Ep2. Displaying the Confederate Flag is Always Bull$%$! and Why Weren’t We Exposed to More Black Music

Ep2 w/Robert Rabel. Recorded August 13th, 2021. 

 

https://youtu.be/TVeb98Lf5mo

00:00 Intro

05:30 Confederate Flag discussion

24:15 How racism affects music tastes

39:10 Outro 

 

In the first episode the subject of the confederate flag came up naturally because it’s featured on the original cover of the Alabama album “Roll on.” Robert and I felt that we softballed the topic and wanted to be absolutely clear. In short: Even if the confederate flag has positive associations to someone because it was just around when they were growing up etc… Displaying it, at best, contributes to making black people feel unwelcome in a space and at worst, to making them feel unsafe. And thus displaying it is always… well read the thumbnail. I bring up examples from my childhood that I feel demonstrate this.

We also talk about some of the structural and societal factors that affected the music our parents were exposed to and thus the music we were exposed to. 

 

The ending of this was a little clunky so I added an outro which corrects some of the issues. Perhaps this is a better way to say it… I don’t think anyone should be ashamed of the music from their past that has emotional weight. But I do think we should interrogate how we continue to support artists that have promoted racist/bigoted speech.