Deo Runs: Equality Matters to Everybody - R4R 301
The Running for Real Podcast
Tina Muir
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2022
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
In 1955, Rosa Parks’ arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama, led to a boycott of the city’s public transportation system. 381 days later, Montgomery’s buses were desegregated. Deo Kato used that historic number as the framework for Running for Justice, which he describes as “active activism.” He set a goal of running at least 10k per day for 381 days to raise awareness and campaign against racism. He achieved that last year, but kept going, and is still running for justice, peace, and equality.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Running for Real, a global community with a shared love and curiosity for running. |
| 0:14.1 | Together, we reconnect with the reasons why we love to run and discover ways it helps |
| 0:21.6 | us become better people, whether it's the quiet moments of a morning run while the |
| 0:26.1 | rest of the world still sleeps, or befriending the strangers next to you at the |
| 0:29.8 | start line of a race. We are here to connect with others who see running as the common thread |
| 0:35.1 | that we've so lives together. Come join me, Tina Muir, as I talk with people from all walks of life |
| 0:41.0 | united by a love of running. |
| 0:47.4 | Hello my friends, welcome to episode 300 and one of the Running for Real podcasts. |
| 0:52.4 | Thank you for joining me today. What did you think of episode 300? |
| 0:57.4 | I have wanted to interview Reshma for such a long time, so I was very excited to have |
| 1:04.3 | that opportunity. If you did not get the chance to listen to that episode 300 with Reshma, |
| 1:10.1 | Saljani, you should definitely go listen to that really, really powerful one and |
| 1:15.4 | well that was such a gift to have that. I was so excited. |
| 1:18.5 | Now today I am excited to bring you someone else. Dio Kato is on the show today. Dio is a runner |
| 1:26.1 | who has been doing a form of using running as a form of activism for the last few years |
| 1:32.3 | and he's really started to create a movement that you're going to hear about how that has continued |
| 1:36.9 | beyond his initial goal, his initial plan and it's just a really cool concept what he is doing |
| 1:46.1 | why he feels like he is doing this and we get pretty deep today into some of the elements of |
| 1:51.4 | racism around the world that I haven't actually covered with a guest in this way before and I think |
| 1:58.5 | Dio explains some of this in a way that I think will be very impactful, particularly if you are |
| 2:06.3 | someone who has been feeling a bit unsure of what to do within yourself or how to change things, |
| 2:12.2 | I really think this will help and part of growing with empathy is that we don't try and |
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