The Fake Ass Book Club

Welcome back to the Fake Ass Book Club! This one is dedicated to all the immperfect artist out there. Our host discuss their favorite bits of the Harry Potter saga. Family, betrayal, discover, victories, loses, and all the other themes from the Joseph Campbelleque monomyth of the classic hero's journey. Along with all the spoilers, there are breakdowns of NBC's "Cheers", Starz "series "Power", and a very detailed explaination of what Kat would like to do to Kyle Rittenhouse's bitch ass. Sit back and relax and enjoy listening to Moni run this review with the confidence of a cult leader! Cheers! Explict Language thefabpodcast@gmail.com

Welcome back to another episode of the Fake Ass Book Club! Stick around as Moni and Kat review Gabrielle Union's latest memoir "You Got Anything Stronger", a triumphant follow up to her previous book, "We're Going to Need More Wine". Our tipsy hosts navigate this often heavy but always hilarious journey through Gabrielle's complicatedly relatable life. Kat even starts to cry. You don't want to miss it. The club is fake, but the talk is real! Sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride. *41;25 Christian Laettner played in the NBA 13 years. Apologies to Mr Laettner Trigger Warning *Explict Language, Rape, Racist Epitaphs * Below are links to Blackfishing incidents including the one mentioned in this episode. Black Florida Students Suspended For Confronting White Classmates' Racist Snapchat Video (msn.com) https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/black-florida-students-suspended-for-confronting-white-classmates-racist-snapchat-video/ar-AAQ6pQQ?ocid=msedgntp *Indianapolis Activist Satchuel Cole Lied About Being Black * https://moguldom.com/305542/indianapolis-activist-satchuel-cole-lied-about-being-black/ _ _You can find/contact us at: thefabpodcast@gmail.com Fake Ass Book Club on YouTube thefabpodcast on Instagram

Welcome back to the Fake Ass Book Club. Moni and Kat never let a lack of reading stop them from grabbing a cocktail and talking for an hour. Our hosts give their thoughts on the Netflix orginal "Harder They Fall". This episode contains spoilers for almost every plot point in the film. So with that knowledge, sit back relax and enjoy the show. Cheers!🥂 Trigger warning: Mention of domestic violence (Kat is ignorant lol...it's jokes y'all) 😊 Domestic violence is a serious issue if you or someone you know needs help please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline: tel:1.800.799.7233 or www.thehotline.org 💜 Home Team History https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC12lU5ymIvSpgl8KntDQUQA thefabpodcast@gmail.com

Welcome back to the Fake Ass Book Club. Your host continue to talk about New York Times Bestseller and Oprah's Book Club pick, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Kat starts by very sloppily explaining Noah's Ark and the curse of Ham. This book also leads to conversations around why the Santa Claus and Tooth Fairy myths can be harmful, why Mother Teresa was awful in real life, eugenics, Steven Universe, and In Living Color's Classic sketch "Men on Film". Wow, what a diverse podcast this is. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride. Cheers! Trigger Warning: Use of Racial Epitaphs, Explict Language Caste Part 2: 8 pilars of caste continued 5-8 FIVE: Occupational Hierarchy In the reasoning of Senator James Henry Hammond of South Carolina, in 1858, society needs to have menial workers, and since this means people of little intellect and skill, society was lucky to have “‘found a race adapted to that purpose.’” (p. 131) Hence after the Civil Was, South Carolina prohibited black from performing any labor except farming or domestic work. In North Carolina people in the lowest caste were forbidden to do trading. Thus they could not earn extra money in order to better their situation. Even the Great Migration did not help blacks to escape their caste. In the North they were given a position lower than the recent European immigrants. “‘Every avenue for improvement was closed against him,’ wrote William A. Sinclair. (p. 134). SIX: Dehumanization and Stigma Dehumanizing another human being is a long process, programming one group to deny the evidence of their senses. In both Nazi Germany and the U.S., attempts have been made to strip target groups of their individuality: Jews’ heads were shamed, clothing was replaced with striped uniforms, numbers replaced names. In the American South, Africans were given mocking new names, were forced to do the heaviest work for a bare minimum of food, were compelled to wear clothing not much different than potato bags, were punished for showing any human response to their conditions. Abolitionist William Goodell wrote that the American slave was “‘punished with a severity from which all others are exempted. He is under the control of the law, though unprotected by the law, and can know law only as an enemy.’” (p. 146) The inhumanity of the labor itself (draining swamps, chopping trees, hauling logs) further dehumanized both American and Nazi slaves. Both Jews and African-Americans were used as victims of medical experiments. The “total control over black bodies game them unfettered access to the anatomy of live subjects.” (p. 148) In our country we accepted a culture of cruelty toward this lowest caste: “made violence and mockery seem mundane and amusing . . . built up the immune system against empathy.” (p.149) SEVEN: Terror as Enforcement, Cruelty as a Means of Control Whipping and flogging (one extreme was “bucking” p. 155) were the most common measures for controlling slaves. Other methods included burning or branding slaves, vigilante shootings, and public lynchings. In both the U.S. and in Nazi Germany, those in control sowed “dissension among the subordinate caste by creating a hierarchy among the captives, rewarding those who identified more with the oppressor rather than the oppressed and who would report back to them any plots of escape or uprising.” (p. 156) In the 20th century in the U.S., slavey was over but the consequences for acting above one’s caste were the same. EIGHT: Inherent Superiority versus Inherent Inferiority The image of African-Americans was controlled for a hundred years and more after the Emancipation Proclamation. Movie roles were for heavy women with the dialect of field hands, filling the roles of servants. Jim Crow laws forced African Americans to relinquish their place on the pavement to a white person; black soldiers were “set upon and killed for wearing eerie army uniforms,” just as the SS would kill Jewish women wearing furs. The garments were above their caste. (p. 161) African Americans could incite write rage “‘In the tone of an answer,’ Douglass wrote, ‘in answering at all; in not answering; in the expression of countenance; in the motion of the heard; in the gait, manner and bearing. . . . ‘ This code extended for generations. Years after the Nazis were defeated across the Atlantic.” (p. 163 *eu·gen·ics /yo͞oˈjeniks/ noun the study of how to arrange reproduction within a human population to increase the occurrence of heritable characteristics regarded as desirable. Developed largely by Sir Francis Galton as a method of improving the human race, eugenics was increasingly discredited as unscientific and racially biased during the 20th century, especially after the adoption of its doctrines by the Nazis in order to justify their treatment of Jews, disabled people, and other minority groups. *Mother Teresa stuff- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV4YzOwMu6I https://thehoya.com/noted-scholar-attacks-mother-teresa-legacy/ *Men on Film- In Living Color -Correction Kenon Ivory Waynes was the one who showed his butt on the Zoom call not Damon Waynes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OKwRsnWO84 thefabpodcast@gmail.com thefabpodcast on IG

