Let’s Give Money to Black Women
The Brown Girls Guide to Politics
Acast Creative Studios
3.3 • 845 Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
The economy impacts all of us, but economic issues disproportionately impact Black and brown women. In this episode, A’shanti speaks with organizer Hope Wollensack, who is the founding Executive Director of the Georgia Resilience and Opportunity (GRO) Fund, an organization that advances solutions to racial and economic injustice. In their conversation, A’shanti and Hope discuss universal basic income, break down the racist myth of the “welfare queen,” and get into how giving money directly to Black women can positively impact various outcomes in their lives.
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The Brown Girls Guide to Politics Podcast is all about amplifying the voices of women who are too often forgotten in media coverage. Host A’shanti Gholar leads conversations with women changing the face of politics. In the BGG to Politics blog, A’shanti created a space for women of color to learn about the current state of politics, to support others breaking into the political sphere, and to celebrate incredible women changing the course of the country. A’shanti founded the blog in 2018 and Wonder Media Network is thrilled to extend her platform to audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all. I'm Ashanti Golar, host of the Brown Girl's Guide to Politics. The BGG is the one-stop shop |
| 0:08.0 | for women of color who want to talk and shape the world of politics. This season, we're getting |
| 0:14.5 | deep into the details of Project 2025. In 900-plus pages, it's proposing dramatic conservative changes to education, |
| 0:24.9 | health care, and foreign affairs. But underpinning it all is an entirely new vision for how |
| 0:31.1 | the government operates. And that could change everything. Thank you so much to our friends |
| 0:37.3 | at Way to Win for supporting us and making this season possible. |
| 0:41.5 | Listen to the Brown Girls Guide to Politics wherever you get your podcast. |
| 1:01.0 | Hey, Brown Girls, it's Ashanti, host of the Brown Girls Guide to Politics. |
| 1:08.0 | Today, we're tackling a topic that affects all of us. We're seeing it in the supermarket, the gas station, and especially in the housing market. |
| 1:12.0 | The cost of living has gone up while many Americans' paychecks remain the same. |
| 1:18.2 | That's right, we're talking about the economy. |
| 1:22.5 | I'm so excited to speak to an expert on economic security and communities of color. |
| 1:29.1 | Hope Wallensec, |
| 1:35.7 | executive director of the Georgia Resilience and Opportunity Fund. She found her footing in the economic sphere after working as an educator and just living as a woman of color in Louisiana. |
| 1:42.6 | She saw that it wasn't individual choices that decided people's |
| 1:46.7 | success, but the structural obstacles and resources available to them. We're talking about economics |
| 1:54.2 | as it's meant to be discussed, a basic pillar of the civil rights movement. But first, I want to chat about another issue that's affecting a lot of people's ability to make independent economic decisions, student loans. |
| 2:10.7 | BGG producer Brittany Martinez is here to chat it through. |
| 2:15.8 | Hey, Brittany. |
| 2:17.5 | Hey, Ashanti. |
| 2:18.7 | On August 24th, the Biden-Harris White House announced a three-part plan to forgive student |
| 2:24.0 | debt for low-to-middle-income borrowers. |
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