Dealing With Trolls

Pass The Mic

The Witness

Christianity, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Tyler, Jemar, and Ally share their experiences with trolls both online and in person. Ally Henny is a writer, speaker, advocate-minister, and vice president of The Witness: A Black Christian Collective, an organization committed to encouraging, engaging, and empowering Black Christians toward liberation from racism. She completed her MDiv from Fuller Seminary with an emphasis in race, cultural identity, and reconciliation, and she hopes to lead a church someday. Ally has been leading conversations about race on her social media and blog, The Armchair Commentary, since 2014, and her posts reach millions each month. She is a proud Chicago Southsider. Support this podcast at patreon.com/PassTheMic Producer Note: the audio may sound a bit off this week as we are adjusting to a new recording location with some new equipment. Please give us grace as we grow into this new phase of Pass The Mic. Thanks! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm your host Tyler Burns. You can follow me on Twitter and Instagram at BurnsClam. Please
0:21.9	follow at your own risk. And joining me today, I got double trouble on the podcast with my
0:28.1	guest today. I'm so excited to my right. We have the very extensive bio, the man, the myth,
0:34.1	the legend, the two-time bestselling author, Mr. Blue Check, Verify himself. The professor, Dr.
0:39.2	Jamar Tisby, follow him at JamarTisby.substag.com was going on. Got it all very good. You got a lot to
0:45.6	hold together. And then on my left, we have once again one of my favorite people, the vice president
0:51.6	of the witness, the author of the forthcoming book. I won't shut up finding your voice with the
0:57.2	world tries to silence you. The one, the only Ali. Henny. Ali was going on. How you doing? I'm doing
1:03.0	all right. I'm doing all right. Glad to be here. Listen, I know people do New Year's resolutions.
1:06.8	Here's my New Year's resolution in 2023. I ain't going back and forth with y'all.
1:10.8	I gotta be honest. Okay, not with y'all. Not with y'all. Not with y'all. I'm talking about y'all.
1:17.6	You know y'all. Y'all. Y'all that shows up in your comments section. Y'all to be talking to you
1:22.4	greasing your DMs. Y'all to be pulling you to the side when they see you in the grocery store. Y'all
1:27.8	to be hitting you up in between sets in your gym. I'm not going back and forth with y'all. Listen,
1:32.4	I know that there are some people, they just have this grace or they've made a decision. I don't
1:36.9	really know why you made this decision, but they have this thing that they feel like they need to go
1:40.8	back and forth for everybody who disagrees with them. Share their comments. I'm like, I don't know if I
1:46.2	that's do you do your boo boo. I'm just saying for me personally. I don't think I'm going to do
1:52.1	that. Am I alone in that? I kind of feel like I'm over it. You know some people really do have
1:58.1	like the ministry of poke dreams. They really do. And that is not my ministry. My ministry is the
2:05.3	ministry of blocking. My ministry is the ministry of putting people on mute and boring. The mute,
2:12.4	the mute. That's the mute ministry. That's that's my ministry. I usually block people because
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