I don't know what most white people in this country feel,

but I can only include what they feel from the state of their institutions.

Now, this is the evidence.

You want me to make an act of faith, risking myself, my wife, my woman, my sister, my children on some idealism which you assure me

in America, which I have never seen. Welcome to Black History for White People, a podcast where we

educate, resource, and challenge white people about Black history. I'm Brad, and on today's show

are my co-host Katina and

Garan. Today's topic is Black Requiem. Our very own Katina wrote a song called Black Requiem

that you can stream or listen to anywhere right now. Katina walks us through how the song came

about, some of the meaning behind the lyrics, how it was working with her son, and her hopes

for people listening.

We hope you enjoy the discussion.

All right, so I'm excited to bring something new to our listeners.

Our listeners, most of them don't know how talented and incredible of a musician you are, Katina.

So I'm excited for them to just be surprised by your excellence as a musician and for us to get to play some little excerpts of a new song you have to kind of introduce this side project that you've been working on that we want to bring our listeners in on.

From the beginning of this podcast, you would tell me about your passion to create something along these lines of what you've pulled together here. You wanted to

create a song or a musical event where black people could be invited into lament and into grieving

just the constant barrage of black death that we witness now through the news and through

just because of the incidents of

everyone having cell phone cameras, all this violence against black people that has been there

all along but wasn't recorded. Now it's recorded and it's shown. And there's just a grieving

and a lament that needs to happen. I remember you talking about that for a long time and that

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