EP133: Being Biracial PT1: Mixed in America
Let's Talk About It With Taylor Nolan
Wave Podcast Network
3.4 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
This is the first of a four part mini series about being biracial. In this segment Taylor and her co-host, former Bachelorette contestant Dustin Kendrick, talk with Meagan Kimberly Smith and Jazmine Jarvis, founders and creators of Mixed in America. They share why they created Mixed in America, a space that empowers the Mixed community and heals the Mixed identity. They discuss what ‘colorism’ is and how pain, trauma, and privilege have contributed to the Mixed race experience.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Let's Talk About It. This is your host Taylor and today's episode |
| 0:10.2 | starts off a very, very exciting, exciting, super, super exciting series and I'm very, |
| 0:18.2 | very excited to introduce you all to my co-host for this little mini series, Dustin. |
| 0:24.6 | What's up? |
| 0:27.4 | So Dustin is going to be joining me for this little series on Being By Racial and I'm |
| 0:34.0 | really, really excited to have you on board to help co-host and one of the main reasons |
| 0:40.6 | that I'm excited about this. I mean, first, not many people from Bachelor in General have |
| 0:48.5 | spoken out or talked about their racial identity and I know that that wasn't necessarily |
| 0:54.0 | a common or normal thing for you to do publicly but recently with the Black Lives Matter |
| 0:59.9 | movement and the revolution happening, you have become more outspoken as one of the |
| 1:05.9 | few biracial men in the franchise. |
| 1:10.1 | Yeah, absolutely. I just feel like when you have to, it's just a calling inside you |
| 1:15.9 | that you have to stand up and say what's right and say a little bit about yourself. |
| 1:20.5 | That little video I did not, I didn't mean to get all emotional but it's like just everything |
| 1:25.6 | compressed for so many years just all of a sudden came up and it was emotional. |
| 1:30.2 | Yeah, yeah. It was good. |
| 1:33.2 | It was good. |
| 1:34.2 | Look at thank you for inviting me here. This is like so therapeutic and I'm really excited. |
| 1:38.5 | So thank you for having me co-host with you. |
| 1:40.6 | Yeah, so of course. Yeah, no, the video, I mean, it was so touching and like your vulnerability |
| 1:47.6 | was very courageous and very appreciated and I think very healing probably for a lot |
| 1:54.9 | of people to watch and it seemed also to be a bit healing for you as well. |
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