playing in New York. That's a thing. It just is, you know, big market teams. Guys, just some guys are not comfortable playing there. And I think Joey probably is going to be more comfortable playing with in a different market. There's already speculation about whether San Diego would be a fit, AJ preller, the Padres general manager knows Gallo from his days with the Texas Rangers and Joey's, he's got the ability to be a really good player. I just don't think it's going to happen in New York. Here's the good thing for the Yankees perspective. If you're going to go out and try to do upgrades at some point, corner outfield is one of the spots that you can find help during the course of the year. There you go. That's bleacher tweets for Tuesday. We will be back tomorrow, sending those bleacher tweets tonight while you're watching games on Twitter. And be sure to watch buster and Tim segment on the ESPN YouTube page again, we're doing that every week. So it's been a lot of fun. Yeah, that absolutely is a lot of fun. It's fun to see Tim and his expressions and his harming or something like stupid questions. Before you go, Taylor, do you agree with, like, give jock Peterson the Academy Award for how he handled that first interview? Oh, yeah. And you could argue he could have been shell shocked, but he just kept a straight face. He knew he had the high ground. There was no need for him to dig even for any further. Then he's got the receipts to back up his story, so I mean, he's the winner of the weekend right there. Tommy Faye have get it together, man. Yeah, it's almost like he went in there. Oh gosh, I don't know what happened. Here it is. He didn't even have to say a word. No. He didn't say anything hey, just lay out the facts and he knew, as you said, he had the high ground. All right, that's it for today, my thanks to Tim Sarah Sarah and Taylor, have a great day everybody..
Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"brownskin" Discussed on Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"Elbow injury and he had a home run last night, got another big hit, so he'll hit through this. He just can't throw through this. Yeah, it certainly, you know, potentially blows up the Phillies plans because Bryce Harper is the best of those three corner outfielders by far. I think you would agree with me on that Castellanos and schwarber. So probably what David and brownskin, John Middleton, the owner of the Phillies were thinking was, you know what? We can live with one bad outfielder. You know, we can have either schwarber, Castellanos, play at corner. We get a Bryce in the other corner most of the time, occasionally move Bryce Harper to DH, and that way, we'll be functional in the outfield, but Tim, now that can happen. Indefinitely. And on top of that, here's the worst case scenario, is that at some point he's going to need Tommy John surgery. And the Phillies will be looking at a situation where the guy that they gave a $335 million contract to the phrase their franchise is going to miss a whole season. Yeah, that's discouraging news. And if you're a Phillies fan, you can't even think about that now. You have the hope he can get through the season healthy and hit and do the best he can and then face a much longer time out. Plus, we've talked about alkyl defense many times. And again, I go way back on this the 87 Orioles who were terrible. And the worst outfield defense I've ever seen. And it affected their pitching, which wasn't very good to begin with. But I watched pictures, they were literally afraid to throw the ball over the plate because they knew the ball was put in play, especially the outfield. It was not going to be caught. And that can affect the way a pitcher goes about things when he looks around and doesn't have faith that if the ball is hit in the air, we're going to catch some. The one thing I would say and I'm curious if you agree with me when you hear about something having a torn ligament in his elbow. When we first started hearing that many years ago, it was like, well, it's a done deal. He's going to have Tommy John. It does feel like that players can get through this and can be functional as possible to navigate your way through without having that surgery. And maybe the best, the best example of that is masahiro Tanaka, who, you know, we heard about, he had this partially torn elbow ligament. We talked about it. I did anyway about like a time bomb. It was not a matter of if it was a matter of when, who knows with Bryce, right? And as you pointed out, he's demonstrated that he can still hit with whatever issue he has here. Yeah, and I remember Tanaka well about this. I was told repeatedly while he's going to have to have the surgery. He's not going to be able to get by without it. And not only did he get by without, and he was pretty good without it. And that's a pitcher throwing a hundred pitches a game as opposed to a right Fielder who every once in a while, only once in a while really has to cut loops. That's really difficult to play right