339. BOLD: Questions from the Mailbag

Small Beans

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4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Production note: This episode was recorded before the election. BOLD is a podcast about race and justice in America, and a collaboration between Small Beans and Showing Up For Racial Justice, produced by White People 4 Black Lives. In this special Mailbag Episode, co-hosts Dahlia Ferlito and Ivette Alé answer listener questions! Main Theme by Rachael Cantu and Melantopia. Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. USEFUL LINKS AWARE-LA (Alliance of White Anti-Racists Everywhere) https://www.awarela.org/ Why a White Space? https://witnessingwhiteness.wordpress.com/aware-la/why-a-white-space/ Initiate Justice https://www.initiatejustice.org/ Prison Renaissance https://www.prisonrenaissance.org/ CURB (Californians United for a Responsible Budget) https://www.curbprisonspending.org/ Justice: LA https://justicelanow.org/ Donate to SURJ National https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/donate.html Donate to CURB https://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/51040/p/salsa/donation/common/public/?donate_page_KEY=9521 Donate to Initiate Justice https://www.initiatejustice.org/donate/ Reform LA Jails https://voteyesonr.org/ RECOMMENDED READING In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Dr. Gabor Maté https://drgabormate.com/book/in-the-realm-of-hungry-ghosts/ Multidisciplinary Association For Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) https://maps.org When We Fight, We Win by Greg Jobin-Leeds and AgitArte https://www.whenwefightwewin.com/about/ Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook by Mark Bray https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/antifa/ How “Normal” Became a Code Word for “White” by Alok Vaid-Menon https://www.instagram.com/p/CF2jO83BTFI/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link White Ally Toolkit https://www.whiteallytoolkit.com CONTACTS/SOCIALS email: [email protected] Instagram and Twitter: @wp4bl showingupforracialjustice.org

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0:00.0	Don't turn a blind eye. You can hear the people cry.
0:09.0	Wake up and be strong.
0:12.0	And fight for what? be strong.
0:19.2	Welcome to Bold Conversations About Race. A podcast brought to you by Serge National in collaboration with Small Beans comedy and produced by
0:24.0	white people for black lives. I'm one of your host Thalia Frolito and I use they then
0:28.1	pronouns. And I'm your other host Yvette Allay and I also use they-them pronouns.
0:34.0	Today we are answering your questions so we have a very special mailbag episode so we get some
0:40.1	very interesting audience questions coming your way that we're going to talk about today.
0:44.0	So the first one we got going on is,
0:48.0	I'll start with a question related to your most recent episode on the war on drugs.
0:55.4	Living in rural areas for most of my life, I've witnessed firsthand the devastating effects
1:00.2	of certain drugs on small communities, And although I completely agree that people of
1:04.8	color are targeted for incarceration, I also know that the fact that white people are
1:09.2	often allowed free reign with these substances and it contributes to the devastation of communities as well.
1:16.5	So my question is, how will we keep these alternatives to prisons from becoming a sort of trap for people of color. Well thank you
1:24.9	Kerry for that question. Well I think the question hits several points but
1:29.4	before we dive in I would like to say that first and foremost most people that use drugs don't have
1:39.6	problematic relationships with drugs the vast vast majority. The folks that have
1:45.0	problematic relationships with drugs that harm themselves, their loved ones in
1:49.2	their communities, are only a small fraction of drug users.
1:53.1	And Unises Hernandez, who we had on our UCLA live episode,
1:58.0	really dug into that piece.
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