Being A Black Man In America And Supporting Women's Rights (Roe v. Wade, #MeToo) with Martin Henson, Founder of BMen Foundation
Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration
Corinna Bellizzi
5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
With Roe v. Wade under imminent threat, it's imperative that we consider what its overturn would mean to marginalized communities and economically constrained people, and how this could even affect progress made with the Black Lives Matter #BLM movement. To have this discussion today, I'm joined by Martin Henson, founder of BMen Foundation. Martin has spent the last ten years advocating for Black lives, addressing the systemic issues that affect Black and marginalized groups through both conventional and unconventional avenues. Martin created BMEN foundation, an organization built to support black men, as an extension of his work.
00:00 Introduction
00:30 Roe v. Wade: Supreme Court's opinion leak and the threat of overturn
06:00 This is not "a women's issue", rather a women's issue that affects every body
07:43 Getting the BMen Foundation started in the midst of #metoo
11:00 Masculinity, consent and how men who have been sexually assaulted react
(Prior Episode Mentioned: A Safer Society: Ending Sexual Violence Through Survivors’ Stories With Tim Mousseau)
14:00 What makes "toxic masculinity" toxic? How do we define it?
17:31 Creating a safe, vulnerable space for people
18:40 What is it like to be Martin Hanson, a black man in America today?
21:30 Traveling for greater perspective into race and racism
24:45 Having "the talk" with your kids about how people perceive black people in America to ensure they don't get in trouble or shot by police because of the color of their skin
31:03 The future of BMen Foundation: Breaking down barriers through conversation and vulnerability
33:15 Martin's closing thoughts - supporting women and leaning in as we handle Roe v. Wade
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Care More Be Better, a podcast for people like you who care about the social impact of conscious companies and everyday heroes. |
| 0:10.0 | Hear inspiring stories from those who put people in planet before profit and personal gain. |
| 0:15.3 | You'll learn how you can make a difference, vote with your dollars, and get involved today. |
| 0:20.1 | Here's your host, Karina Belizzi. |
| 0:22.6 | Hello, fellow doogers and friends. |
| 0:25.6 | I'm your host, Karina Belizzi, an activist who is passionate about building a better, more sustainable, and truly regenerative future. |
| 0:34.6 | Every week, I invite you to care a little bit more so that together we can all be a little better. |
| 0:41.3 | Today we're going to connect on racial injustice, inequality, and racism. We're going to talk about Black Lives Matter as a movement and how this movement seeks to create a more equitable society. |
| 0:55.3 | But before I introduce my guest and really get started today, I want to talk for a moment |
| 1:00.1 | about what's presently happening in the Supreme Court. |
| 1:03.7 | This week an unprecedented event occurred. |
| 1:06.8 | A leaked draft majority opinion hit news media coast to coast that seems to indicate that |
| 1:12.1 | Roe v. Wade will be overturned. |
| 1:14.9 | The reason I bring this up today is that guess who is most impacted by lack of access to health |
| 1:19.9 | care, including safe abortion procedures? |
| 1:23.9 | Sadly, it is the economically constrained people of our society, and dominantly that's made |
| 1:29.0 | up of minorities. |
| 1:30.8 | So what happens when abortion is made illegal in any state, the incidents of illegal abortion |
| 1:37.4 | climbs? |
| 1:39.2 | In the Observerer this week, Word in Black, this is Wordin Black.com, sat down with Jeanette Robinson Flint, |
| 1:46.0 | who's the executive director for Black Women for Wellness. Jeanette gave voice to what many of us |
| 1:51.6 | are already thinking. She says, I am dismayed. I am angry about the ways that the Supreme Court is |
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