Season 1, Episode 15: A Conversation with Kareem Abdelrahman

As longtime listeners may be aware, the usual format of this podcast is for me and two or three of my co-hosts to talk about society and current events from a perspective other than your stereotypical podcaster - that is, not from a cishet white male. But another thing that I’ve been meaning to do is to sit down and talk to fellow POC folx in the geek community about our experiences.

Our special guest this week is local geek Kareem Abdelrahman.

This episode is not sponsored.

Content Warning - mentions or uses of:

• Confederate Flags

• Horror

• Jim Crow

• Lynchings

• Racial/Ethnic Pejoratives/Epithets

• Racism

• R*pe

#notsponsored

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Manomin County existed from about 1857-1858.

The Duluth Lynchings happened on June 15th, 1920.

Minneapolis Police Department 3rd Precinct Station burned down on the evening of May 28th, 2020, as a part of the uprising after the murder of George Floyd.

Learn more about the Dred Scott Case.

Barbary pirates (or Barbary corsairs or Ottoman corsairs) were Muslim privateers who operated from North Africa. The First Barbary War was the first foreign war fought by the United States.

Richard Spencer getting punched in the head.

The Spaceball Planet was “Planet Spaceball”, the president’s name was Skroob, and the air was ‘Perri-Air’. The scene that I was referring to was the Mega-Maid scene - the parts in the flying Winnebago was just weirdly paced.

The books Kareem mentions are:

• Demons - Fyodor Dostoevsky

• Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy

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