Yo, Is This Racist?

Yo, Is This Racist?
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StarringAndrew Ti and Tawny Newsome
LanguageEnglish

Yo, Is This Racist? (also stylized as Yo! Is This Racist?) is a blog and associated podcast run by Andrew Ti, addressing questions from readers and listeners about whether given phenomena are examples of racism. In 2018, Tawny Newsome joined the podcast as co-host.[1]

Ti, a writer for Comedy Central at the time,[2] launched the Yo, Is This Racist? blog in November 2011 on Tumblr[3][4] as the result of a conversation with a coworker about whether Yosemite Sam's oath "cotton-picking" is racist.[5] Within 24 hours, the blog had nearly 2000 followers.[6] The podcast was started a year later and was hosted by Earwolf from its creation.[7][3] In November 2020, Ti and Newsome chose to leave the Earwolf network and launched Sub-Optimal Pods to host the podcast independently, a move which they said freed them from "trying to be the wokest show on a comedy network."[7]

  1. ^ Ito, Robert (2019-10-23). "When People Ask 'Yo, Is This Racist?' These Podcasters Find It Usually Is". Lamag. Archived from the original on 2020-01-02. Retrieved 2019-12-08.
  2. ^ Miles, Kathleen (December 18, 2013). "'Yo, Is This Racist?' Says What We're All Thinking About Racism". The Huffington Post. Archived from the original on 2017-01-08. Retrieved January 31, 2017.
  3. ^ a b "“Yo, Is This Racist?” Andrew Ti sounds off", by Patrick Caldwell, at the Daily Dot; published November 12, 2012; retrieved January 31, 2017. Archived 2017-07-29 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ^ If You Have To Ask If It's Racist, It Probably Is Archived 2018-08-14 at the Wayback Machine, by Celeste Headlee, on Tell Me More, at National Public Radio; published July 25, 2013; retrieved January 31, 2017
  5. ^ 'Yo, Is This Racist?' Andrew Ti's Tumblr Has Your (Hilarious) Answer Archived 2017-01-17 at the Wayback Machine, by Channing Kennedy, at ColorLines; published January 2, 2012; retrieved January 31, 2017
  6. ^ Yo is this racist? The answer's probably yes Archived 2017-07-29 at the Wayback Machine, by Lauren Rae Orsini, at the Daily Dot; published November 4, 2011; retrieved January 31, 2017
  7. ^ a b Warren, Nick (Jan 13, 2021). "Podcasts Picks: Yo, Is This Racist?". Erie Reader. Archived from the original on November 4, 2021. Retrieved Nov 1, 2021.