Welcome back to the Fake Ass Book Club!!! Isabel Wilkerson's "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" was so heavy, Moni and Kat had to break it in half. Forgiveness please for our hosts as they struggle to pronouce words in English, Hindi and forget Einstein quotes, smh!. They also discuss if the N-word should be deleted from the lexicon. This episode is extra racey, so strap in, sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride. Cheers! *Trigger Warning: Explicit language Also suicide is a serious matter if you or someone you love needs help please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255. *Bacon Rebellion- https://www.worldhistory.org/Bacon's_Rebellion/ *Boondocks' Uncle Ruckus- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOFvO2XHZNc *Quote: Albert Einstein * “A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” There are 8 Pilars of Caste according to Isalbel Wilkerson: We listed the first 4 below, we will list the other 4 in part 2 ONE: Divine Will and the Laws of Nature In the Hindu creation myth, The One created the highest caste from his mouth; the warrior caste from his arms; the merchants and traders from his thighs; the servants from his feet. The untouchables are below the feet of the servants. In the Biblical story of Noah, we have the story of the children of Ham, cursed to be slaves because his son Ham (who had black skin) had seen Noah naked. These tenets in both cultures led to a belief in a Great Chain of Being, a permit willed by God. TWO: Heritability (Moni mispronounced this one on this episode...apologies) In India, children inherited their castes from their fathers. In Virgina, children inherited the caste of their mother. This was enacted into law in 1662 by the Virginia General Assembly. This broke from the order known in the English legal precedent in order to keep blacks in the lowest caste. White men could increase their wealth by impregnating slaves without the danger of mother or child making claims against the upper caste man. Members of the lowest caste “may neither ear nor wed his way out,” concluded a scholarly study of caste (titled Deep South) in 1941. THREE: Endogamy and the Control of Marriage and Mating Endogamy is the means by which people may only marry inside their own caste, an “Iron-clad" foundation of any caste system, from ancient India, to the early American colonies, to the Nazi regime in Germany.” (p. 103) Endogamy produces a world in which the castes are entirely separate, unlikely to know or empathize with each other. “‘Caste,; write Bhimrao Abedkar,the father of the anti-caste movement in India, ‘means an artificial chopping off the population into fixed and definite units, each one prevented from fusing into another through the custom of endogamy.’” (p. 110) Virginia outlawed interracial marriage in 1691. The Supreme Court overturned these laws in 1967, though alabama kept its law on the books until 2000. The sentiment that ‘God ntended the races to be separate continued into (and beyond) the middle of the 20th Century. FOUR: Purity versus Pollution The observation of rules of purity can be seen in social customs in India as well as the U.S. An upper class person in India had to cleanse himself if he drew too close to an Untouchable. Books from segregated schools in Florida could not be stored in the same locations. From water fountains to railway platforms to morgues in hospitals, there were rules to keep the white upper classes separate from the blacks. Particularly egregious was the sharing of water sources (beaches, pools, lakes).How much lowest caste blood made a person polluted? Only in the U.S. was that amount a single drop: “a system based on racial absolutism.” (p. 121) In our Northwestern states, the prohibition had a more complicated formula: “Oregon defined as nonwhite any person ;with 1/4 Negro, Chinese or Kanaka blood or more than 1/2 Indian blood.’” (p. 124) In 1922 the Supreme Court ruled that ‘white’ referred to light skin but to Caucasian blood. This allowed people from Asia to be excluded from the upper castes as well as people of African origin. But for African-Americans escape from the Bottom Rung was impossible. “Their exclusion was used to justify their exclusions. Their degraded station justifyied their degradation. They were consigned to the lowliest, dirtiest jobs and thus were seen as lowly and dirty, and everyone in the caste system absurd the message of their degradation.” (p. 129) Caste Study Notes found online at www.fgcquaker.org taken from the book Caste. thefabpodcast@gmail.com IG: thefabpodcast (fakeassbookclub)