field unless you're a 100% healthy throwing the ball, but guys have done Bryce Harper's a tough guy and I can't imagine him saying, yeah, I'm going to sit out a year because I can't throw very well. I think he's going to stay in there and hit no matter what. All right, let's pivot to the Yankees and absolutely impressive win last night. They're facing Dylan sees, who's been one of the best pitchers in the American League this year. Early on, he's striking guys out left and right. He racked up 11 in the first four innings, showed an incredible change up, which is, you know, 20 mph less than his fastball, plus he's got a good breaking ball, and Tim, they absolutely wore him down with great at bats after great at bats. They are 23 and 8, which is right in the same neighborhood as some of the best Yankee teams that we've ever seen. How good are these guys? Well, they're pretty darn good, buster. And back to cease for a minute again, just another pitching line slash performance that personifies the way baseball is played today. He got hit hard last night and still struck out and love of guys with four innings. No one's ever struck out 11 batters in an outing of four innings or less. Ever. And not only did he do that, he gave up 6 runs because he got pounded because Stanton judge hit one the Yankees are 20 and one when those guys hit a home run in the same game and this is a good offensive team we're finally starting to see that. But what we've seen buster all year, the reason they're 23 and 8 is how well they have pitched. I told you I saw boonie in spring training and I asked him if as rotation, I went through and I got to nest your Cortez 5th and he goes 5th. That's just going to make the all star team. This was in spring training. And I didn't laugh. But he said, watch this guy's great. You know we had a good year last year. He's been spectacular this year. They're starting pitching especially has been good. And I think the Yankees are going to make the playoffs with this team. We'll see if they can continue to play this way for most of the season. As of this morning, they are 12 games ahead of the Boston Red Sox. I sent a note to our friend Sarah langs this morning about how often a team is dug itself out of a deficit that deep. And look, you know, there are other teams that obviously competing with the Yankees, the rays and the Jays, but it really says something 12 games that had a Boston already. And we're not even in May 15th yet, which is kind of crazy. It's pretty clear that the heart of the Yankee start is Aaron judge. Tim, before the season starts, as you know, he turned down an offer from the Yankees of $213.5 million. I had people on the player side. I had someone in the union. I had agents, I had to club executives saying, boy, I don't know, that's a pretty fair offer. That's a good offer for a guy who's going to turn 30. And this is Aaron judge betting on himself. Tim, as of this morning, at his current pace, the way he's going so far, he'll finish this season with a 125 runs, 31 doubles, 57 homers, a one 30, a 136 RBI. So far slash line this year two 96 average three 59 on base, 6 35 slugging, which is the highest in his career. And I was trying to think of comparables in baseball history when you saw someone bet heavily on himself. And I really couldn't think of a perfect comp, maybe the best one I could think of was when CC Sabathia was traded to the brewers and the Indians at that time make a huge offer to Sabathia the way that the Yankees did to judge. But Sabbath is you remember down the stretch, agreed to pitch on three days rest repeatedly for the brewers, which people around baseball thought, man, he is crazy to agree to that, but you know what? Along the way, he checked every box. You know, not only was he a great pitcher, but he was a great teammate. He did all the intangible things. And I feel like Aaron judge is doing that this year. Having bet on himself so much. What do you think? Yeah, well, it's too early to have leaders for the MVP, but he's the leader for the MVP. And absolutely tremendous. And I'm with you. And I heard from a lot of people also, that was a very fair offer that the Yankees made, given his age and his injury history, but he is playing through it. And let's face it buster if this is a case this year where the ball is not going to travel like it has in recent years. And now some of our pixie little middle infielders are going to recognize, I can't hit the ball out of the ballpark anymore. Maybe there'll be an even greater premium on the big guys that can hit home runs like Pete Alonso and of course Aaron judge. So maybe he's coming out at the perfect time if the ball isn't flying theory goes for the entire season. Maybe his value goes up even more. This is really impressive. It's not comparable, but remember betting on yourself, you know, Andre Dawson during that terrible time in the 80s when no one would offer him something anything in contract. He just said, look, here's the contract. I don't care what you pay me..
