"I Won't Shut Up" with Ally Henny
Black History for White People
Black History for White People
3.6 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
About Ally: Ally Henny is the author of I Won’t Shut Up: Finding Your Voice When the World Tries to Silence You. She is a writer, speaker, advocate-minister, and vice president of The Witness: A Black Christian Collective–an organization committed to encouraging, engaging, and empowering Black Christians toward liberation from racism. Ally completed her Master of Divinity from Fuller Seminary with an emphasis in race, cultural identity, and reconciliation, and she hopes to lead a church someday. Since 2014, Ally has been leading conversations about race on her blog, The Armchair Commentary, and on social media where her posts reach millions each month. She is a proud Chicago Southsider.
About the Book: Being Black in a society developed by white men to benefit white men means constantly pushing back against systems that were not constructed for your flourishing. White privilege. White cultural norms. White beauty standards. White noise. You’re made to feel that your life doesn’t matter, your opinions aren’t valid, and your entire existence is too loud. It can feel like the whole world is telling you to shut up. To these forces, Ally Henny is here to say, “No. I am a loud Black woman, and I won’t shut up.” Ally knows what it’s like to navigate racism and racialized sexism, having spent most of her life in predominantly white spaces. She’s not taking it anymore, and she’s calling you to join her in resisting racism by speaking the truth–no matter the cost. In this compelling book, Ally tells her own story of finding her voice, pushing back against oppression, and embracing her unique perspective as a loud Black woman. And she invites you to find your voice in a world that tries to silence you.
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| 0:00.0 | I don't know what most white people in this country feel, but I can only include what they feel from the state of their institutions. |
| 0:12.0 | Now, this is the evidence. You want me to make an act of faith risking myself, my wife, my woman, my sister, my children, on some idealism which you assure me |
| 0:23.0 | in America, which I have never seen. |
| 0:26.0 | So we have a very special guest today who is doing great things. |
| 0:30.8 | Her name is Ali Henney. |
| 0:32.8 | She has a new book that is coming out this month and it's, I Won't Shut Up, which is an excellent name. |
| 0:40.5 | Welcome, Allie. It's good to see you again. Yes, good to see you all again too. And Allie, |
| 0:47.4 | you're our first recurring guest that we've had in the show. We talked to you, I think it was |
| 0:52.4 | two years ago now. So yeah. |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah. So you carry that honor forward from this moment. I know. She's the person. |
| 1:01.4 | Yeah. So tell us again for listeners who are meeting you for the first time through this episode. |
| 1:09.3 | Who is Ali Henney? Yeah. so I am, let's see, |
| 1:14.7 | a social media person. I have a social media page, a few social media pages, I guess, |
| 1:20.3 | on Facebook and Instagram and Twitter. I'm a theologian, a minister, a writer, speaker, all that kind of stuff. |
| 1:31.4 | Vice President of the Witness, the Black Christian Collective. |
| 1:35.0 | Let's see. Yeah. So that's me. Let's see. |
| 1:38.0 | That is awesome. Well, you have this book with this amazing name, and we want to hear more about it. |
| 1:43.9 | It's coming out on |
| 1:45.1 | June 27th, correct? June 20th. June 20th. Okay. And people can go on the website and pre-order. |
| 1:53.4 | And you know what? I think I see that your virtual launch party and Q&A is going to be on June 27. |
| 2:00.3 | So that's where I mixed up the dates. But tell us |
| 2:03.0 | about the book. I won't shut up. Yeah. So it's just it's part, it's part memoir and part I guess |
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