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Gettin' Grown

Surviving Surviving R. Kelly

Gettin' Grown

Loud Speakers Network

Society & Culture

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2019

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

This week, Jade and Keia discuss some of the systemic and structural cultural and societal issues that contribute to and sustain acts of predation, abuse, and sexual violence against Black girls and Black women as presented in the Surviving R. Kelly documentary. They also consider some of the ways we might break these cycles. https://www.ggenyc.org/survivingrkelly/ https://www.rainn.org/about-national-sexual-assault-telephone-hotline Shout you to my sis: Nadejah Whitted of Donors Choose IG: @misswhittedteaches Website: http://donorschoose.org/Miss.Whitted Did the holidays leave you feeling like a pack of butter? Visit TeamiBlends.com and use code GROWN for 25% off! Email: [email protected] Twitter: @GettinGrownPod IG: @GettinGrownPod Facebook: www.Facebook.com/GettinGrownPodcast

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0:00.0

You got to listen to your heart, listen to the beat, listen to the rhythm, the rhythm of the street, open up your eyes, open up your ears, get together and make things better by working together.

0:20.0

It's a simple message and we found it from the heart. Believe it, believe it yourself. Well that's the place to start and I say, hey, what a wonderful kind of day.

0:34.0

We can learn to work and play and get along with each other.

0:43.0

What a wonderful kind of day. Hey, what a wonderful kind of day.

0:48.0

That is the Arthur theme song.

0:55.0

I don't know. You don't know the Arthur theme song.

1:01.0

I'm older than you. It doesn't matter. I'm also childless. It still doesn't matter. Yes, it does. I didn't watch. You didn't watch.

1:13.0

Okay. No. Well, I just know that there was some finding looking little girl on that show. All of them actually Francine. Yeah, they were all funny. They were all animals.

1:25.0

Well, I don't know. I feel like I was an adult. I was older when I Arthur was on. When was Arthur? What on? Maybe 93. I wasn't at the world. I was. I was. I was. You. I don't know. You probably some were watching stories.

1:42.0

They're just. I was watching as the world. I strongly believed this. Price. The grandmother watched as the world. So we watched as the world. Mine watched the prices. Right. So that was our thing.

1:54.0

But the prices right was on when we were in school. But when we were home for holidays, prices right with a time of family gathering. Yes. Yes. Absolutely. But yes, praise the Lord.

2:06.0

Oh, Lord, Niggas. All that. All that jazz. What's going on? Oh, not much. What am I? What? Oh, what? What have? What's been going on? I feel like I'm in a.

2:20.0

I don't think it's because I was off of work for for like weekend. Some change. So I kind of my days started meshing together. But I'm good. It's the new year. We're bike with our second episode of the year. I'm excited.

2:35.0

I'm excited, excited about 2019, even though it started off very interestingly. How are you? I'm okay. I am very busy, but grateful. I'm just trying to keep all of these responsibilities in play at one time. I'm trying to press play.

2:55.0

I think that's what. Yeah. I'm trying to press play because it's time to start working. And I have to get out of like. I need to get out of like winter holiday mode.

3:04.0

Yeah, I really didn't have much of a winter holiday. I worked all while I was at my grandparents house. My mom's house in Tennessee.

3:14.0

Just felt like what I needed. So that's what I did. I had my laptop at the kitchen table. As you always get. Getting it done.

3:24.0

So much to do. So much to do. But all good things. All good things. I'm getting on a plane tomorrow. I'm going to Boston.

3:34.0

I am.

3:38.0

Well, my supervisor and I are keynoting or opening with work. You know, the opening keynote at this this professional development meeting.

3:48.0

Come on. At Wheaton College. It's like a regional professional development network in Massachusetts. And their meeting and Wheaton at Wheaton College on Wednesday of this week.

4:00.0

So tomorrow or today. You guys hear this. I'll be getting on a plane and going to Boston. So yeah, I mean, I'm that girl now that, you know, I forget that I have to get on planes. It's so crazy. Oh my gosh. You're so booked. You're so.

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