Austin Channing Brown: On the Advancement of Racial Justice

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Buddhism, Mental Health

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🗓️ 30 May 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Austin Channing Brown is a writer, speaker, and practitioner who helps schools, nonprofits, and religious organizations practice genuine inclusion. She is passionate about the advancement of racial justice and reconciliation and her words will most certainly move you to action. In her work, she shares her experiences as a black woman who "navigates whiteness on a regular basis". After listening to this interview and reading her book, your mind and heart will be broadened towards understanding and inclusion - regardless of where you are on that spectrum today.

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In This Interview, Austin Channing Brown and I Discuss...

Her book, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in A World Made for Whiteness
The importance and value of anger
How we can fight the monsters without becoming the monsters
That anger reveals something is wrong
White fragility - sadness and anger
Naming the things that can come in the way of a discussion, before the discussion happens
Realising racial bias
Transformation comes after a moment of realization
The idea of "whiteness being normal"
Books to read to gain an understanding of racial injustice
Disunity in Christ
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race
How to look for opportunities to talk with others about topics of racial injustice
Check out "Be the Bridge"
The white confessional being a shortcut to true reconciliation
Skipping the confessional story and moving straight to the action step you'll take next
What reconciliation means to her
Racial justice and reconciliation
Radical Reconciliation
How reconciliation should revolutionize the relationships we have with each other
The celebration of blackness that is throughout the book
Cultural misappropriation

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0:00.0	we can use anger to be creative and to build connections and to imagine a new way of being.
0:14.0	Welcome to the One You Feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of
0:19.2	the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think,
0:25.1	ring true, and yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward
0:31.3	negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have, instead of what we do,
0:38.1	we think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking,
0:43.6	our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:49.9	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction,
0:54.3	how they feed their good wolf.
1:10.3	Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Austin Channing Brown, a freelance writer and
1:15.8	speaker with a particular focus on black womanhood and faith. Her writing can be found in
1:20.8	relevant magazine, mutuality magazine, and other places around the web. She also wrote a column called
1:26.9	Wild Hope for Today's Christian Women, which is still accessible to readers. Passionate about
1:32.3	racial justice and reconciliation, Austin travels the country preaching and teaching about the ways
1:37.6	this work intersects with Christian faith. Her book is, I'm still here, Black Dignity in a World
1:43.7	Made for Whiteness. Hi Austin, welcome to the show. Thanks so much for having me.
1:48.8	I'm really excited to have you on. Your book is called I'm Still Here, Black Dignity in a World
1:55.2	Made for Whiteness. Yes. And I am looking forward to jumping in and I've got lots of things to ask
2:02.2	you and talk about. But let's start like we normally do with the parable. There's a grandmother
2:07.3	who's talking with her granddaughter and she says, in life there are two wolves inside of us that
2:12.0	are always at battle. One is a good wolf, which represents things like kindness and bravery and love.
2:18.4	And the other is a bad wolf, which represents things like greed and hatred and fear.
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