We start of this episode by talking about the weather, the UK weather.

Yeah, I know, but I promise, it is not as boring as it sounds. Full disclosure, this is not a part of the

conversation that would typically feature on the podcast to be honest, because we start recording as

soon as we get into the call, so that we can start naturally flowing into the topics we had planned to

discuss on the day. So trust me, we did not plan to discuss the UK weather in this podcast. The

reason I decided to slide in this conversation into the podcast is because the conversation takes an

interesting turn, and it touches on some of the things I want to discuss on our post mortem episode.

We then take a quick dive into an extremely controversial topic, which was sparked by the Dave

Chappelle’s recent comedy special on Netflix, The closer, the topic of the LGBTQI-2S +, and trying to

get to the bottom of the outrage that we see levelled at Chappelle. H, being a big fan of Dave

Chappelle, gives us his philosophical perspective of the arguments that Dave Chappelle puts forward

in the Closer and tries to weave together Dave’s arguments from all his other specials over time, to

put this particular special in perspective. 

I also share a very disappointing experience that my friend

and I had with a group of gay guys back in our days as students just to add into a point that H had

made. On the aftermath, there are some contemplation I had about the difference between sex,

sexuality, and sexual orientation, and how these interact with the social politics in today’s day and

age. I will go do some reading on this and I will give you my full analysis on the post moterm episode.

On the flip side of the Dave Chappelle’s special, there is also a topic of Black Lives matter versus

Black Consciousness, as we take a look at chapter 14 of I write what I like, and how the Black

Americans conceptualise the idea of race, in a country where they are a minority, versus how the

black South Africans, and Africans at large, should be thinking about how we should assert ourselves

in the world in the continent that we are a majority. H gives us the case study of Thomas Sankara

during the 1980s Burkina Faso, and how he stood his ground against the French colonisers. This is

another part of our conversation that I would really like to do a deep dive into for the post moterm

episode.

We discuss these and many other topics, please be on the lookout for part two of this episode as we

continue our conversation.