204 - What Can Solidarity Look Like Among People of Color? (Part 2) with Andrea Smith
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4.8 • 779 Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Be the Bridge podcast, Latasha speaks with Andrea Smith, author and co-founder of INCITE! about solidarity among people of color, the consequences of colonialism in limiting our connectedness, the intersections of violence in gender and race, and what it might look like to reimagine a world where all people groups can thrive.
“People of color are not a monolithic group. We are very different with different cultural expressions and different lived experiences.” –Latasha Morrison
“We’re doing things to hurt each other. And if we recognize that as a starting ground and we make a political commitment to do otherwise, we say ‘I’m going to learn how to be different with you, I’m going to start to learn history, I’m going to start to receive critique that I’m hurting you.'” –Andrea Smith
“We must always be critical of not settling for what seems to be the best we can get, and instead say, ‘What’s the best governance system where we can all live that’s not dependent on some peoples’ death?'” –Andrea Smith
About Andrea
Andrea Smith is the coordinator of Evangelicals 4 Justice and board member of the North American Institute for Indigenous Theological Studies. She is the co-editor with Mae Cannon of Evangelical Theologies of Liberation and Justice (IVP), and author of Unreconciled: From Racial Reconciliation to Racial Justice in Christian Evangelicalism (Duke), Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide; and editor of The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Nonprofit Industrial Complex. She is the co-founder of Incite: Women of Color Against Violence and the Boarding School Healing Project.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Be The Bridge podcast with Latasha Morrison. |
| 0:11.7 | I am so excited about our next guest. |
| 0:16.4 | We met a few years back in an event at North Park University. |
| 0:22.2 | And now, I think last year we met again at a conference hosted by Brenda Salt at McNeil. |
| 0:29.0 | So I love her work. |
| 0:31.0 | And I was just telling her that everybody that I'm talking to is referencing her work. |
| 0:37.0 | She is a brilliant mind, a leader, and a gift to the body. |
| 0:42.3 | And her name is Andrea Smith. And so we're going to call her for the sake of this podcast, Andy. She likes Andy. |
| 0:50.2 | And so she is the coordinator of Evangelicals for Justice and a board member of the North American Institute for Indigenous and Theological Studies. |
| 0:59.0 | She is the co-editor with May Cannon of Evangelical Theologies of Liberation and Justice and an author of an IVP author of Unreconciled from Reconciliation to Racial Justice and Christian Evangelicalism. |
| 1:14.7 | She has another book, Conquest Sexual Violence in American Indian Genocide, and the editor of |
| 1:21.8 | the Revolution will not be funded beyond the nonprofit industrial complex. She is the co-founder of Insight, Women of |
| 1:31.1 | Color Against Violence, and the boarding school healing project. Let's welcome Andy Smith. |
| 1:38.8 | Wow, you are doing some incredible work. Talk about Jessus right here. You are like the |
| 1:43.6 | impotny of what we talk about |
| 1:45.9 | with all the work you're doing from the boarding school healing project. That's like a whole |
| 1:51.4 | another conversation that I would love to have with you maybe at a later time. And then women |
| 1:58.5 | of color against violence. You know, even that, I was just listening to |
| 2:05.3 | some of the, reading some of the instances of domestic violence and child abuse that are up right now |
| 2:14.2 | because of the shelter in place. And a lot of us think of that as a place of safety, |
| 2:19.4 | but for so many people is not. And so, yeah, so there's so many things that I would want to talk to |
| 2:25.5 | you about. But today, we are talking about solidarity and what that can look like among people of |
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