Errol and Tina Toulon: Lessons From an Interracial Couple.

Let's Find Common Ground

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🗓️ 16 July 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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What can we discover about personal pain caused by racism? In this episode, we speak with an inter-racial couple to find out what a well-educated white professional woman learned from her African American husband, a senior law enforcement official. Our guests are Errol Toulon, elected as first African American Sheriff of Suffolk County, New York, and Tina MacNicholl Toulon, a physician liaison and business development executive. She tells us what she's learned since their marriage in 2016, about racism, "driving while black", and other indignities that are all too often part of a black person's daily life. The need to find common ground and improve race relations has taken on new urgency with recent anti-racist protests and demands for profound change in America. Both Tina and Errol believe that education is a crucial ingredient in reaching a much better understanding about widespread racism. By speaking out publicly about their own experiences, they believe they're contributing to a vital discussion aimed at improving public understanding of a divisive and disturbing part of American life.

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0:00.0	What can we learn about race from two people who love each other, one black, one white?
0:07.1	We find out what a well-educated professional woman discovered about racism from her husband, a top law enforcement official and the first
0:16.2	African American to be elected to countywide office where he lives.
0:25.0	This is Let's Find Common Ground.
0:27.0	I'm Richard Davies.
0:29.0	And I'm Ashley Milntite.
0:31.0	Today we look at finding Common ground on racism from the most intimate
0:35.3	perspective that of a married couple Errol Chulon and his wife Tina McNichal
0:40.6	Tulon have been together less than five years.
0:43.9	Both had successful careers when they met.
0:46.2	Tina is a physician's liaison and business development executive.
0:49.6	She has two children from a previous marriage.
0:52.2	An Errol-Toulon is the first African American sheriff of Suffolk County on New York's Long Island.
0:59.0	It's a majority white county with more than a million and a half residents.
1:04.0	Errol's first wife died in 2013.
1:06.5	They had two children, and he has faced two life-threatening bouts with cancer.
1:12.2	Both Tina and Errol believe education is a crucial
1:15.5	ingredient in reaching a much better understanding about widespread racism.
1:19.7	They generously agreed to share their personal story.
1:23.3	I asked them how they met.
1:25.4	So I guess I'll answer that.
1:27.6	We met on match.com.
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