5.12: Anti-Racism: Where Do I Start?
First Name Basis Podcast
Jasmine Bradshaw
5 • 629 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
This episode answers one of the most common questions I receive: Where do I start? Press play if you’re taking your first step on your anti-racist journey or if you’ve been at it for a while and want to bring the people you love along with you. In this episode I share 3 episodes from the First Name Basis archives that will help jumpstart your anti-racist journey.
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Articles, Studies & Podcasts Referenced in the Episode
First Name Basis Podcast, Season 3, Episode 9: “Racism 101”
First Name Basis Podcast, Season 2, Episode 14: “What is Privilege and What Do I Do With It?”
First Name Basis Podcast, Season 4, Episode 4: “Oh No! My Child Said Something Racist”
First Name Basis Podcast, Season 3, Episode 29: “Critical Race Theory in Schools”
Our Race Talk Roadmap is the tool you need to begin conversations about race and racism with your children! We have a list of three tips for parents of older children and a list of three tips for parents of younger children. Visit firstnamebasis.org/racetalk to get the Race Talk Roadmap sent straight to your inbox.
Song Credit: “Sleeper” by Steve Adams” and “Dive Down” by VYEN
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the First Name Basis podcast, Season 5, Episode 12. |
| 0:05.6 | Anti-racism. Where do I start? |
| 0:14.4 | Teaching our children to be inclusive and anti-racist starts with us within the sacred walls of our home. |
| 0:22.7 | First name basis is designed to empower you with the confidence you need to be a leader in |
| 0:27.5 | your family and a changemaker in your community. |
| 0:30.7 | Together, we will wrestle with hard questions and use the answers to create the world we |
| 0:36.1 | want, a world that reflects our values of inclusion, |
| 0:39.9 | compassion, and courage. I'm your host, Jasmine Bradshaw, and I am so excited to be on this journey |
| 0:47.5 | with you. Hello, First NameBasas fam. I am so glad you are here. This week, we are actually on spring break. |
| 0:58.3 | So I'm going to be taking some time with my family to relax with my kiddos, but I still wanted to share |
| 1:05.2 | some thoughts and ideas with you about this anti-racist journey that we are all on together. So today we're going to be |
| 1:13.0 | talking about where to start when you're really just getting into anti-racism. And I know that a |
| 1:19.3 | lot of you are probably thinking, oh my goodness, Jasmine, we've been doing this for years together now |
| 1:24.4 | and wondering why I would be making this episode. Well, I've heard from so many of you |
| 1:30.7 | who have been doing this for a while that you have friends or family members who really are just |
| 1:37.2 | starting out and you want to point them in the right direction. Or sometimes I'll get people who |
| 1:42.5 | find me on Instagram and they'll send me a message that says, |
| 1:46.1 | where do I start? Like we've done so much and had so many episodes that at this point they're |
| 1:52.1 | feeling a little bit overwhelmed about where to get started. So I wanted to have a place where I could |
| 1:57.0 | just say, start here. Or if you have someone in your life that you know, you can just |
| 2:01.4 | send this episode off to them and say, start here, start now, start today. So anti-racism, |
| 2:07.0 | where do I start? We're going to be going over a few of my favorite episodes that can get you |
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