Junkerlyn Hill
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105 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
Junkerlyn Hill’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Craigwell is poor, having only his wages to depend on. Oh my gosh.
Dear Louise, your letter to the household last week was read with a great deal of interest.
Where did you grow up? So I bounced around Kansas and Missouri for a good chunk of my childhood. But I feel like when people ask where you're from, they're asking, where did you graduate from high school? And the answer to that question is Albuquerque, New Mexico. Albuquerque, New Mexico, which I mean, I love it there, but wow. Yeah.
Like the number one thing people say is like, oh, they got black people there. And the answer is no. And that's why I am not there. So where are you now? So I'm in D.C. now. I moved out here to go to Howard. Like most Howard grads, that's probably the longest I've gone without saying the words. I went to Howard and I just stayed ever since. And what would you say is your relationship to the city?
Oh, my gosh. I really do feel like it raised me. I was talking with someone recently and I asked, how long do you have to live in a place to no longer be considered a transplant? Because I've lived in D.C. for 15 years now. And my friend was like, you're good.
I essentially bleed mambo sauce now as far as I'm concerned.
Ooh. Okay. I've been thinking about this. And I feel like original recipe. Like, I am just a regular, a very regular Black person. Like, not a new Black person. Just old-fashioned Black lady. Well, okay, I'm not an old-fashioned Black lady. Let me not say that.
I don't know. I don't have all the bells and whistles. Like, I'm not like, ooh, post-racial society. Even the conversations, like the diaspora wars, I think I'm a little original recipe in that because I'm like, y'all, we are all Black. What are you... And, like, people will argue about the one-drop rule, and I'm like, mm... You're Black. I also, I think I have a very good Blackdar.
Like, there are people who are Black, and I clock it, and I have friends who are like, that's a Black person. I'm like, I know when a Negro is in my presence.
Oh, it's hard to do. It's hard because sometimes it's good and then sometimes it's bad. Like I said, I went to Howard and there's that tweet where someone's like, I hate Howard bitches. They're always in the bathroom arguing about slavery. And it's like I that's I am at the party. I am the person in the bathroom arguing about slavery.
Everyone tends to get blinded by their own experience. And there's a defensiveness, like an inherent defensiveness. I'm going to give it a two. I'm going to give the conversations a two, especially if they're happening online. Oh, my gosh. Don't even try.
OK, I think no matter who you are, class gets sticky. It's that whole thing. It's like don't talk about politics and money. And it's both those things together. But I think for so long, class and race has been married in this country. And for good reason, like understandably so.
There have been systemic things that, you know, make a lot of black people part of the same class and make it very hard for to have upward mobility. But when that upward mobility does exist, it can get a little sticky because it's this thing of, well, you're still experiencing racism. And it's like, yeah, but also, like, there are privileges that come with having money.
And then there's all this, like, class anxiety that's harder to move up in the world. And then you feel defensive about it. And it's just, it gets sticky so quickly.
Oh, I'm pretty comfortable with it. But again, I think that's because I've been arguing in bathrooms about slavery for the past 15 years.
Oh, back when it was really Chocolate City.
I love, first of all, I love love. I love scandals. I love drama.
Ooh, I'm drinking an old-fashioned, and I just imagined the old-fashioned he would make me.
So he'd probably be like, why are you drinking, you hussy? Go home.
Oh, they're strict. They are very serious about those rules.
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