7.12: Real Quick: Black Voting Power

First Name Basis Podcast

Jasmine Bradshaw

How To, Parenting, Education, Kids & Family

5 • 629 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

If you’ve been around a while, you’ve heard me say it hundreds of times: Race is a social construct.

Race was created and has always been manipulated to make sure that the people in the dominant culture — in the U.S., that means people who are white, middle class, Christian, male and cisgender — can maintain power.

History is full of examples of this, but we don’t need to only look to the past to see it happening — it happens all the time, right now, in our own communities, and one current example is the fight to restrict Black voting power.

I’m sharing my thoughts about this in today’s episode, “Real Quick: Black Voting Power,” which is the second episode in our new Real Quick series!

You know when you’re talking to someone and the conversation is about to wrap up but there’s one more thing you want to say before you part ways so you say, “Real quick, ____”? There are lots of things I want to say or wish I could add that don’t quite fit in an episode or qualify as a full episode on their own, so this Real Quick series is my way of sharing those thoughts with you.

Whenever we have a Real Quick episode, you can plan on getting two mini-episodes that week. If you missed our first Real Quick episode that was released on Tuesday, don’t forget to also check it out!

Get your Voting Action Plan

Whether it’s for a primary election or a general election, if you‘re voting for your local school board or president of the United States, being an informed voter is crucial — and takes more effort than just skimming headlines or reading one-off articles on social media.

We’re here to help! Head over to firstnamebasis.org/vote to have the First Name Basis Voting Action Plan sent straight to your inbox!

Articles, Studies & Podcasts Referenced In The Episode

First Name Basis Podcast, Season 2, Episode 28: “How to Become an Informed Voter”

First Name Basis Podcast, Season 7, Episode 11: “Real Quick: Politicians Need Experience”

First Name Basis Podcast, Season 6, Episode 1:”Racism is Built on a Big Fat Lie Pt. 1: Blood Quantum and the One Drop Rule”

First Name Basis Podcast, Season 2, Episode 14: “What is Privilege And What Do I Do About It?”

“Who counts as Black in voting maps? Some GOP state officials want that narrowed,” by Hansi Lo Wang, NPR

Song Credit: “Sleeper” by Steve Adams” and “Dive Down” by VYEN

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0:00.0	You're listening to the First Name Basis podcast, Season 7, Episode 12. Real quick, Black voting power.
0:14.0	Teaching our children to be inclusive and anti-racist starts with us within the sacred walls of our home. First
0:22.2	name basis is designed to empower you with the confidence you need to be a leader in your
0:27.0	family and a change maker in your community. Together, we will wrestle with hard questions and use the
0:33.3	answers to create the world we want, a world that reflects our values of inclusion,
0:39.3	compassion, and courage. I'm your host, Jasmine Bradshaw, and I am so excited to be on this
0:46.6	journey with you. Hello, First Name Basis, fam. I am so glad you are here. And welcome back to our real quick series so if you didn't
0:57.4	hear our episode on tuesday we're starting a new series called real quick and i'll just do these every once in a while
1:02.2	but sometimes i just have thoughts that i really want to share with you that aren't enough to make like a full-fledged
1:07.5	weekly episode and so i'm doing too many episodes in one week. So on Tuesday, we
1:12.7	released an episode called Real Quick, Politicians Need Experience. So if you haven't listened to that
1:17.9	one, after you're done with this, go back and listen to that because, I mean, I just share
1:21.8	my real thoughts and feelings about why. I don't think that celebrities should go into the
1:27.1	presidency without any other experience in
1:29.9	government. And since we're right in the middle of the midterms, I wanted to share with you something
1:34.6	that I've been learning recently about black voting power. So if you remember back at the very
1:40.4	beginning of season six, I made an episode called Racism is Built on a Big Fat Lie,
1:45.4	Blood Quantum, and the One Drop Rule. It was probably one of my favorite episodes I've ever made
1:50.9	because it was just one of those times when I feel like I put together these mind-blowing
1:55.5	facts that helped me get a better sense of what's really going on in the system in our country.
2:02.7	And I'll remind you more of the details of that episode a little bit later.
2:06.8	But basically, race has always been manipulated to make sure that the people who were and are
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