Bonus Episode - Cultural Views: A Conversation on if American has Ever Been a Racist Country

Be the Bridge Podcast with Latasha Morrison

Be the Bridge

Education

4.9 • 774 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Has America ever been a racist country? Jefferson Jones, the BTB Youth & University Manager, and Elizabeth Behrens, a BTB Educator and the Learning & Content Developer, sit down to discuss this question and the conversations happening around it. They talk about the importance of understanding narratives, origin stories, and different types of conflicts. They also encourage the community to not be driven by outrage but be fueled by things that are sustainable.

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0:00.0	Well, hello everybody. I'm Jefferson Jones, the youth and university program manager at Be the Bridge.
0:06.8	And I have one of my coworkers, one of my friends, one of my sisters in the Lord, Elizabeth Barron's, and she is coming to help us have a conversation.
0:19.5	She is one of the, if not the key educator and content developer at Be the Bridge.
0:27.2	And it has been a delight to listen to her, learn from her, and just actually, you know, do some training alongside her when we were out in, hey.
0:38.5	Kansas, rural Kansas, Mia Jefferson, take it on, take it out.
0:43.6	It's fun.
0:44.1	That was a lot of fun.
0:45.1	Yeah, it was a lot of fun.
0:46.5	That food was good.
0:47.3	Anyway.
0:48.8	And so we're here to talk about this question.
0:53.7	Has America ever been a racist country?
1:00.2	And we're going to navigate this conversation, you know, as bridge builders, as those who are
1:07.4	racial reconcilers, who look to do things in a way that honor God, that show the character of God, and really show the heart of God.
1:17.4	That's what Be the Bridge is all about.
1:19.3	How do we navigate this in this political society that we live in, a racialized society and so many other things?
1:27.1	And so we want to get into that.
1:29.6	With that being said, Elizabeth, you know, I was talking with you recently about a clip
1:40.2	from one of the politicians who's running.
1:45.0	And for me, it isn't so much about a person.
1:51.0	It is about the content of what's being said, the ideology,
1:57.0	the culture of what's being said, this continual desire to suppress or get rid of cognitive
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