Uncomfortable Conversations, Vol. 1: We're All A Little Bit Racist

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🗓️ 15 July 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

White privilege. Black tax. Systemic racism. These may be uncomfortable topics for conversation, but with a little trust, vulnerability, and humanity, we can and must talk about them. We're joined by Stephen Baldi, Dan Simons, and Vennard Wright to open that conversation, for the sake of healing, justice, and progress in our personal and professional lives.

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0:00.0	On this week's podcast, I'm joined by three friends who have graciously agreed to discuss topics that make many people, us included, uncomfortable.
0:10.0	In particular, we'll be talking about race and justice and the black tax and white privilege
0:16.1	and probably a host of other things I can't tell you in advance because I don't know where we're headed.
0:21.6	This is unscripted just a a meeting of friends. But I've
0:24.3	wanted to do a podcast like this for weeks now and having recently watched a video or two with
0:29.2	Emmanuel Atcho, the former NFL linebacker who's done some interesting work with his YouTube series
0:34.4	Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man.
0:37.0	I'm emboldened to think we can make some contributions here too with our own
0:41.6	uncomfortable conversation.
0:44.0	Uncomfortable Conversations, volume one.
0:47.4	Only on this week's Rule Breaker Investing.
0:50.3	It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Full Co-founder David Gardner.
0:57.0	The Musical Avenue Q, a Tour de Force hit that brought Muppets to the center of the Broadway stage
1:06.9	and won the Tony for Best Musical in 2004, had a lot of great lyrics.
1:12.0	They were penned by two remarkable people, one a Motley Fool
1:15.3	longtime member, Jeff Marks, and another Robert Lopez, who went on with his wife to write the music for Frozen.
1:23.8	But about 15 years ago, I attended Avenue Q and there was a song called
1:29.4	Everyone's a Little Bit racist.
1:31.9	The exchange is between two Muppet characters, Princeton and Kate
1:36.2	Monster. Princeton is a traditional Muppet like Ernie or Bert. Kate Monster is a
1:41.9	monster Muppet more along the lines of the cookie monster and
1:45.2	their song starts like this. Princeton says, say Kate, can I ask you a question?
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