How To Fight Racism in Your Town
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Chris has always considered himself "on the right side of things," but as Black Lives Matter protests sweep across the country, he's starting to realize he needs to do a lot more. As a white man living in Austin, Texas, he says he has a responsibility to educate himself and make real change—but where to start? On this episode of How To!, we bring in Ijeoma Oluo, author of So You Want to Talk About Race, to walk Chris through some tangible steps he can take to harness this moment. Start by opening your eyes to the systems of injustice at the local level, in your neighborhood or your school, that affect people of color. Then, Ijeoma says, add your voice to those organizations that have already thought long and hard about how to make them more fair and equitable. Chris has more power than he realizes, but it's crucial that he amplify Black-led efforts already in place in his community.
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| 0:30.5 | If someone's house is on fire, you don't say I'm going to first sit down and look at the nature |
| 0:37.4 | of fire, right? |
| 0:38.9 | You're going to say, what do you need me to do to help put out this fire? |
| 0:43.7 | That's where we are right now. |
| 0:45.5 | It is an emergency, and I really need white America to treat it as such, because it's killing us. |
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| 0:57.1 | I'm Charles Duhi. |
| 1:00.0 | As the U.S. continues to grapple with the killing of George Floyd |
| 1:03.3 | and other incidents of police violence with lives taken for no good reason, |
| 1:06.9 | many of us are wondering how to fight the systemic racism |
| 1:09.8 | that's been a part of this country for so long. |
| 1:11.6 | One of those people is Chris from Austin, Texas. |
| 1:15.6 | This is something that I've, you know, I've cared about all of my life since I realized there was a problem. |
| 1:21.6 | Even in recent weeks, I've been getting, you know, a deeper, deeper education. |
| 1:25.6 | I've always considered myself to be, |
| 1:28.0 | quote, on the right side of things, but a lot more of us white people are waking up finally and |
| 1:34.4 | and maybe willing to look inside and take some responsibility. And if it's not going to happen now, |
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