Episode 4
Emily Slaughter and Mickey Freeland, Baltimore’s ultimate and penultimate authorities (respectively) on Race and Racism have teamed up to bring you an exciting and intellectually stimulating new episode of their podcast: Is This Racist? Over the course of roughly an hour, Emily and Mickey will play us potentially un-PC songs from all corners of the past century of popular culture and determine, once and for all, which are deserving of the “Racist” stamp. Join them for an inane hour of discussion, argument and nutty music on their new podcast. Enjoy!
Contact Emily and Mickey: isthisracist@gmail.com
Download: Is This Racist? (Episode 4)
August 11th, 2010 at 5:23 pm
Like your podcast, keep it up. You should play “Rednecks” off of Randy Newman’s concept album Good Old Boys. Great album if you never heard it.
August 24th, 2010 at 12:52 pm
Thank you for the suggestion! I we will definitely check that out. Sounds like it might be an “interesting” song about class issues within a race.
October 1st, 2010 at 10:41 pm
Turning japanese is about beating off! What do you mean “about nothing”?????
November 23rd, 2010 at 12:34 pm
This is the best kept secret in Bmore! Love it!
May 23rd, 2011 at 11:29 am
Ike & Tina Turner had an albumback in the day with their faces in white paint with a watermelon - an exact identical of the above picture just the characters were different…so I am not clear where you are going with this asking the questions is this racist? racist is a way of thinking, not in a picture.
December 2nd, 2011 at 3:42 pm
In response to the Ike and Tina comment. Yeah, we are aware of the album cover and our image pays homage to it. That was the point. And, yes, racism in pop culture, specifically music, is the theme of our entire (now retired) show. It is indeed a big issue, that goes way beyond a single image. It’s more than a way of thinking, throughout history, particularly in the United States, it has been a way of life. People have always been affected by racist ideas and concepts and it’s pretty clear we still are.
Also, it’s really cool to check back in after like a year and see people are still listening to the podcast. If Mickey and I could only get our shit together, we could continue doing it. We’ll seeeeeeee.