You're listening to the First Name Basis podcast, Season 3, Episode 2, Real Talk,

cultural appropriation and white supremacy.

Teaching our children to be inclusive and anti-racist starts with us within the sacred walls of our home.

First-name basis is designed to empower you with the confidence you need to be a leader in your family and a changemaker in your community.

Together, we will wrestle with hard questions and use the answers to create the world we want,

a world that reflects our values of inclusion,

compassion, and courage. I'm your host, Jasmine Bradshaw, and I am so excited to be on this journey

with you. Hello, First Name Basis fam. I am so glad you are here. I hope you all had a fun and safe Halloween

and are preparing your hearts for election day tomorrow. I hope your votes are already in, but if they're

not, get your booty to the polls. We need everyone's voice. I'm so excited for this episode. I say that every episode, but I really,

really am because this is the first of what I'm hoping will be many across the span of the

podcast of our real talk episodes. So I've had this idea for a while, and I'm so excited that it

has finally come to fruition.

So as you can imagine, people of color speak differently to each other and when it is just us,

than we do when we are talking to white people or we are in the presence of white people.

They even have a word for it. It's called code switching.

And it basically just means that we know what is acceptable and we know what is expected of us

and we know what will get us the respect that we want and deserve.

And so we will change what we do and what we say so that people will treat us a certain way and will

respect us, which is absolutely ridiculous, right? No one should have to change themselves in order to

be respected by other people, but that is where we are. We should do a whole episode about

code switching. It's really fascinating and frustrating all in one. But I wanted to do these

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