WRS Classic: Black Leadership Part 3—Challenging Authority

What's Ray Saying?

Ray Christian

Blackhistory, Storyteller, Blackculture, History, Story, Storytelling, Arts, Slam, Africanamerican

5 • 625 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Ray explores Black leadership from the 1940s to now to reflect on it challenges and its legacies.

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0:00.0	You're listening to a throwback edition of What's Ray Sain, recorded during the early development of the show.
0:06.4	If it sounds different, well, I used to do this whole damn thing on my own.
0:11.7	I've got a bigger team now, but these early episodes were made with love and are absolutely worth listening to.
0:18.9	Enjoy the show.
0:20.5	You're listening to What's Ray saying?
0:24.0	The podcast.
0:26.7	You know, there is a double challenge of being a black leader.
0:31.9	You have the everyday issues and responsibility to one's constituency, the people who voted for you and put you in office,
0:40.2	the people who supported you, and the politics of race, where everything is made more difficult.
0:49.2	When you add being identified as a black leader into the mix, it's like the air gets thicker.
0:56.7	It's harder to move when you're black, but you do move and you're expected to move,
1:06.6	to plow through, to slug through with the weight, burden, with the baggage, without any
1:17.1	empathy for the labored breathing, your rapid heartbeat, or the pain of fatigue.
1:26.6	What's racing? or the pain of fatigue.
1:29.3	What's racing?
1:32.3	What's racing? What's racing?
1:34.3	What's racing?
1:38.3	What's racing?
1:39.3	Music From the source of all black knowledge, trying to cope in a changing world, the end of the ice age, humans stepping out of Africa, Neanderthals have red hair.
2:18.7	Fire.
2:22.6	Cooking preserves and sterilizes food.
2:26.0	Domestic animals taste good.
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