You're listening to the First Name Basis podcast, Season 2, Episode 24.

Cancel Culture Part 3, Removing Statues.

Welcome to First Name Basis, a community of parents committed to making the transformation,

from good intentions to confident action.

Join us each week as we cover critical topics and answer the questions you've never felt comfortable asking.

We'll use the lessons we learn to teach our children about race, religion, and culture.

I'm your host, Jasmine Bradshaw.

Music I'm your host, Jasmine Bradshaw. Hello, First Name Basis, fam. I am so glad you are here.

Today is part three of our cancel culture series. So if you missed the first two

parts, hit pause right now and go back and listen to those. We talked about calling in, calling out,

and tone policing, and then we broke down, what is cancel culture? Today, in the final part in this series, we're going to be talking about

statues. There have been a lot of discussions lately about what is appropriate when it comes to

statues, which ones should stay up and which ones should come down. So let's get into the details

of all of that today.

Okay, here's something super fun.

The first episode was done by me.

The second episode was done by my husband Carter, and this episode we're going to do it together.

Before we jump into the meat of the episode, I want to give a trigger warning.

For anybody who is a black or indigenous person of color, this episode might be heavy for you to listen to because we're going to talk about the

history of our country. These grizzly truths that most of us are already aware of, but maybe

you're not in the right headspace to be listening to it right now, and that's

totally fine. I want to encourage you to take care of yourself and know that this will always be

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