We Are All One, Let’s Act Like It

The Gathering Room Podcast

Martha Beck

Business, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Courses, Education

5 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Love, understanding, mutual respect. After watching the video of police officers killing George Floyd, Martha is struck by the disconnect between the forces that unite all humans and the atrocious ways we treat one another. She discusses the importance of recognizing the humanity of other people—especially Black people who have been so relentlessly oppressed and targeted—and resisting the urge to “other” anyone who is not exactly like us. (Originally aired: June 1, 2020.)

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Gathering Pod, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast. I'm Martha Beck.
0:09.2	Hello. Welcome to the Gathering Room. How are you? That's Martha Beck. That's Rowan Mangan.
0:14.3	That's who we are. We're here to gather. How are you doing? How are you doing, guys? We had kind of a hard day.
0:21.6	Yeah, it's been a hard one over here.
0:23.6	Like us and some of our friends who aren't even here kind of had a hard day.
0:28.6	Like we woke up with a feeling in the air.
0:31.6	I think a lot of you guys are doing the same way.
0:34.6	Yeah.
0:35.6	And, you know, it's just the heartbreak. It's like in the
0:39.6	movies when for example if you go to watch Lord of the Rings and it starts in the Shire
0:44.6	and everybody's doing lovely things and it's a lovely place and lovely countryside and
0:50.2	everyone's friendly and everything's nice and when you go to a movie and that's how it starts,
0:54.4	you know things are going to happen. And then conflict comes into the plot and people take
1:01.8	different sides and wars start and arguments start and the peace of the shire is disturbed.
1:10.0	And it's heartbreaking yeah and you
1:14.0	know and you realize that the Shire was never that peaceful to begin with and
1:17.4	you just you know yeah you realize that a lot of a lot of things in the Shire
1:22.6	were being sort of held down maybe you've had an experience like that with
1:26.4	your family of origin or your some relationship
1:29.8	where everything's fine on the surface because everybody's putting up with the way things
1:34.0	are, but there are cracks in the foundation and the whole thing under pressure starts to
1:42.5	rattle a bit. Yeah. You have things to say. I have things to say.
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