Laura Robbins | An Exploration of Identity, Racism, and Bigotry
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Laura Robbins gives us look into the reality of racism and bigotry in the day to day lives of ordinary people. We get to hear about the first incident of racism she experienced as a child, what it feels like to be the only black person in the room, how she and her white husband feel about the safety of their biracial children in America, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | I didn't date anybody outside of my race until I got married. I married a white guy, a white man, when I was in my early 30s. |
| 0:10.0 | He was the first white person I had ever kissed or gone on a date with. I had just, it never even occurred to me to date outside my race before that. |
| 0:21.0 | It wasn't a challenge so much as I had to adjust constantly my ideals |
| 0:27.3 | about what my relationship was going to look like. I'd always thought that I'd end up with a black |
| 0:32.1 | man with black children and that we live in a black, |
| 0:36.7 | you know, kind of micro society of our friends and there would be no code switching. |
| 0:43.0 | You know, this would be, I could be who I was with these people and that would be it. |
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| 1:35.6 | Laura, welcome to the Unmistakable Creative. |
| 1:40.0 | Thanks so much for taking the time to join us. |
| 1:41.5 | Oh, thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:43.5 | I'm a huge fan of your show. |
| 1:45.9 | Well, it is my pleasure to have you here. |
| 1:47.6 | So I actually found out about your work |
| 1:50.8 | when it rolled through my Instagram news feed because my friend Dreamism on shared an article |
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