175: We’re Still Talking About Slavery - and You Should Be, Too

So our book, Dear White Women: Let’s Get (Un)comfortable Talking About Racism is broken into three sections: On Being White in America; On Being Black in America; On Being a Non-Black Person of Color in America.

And here’s the question we get when people see that structure: Why do we need to focus on the experiences of Black people in this country?

In this episode, we tell you why - including sharing some things we all need to (re)learn, since it’s not all taught in our schools.

What to listen for:

Establishing that slavery was part of the founding of this country
Why we are still talking about this, two years after the murder of George Floyd (including Misasha’s personal feelings about her family’s safety - and how that fear hasn’t changed AT ALL over the last couple of years)
Book recommendations to learn more of the history we weren’t taught in schools, including The New Jim Crow, The Sum of Us, How the Word Was Passed, and our book

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