You're listening to the First Name Basis podcast, Season 3, Episode 4, the untold story of Christopher

Columbus.

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 can't believe this. Two untold story

episodes in a row. Who even am I? If you are new around here, this is not an untold story podcast,

even though I've been doing that a lot lately. I love these episodes because they're so

interesting to research and I feel so

empowered after knowing this information. But what we talk about is all things race, religion,

and culture so that we as parents can begin to teach these things to our children.

I do have to tell you that even though I learned so much

in preparing for this episode, it was really, really hard for me to make. It has been in the

making for a very long time, many, many weeks because I kept having to take a break. It is

heavy. The stuff we're going to talk about today is

disgusting. I don't really know what other way to say it. It's very, very awful. And so really

reading through everything that has happened and everything that he did and the people who

followed him did was really

taxing to me. If you remember a few weeks ago, I just kind of ghosted on Instagram. I wasn't around

for a couple of weeks and it was all because doing this research about Christopher Columbus

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