Ep 94: I saw this part of myself. And it was ugly.

And She Rises…

Amanda Frances

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4.8 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

I am going to tell you a story. It's not a pretty story or a story I am proud of, but I think sharing it may serve as a mirror for you.

It may facilitate a powerful shift in you. It may get you to think, evaluate, and choose to create from a place you have not yet.

I hope it allows more love, honesty and fairness to come through you and out of you in your daily experience.

This is a story about how I discovered my unconscious racial bias, learned more about my privilege, prejudice, and bias and about the racism that lives in America.

Today, I consider to be an advocate, ally, and anti-racist.

I pray this serves you.

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0:00.0	It is Amanda from AmandaFrancys.com.
0:02.3	Today I'm going to tell you about when I learned
0:05.3	that I had unconscious racial bias.
0:09.1	It's not a pretty story, it's not a great story.
0:12.1	I mean, it's a good story, but it's not a story I'm proud of.
0:14.9	But I think it will help a lot of people.
0:17.5	I told it to a few friends the other day,
0:19.4	just in a conversation and they
0:21.3	were like, damn, it makes you think. And I was like, okay. If I think can help people, then
0:27.4	I'll out myself and tell the story. Okay, so I was in grad school. I was living in Dallas. I was pulling into a nice shopping center, Highland Park Village. This was long before I could afford to shop
0:55.0	at Highland Park Village, but I would go get Starbucks.
0:59.1	I would get a vinty cup of water
1:01.5	from Starbucks and work on my business.
1:04.3	So one day I'm pulling in a Starbucks,
1:06.6	and there's a black man and a nice car in front of me. And he is an older gentleman, like kind of taking his time, pulling out.
1:15.6	It's a pretty tight parking spot.
1:17.6	So he's taking his time, like pulling out, getting situations so he can pull forward and go past me.
1:22.6	And I'm irritated, right?
1:23.6	Like I'm super irritated because like I want to do whatever I'm doing.
1:25.6	It's a little bit high.
1:26.6	I'm pretty irritated because like I want to do whatever I'm doing. It's a little bit high. I'm pretty fast-paced. So I'm like, what is this guy doing? Why is he going so slow? This is so annoying. Come on, come on, come on, come on, guy. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go, dude. Hurry it up. And then he turns the light from the sun setting or the sun going down hits his face and I see that it's a white guy.
1:47.0	And in an instant, before I realize it's a white man, I find myself thinking and feeling,
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