Hi there! You're listening to the Lazy Genius Podcast. I'm Kendra Hadachi and I'm

here to help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the

things that don't. Today is episode 233. Three things to continue racial

peacemaking. I would like to acknowledge something that might be obvious but is

also very important for this episode. I'm a white woman. My experience as a

person in North Carolina where I've lived my entire life is as a white woman. I'm

married to a Japanese man and I have three mixed-race kids but the privilege

that I have experienced and the system I live in it benefits me as a white

woman. Even growing up poor the system still benefited me because I was white.

And as a white person I am gonna live the rest of my life unlearning,

relearning and doing my small part to contribute to the work of making this

country more equitable and replacing harmful systems with more loving and

just ones. But I think until people with privilege like me acknowledge that they

have that privilege it's gonna take us longer to get there. So when it comes to

this episode I will not speak any of these words as some kind of social or

racial justice expert. I am not one. In fact I feel a lot of nerves speaking

into this at all because I'm not an expert. But I'm learning and I want to

keep learning and based on the communication I've gotten from so many of you in

recent months you feel the same way. Now first I want to share just a quick

word about how this episode came to be. So my team was talking about episode

ideas you know and Latoya our lazy genius community manager and a black

woman suggested that I do something about anti-racism. She observed that while

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