Episode #36 - Educate

The Voices In Our Heads w/ Krystyna Hutchinson

Krystyna Hutchinson

Comedy

4.8 • 964 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Today’s episode is about educating yourself and making the world a more compassionate place to live. Here are the resources mentioned in today’s episode: FOLLOW | @DanaVivianWhite on Twitter “Being Black is not exhausting at all. White people are exhausting. That's what they do, exhaust others, exhaust resources, exhaust themselves in their obsession with dominance. Whiteness is exhaustion.” VIDEO | Watch Toni Morrison Explain the “Profound Neurosis” of Racism https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/08/watch-toni-morrison-explain-the-profound-neurosis-of-racism/ ARTICLE | A VERY ABBREVIATED HISTORY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF BLACK NEIGHBORHOODS https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a32719786/george-floyd-protests-riots-black-comminity-destruction-history/ ARTICLE | Read the FBI letter sent to Dr. Martin Luther King https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/magazine/what-an-uncensored-letter-to-mlk-reveals.html POLITICAL DONATION | Support Amy McGrath running for the Kentucky Senate seat against Mitch McConnell www.AmyMcGrath.com POLITICAL DONATION | Support Jaime Harrison running for the South Carolina senate seat against Lindsay Graham www.JamieHarrison.com DONATE | THURGOOD MARSHALL COLLEGE FUND https://www.tmcf.org DONATE | SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER https://www.splcenter.org DONATE | BLACK VISIONS COLLECTIVE https://www.blackvisionsmn.org GOFUNDME CAMPAIGN | David McAtee, a longtime businessman and pillar of the Louisville community was fatally shot by law enforcement officers while protesting police violence. McAtee, who owned a BBQ business, regularly fed officers in his community for free. They left his body on the street for 12 hours. He was 53 years old. Donate to his family, funeral expenses and legal fees: https://www.gofundme.com/f/justicefordavidmcatee END SONG | God’s Whisper by Raury https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh1XRH4HrOY EMAIL ME [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Some days are terrible. You wish that you were dead and some days are magical like
0:06.8	great banana bread. Someday we'll be friends with the voices in our heads.
0:14.0	The voices in our heads.
0:18.0	Hi everyone,
0:20.0	welcome to the voices in our heads. My name is Christina Marie Hutchinson. I hope
0:26.2	you're well and safe and okay. This is a very important time in the history of the United States of America and it's very
0:39.4	whoa it's a time there's so many things that I want to talk about and raise awareness over the remaining years that I have left on this earth, but right now and for the foreseeable future, we need to put racism against black people at the
0:55.1	top of the list and police brutality and talk about different ways that we can police in America or defund the police in America.
1:07.3	Just let that idea sit before you email me and be like,
1:10.8	what is gonna say? shut the fuck up,
1:13.2	just let it sit.
1:14.7	I'll give you some resources to ponder.
1:17.6	Kevin's looking like he's gonna shit on the floor.
1:19.8	Kevin don't shit on the floor.
1:21.1	You were just outside. I know we have an opportunity.
1:29.6	Everybody listening right now. We have an opportunity to end the disgusting legacy of
1:37.2	white supremacy that the country was built on in the first place. We have the opportunity to end the legacy of hatred, of racism, of self-hate, and I know that the odds of all of those things fully going away are very slim but I choose to be
1:55.2	optimistic and I have the luxury to be choose to be optimistic. So hopefully my optimistic words will resonate, help, I don't know, whatever,
2:09.1	whatever they do. Corinne and I were marching this past weekend.
2:16.0	On Saturday we marched together and on Sunday I went down to Union Square because it was really important for me to be
2:25.2	there firsthand because this is a tale as old as time but the news shapes
2:32.4	narratives the news wants you to be afraid
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