Episodes We Love: Talking About Privilege

Dear Sugars

WBUR

Sugar, Wbur, Dear, Society & Culture, Cheryl Strayed, Advice, Steve Almond, Boston

4.5 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Privilege comes in many forms: socio-economic privilege, gender privilege, heterosexual privilege, to name a few. In this episode, the Sugars reply to two letter writers who are facing different forms of privilege. They discuss with Catrice M. Jackson, a leading voice for racial justice. This episode was originally published on August 11th, 2018.

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0:00.0	Produced by the I-Lab at WBUR Boston.
0:05.0	The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.
0:18.0	The sugars are here, speaking straight into your ears.
0:21.0	I'm Steve Alman.
0:22.0	I'm Cheryl Strait.
0:23.0	This is Dear Sugar's.
0:27.0	Oh dear song, won't you please?
0:34.0	Share some better sweet days with me.
0:42.0	I check my bedbugs every day.
0:50.0	Oh, and this sugar, you see in my way.
0:57.0	Hi Steve.
0:58.0	Hi Cheryl.
0:59.0	So I have a story for you many years ago.
1:03.0	I realized that I had to tell the truth about something I'd done.
1:09.0	And telling the truth meant that I was going to really, really hurt somebody I loved very deeply.
1:16.0	It also meant that I was going to have to fess up to something I deeply regretted and was ashamed of.
1:23.0	I had cheated on my husband, my first husband.
1:27.0	And you know, I think that when we think about infidelity or any of those kinds of deceptions that we sometimes carry on in relationships,
1:37.0	we think about how you try to get away with it, how you try to conceal what you've done.
1:45.0	The thing about not saying something is it feels safe to us and it often is safe in the short term.
1:51.0	Right.
1:52.0	And you know, I'd reach this juncture in my life where I realized that I couldn't do that.
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