175. BOLD: Allyship 101, The Construction Of Whiteness (Feat. Paul Kivel, Ariel Luckey)

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4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

BOLD is a podcast about race and justice in America, and a collaboration between Small Beans and Showing Up For Racial Justice, produced by White People 4 Black Lives. In the second episode, writer, educator, and legendary social justice advocate Paul Kivel helps Dahlia and Michael explain a bit of the history of white allyship, what your stakes as a white person are in dismantling racism in America, the history of racial assimilation in America, the relationship between racism and economic inequality, and much, much more. Also features a piece by Ariel Luckey, and voices and sounds from ongoing protests against 24-Hour Fitness following the locker-room murder of Albert Ramon Dorsey by police.

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0:00.0	Don't turn a blind eye. You can hear the people cry.
0:09.0	Wake up and be strong.
0:12.0	And fight for what is wrong.
0:15.0	Hi there, and welcome to another episode of Bold Conversations About Race.
0:22.0	In this episode,
0:24.0	I speak with professor and writer Paul Kival
0:27.0	about the basics of,
0:29.0	and his own personal journey to,
0:31.0	white allyship on issues of race. After that we have recordings and
0:35.3	interviews from a recent action encouraging a boycott against gym chain
0:39.0	24-hour fitness. But first our cultural piece, a spoken word poem entitled ID Check by Ariel Lucky.
0:47.8	You can find links to more of Ariel's work, as well as to most of the resources mentioned in
0:52.1	this episode by viewing the show notes at
0:54.7	Patreon.com slash small beans. I am a blue-eyed devil, peck of would
1:08.7	I am a blue-eyed devil, pecca wood and country cracker, redneck white trash and urban wannabe
1:15.3	rapper I am the man who's got the God complex pimping privilege from class
1:21.2	skin color and sex.
1:23.0	I am the president, the pope, and the cop on your block.
1:27.2	I'm the banker buying stock and selling bullets and glocks.
1:30.4	This is an ID check, like a rope around your neck.
1:34.0	Better know who you are when death calls collect.
1:38.0	This is an ID check like the Border Patrol,
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