Healing for Black America
Truth Be Told: Time to Thrive
American Public Media
4.3 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
"How are Black Americans expected to overcome and thrive in this country without the necessary mechanisms of healing?" Tonya called on the help of two Wise Ones for this question. Ibram X. Kendi gives helpful framing on how to even start thinking about this and Kiese Laymon offers a dive deep into Black healing in America.
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| 0:00.0 | I never understood how African Americans were expected to overcome and thrive and how they also expected that of themselves without the necessary |
| 0:19.7 | mechanisms of healing. |
| 0:25.0 | The thing Boris is that I think that everyone from the outside |
| 0:28.0 | it's so clear, but here it's not. |
| 0:32.0 | I mean... How is it not clear? |
| 0:34.0 | How is that not clear? |
| 0:37.0 | Dear truth be told. |
| 0:40.0 | Dear truth be told. |
| 0:42.0 | Dear truth be told, I need your help. |
| 0:44.8 | I'm your host Tanya Mosley, and on this episode of Truth Be Told, we're taking on a big question, |
| 0:50.2 | a question this country has failed to reckon with for hundreds of years. |
| 0:54.0 | How are black Americans truly expected to thrive in the United States |
| 0:59.0 | without the necessary mechanisms for healing. Our question for this episode comes from actor Boris Kojo. You know I'm |
| 1:08.8 | old school so Boris will forever be Kelby from the movie Brown Sugar. |
| 1:13.0 | Come on, that's what this is all about. |
| 1:15.0 | You know, the dating, the awkward walks home, that's what man and women do. |
| 1:19.0 | He's also a father, a husband, an entrepreneur, and an activist, and every year he and a few hundred of his friends |
| 1:26.1 | take a trip to Ghana as part of an effort called Year of Return. |
| 1:30.0 | The most fun I have is watching all these friends that I have and I bring them over there |
| 1:34.7 | and they all of a sudden recognize their own face. |
| 1:37.6 | The whole idea is to get black Americans ripped from our homeland through slavery, connected to the continent. |
| 1:43.6 | And they go like, oh my gosh, she just looks like my, |
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