A Conversation on Holding the Tensions of Inauguration Day and MLK Day 2025 (part 1)
Be the Bridge Podcast with Latasha Morrison
Be the Bridge
4.9 • 774 Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In this conversation, Latasha Morrison, Jefferson Jones, and Sarah Connatser invite the Be the Bridge community to acknowledge their feelings and find ways to move onward together. They discuss their emotions around Inauguration Day and the complexities of this cultural moment. They talk about the ways different people can engage in this work in a healthy way. You'll be reminded that bridge building is a lifestyle that requires innovation and collaboration across generations.
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Host & Executive Producer - Latasha Morrison
Producer - Sarah Connatser
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Be the Bridge podcast. Be The Bridge exists to empower people and culture toward racial healing, equity, and reconciliation. |
| 0:12.8 | Latasha Morrison founded Be The Bridge in 2016 to foster needed dialogue and brave spaces and to give people the tools to pursue racial justice. |
| 0:22.8 | We provide resources and community to do just that. |
| 0:26.0 | And this podcast is one of those resources. |
| 0:28.6 | You'll hear interviews hosted by Latasha and our team, conversations about current events, and encouragement for your racial literacy journey. |
| 0:37.0 | Thank you for listening, subscribing, and engaging in this important work. |
| 0:42.9 | Well, hello, be the bridge community. |
| 0:47.9 | As we always say, be the bridgers. |
| 0:50.9 | So we are so grateful for you being here today. |
| 0:56.6 | And I have two of my friends with me, |
| 1:02.0 | Jefferson, Jones, and Sarah. They are here. And we're going to have a little conversation. Maybe some of the things that you're thinking, maybe some of the things that your community, |
| 1:07.7 | your B the Bridge Group, your church group, people you work with some of these |
| 1:11.4 | conversations. And I just want to remind people that we've curated the B-the-Bridge space to be an |
| 1:18.7 | outlet, to be a courageous space, to be a brave space for those who are navigating these |
| 1:26.1 | treacherous waters of racial injustice. And so that is what we do. We help |
| 1:31.8 | people to expand and improve their racial literacy to understand the historical context that is very |
| 1:39.5 | important to this conversation and to this work. And we're going to continue to do that. |
| 1:44.8 | We're going to continue to do that for you. |
| 1:47.4 | And so I know today may be a difficult day for you, for others, and maybe it's a |
| 1:55.5 | siding day for others, you know? |
| 1:58.0 | And I know there's a tension that we hold in that and understanding, but this |
| 2:02.2 | work that we do is very political, okay? And so policy impacts it because policy is what got us here |
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