EP12: Beyond Black: Being A Universal Human w/ Eric Bigger
Let's Talk About It With Taylor Nolan
Wave Podcast Network
3.4 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2018
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Taylor invites The Bachelorette star Eric Bigger to share what the show taught him about race, his experiences growing up in Baltimore, and how he’s evolved as a universal human. The two discuss misconceptions of black males in America, and how to create an emphasis on the quality of the person rather than their race. Today's episode is brought to you by LifeSum, for a 30% discount on a premium subscription on this awesome wellness and fitness app visit lifesum.com/letstalk
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Let's Talk About It. I am your host Taylor Nolan and today I'm joined |
| 0:10.0 | by a special guest Eric Bigger. Hello, Eric. Hey Taylor, how you doing? I'm doing well. |
| 0:15.3 | How are you? I'm phenomenal feeling this, feeling great. Awesome. So some of you guys might remember |
| 0:21.2 | Eric from Rachel's season of the Vatch Lorette, but today we're here to just kind of talk about |
| 0:26.9 | being Black at America and talking about Black History Month. So thank you for joining me today. |
| 0:33.6 | Thanks for having me. Let's talk about it. Yeah, we're going to talk about all the things, |
| 0:40.0 | all the comfortable things, the more comfortable things. We're just really going to put it all out |
| 0:45.7 | there. So one of the reasons I, I mean when I watched you on Rachel's season, I feel like I could |
| 0:52.0 | somewhat relate to you because you spoke about like living in Baltimore and I was like, oh, |
| 0:55.7 | Baltimore, like I used to live there. So I'm hoping maybe you can give us a little bit of background |
| 1:01.3 | on what growing up in Baltimore was like. I mean, when I live there, we definitely saw like a big |
| 1:07.9 | racial divide. And I think in the last few years, that's become, you know, even more, |
| 1:14.1 | it's got more attention nationwide with like Freddie Gray and all that stuff. So what was it |
| 1:20.5 | like for you growing up? You know, growing up in Baltimore, I never witnessed the divide in the |
| 1:28.6 | world because it was predominantly Black, you know, environment, Baltimore city. Now what part of |
| 1:33.7 | Baltimore were you in? I was from West Baltimore. So I live like right off the North Avenue, you know, |
| 1:40.4 | area known as White Lock, White Lock City, you know, everybody has a neighborhood name. And it was |
| 1:46.2 | drug infested. It was crime. It was, you know, at crack addicts. It was all at the above. |
| 1:53.5 | So basically, I think in the community, we just had a lack of information to better the situation. |
| 1:59.4 | And I think growing up, a lot of people, less a lot of guys, you know, we even played sports. |
| 2:05.6 | I used to hold drugs. And when I really, you know, looking to it, I thought about it, you know, |
| 2:11.2 | years, I've been in LA for seven years now since 2010. And I was just trying to say, I don't |
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