Tag: racism
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RC 388: Autumn – Everything Must Go
We say hello and wave goodbye to summer, holidays and camping, Autumn is here and so we have a autumnal podcast about change and endings with mashups from virtual camping with PDS Mix’s Mashup Summer Camp, and actual camping with music and chat relating to Jaunt 4 where I was walking along the Jurassic Coast.…
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RC 380: PSYCH SCHOOL – Play School Breaks, Psych & Funk
Get ready for a trip down memory lane with Radio Clash’s Psych School podcast, featuring funky tunes from children’s TV and records of the 60s and 70s. This deep dive into long-forgotten programs like Play School and Sesame Street is well worth a listen!
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Interesting Chords: The Girl From Ipanema
My dad – who was a jazz guitarist in his spare time – has a phrase ‘interesting chords’, like ‘some of those chords are interesting‘ i.e. unusual. He also has a love of Bossa Nova, and introduced me to the phrase ‘plink plink/cling cling jazz’ – I suspect he must’ve heard the Stan Freberg spoof…
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RC 327: A Line In The Sand Part 2: Black Lives Matter
Anti-racism and Black Lives Matter is not just for a week or a month, it’s for a lifetime. The danger is that as this article points out, us white people have a history of dealing with racism and handwringing that actually doesn’t create action. Obfuscating it with their guilt and ‘need to listen/know more’ which…
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White Privilege and Systemic Racism
I’ve been looking for a resource for my white friends to explain how systemic racism and micro-aggressions are different from the big-R ‘Racism’ in their heads. I have struggled to explain that as a group, white people are racist. There is a difference between systemic racism and individual acts – the big-R racists with their…
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RC 326: A Big Line In The Sand (Black Lives Matter Pt 1)
Brothers and Sisters…I don’t know what this world is coming to…. My response to the death of George Floyd, the Black Lives Matter protests around the world and is to create a two-parter focusing on radical and revolutionary voices criticising racism, fascism and police brutality. So I pass the mic to celebrate and uplift the…