4.8: Can We Talk About White Privilege?

First Name Basis Podcast

Jasmine Bradshaw

How To, Parenting, Education, Kids & Family

5 • 629 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

But really, can we? I know y’all are seeing it too. You’ve shared with me that once you know what to look for you’ve started to see it all over the place. Okay so now you know it’s there but what do you do about it?

In this episode we break down three super cringey examples of white privilege that I’ve seen in the last week. Tune in to hear how those of you who hold white privilege can respond in these racist situations.

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Articles, Studies & Podcasts Referenced In The Episode

First Name Basis Podcast, Season 2, Episode 14: “What Is Privilege And What Do I Do With It?” — This episode will help give you the background information you need to understand privilege. I suggest listening to this episode before you dive into our conversation about white privilege.

First Name Basis Podcast, Season 3, Episode 21: “How To Teach Media Literacy To Our Children with Tori Nelson of Kid Nuz”

Ad Fontes Media: Interactive Media Bias Chart

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“Don’t Touch My Hair” children’s book by Sharee Miller

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to the First Name Basis podcast, Season 4, Episode 8. Can we talk about white privilege?
0:13.5	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
0:23.3	empower you with the confidence you need to be a leader in your family and a changemaker in your
0:28.5	community. Together, we will wrestle with hard questions and use the answers to create the world we
0:35.0	want, a world that reflects our values of inclusion, compassion, and courage.
0:41.0	I'm your host, Jasmine Bradshaw, and I am so excited to be on this journey with you.
0:49.5	Hello, First Name Basis, fam. I am so glad you are here. We have a really interesting conversation
0:57.2	to have today. So I have heard from so many of you that now that you know what privilege is,
1:03.3	especially white privilege, you can spot it like so quickly. You know what it is, you know what it
1:09.4	looks like, but you're not quite sure how to respond.
1:13.2	Like you see it and then you think, okay, now what do I do? So this whole episode is going to be
1:20.5	about three instances of white privilege that I have seen in the last two weeks, week, two weeks?
1:26.6	I don't know. It's been really recent. And I'm going to
1:30.2	tell you exactly how you should respond if you are also a person who holds white privilege.
1:36.3	Now I have to tell you that I'm going into this conversation with the expectation that you believe
1:42.0	that privilege is real, that we have a responsibility to examine our privilege,
1:46.8	that we have a responsibility to redistribute our power, and use that privilege and power to
1:52.3	support marginalized communities. So if you feel like, oh, wait a minute, I'm not quite sure how I feel
1:59.3	about privilege. I don't really know. I need a better
2:01.2	understanding. I made an entire episode about that. It is season two, episode 14. It's called
2:07.0	What is Privilege and What Do I Do With It? And in that episode, I break down the very definition of
2:12.8	privilege and what it looks like in our lives. So if you feel like you're not quite able to spot it yet or you're not quite sure what it is
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