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Brown Ambition

Ep 219 - Black Lives Matter. Periodt.

Brown Ambition

iHeartPodcasts

Careers, Education, Self-improvement, Investing, Business

4.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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The world is a lot right now. Let's talk about it. Resources: The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. - naacpldf.org Support a Black business: Blacklivesmatter.com/shop Color of Change - https://colorofchange.org/ 16 Orgs that are bailing out protestors: https://variety.com/2020/biz/news/black-lives-matter-bail-protestors-donate-charities-1234622677/ RESEARCH NONPROFITS BEFORE DONATING HERE: https://www.charitynavigator.org/ Links to anti-racist resources to send your white friends: 1. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BRlF2_zhNe86SGgHa6-VlBO-QgirITwCTugSfKie5Fs/preview?pru=AAABcnXnOhM*YNlgMgo4D07mNyOtlVctmg 2. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hpub-jkm9cLzJWqZSsETqbE6tZ13Q0UbQz--vQ2avEc/edit?usp=sharing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, hey, you know, forget all that. Let's get to talking because girl, it's about to get

0:20.5

real. It's how you do a manja. No time for intros. How are you? Well, thank you for asking

0:25.8

me. I'm hanging in there. I'm hanging in there. I am. I all I can say is thank God for my

0:34.2

child who was the best reprieve I could have every couple hours just playing with him, but

0:40.2

um, is it wrong to feel really excited? I think I've gone through my deep funk and I am, I am on

0:49.0

the other side and feeling a bit optimistic. Dare I say the word optimistic. I feel like

0:54.4

the response to what's happened. First of all, a lot has happened to our last show. That

0:59.4

feels like we stopped recording in the most exciting news story with the Central Park

1:03.5

Karen and Amy Cooper's probably like, thank God. Which is so terrible because don't forget

1:09.1

about her because she's a hot mess and deserves all the, you know, whatever she gets. Um, but

1:14.7

then this news broke and doesn't it feel like in the last week, this, I don't think this

1:19.5

would have happened. If it hadn't been for the COVID pandemic, I don't think people would

1:24.2

have been as connected to virtual world like to social media and sitting around their houses

1:30.4

with nothing better to do. And thank God in a way for this virus. I mean, it's so complicated.

1:37.8

Like I'm kind of grateful that people have had all this free time to dig in and speak out

1:42.5

and get galvanized around this, this, this, this social injustice and, and this moment in

1:47.9

our history. But at the same time, I'm, so I'm optimistic, but I'm also scared. I'm scared

1:53.9

for people out there protesting. I don't want there to be another wave of coronavirus.

1:58.5

I am dealing with my own internal demons. I don't know if you guys know, but have my family

2:03.5

is white. And I don't talk to very many of them anymore. And I've been distancing myself

2:08.7

for years now. And I realize am I am, am I complicit by distancing myself, by not engaging

2:15.1

with them when I have a seat at their table, potentially. And I could be engaging with

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