1782: Being Black at a White Christian University: Exposing Racism at BYU - Rachel Weaver
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2023
⏱️ 336 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, we delve into the remarkable story of Rachel Weaver—another member of BYU's Black Menaces. Prepare for an inspiring exploration of Rachel's life as a black convert to a conservative religion in a liberal environment to her life as a student at BYU. What eventually led her to forge her own path by stepping away from the faith that once defined her?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host John Delin. It is July 3rd |
| 0:08.0 | 2023 and we are super excited for today's interview with the Rachel Weaver. Hey Rachel. Hi |
| 0:16.1 | Happy to be here super excited. So |
| 0:19.5 | Some of you may remember Nate Bird. Hey Nate. How's it going John? |
| 0:24.6 | We had Nate on Mormon Stories podcast. I don't know a month or two ago a few months back |
| 0:30.2 | A year or two ago there was a major phenomenon on Tiktok and Instagram and across news outlets |
| 0:38.4 | Nationwide this amazing BYU student group named the black mantis is |
| 0:43.9 | Sort of exploded onto Tiktok kind of around COVID time |
| 0:48.3 | Where all they would do would would be to simply walk around BYU campus with a little microphone and ask |
| 0:55.2 | Predominally white BYU students questions about race and racism and |
| 1:00.0 | social justice and they didn't provide commentary they didn't argue or or |
| 1:06.4 | You know fight back they just |
| 1:09.4 | Ask BYU students question white BYU students questions and let them answer and those videos eventually went viral |
| 1:17.3 | And that was the that was and is the phenomenon of black menaces and |
| 1:22.8 | This courageous group of BYU students ended up getting national press coverage and |
| 1:29.2 | We've already had Nate bird on to talk about his experience growing up black in the church and also going to BYU |
| 1:37.4 | We had their friend Sonne |
| 1:39.6 | See Ali also come on and talk about her experiences |
| 1:42.4 | She wasn't officially one of the black menaces, but she was certainly a friend and an ally to them and in her own way fighting |
| 1:50.4 | For social justice, but the very first black menace that I remember reaching out to me was Rachel Weaver. Yes |
| 1:56.4 | Right Rachel I did I think I like sent you an email |
| 2:00.8 | Um |
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