112: BHM Special - Ain't I A Woman w/The Harvard Debate Council Diversity Project

While Black

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🗓️ 2 February 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Black History Month 2021. This year we are celebrating powerful words from our history. Each week across Black History Month you will hear a speech or some other selection of powerful and historic words performed by scholars and influencers along with their perspective on why the words are still so relevant today. In this episode you will hear from a few scholars from The Harvard Debate Council Diversity Project (HDCDP). College Freshman Payton and Xavier from lasts years Black Futures Month are back along with high school Freshman Naima. They perform Sojourner Truth's powerful speech "Ain't I A Woman" and then follow up the performance with a dynamic conversation on the piece that meanders through various impacts on the world we live in today. Tune in, listen and learn. If you have any question on HDCDP then catch them on their website or on their IG page Don't forget to get social with While Black IG: WHILE_BLACK; TWITTER @whileblackpc; FB @whileblackpodcast or email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Southern Comfort is so tasteful.
0:03.0	Nothing says tasteful like realizing you're the only one at the party.
0:08.0	In fancy dress.
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0:23.0	Be Drink Beware.
0:24.0	UK.
0:25.0	What are you guys being asked to do that you only be actually because you're black?
0:31.0	What type of things are being associated with you because only because you're black? What type of things are being associated with you because you're
0:33.5	black? In addition to respectability, the thing that stands out to me, the thing that
0:37.5	that it really hurts me is the systematic issues that exist in the workplace in schools and politics, the systematic problems
0:45.4	that exist that are I guess sort of limiting the roles sort of the potential that African-American
0:50.6	women can have on our world because I wonder how many other
0:52.6	black women are going into work every day and they're being relegated to doing my new
0:56.9	tasks and so I really can't wait to see the full potential of black women
1:02.0	realize because what I can tell you the full potential of black women realize.
1:03.1	Because what I can tell you is that black women were not
1:06.2	put here to make copies, to make coffee,
1:10.1	to sign papers all day.
1:12.2	Black women are here to change the world.
1:14.0	And I cannot wait to see what happens when we open the floodgates
1:17.0	and the full potential of African American women is realized
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