Episode 5: Jeffery Robinson

Into the Mix

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Documentary, Society & Culture

4.3 • 537 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Into the Mix, Ashley C. Ford talks to Jeffery Robinson, who has spent the last decade trying to correct the history books. Jeffery is a criminal defense lawyer and founder of the Who We Are Project, an effort that aims to uncover the hidden history of America’s anti-Black racism, the deep roots of white supremacy in our country, and how this impacts so many aspects of our society today—from book banning in schools, to housing segregation, to who is allowed to enter the highest halls of our government. If you think you know your country’s history, think again — Jeffery wants you to know more about this country’s past, so we can better decide where we want to go from here.

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0:00.0	I'm Ashley C. Ford, and this is Into the Mix, a Ben and Jerry's podcast about joy and justice, produced with Vox Creative.
0:12.4	Let's get into it.
0:19.5	This is a critical time in American history. In my view, it is our last best chance to get this right.
0:29.9	So if you're looking for hope that this time it's going to be different, hope doesn't cause action.
0:40.4	Action causes hope.
0:44.1	I'm Jeff Robinson, and I am the traveling around the country talking to people.
1:05.0	He's been reading and researching and consulting experts of American history, all part of a project with some pretty
1:13.3	lofty goals. He's showing us how the legacy of slavery impacts every aspect of our society.
1:21.7	Jeffrey's working to correct the history books, to fill in the gaps that those books
1:27.1	either gloss over or completely
1:29.5	leave out regarding something called the Black Codes.
1:34.6	Laws, both written and unwritten, that built the foundation of this country.
1:40.6	And there's so much documentation and history that America as a country seems to prefer to hop.
1:48.1	But Jeffrey thinks this, right now, is a critical point to make a change.
1:54.3	And if we have the courage, there is an opportunity not only to define our future, but to change it.
2:05.6	I talk about several tipping points in American history,
2:11.6	and we have been at these tipping points before.
2:15.6	The difference this time, I believe, is where we are in our history and in our ability
2:24.3	to share information about the truth of what happened in our past.
2:31.3	But it's a process.
2:44.3	Jeffrey's process started in some ways with a talk he gave a decade ago on Juneteenth, the day marking the emancipation of enslaved people in this country.
2:49.6	Juneteenth doesn't commemorate the emancipation proclamation.
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