You Have to Buy In to Sell Out - a podcast by artic LLC

**NOTE: This episode was recorded prior to the death of George Floyd. Shea and Rebecca did consider pulling the episode, as it does offer critiques to Black artists who have amassed wealth without redistributing it. We want to assure all our listeners that even when we offer critique, we still stand wholeheartedly in solidarity with the Black community, and insist our statements not be used as weapons against the Black Lives Matter movement or the Black community on the whole. Instead, we chose to share this conversation so you could hear the evolution of this conversation, hear the link between white supremacy and capitalism, and hear the need to critique the system over critiquing individual people (which is where we arrive by the end).

In Episode 3, Rebecca and Shea engage in a complicated and emotional conversation about capitalism, white supremacy, and wealth redistribution.  

"And you or I or whoever voicing, 'my right to live, my right to. exist, my right to be a person is only valid if it's cosigned by a certain proportion of white people' is the f**king game [of the meritocracy]. I only get to exist if white people permit it, if white people support it, if white people buy into it." ~Shea, on the Lie of the Meritocracy

"If it's not serving everybody, then no one is being served. We all have to get out together." ~Rebecca

Made by the founders of artic LLC, Stop Saying Woke is an outlet for deep dives into antiracist education, snide remarks, and a place for people of color to feel seen. A call in for white folx, Stop Saying Woke is both a directive and a plea for well-meaning white folx who are ready to graduate from talking about it, to being about it.

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