Voices can paint pictures too!!
The last unit of Journalism was no other than broadcast. In this unit we were learning all about sound, voices, and how voices could be used as an impactful source. We listened to audio versions of the popular book about a murder case in chicago, Our America. While listening to the voices of the people involved we were analyxing not only the story, but the voices of the characters as well. Where are they now? Do they feel bad about what they did? Are they happy or on the verge of mental instability? These are just a few questions that were raised from actually listening to the voices rather than reading them on paper. That whole experience got us thinking about and realising how impactful a simple voice could be, and so we were taksed with creating an audio file of or own. We were to choose a person who's voice was influenial and record a slight podcast with snippets of their voice to truly capture what made them so impactful. Below is an attachment of my podcast along with transcriptions below it and my sources under that. So sit back, relax, and listen to my voice.
Influential voices; They're everywhere. From the godlike voice of Morgan Freeman to the quite alluring one of Ryan Reynolds, voices can be the basis for all types of interpretation and inspiration. Some voices are distinct and recognizable, while others are not as distinct but hold more weight. A perfect example is Dave Chappelle. Dave Chappelle is an African American stand-up comedian, actor, and to most an activist. Some dislike him. but I, along with many others, find him to be quite an enigma, tune in to find out exactly how he is revered as such an iconic figure.
When did your first encounter Dave Chappelle's work, or any work with him in it?
Well, I think I first became a fan of Dave Chappelle in the early 2000s. One of my students came in one day talking about having seen the Chappelle show on Comedy Central, and they specifically referenced the skit about the black-white supremacist.
"I guess you referred to African Americans. What exactly is your problem? How much time you got, buddy? Where would I start? Well, first of all, they're lazy, good for nothing. Tricksters, crack-smoking, swindlers, big butt having, wide nose breathing all the white man's air. They eat up all the chicken. They think they're the best dancers, and they stink. Did I mention that before?"
[01:26] - JH, SH
He's a smoker, like a heavy smoker, like weed, cigarettes, all that. So I feel like when-
Well, he's also got, like, that raspy.
Yeah.
When he talks, I feel like that it kind of makes him makes it funnier because have you ever listened to a heavy smoker talk? They could be like, My grandma just died. Bruh I'd be dead laughing because everything they say is just funny. And it's just like their voices are mad deep. And that just makes it ten times funnier.
But it's like a nasally, raspy deep.
Just afraid of being attacked. Happens to the best of us. Don't ever forget what happened to that French actor. Y'all know who I'm talking about? Jussie Smolliet. Very French. Very famous French actor.
How has he changed your perspective of the world?
I feel like he brings a lot of touchy subjects, like subjects that people won't tiptoe around and he'll make it funny, which is not...easy
That's a lie. It is easy, but you don't want to hurt people's feelings. They know it's Dave Chappelle. You know? He doesn't mean it.
When you were looking at Dave Chappelle and like, you read that article about his latest special, like, people were calling him transphobic and stuff. But looking back on that article versus now, like when you were watching the specials, what was the difference that you kind of like felt? Because the controversy around Dave Chappelle right now is that he's transphobic, like, completely insensitive and everything and he just should be canceled because he's, like, LGBT phobic. But looking back, like when you were watching his specials, would you say that he's that?
It's comedy. I feel like people just take it too much to heart.
When does a person's positive influence stop being a factor in whether they should be canceled or not?
I don't believe that people should be canceled whether they're a negative influence or a positive influence simply because people are always evolving. People are always changing. And if you cancel someone, you don't give them a chance to grow. You're saying you made a mistake. You can never come back from that mistake. And I think that that's wrong. I don't think we can cancel people from a whole culture type of thing, but you can cancel people individually out of your life. But you can't let that impact make that universal.
[05:01] - SH
For example, I don't eat at Chick-fil-a because of their stance toward gay people. But my niece loves Chick-fil-a, and she continues to eat at Chick-fil-a. I can't cancel my niece because she disagrees with my policy. That's stupid. And I think that you can make decisions for yourself and your decisions need to be for you and people can't force anybody to believe the way I believe, because you're in an Echo Chamber, then no one ever grows. And so I think it's stupid to try to cancel people.
I feel like, okay, so this kind of leads into my next question. I feel like everybody on the planet has influence in their own way, like, they affect different parts of people's thinkinh, different people, they affect everything differently. How do you think that Chappelle? How do you think his influence works? How do you think he affects....things?
Okay.
I think that everyone definitely has a sphear of influence. So it's like the people that you come in contact with, other people, that you influence, the people that you're interacting with on a day to day basis. Now, Dave Chappelle has fame, so he has a lot of fans. He has a lot of people who listen to him. And so he does have a bigger sphere of influence than I have as a teacher. And so I feel like his fans will listen to him, and they will think about what he says, and sometimes they will accept what he says, and sometimes they will reject what he says and still be fans because I don't necessarily agree with everything that Dave Chappelle says. But I'm still a fan of Dave Chappelle, right? So I just personally think that people still have to make their own decisions. And so he has a big sphere of influence. And I actually do think that he thinks about what he says before he says it, and he's just like, but this is what I want to say. And he has every right to say whatever it is he wants to say
I feel like that kind of puts him also in the ring of like an activist in a way that he can say these impactful things and have people actually think about them and really go in depth with their interpretation of them but also keeping it in a way that's fun and kind of just appealing. Yes, I feel like that's pretty important.
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Comedy Central. “Clayton Bigsby, the World’s Only Black White Supremacist - Chappelle’s Show.” YouTube, 11 Nov. 2019, www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLNDqxrUUwQ&t=5s. Accessed 11 Nov. 2021.
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