Moni and Kat are eager to discuss all the ins and outs that the book title implies. In their excitement Moni almost forgot to challenge herself and Kat with a drinking game! She wanted to see if they could go the rest of the episode without cussing or they would have to take shots. You can guess how that went! The ladies manage to unpack societal gender roles, and what it means to be a “good woman”. Also it wouldn't be the Fake Ass Book Club without some racism! It's all here for you this week so relax and enjoy the show. Cheers! "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"- https://www.amazon.com/Incidents-Life-Slave-Girl-Autobiographical-dp-163220455X/dp/163220455X/ref=dpobtitle_bk "Luncheon on the Grass"- https://g.co/kgs/Dm1GeZ thefakeassbookclub@gmail.com trigger warning: sexual content, explicit language

On this fake ass episode Moni and Kat discuss the live local theatrical performance of award winning Broadway show “Dreamgirls”. Stick around as they list the best and worst aspects of the show, from animated audience members, to the actors singing and dancing their faces off!!! In true F.A.B. fashion the ladies veer off course and chat about gospel musicals, Moni’s lone “thug tear” during “DreamGirls”, Rick and Morty, and somehow Kat manages a Star Trek reference. Don’t be shy, tune in and join the conversation. You don’t want to miss this fun. Cheers! KaidyDid Productions @Kaidydidproductions https://www.instagram.com/kaidydidproductions/?hl=en thefabpodcast@gmail.com

Welcome back to the book club! Our host are back at it again. This episode is a fun journey through some of the major themes in Amanda's Seales' "Small Doses". Themes like being passionate vs hostile, breaking past self-imposed and societal limitations, Cosplay, Black Hair, and so much more. There's so much to get into so just hit play now! Cheers! Amanda Seales calmly schooling Caitlyn Jenner courtesy of The Root- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-JwM5KlVcQ&t=1s John Oliver Crown Acts- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf1c0tEGfrU thefabpodcast@gmail.com

Our host are turned all the way up on this fake ass episode of the Fake Ass Book Club. Moni and Kat start things off with an improv drinking game which cumulates with the most beautiful cover of Keisha Cole's "Love" since OT Genasis! Wow, so much to look forward to. Kat attempts to pursuede Moni to care about comic books. Stick around to see if it works! Excelsior! Made Man Improv - @mademanimprovacademy Anti-Racism Book Ban- https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/09/24/pennsylvania-school-book-ban-diversity/ thefabpodcast@gmail.com

On this episode of the FAB podcast, Moni and Kat invite Sylvia Hubbard, author of over 40 books, to discuss her romance suspense novel “Beautiful”. In this book, the naive yet extremely book smart protagonist, Madison, finds herself escaping her abusive father to try to create her future through her revolutionary research. On her journey to self-love & discovery she finds herself involved in a steamy polyamorous relationship that almost undoes her and all her hard work. The ladies talk about self-love, family trauma and the road to finding your “Beautiful” from within. What are you waiting for??? Grab your glass, and let’s cheers to the Fake Ass Book Club! Trigger: Sexual Content, adult language *Correction at 30:54. Kat says Rick cut his hand off but meant to say Morty cut his hand off. Find our guest Sylvia Hubbard : https://sylviahubbard.com/books/ www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/sylvia/hubbard www.linktr.ee/sylviahubbard1 Find us: thefabpodcast@gmail.com thefabpodcast *on Instagram Subscribe to **Fake Ass Book Club* on youtube