Gettin' Grown
"brownskin" Discussed on Gettin' Grown
"These are things that you need to be working out with your therapist, people who are charged with your emotional and mental health and well-being. The Internet does not need any as a brownskin when I've never need Tandy new annoying anybody like her to apologize to me. And as me, I don't feel the need to apologize to nobody. For what? Why am I doing that? That looks crazy. And why am I picking up? And that's the thing in this conversation. You said it hasn't been, it's divisive. It hasn't been addressed properly, and we see it come up in multiple forms. We saw it when Beyoncé came out with brown skin girl, and then all of a sudden, niggas were in a motherfucking uproar over nothing over absolutely nothing. We saw it recently when we was watching the motherfucking. What's that shit called? Love is married. What is the no shit? First I love it. No, the one which one. Oh, oh. Where's the one in D.C.? Ready to love. Ready to love. The whole Brown girl squad conversation and how the other ones felt altra. The conversation is never handled appropriate. Never. Never have ever. And I long for the day. Well, let's do it. That we can really we got to get into it. And I think we do it again, grow, we two opposite ends of the spectrum. And it's very black women. And there have been times when I've been invited into conversations about colorism and have felt away because I've been invited by and I think, okay, so it's just so it's like we were talking about before. Things are more nuanced than just either or. And so I feel like in many times when these situations are set up, there's not a balance in perspective that really positions us to have a really well rounded multifaceted conversation about what it means. So what I'm saying is you can't have a panel of 6 black women who are all of the same color. And having this conversation, you can't have. You know, so you can't have 5 dark skin person in one life skin person. One, life's in person, 5. You know, you have to balance balance, there has to be we have to think about this and even there's not going to be any sort of group of people that are going to be able to get it all. But I do feel like we have to, I think we can really set it up so we can really talk about this in ways that move us forward and keep us out of this us versus them sort of thing, because it is classic divide and conquer, or us versus us. That's what we gotta get out of that us versus us. Yes. It's classic divide and conquer 'cause they keep us him up in arguing over these little details, why white folks are still. All of the systems and structures that keep us that keep their foot on our necks are still in place and we down here worried about these details that I don't want to say. No skin girl was not made for me because so you're saying you're not Brown, you say you're not a variation of you saying you're not a what do you say it right now? What are you saying? So yeah, I think that is a very important conversation. I want her to get first. I'm praying for a silence. Clothes a mouth God. And then I hope that she can get them understanding. Okay, I was like, first I was about to be like, nah, I'm not printing. You said praying for silence. I can stay for sad. Sometimes we have to pray that the lawyer will shut up because we're not gonna learn this is what my mama used to say. Honey, are you listening are you talking? 'cause you can't do. You can't do both. You say I do both at the same cornbread, cornbread told Jasmine or whatever that girl's name is when drag race. Last week, she said, if you're talking, you're not listening. That's what my mama used to tell me. You got to pick one. And my brother used to say listening. It's a sign of intelligence. Okay. Dumb. And running your mouth. And we happy again. Flip it flapping the gums. My father be like, you still run them jibs, huh? You still run them chips, huh? Oh, man, Tandy, yeah. I do crazy or silence. And shut up right for her silence. She got the shadow. I'm praying for her silence. Please shine. Okay, so I actually wasn't aware of this. Okay. Until I saw a thread on Twitter by a young black woman, damn, I wish I could find the damn thread. So I didn't realize there was a Bill Cosby documentary. I did see that commercial or in some way. I don't remember where, but I did see that there is. Yes. And I don't know if I don't know. The young woman wrote a thread on Twitter about how if you are of a particular age, she can understand how this documentary may need to be for you, but it ain't for her. She's like, that ain't never been my TV daddy. I wasn't raised on that nigga. She was young. I Cosby showed on me shit to me. I think it's boring. Okay. You know, she just went into all of her personal reasons when she has every right to own why the documentary is not for her and I have to respect that anybody who came back with an argument or a response, her response stayed the same. Then the documentary must be for you, go watch it, then watch the documentary, then it must be for you. Go watch it. These are my reasons why it's not for me. But in reading that thread in some of the comments on it, it just led me to just thinking about as we keep talking about how many things can be true at the same time and how. I'm not with Bill Cosby's respectability politics. But I think it's okay to mourn a part of your childhood while also acknowledging that this person is a disgusting wretched vile creep. Right. And so I also feel like people conflate the fictional Cosby, absolutely. That we grew up watching. With Bill Cosby, the individual. Absolutely. And so I do agree with you that.
