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Truth's Table

Resistance Series: What is Resistance?

Truth's Table

Truth's Table

Religion & Spirituality

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Episode 002: What is Resistance? In this episode the women at the table explore the topic of resistance. Offering diverse perspectives, they set the stage for the Resistance series which will explore faith empowered activism and resistance to social sins. Hosts: - Michelle Higgins (twitter.com/AfroRising) - Christina Edmondson (twitter.com/DrCEdmondson) - Ekemini Uwan (twitter.com/sista_theology) Producer: - Beau York (twitter.com/TheRealBeauYork) Special Thanks To: - RAAN - www.RAANetwork.org (twitter.com/RAANetwork) - Podastery - www.podastery.com (twitter.com/Podastery) Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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0:00.0

Welcome to Truth's Table with Michelle, Christina and a Kennedy.

0:19.7

The topic on the table today is Resistance. Since the inauguration of Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States of America,

0:27.0

there have been cries for millions of Americans to resist this Trump administration,

0:32.0

his cabinet picks and his policies,

0:33.9

among other issues.

0:35.4

This resistance galvanized millions of people

0:37.8

to voice their opposition at the Women's March

0:39.8

and the protests against Trump's Muslim ban at airports all around the country.

0:46.7

On Wednesday, January 25, 2016,

0:50.6

2017, Greenpeace activists hung a 70-foot banner inscribed with the word resist from a crane a few blocks behind the White House

1:00.0

So I'm asking y'all, what are you resisting today?

1:04.0

On any particular level, I'm like, the list is wrong.

1:10.0

Just today, anything that happened this morning, you're like, nah, I'm resisting not today.

1:14.6

There's sort of this weird tending to normalize this idea that our president is kind of a Twitter feigned and I am sort of cracking up,

1:30.0

cracking up at the temptation that I have fallen into to just have some kind of peace,

1:37.0

just sort of mental ability to exhale deeply when every day, every other hour I'm feeling like,

1:48.0

Lord, I want to turn everything off, but I also want to know what's going on.

1:53.0

There's so much, I mean there's so much going on where I'm like now I am even resisting the presumption that I am entitled to constant feeling of all as well.

2:07.0

And I know that seems so cliche, but that's to me what resistance has become.

2:12.0

You don't, you're not entitled to to know and to feel

2:15.8

100% all the time that all is well while so many people are suffering and while

2:21.0

so much mess no matter how laughable there is still so much

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