Episode 2: Conversations on Race in 2024 w/ Latasha Morrison

The Carlos Whittaker Podcast

That Sounds Fun Network

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Today we remember Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.—we remember his dream, the progress for Civil Rights that he helped make possible, and we remember the tension he held between hope and reality. You may know him best for his “I have a dream” speech, but did you know he also said, “The dream had turned somewhat into a nightmare.”? My friend Latasha Morrison, bridge-builder and racial reconciler, is joining us to talk about how far we’ve come and how far we have yet to go— the hope and the nightmare we still see today. I believe this conversation is more important now that it was in 2020. Latasha helps us pull back the curtain on race in America over the last four years. You ready to jump in? We’ve got work to do. . . . . . Find Latasha here: https://latashamorrison.com/ Learn more about Be the Bridge here: https://bethebridge.com/podcast/ Buy Latasha’s book Be the Bridge: Pursuing God’s Heart for Racial Reconciliation here: https://amzn.to/3NXzBli . . . . . Purchase your copy of my new book, How to Human, HERE: https://bit.ly/HowtoHumanNotes Let's keep in touch! Sign up for my newsletter to be the first to hear ALL my updates: https://bit.ly/MasFamiliaNotes Interested in advertising with us? Reach out here. . . . . . BITE TOOTHPASTE: Head to trybite.com/HUMANHOPE to get 20% off your first order or use promo code HUMANHOPE. HIYA HEALTH: Receive 50% off your first order at hiyahealth.com/HUMANHOPE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	At Barclays, we're here for the land of football.
0:05.0	We're here for the Premier League.
0:08.0	And the Barclays Women's Super League.
0:11.0	We're here for the football charts for giving more girls a chance. We're
0:18.0	here for the grassroots and all the muddy boots. From schools to stadiums, we're here for it all.
0:27.6	Barclays, here for the land of football.
0:31.3	Preventing the federal government doing for the Negroes, preventing the society doing for the Negro,
0:37.0	that what you think had to be done?
0:39.0	No, I didn't envision that then. I must confess that that period was a great period of hope for me.
0:47.0	And I'm sure of many others all across the nation, many of the Negroes who had about lost hope.
0:55.0	Saw a solid decade of progress in the South.
1:00.0	And in 1954, which was, I mean, 64, 1963, nine years after the Supreme Court's decision to be in the March on Washington,
1:12.2	meant a great deal. It was a Washington, meant a great deal.
1:13.4	It was a high moment, a great watershed moment.
1:16.7	But I must confess that that dream that I had that day
1:21.0	has at many points turned into a nightmare. Now I'm not one to lose hope.
1:27.0	I keep on hoping. I still have faith in the future. But I've had to analyze many things over the last few years
1:35.8	and I would say over the last few months. I've gone through a lot of souls such in an agonizing
1:41.4	moments and I've come to see that we have such in an agonizing moments.
1:42.8	And I've come to see that we have many more difficult days ahead,
1:48.1	and some of the old optimism was a little superficial,
1:52.3	and now it must be tempered with a solid realism.
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