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"brownskin" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"From tell our listeners briefly what it's about Go back to where you came from and other helpful recommendations and how to become American Is about loving a country that doesn't always love you back And how the rest of us are both citizens and suspects us and them and how this country can turn on us on a dime But at the same time it's about how we can move forward as a multicultural country And I hope it is done with humor and it ends on earned hope not some hallmark a sugary confection but earned hope and the earned hope is by working through the challenges So that's the book Just one perspective my perspective but I tried to use my story as kind of a narrative spine to make a commentary about America and connect the dots for the rest of us The introduction of your book comes in hot You start by sharing some of the most offensive letters you've received from readers and viewers And then you write some snarky responses I'm wondering in real life how often do you respond to often racist hate mail or tweets That's a good question I get those emails every single day When I used to write in the comments section and articles my editors always used to turn off the comments section because they're like you don't want to read this And oftentimes it was benign stuff but it was because of who I am my name my ethnicity and my religion that all of a sudden I became a target I'm sure you get it all so you can sit here and talk about potato chips and somehow someone would make it like a racist That's how it is And you kind of take some dark humor with it and I think it depends on my mood and about once a week I'll respond to a go back to where you come from And if someone really spends a long three page emissive which they have then sometimes I have some fun with it and sometimes I share it with the public Because I feel like oftentimes we're asked to be like daffy duck get angry and upset but sometimes I want to be like Bugs Bunny you know If you really think about it right But as bunny's always chilling they're always after him but he always uses their traps against them and sometimes he dresses up as a girl and kisses them and then sometimes he just mocks them but he always gets the last laugh And I want to make sure I get the last laugh in the last word Yeah Bugs Bunny didn't work hard He worked smart There you go He was a smart bunny You know so much of your life changed on 9 11 And a big turning point in the book is that event and what it meant for you going forward I want to go back to that scene because it was very vivid for me as I read it Where were you when you found out about the attack 20 year old UC Berkeley senior undeclared in my pajamas woken up by my roommate in our apartment a mile away from UC Berkeley He knocks on the door and I'm sleeping He's like you gotta get up I'm like come on man It's freaking exhausted I stayed up all night playing NBA two K then ten minutes later I get another knock You really have to get up and see that something's happening So we're both in our pajamas blurry watching the tower on fire Maybe the pilot had a heart attack That's what happened He was trying to land the plane maybe a Laguardia something happened And then you saw the second plane go Once you saw the second plane that's when we realized something this was deliberate And right there and then you kind of do the minority prayer which all minorities know And the minority player goes something like this Please let it be a white guy And if you're white or self identifies white it's not because we want any harm to come to you going full circle with the beginning of this conversation We realize that when it's a white person all of whiteness is not convicted Well the white guy is like this lone wolf who was misunderstood you know Just a dude You know crazy dude did it You want to have white uncles and white aunties in your community having to like stand up like Uncle Sam with flags like waving in the air and saying I love America and let me prove my moderation and come to my churches and won't be investigation and surveillance and hearings right Like you won't be held you won't be interrogated or indicted and have to prove your loyalty or prove your whiteness But for the rest of us we're effed all of us collectively And then when they saw that on the scroll at the bottom suspected Osama bin Laden and Muslims that's when I remember I closed my eyes and I just realized things were going to get really bad And I was a member of this Muslim student association I was elected to the board And I joke that had Muslims known that 9 11 would happen these horrible conspiracy theories which we did not know because Muslims also died that day I would have joined the Indian student association and I would have learned how to do punga or whatever you do though Do not join the sick student association because that poor group got screwed First hate crime after 9 11 was a sick man in mason This shows you how stupid racism is 19 four and hijackers 15 from Saudi Arabia to from UAE one from Lebanon one from Egypt brought down the two towers killed 3000 people And so the first hate crime after America was in mesa Arizona where a white supremacist blamed a middle aged sick gas station owner balbir Singh for the violent acts of 19 foreign hijackers because he was brownskin had a beard and a turban and he was sick Bigots aren't nuanced This country lost its damn mine after 9 11 And so here I was a Muslim student association board member and I had Muslim women born and raised in America emailing