when the organizer wants a black musician and you don't get the gig (with ben isaacs)

July 22
42 mins

Episode Description

you're white, you play black music, and you didn't get the gig because the organizer wanted a black musician. is that reverse racism? is it fair? how do you hold it without making it about you? ben isaacs and i go deep on the gray area that working musicians navigate constantly, what it means to pass opportunities to black artists, and why the frame of liberation serves us better than the frame of butthurt.

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