We Don't Say That

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🗓️ 1 May 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

France is the place where for decades you weren't supposed to talk about someone's blackness, unless you said it in English. Today, we're going to meet the people who took a very French approach to change that.

(Note: This story contains strong language in English and French.)

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0:00.0	So how did you run into this story?
0:02.0	So, uh...
0:04.0	I was 19.
0:06.0	You go, Finn, Puthuwelle is a radio producer in New York.
0:09.0	I went to France with a whole group of folks
0:12.0	from my campus college ministry.
0:14.0	And then my brain turns on like,
0:16.0	oh my gosh, I speak French.
0:17.0	I've been speaking French forever.
0:18.0	This is fun.
0:19.0	This was a lot of...
0:21.0	I'm in this place, so it's cool.
0:23.0	I'm like...
0:24.0	I belong.
0:25.0	Yeah, I have like skills.
0:28.0	My family is Congolese.
0:30.0	And I have this kind of insecurity
0:32.0	because I have Congolese.
0:34.0	This French grown up in America.
0:36.0	I don't have fancy friends,
0:37.0	so someone tells me the like right thing.
0:39.0	I'm like, oh, okay.
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