me Should we go to school There are hate crimes We're afraid I had my first hate mail Just think about it I'm in California born and raised in the Bay Area to Pakistani immigrant parents and I am being blamed for the violent actions of 1940 hijackers And that's where it all began And I always tell people that was the baptism by fire That was the turning point the fork in the road That was the danger room simulation for the rest of my life and with the rest of my career For my generation You're listening to it's been a minute from NPR I'm Sam Sanders speaking with wajahat Ali We're talking about his new memoir It's called go back to where you came from You know you wrote about how much work you had to take on at Berkeley in the aftermath of 9 11 You and other students and the Muslim student association just took it upon yourself to do a lot of bridge building You hosted Friday prayers for the entire campus You held forums with all different kinds of speakers and groups And you said something that really stuck out to me about that experience and that year after 9 11 you said it was quote training ground an X-Men danger room simulation that would prepare you for the rest of your life Explain Yeah I mean you become overnight the Muslim firemen You become the Muslim walking Wikipedia You become the person if you're thrust in that spotlight where you have to be an expert on the drop of the dime on all things Muslim and Islam McGraw and Sharia are profit Muhammad Hakeem olajuwon Nan Hakeem not Hakeem three Hakeem everything Bollywood hummus Hamas like everything You know here I have this 20 year old undeclared student playing NBA two K next thing you know I'm giving speeches in front of 200 people And as I have the microphone and giving the speech I'm like why am I sitting here giving a speech What's happening And overnight you get thrust like our parents generation You get you know you get thrust into the moment right You have to meet the moment And you have to then play the stupid condemn Nathan game condemning violent accident by violent people you've never met And you've got to be perfect And if you're not perfect not only are you indicted by this nameless judge you're an executioner that 20 years after 9 11 still holds your loyalty aspect simply due to your ethnicity or religion it condemns this whole thing called Muslims and Islam Because after 9 11 the enemy became this thing called Islam It became a civilizational conflict between us and them I'm using the language of our elected leaders at that time The axis of evil And it wasn't just those who were Muslim and I'm glad you mentioned this earlier It was those who looked Muslim Sick Americans Indian Hindus Arab Christians right And so overnight you become an educator you become.
Native Opinion Podcast an American Indian Perspective
"brownskin" Discussed on Native Opinion Podcast an American Indian Perspective
"Out so this week some stuff came to my attention that bothered me. And so right off the head end here, I just want to warn you guys that there's going to be some graphic language in this segment. Both from audio what we're going to play and also from this particular host. Okay, I will try my best to keep it at a very, very minimum. But as always, I wrote this as a narrative, you guys, so just so you know, brother interrupt me anytime you feel necessary, please. By all means. Okay. But so we all know that racism exists in the United States. It's no surprise, right? With the addition of cell phone cameras and social media, examples of racism are now seemingly a daily event. This is not something to be celebrated. All right? Hating other people because of their skin color as one. But as others as my brother pointed out, their religious or perhaps political or even sexual preferences is not a human trait to be admired. It's a social problem. It needs to be addressed, no differently than broadening the education system in the United States to include indigenous history in its curriculums. Now, on this show, our goal of our racism in America segment is to point out these examples so that you our listeners may become aware of them and who is perpetuating it so that hopefully over time change can come. And I think we have done this on all sides of the spectrum politically speaking mostly. All right. Now this is particularly important when it comes to elective leaders. And other people who have obtained some level of influence over many other people. We use our examples like receipts. Proof of its existence. That way, it gives the deniers less room to wiggle. So in this first example, we're going to take Colorado freshmen Republican congresswoman Lauren boebert. Who represents the third district in her state? Now, you may not know her, but you're about to. She made headlines recently because she introduced not because excuse me that she introduced great policy in her state or solved a serious problem there. No. She is in the news because apparently she doesn't like brown people of the Muslim faith. You know, what kind of person would want that as something to be remembered by? What kind of, especially a lawmaker? Absolutely. Who would want to be remembered as a starch racist who doesn't like somebody because of their religion and their skin color? What the hell what the hell is the matter with people? It's upbringing for one. Well, that's true. You know, I'm sorry if you hear a bobert fan and you go, oh my God, he just attacked her mother or her father, hey. What else am I supposed to rely on? Okay, I'll be fair. That's not to say that, you know, her mom or her dad, her parents didn't take her, she 34. She's an adult. Clearly. I