84: Ahmaud Arbery Is All of Us - Can I Live?

While Black

REVOLT

Self-improvement, Education

4.1 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2020

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

The lynching of Ahmaud Arbery is taking its mental toll on black america and specifically black men. On this episode you hear from 4 successful and driven black men speaking honestly about how they are doing today. They get candid about their mortality, their ability to trust this country, and what they would tell white america given complete access. We are in mental distress and while we are strong, capable, and intelligent we also need help so that TOGETHER we can correct the wrongs in this system....or perhaps replace the system itself. Please share this important episode and make sure to check on the black men in your life....We are not ok! Don't forget to get social with While Black IG: WHILE_BLACK; TWITTER @whileblackpc; FB @whileblackpodcast or email: whileblackpodcast@gmail.com Peace Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What is it you want to me to reconcile myself too?
0:03.0	I was born here almost 60 years ago.
0:06.0	I'm not going to live another 60 years.
0:08.0	You always told me it takes time.
0:10.0	It's taking my father's time, my mother's time, my uncle's time, my brothers and my sister's
0:16.2	time, my nieces and my nephew's time. How much time do you want for your progress?
0:21.6	I'm tired of like having a way for your progress.
0:30.4	I'm tired of like having to wake up every day and feeling like I have to fight just for my right to exist just to breathe.
0:38.9	I feel like I have a right to live. I'm at a point where, you know, my core beliefs have been shaken to where I am barely holding on. I'm holding on by a thread right now.
0:45.8	I'm super confused about how the world can love the product that we can create, yet hate us so much.
0:58.0	My value is that of heaven's cent, right? It's God-given.
1:00.0	This one hurts more because even in this season we're still despising hated and I don't
1:05.8	understand that. When I think about how I'm feeling as a black man in America right now, I just, all my hope is gone.
1:19.0	If I'm keeping the 100, like I'm comfortable with who I am what I want is for them to be
1:26.1	comfortable with who I am I think that's where that's what the problem is it's not
1:30.2	us not us not us not us not us not uh not uh not uh not uh... not uh... not uh... not uh... not uh... not
1:37.0	not uh... not uh... not uh... Welcome to Wild Black. A seriously opinionated podcast bringing you the real and
1:51.9	wall on anything happening while black.
1:55.0	If black culture's there, we're there.
1:58.0	If you're pissed or empowered, then let's talk about it.
2:02.0	Ride with us on this all black everything.
2:05.0	Everybody welcome back to Wild Black.
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