#419: Special Episode: Race + Running
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Sarah and Dimity have a candid conversation with two African-American mother runners, Brandi Dockett and Jennnifer Baskerville-Burrows, about being a black runner in America today. In this special ad-free episode, the guests talk about:
- -when they first realized how white the sport of running is;
- -the necessity of picking “safe” routes and times of day to run;
- -the support and camaraderie the group Black Girls Run! provides them;
- -how a “raggedy” conversation is better than no conversation at all.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Bowen Shay. |
| 0:13.0 | And this is Dimmity McDowell. |
| 0:15.0 | Yes, and this is a special episode of Another Mother Runner. |
| 0:18.0 | We are presenting it without any commercial interruptions. |
| 0:21.0 | Gosh, I feel like a BBC documentary or something right? |
| 0:23.7 | Something yes yes so well we all know life has been hard for the past few months |
| 0:28.7 | the overwhelming news was about the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting economic upheaval, but sadly |
| 0:34.8 | there was also glaring senseless stories of the killings of unarmed black people including |
| 0:38.6 | Brianna Taylor, Amad Arbury, and George Floyd. Long simmering racial and social injustice boiled over and out onto |
| 0:45.8 | American streets. |
| 0:48.2 | We are shocked and heartbroken and we are also at a loss for what we, middle white oh let me start again sorry to middle |
| 0:55.6 | white age women we of course we were shocked and heartbroken, |
| 1:02.5 | and were at a loss for what we, Sarah and I, |
| 1:05.2 | two middle-aged white women of privilege, |
| 1:07.7 | could do or add to the conversation. |
| 1:10.1 | We want to be sensitive, and we want to help and not hurt. Fairly quickly as many people did we realized our role in this conversation is to listen. |
| 1:18.0 | So largely that's what we're going to do in this episode and we'll ask a couple questions too. |
| 1:22.0 | A few yes. Our guests today are |
| 1:25.2 | African-American mother runners, Brandy Dockett, and Jennifer Baskerville Burrows. |
| 1:29.9 | Given that we are another mother runner, we want to narrow the focus of the conversation a bit |
| 1:33.8 | and ask these friends to help us all understand |
| 1:36.0 | what it feels like to be a black person |
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