Rachel Ricketts: Unplugging from the Matrix of White Supremacy

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Rachel Ricketts is a racial justice educator, an attorney, a changemaker, a healer, and the author of Do Better: Spiritual Activism for Fighting and Healing from White Supremacy. She hosts online and in-person workshops, including her spiritual activism series that promotes racial justice, reconciliation, and healing. In this podcast, Sounds True publisher Tami Simon speaks with Rachel about the intersection of spirituality and activism, racial justice work as a form of healing across time and space, actively participating in work that challenges systems of oppression and the status quo, the connection between racial justice work and personal shadow work, becoming a “genuine ally,” and much more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Insights at the Edge, produced by SoundsTrue.
0:05.4	My name is Tammy Simon, I'm the founder of SoundsTrue, and I'd love to take a moment to
0:10.1	introduce you to the new SoundsTrue Foundation.
0:14.0	The SoundsTrue Foundation is dedicated to creating a wiser and kinder world by making
0:20.5	transformational education widely available.
0:24.9	We want everyone to have access to transformational tools such as mindfulness, emotional awareness,
0:33.8	and self-compassion, regardless of financial, social, or physical challenges.
0:40.1	The SoundsTrue Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to providing these transformational
0:45.8	tools to communities in need, including at-risk youth, prisoners, veterans, and those in
0:53.1	developing countries.
0:54.9	If you'd like to learn more or feel inspired to become a supporter, please visit SoundsTrueFoundation.org.
1:08.2	You're listening to Insights at the Edge, today my guest is Rachel Ricketts.
1:13.7	Rachel is a racial justice educator, an attorney, a changemaker, a healer, and an author.
1:21.8	She hosts online and in-person workshops, including her spiritual activism series, which promotes
1:29.2	racial justice, reconciliation, and healing.
1:33.5	She's the author of the new book Do Better, spiritual activism for fighting and healing
1:40.5	from white supremacy.
1:43.4	Rachel raises our awareness that we live immersed in a collective matrix of white supremacy,
1:50.3	where white people have the most power and privilege by the nature of being white, and
1:56.4	she introduces us to the daily work and the lifetime work we can each do, both inner and
2:03.3	outer work to unplug from that matrix, which is so harmful.
2:09.3	Here's a very provocative and eye-opening conversation with Rachel Ricketts.
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