Escaping the Plantation with Dr. Christena Cleveland
Black History Year
PushBlack
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🗓️ 1 November 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Contrary to what you might think, many of us are living on plantations in present-day. While the plantations many of us occupy look vastly different than our forebearers', white supremacy continues to trap us within violent systems -- and the mental health consequences in our community are resounding. But we don't have to remain disconnected from our needs, dignity, and freedom. Today's guest Dr. Christena Cleveland, a social psychologist, public theologian, author, and activist, will guide us as we explore what leaving the plantation entails.
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine it. |
| 0:16.1 | Just came off at 18 hour work day. |
| 0:18.9 | It's 5 in the morning now, you have to get up, gotta go to work, despite being depressively |
| 0:23.3 | exhausted. |
| 0:25.3 | The labor is back breaking, physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, back breaking. |
| 0:33.3 | And though you need to sleep in and take care of your well-being, you ask yourself, |
| 0:38.7 | how will I survive if I take space to nurture myself? |
| 0:42.4 | What violence awaits if I choose freedom? |
| 0:46.2 | I'm Jay from Push Black, and you're listening to Black History Year. |
| 1:03.0 | Now I may have sounded like I was describing a situation from slavery, life on a plantation, |
| 1:10.0 | but no, that's the reality for many of us today, and the psychology is no different than most |
| 1:16.0 | of us navigating this anti-Black world, working and living on the plantations that exist |
| 1:22.5 | in our daily lives. |
| 1:26.2 | To break free from the generational chains shackling us to white supremacy requires a level |
| 1:31.7 | of healing that today's guests understands deeply. |
| 1:36.0 | Dr. Christina Cleveland is a social psychologist, public theologian author activist, and |
| 1:42.6 | as a founder and director of the Center for Justice and Renewal, Christina urges justice |
| 1:48.3 | advocates and others alike to learn the realities of subjugated systems, while also strengthening |
| 1:55.0 | and nourishing our spiritual capacity to break free from those realities. |
| 2:09.4 | Travelled by the low-hanging trees of a Memphis wood, Mary trekked through mud and soil |
| 2:15.2 | as fallen branches scraped against her knees. |
| 2:20.8 | There was nothing more she wanted than freedom, the lashes on her back, the silencing of |
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