Mindfulness and Racial Justice (Robert Wright & Rhonda Magee)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

News & Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Rhonda's path to meditation and Buddhism ... Rhonda's new book, The Inner Work of Racial Justice ... Is equanimity the enemy of activism? ... Using mindfulness to overcome biases and stereotypes ... How Rhonda deploys contemplative practices in her law school classroom ... Can one feel compassion for a cop who shot an unarmed black man? ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast from Meaning of Life TV.
0:08.5	Hi, Rhonda.
0:10.0	Hi, Bob.
0:10.8	How are you doing?
0:11.9	I'm doing very well.
0:13.0	How are you doing?
0:13.9	I'm not complaining.
0:15.4	Let me introduce us.
0:18.1	I'm Robert Wright.
0:18.9	This is The Right show.
0:21.6	Available on both streaming video and via audio podcast.
0:24.8	You're Rhonda McGee.
0:26.1	You've written a book that I've been listening to.
0:29.6	I will show people, I can't hold the book up.
0:32.3	I'll show them what it looks like on a smartphone.
0:34.0	Looks like that on a smartphone.
0:36.2	The name of the book is the inner work of racial
0:38.3	justice, healing ourselves and transforming our communities through mindfulness.
0:43.4	I want to call...
0:44.3	Oh, now there's the actual... That's what the book would look like.
0:47.8	The actual book. The actual book looks remarkably like the image on my smartphone, although
0:53.3	larger.
	...

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