say, now Lauren, we didn't raise you that way. Right? But when you continue to perpetuate this behavior, well, what are we supposed to think? Yeah, she was exposed to it in some shape form or fashion in her social circle within her upbringing. Yep. So here she is addressing fellow Colorado citizens last month. Here we go. I gotta find one. Here we go. Oh, the other night on the House floor was not the first Jihad squad moment. I was getting into an elevator with one of my staffers. And he and I are leaving the capitol. We're going back to my office and we get an elevator and I see a capitol police officer. Running hurriedly to the elevator. I see fret all over his face. And he's reaching him. The door shutting. I can't open it. What's happening? I look to my left. And there she is. Ilhan Omar. I said, well, she doesn't have a backpack. We should be fine. So we only had one floor to go. Does it look over? And I said, I love the tea hotspot for work today. All right, it's just your staffers on Twitter, the talk for her. She she's not tough in person. She doesn't. Yes. So atypical racist right wing crap. Standing in front of an American flag. And this woman's world, if you're Brown, speak with an accent and are not of the Christian faith, you must be a terrorist. That's how she summed it up. You're bad in their eyes. Therefore again, what are we left to assume? That she blankets all brown people who practice the Muslim faith. That's terrorist. But she must really feel safe up there in the capitol building in Washington, right? But she shouldn't. Why? She started her term on January 3rd of this year. Three then three days later on January 6th, real terrorists attacked the building. Now, last time I checked brother, it wasn't Brown Muslim people speaking with accents that stormed the capitol with bombs and guns on January 6th. In fact, I don't know about you, but I struggle to find any people of color in general during that siege. Unless you work for capitol police well, that would be true. And here, I'm going to lend some credence to what you just said about. Targeting brown people. There are many white skinned Muslims. Yes. Many white skinned Muslims. But see, Americans are led to believe that if you're Muslim, only brownskin people are Muslims. Thank you. Very well. So thank you. Great point. So you see their intentionally targeting brown people. Intentionally targeting brown people. I mean, you heard it yourself, guys. There she was. Ilhan Omar. And pointing in a direction in the video. As if she was standing right there. Look at her. The brown one..
Fun Time Moms
"brownskin" Discussed on Fun Time Moms
"So, the reason I'm saying this is because so I like have to walk him in like the table, whatever. We were just talking and he was like, wow, you're really pretty for someone your complexion. Now I don't really get like complexion tough because I'm like brownskin, I'm like not dark. I'm not like skin. So usually people I mean I don't talk about my complexion is not one of the things that you know come up like you're pretty for whatever complexion so I'm genuinely was done. And I was like, bitch, I'm gorgeous because the Perfect Blend in the fuck you bitch. Like and I literally, I mean, you know, I'm not a quiet person. I have something to say all the time. I literally was like, stunned. And I keep going. And he said something like, you know, because usually people, your complexion, all like a hit-or-miss. I mean, he just kept talking, like, this is normal. Like, hey, like, like we talked about like, like off, like, we talked about some people spaghetti good hit-or-miss like, what the fuck like you talking about me? A, my complexion like in how I'm pretty, it's like off and a million other browse millions of other browsers. Good women in the world. I feel like he started naming off like celebrity names. I mean this was a conversation that he was having with himself wage. I literally had nothing in response. I was thinking of my head like a time when he read the river. Nothing know and I was like, I think I mean it was a club Then I'm working. So eventually I just like, okay, great, I'm going to send a server over for you. Make sure I don't send a browse to it over. So you don't fucking tell her when she was like, this dog, you are missed the other one was a hit. You know what? Wow, no no, but I do hate that. I mean like both of those are stupid. Like a complexion does not make you pretty or ugly like fowl. Creating a pretty regardless like has nothing to do with your collection. So that's a good thing to do with your question. I want to come back to complexions because it's something that you and I were just talking about very recently. Matter of fact, we might as well just stay on awhile, ruin it off how black people and and I get it. It's something that is instilled in us before we were ever born that we get from our grandparents that our grandparents got because they were doing the time of the the right paper bag. That's so right. Like lighters better. This is better longhairs better. Whatever and how black people still like we are a lot of black people are very confused with their complexions, whether it's, you know, that their life skin, especially lighter skinned like people. Like I'm light-skinned and it's like, I'm looking at you like dead, but you're really not, you really bad there. There's a spectrum of light skins brown-skinned to dark skin and how I feel like there are some darker skinned people who don't like to be called dark skinned. I remember Naomi Campbell. I feel like it was the what's the chocolate company? And they compared her to like a bunny..