Eps 235: Solo – Educating ourselves to be better for people of color
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Today I am solo.
I have a heavy heart this week, and a short show. I know I promised something on chores and allowance but you will have to wait a few weeks for that.
This week I want to highlight a few shows that I have done in the past and offer up some resources to keep learning and growing as humans – because that is what my work is about – Joyful Courage is about embracing opportunities to grow, even when it’s messy and wobbly.
As someone with an audience that is largely white women, I am going to step into THIS opportunity to share some thoughts and steps to be better. I am heartsick over here as I reach out to my friends who are also people of color, letting thme know that I see them and I stand with them. I am heartsick all the time when I think about the conversations that they need to have with their children that I will never need to have with mine, because of the color of their skin. I am heartsick when I consider the fear they hold every time their partner or child leaves the house.
Enough.
And white women… we have power. We have so much power. My intention here is to invite you in to your own learning about your power, about your implicit bias, about the conditioning that continues to lead us all through a system that is designed to lift only some of us.
And I get it, where do we start? What do we do? It is uncomfortable, we don’t want to say the wrong thing, we don’t want to add to the hurt and the micro aggressions with our unintentional ignorance. But doing nothing and continuing to say nothing is not ok.
Time to speak up. To stand up. To learn, to be corrected when we get it wrong and take it with humility. To be uncomfortable. Because guess what? The black people in this country have been uncomfortable since the beginning. They have been beaten down, silenced, abused, ridiculed, traumatized and more – since the beginning. We can be in the growing pain of learning to be better.
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Takeaways from the show
Here are a few places to start.
I shared these podcasts on my social media this week – be sure to check them out:
The first conversation is with Jason Frelot from Kids and Race. He and I discuss the role of parenting in dismantling racism, understanding whit privilege and so much more. Jason is an activity in Seattle and has created programs for parents AND kids that cultivate “socially responsible and culturally aware children.” Listen: http://www.joyfulcourage.com/podcast/78
I would also like to share my conversation with Danielle Slaughter from Mamademics. Danielle is the mom of two boys and an academic. She writes a brutally honest blog called Mamademics and also offers powerful courses through her site, Raising and Advocate. Follow her, learn from her, support her work. Listen: http://www.joyfulcourage.com/podcast/151 ⠀
And more recently I invited my friend, Yolanda Williams onto the podcast to discuss her work with the Parenting Decolonized Podcast and her powerful group for black families working towards conscious parenting, Conscious Parenting Time. Yolanda is a powerhouse in the intersection of race and parenting in America. Follow her, listen to her. Listen: http://www.joyfulcourage.com/podcast/223
Books
If you love consuming content through audio, here are the two books that I am working through:
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin Diangelo
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo (Ijoma Aloo)
There are so many others out there as well – do your research and consume to learn.
Resources
Other podcasts that I would encourage you to subscribe to are:
Parenting Decolonized
Parenting and Politics
Codeswitch
SEEK OUT people to follow and learn from on SM – a few that I appreciate are:
Austin Channing Brown
Rachel Elizabeth Cargle
The Conscious Kid
And of course the people highlighted in the shows above.
Donate
Here are 7 organizations to consider donating to AND I would find out what groups are active in your local area and show your support there as well –
Know Your Rights Camp
Showing Up For Racial Justice
Blackout Collective
NAACP
Black Lives Matter
Minnesota Freedom Fund
ACLU
We can do better people.
And if you want, join me every day for the first 10 days of June at 8amish on the Joyful Courage FB page for a short video supporting us all with living joyful courage in the context of current events.
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