I See You, Sis
Truth Be Told: Time to Thrive
American Public Media
4.3 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2022
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
It’s been a long time. We shouldn’t have left you, but Truth Be Told is back!
To ground you for the premiere of season three, our host, Tonya Mosley is popping in to share a personal reflection of two near-drowning experiences, once at 8-years old and the other on the day of the insurrection; January 6, 2021.
Through wisdom from the greatest thinkers of our time, Truth Be Told explores what it means to grow and thrive as a Black person in America.
We’re the friend you call after a long day, the one who gets it.
New episodes drop February 2022.
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| 0:00.0 | There was this time I almost drowned. |
| 0:05.0 | The year was 1985. I was 8 and me my mom, grandparents and, were at a holiday end somewhere between Detroit and |
| 0:14.9 | our folks in Mississippi. |
| 0:16.9 | We took that 12-hour trip almost every year, and that hotel pool stop was one of the best |
| 0:22.4 | parts of it. |
| 0:23.7 | If you stepped into a holiday in back in the 80s, |
| 0:26.4 | you already know. |
| 0:27.7 | It was one of the flyest hotels around |
| 0:30.0 | because of the pool situation. |
| 0:32.4 | For one, there were stairs from the pool |
| 0:34.7 | that led directly to an arcade and mini-golf. |
| 0:38.4 | The pool had so much chlorine. |
| 0:40.0 | Your eyes would burn just looking at it. But in that crystal blue water, my body felt so light. |
| 0:47.0 | In the pool, we were all equally buoyant and powerful and I was free. |
| 0:55.0 | Which is why to this day what trips me out the most about almost drowning |
| 1:01.0 | is not the pain of it. |
| 1:03.2 | If you've ever experienced it, you know exactly what I'm talking about. |
| 1:06.8 | That raw ache of trying to scream as your lungs fill up with water. |
| 1:11.0 | It wasn't even that terrifying reflex of flailing. My arms wildly splashing up against the water, trying to grab hold of someone or something. |
| 1:20.0 | No, it trips me out the most, is that in that crowded pool, no one could see me. |
| 1:27.8 | No one could see that I was drowning. I survived by grabbing |
| 1:34.0 | grabbing until my hand caught a boy's shoulder, then a girl's hair, |
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