The Legend of Yoga Booty & Angry White Girl - Season 3 Finale Pt. 2

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🗓️ 14 June 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Welcome to our Season 3 Finale Part 21 This week we’re playing back the last two stories from our last kickback in Oakland. First up is Randi, whose story, effectively dubbed, “The Legend of Yoga Booty #1” needs no introduction. We close out this season with Mehera, who is just tired of being told she’s not \*really\* black. . Produced by: @adizaheghan . Our kickbacks are a space to celebrate our culture, our community, and to turn up. All across the country we see gentrification push us out, disregard our history and erase our presence. In the wake of that, YHMAB is a notice that we are still here and we are not silent. We want to bring these events across the country and need your help. We have 2 days to reach our Kickstarter goal, or we’ll lose everything we’ve raised. Make a pledge to join our movement at youhadmeatblack.com/donate

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0:00.0	Welcome to you had me at Black. I'm Martina Abraham's. This is our season 3 finale part 2.
0:06.4	I want you to breathe all this.
0:08.6	And I got... This is you had me at Black, the podcast with Black millennials tell true life stories.
0:29.0	Today we're playing the rest of the story is recorded at our last kickback in Oakland. If you're tuning in for the first time, we brought together 200 people at Atlanta Museum to chill on the couch, have a drink, and basking some melanin and positive vibes.
0:45.7	If blackness were a superpower, it would be ultra-alchemy.
0:49.6	I think we would come up with the best potions and mixtures and healing things for everyone.
0:55.0	The most powerful form of empathy and more so making sure that if people have less of it,
1:03.0	that it increases,
1:05.0	and if people have an abundance over it,
1:07.0	they just get even more juiced.
1:09.0	If blackness was a superpower, it would be the ability to create things out of nothing or a very little
1:17.2	substance.
1:18.8	I think black people are constantly being torn down and being forced to try to recreate things
1:24.8	or make new things to sustain their own life or sustain the livelihood of the people around
1:29.4	them.
1:30.4	And we always do.
1:31.4	And we always make it better than whatever they took away from us or whatever they said that we couldn't have.
1:36.0	Blackness and our superpower is simple. It's revolution.
1:39.0	We will fight for what we love. We will fight for others, even when they won't always fight for us we will fight for
1:45.5	them and we'll stand up and we'll die for it and that's a beautiful thing because
1:50.2	black is love.
1:51.2	Deflecting micro-aggressions.
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