Harry Grammer: Racial Injustice & How to Stop “Othering” Each Other

Align Podcast

Aaron Alexander

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2020

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Align Podcast, I am joined by Harry Grammer, who is by far one of the most important figures I have had on the podcast and one of the most important conversations I have ever shared.

Harry discusses the primary roots of oppression, injustice, and racism that exists in the United States. There are a lot of layers. It’s not as simple as putting one blanket statement on a cardboard box and going out and yelling about it. There is a deep injustice happening among our fellow human beings and it is our duty to uncover it.

Harry is an activist, scholar, and poet and founder of New Earth, an organization playing an integral part in reforming the juvenile justice nationwide system. In 2017, Harry was honored as a CNN Hero and in 2018 selected as an inaugural Obama Foundation Fellow.

Harry is an invaluable character with invaluable information to share. I hope my conversation with Harry will help you begin to peel back the layers.

What we discuss:

African American, people of color, or black? 4:30
The appropriate response for white people during this movement: 6:30
The difference between the BLM Movement and BLM organization: 13:30
How oppression and prejudice are highly adaptable: 16:00
The issues of our prison system: 18:30
Defunding the police: 24:00
Is posting on Instagram enough action? 28:30
Must-read books and must-see movies: 30:30
The history of Jim Crow: 35:30
The progress made between 1865 and now: 40:30
Our justice system is a scary beast: 49:30
How do we stop “othering” each other?: 53:30
The Pygmalion Effect: 55:00
My experience with being arrested 1:01:00
Henry’s perspective on the system and how it needs to change: 1:04:00
How to can we support the movement? 1:20:00

Find more from Harry:

newearthlife.org

Harry's TedTalk

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the line of podcast. My name is Aaron Alexander and this is a place that we bring together the world's leading experts in all things health and wellness
0:07.8	I especially enjoy as you already know
0:11.4	exploring the taboo realms of the human experience in regards to fitness and movement
0:18.9	and health and all that stuff. So that's what we're doing. I appreciate you guys followed along for as long as
0:23.0	I've done this thing for over five years. It's weird. I don't know why I even
0:28.6	started it, but I'm grateful that it did. A lot of beautiful things have manifested because of its existence. So thank you guys so much for
0:36.6	Making that a reality today's conversation was with my home boy
0:40.6	Harry grammar Harry is truly is one of the most important figures that I've had on the
0:47.8	podcast I think, and he's awesome, especially in this time of all of the seeming turmoil that exists throughout the country
0:58.8	and oppression and prejudice. I don't know why I say oppression. I don't know why I say oppression I don't know why I put an extra
1:04.5	emphasis on the oh I like it for some reason oppression so this conversation we get
1:09.7	into all of that and some of the primary roots of prejudice and oppression and
1:17.7	misjustice that exists in the United States. We get into racism in general, racial equality, slash inequality, and really great stuff.
1:27.3	I think that the conversation is that the country ought be having is highly nuanced.
1:34.1	There's a lot of layers to this stuff.
1:36.0	I don't think it's as simple as saying,
1:38.8	you know, one blanket statement that you can put on a cardboard box
1:42.3	and, you know, go out and yell about I think
1:45.4	there's a lot of layers behind all of that stuff and that's exactly what we
1:48.1	get into this conversation. So thanks for reviews on iTunes, thanks for sharing it.
1:54.5	If you do this, if you're going to share any episode
1:57.0	and you want to make a difference on planet Earth,
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