Summary
It’s a question a lot of people are asking right now. So we
talk with author and activist
about how white people can have constructive conversations with each other about racism in America. Ever since Schatz’s friend, comedian W. Kamau Bell, made Schatz responsible for “Conan O’Brien’s whiteness,” she’s been answering white people’s questions on Instagram live.
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| 0:00.0 | This fall, W bez invites you to our upcoming live events. |
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| 0:17.2 | From W.B. E.Z Chicago, this is Nurdad. |
| 0:19.8 | I'm Greta Johnson and I am sure that I do not need to tell you that this has been an incredibly |
| 0:26.2 | tumultuous couple of weeks let alone like 2020 as a whole and I don't know about, but I've actually been having many more conversations |
| 0:35.8 | over the past couple of weeks with white friends especially about what they can be doing to |
| 0:41.5 | help address some of the systemic issues that some people are only now |
| 0:46.3 | confronting for the first time. And last week you may know we did an episode full of |
| 0:51.6 | ideas for books that you can read and today we're going to talk |
| 0:54.9 | about another thing a lot of us and and by us I mean white people like me could be doing a lot more of, |
| 1:03.0 | and that's talking about race and white privilege |
| 1:05.7 | among our white friends and family members. |
| 1:09.1 | That can feel super complicated and overwhelming |
| 1:11.8 | and uncomfortable, but a white lady who I've seen |
| 1:15.0 | doing a very good job of it is Kate Schatz. She is our guest today. She's been doing |
| 1:20.9 | these great videos on Instagram live. Many of you already know about |
| 1:25.3 | Kate because she's been a guest on Nardette before. She's got a bunch of awesome books including |
| 1:29.9 | Rad American Women A to Z. Rad women worldwide and most recently Rad American Women A to Z, Rad Women Worldwide, and most recently Rad American History, A to |
| 1:35.9 | Z. These books are all illustrated by Miriam Kleinstahl, who's also awesome, and |
| 1:41.1 | they're geared toward kids and they're really great books. So the reason |
| 1:45.4 | Kate started talking to white people about race on Instagram live last week is |
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