Black Lives Matter

Sickboy

CBC

Society & Culture

4.8 • 524 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2020

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

This week we throwback to two conversations we've had in past episodes about racial inequities within the Canadian healthcare system due to systematic and institutionalized racism. First, we hear from Verena Rizg, a nurse practitioner, about what she's learned about how race affects both giving and receiving care in her time having worked in the prison system. Then we dive into the world of Social illness Dr. Ingrid Waldron. Dr. Waldron is the author of the book, There's Something in the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities. The book was also the inspiration for the Netflix Documentary by the same name. It examines the legacy of environmental racism and its health impacts in Indigenous and Black communities in Canada, using Nova Scotia as a case study. For resources, we've been taking in throughout the week on how to be a better ally go head to our linktree - https://linktr.ee/sickboypodcast

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0:00.0	It's becoming pretty clear that U.S. President Donald Trump is ripping up the political
0:05.3	playbook.
0:05.8	And when it comes to what it all means for Canada, well, as they say, it's complicated.
0:09.8	But our podcast, two blocks from the White House, is a way to make sense of it all.
0:13.8	Join me, Willie Lowry, and senior Washington correspondents, Paul Hunter and Katie Simpson
0:18.6	every week as we break down the headlines from Capitol Hill with a Canadian spin.
0:24.2	Find and follow two blocks from the White House on your favorite podcast app, including YouTube.
0:30.3	This is a CBC podcast.
0:45.6	Oh, boy. Hi everyone. Um, this is literally like my 10th time trying to record this intro because I, I just, I don't know what to say. I'm feeling like it's been a really long week.
0:56.8	It's been a long week of intent, active listening.
1:01.3	It's been a long week of of deep-seated fucking rage.
1:09.8	It's been a long week of, um, a long week of guilt, a long week of self-reflection.
1:21.8	And kids, this is just the beginning. This is, this is nothing.
1:28.8	And if I'm, if I'm fucking sitting here saying that, that, that I feel like it's been a long week,
1:35.5	how the fuck do you think it feels to be a black person in America right now?
1:42.1	How the fuck do you think it feels to be a black person, an indigenous person,
1:46.3	a person of color right now in Canada? It's fucking crazy, man. It's absolutely crazy. It's crazy to me
1:56.9	that it, that it's taken this long for me to feel like like like uh like like like i like
2:03.8	like i like i'm waking up like that it that's where that's where the that's where the that's
2:10.8	where the guilt is coming from you know i i have been thinking a lot this week about how why
2:15.4	has it taken this much pain this much hurt this much um corruption
2:22.2	for me to finally like fucking step up and and try to use me to use my white privilege to to do better.
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