An Honest Conversation on Racism with Robert Fergusson

Align Podcast

Aaron Alexander

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Let's talk about Black Lives Matter.

Some people believe protesting and posting on social media is the most effective way to bring about change in our country, although I believe the most effective way is to become better educated on exactly what is happening, as well as have open dialog and honest conversations to help better understand.

In this episode of the Align Podcast, I'm joined by Robert Fergusson who shares his experience growing up as an African American with the racism and injustice in our country. He also shares his approach to supporting the movement and his best advice for how we can make an actual change.

I cannot thank Robert enough for providing me with a new perspective on the movement. I hope you enjoy the conversation and find it as beneficial as much as I did.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the line podcast. My name is Aaron Alexander for newcomers to this program. It's a place that we bring together the world's leading experts
0:08.5	to help you all with your mind, your body, movement, your life, and this is exactly what we have today, one of those experts.
0:16.9	My new friend, Robert Ferguson, and this conversation, I mean, his expertise is jigitsu, nutrition, I would say some degree of politics
0:28.7	because he's been quite involved in it.
0:31.4	But this conversation specifically focuses around what the hell is going on in the world with
0:37.2	these movements that are happening. Black Lives Matter and all the things, the protests and the riots and all the different layers of racial
0:45.8	inequality and prejudice and just inequality in general so that's what this is about
0:52.2	and I was really excited to get to
0:54.7	share this conversation because Robert is an African American man and so I was
1:01.2	excited to get to dig in and see what his experience has been growing up with that pigment of skin.
1:09.0	So we get into a lot with this.
1:12.0	So hopefully it is not, well it'll probably be sensitive to some people,
1:18.1	some of the topics discussed. And I, one of the things we got into after recording was the value in creating a safe space, which is an annoying term, but I think it's appropriate, for people to be able
1:37.2	to communicate the way that they feel.
1:39.8	And something that I have personally experienced in, I think like the new buzzword is cancel culture. People don't like your belief
1:47.0	systems if you're not supporting enough or not supporting the right thing or not just
1:52.3	you're silent since violence or you know whatever you there's so many ways for
1:57.1	people to attack each other devisively during this this time it's really interesting
2:02.3	and I think it's what that has the
2:05.2	potential to do is it has the potential to impede people from being able to
2:12.2	speak the way that they are actually feeling and instead feeling
2:17.0	because of fear of being cast out by the tribe.
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