We are not talking about weddings on this one. Today is different. It’s our 200th episode and we had planned to release an episode with an awesome DJ, but we don’t feel right about a ‘business as usual’ approach right now. The world is still in the grips of the COVID pandemic and now America is on fire due to yet another murder of a black man by a police officer.

Mr. George Floyd was murdered on May 25, 2020. Our thoughts and prayers go out to all who love him and are mourning his loss.

Protests are taking place in all 50 states and half of those states still have some shelter in place mandates.

We asked ourselves, how we could be supportive and IF we should release new episodes about weddings while all of this is going on.

We decided this week to use our platform to share perspectives and truths from two black women we have connected with through the podcast to share their thoughts with us and with you and they were extremely gracious to lend us some of their time and energy.

We honor and value these two women's words, insights, advice and opinions. We hope you find these discussions as enlightening and profound and necessary as we do.

Juli is a Social, Cultural Anthropologist and teaches courses on Race, U.S. Based State Violence, sexuality and criminalization. Juli is planning her wedding and has had to reschedule due to Covid. She is a huge supporter of TBWPP.

Felicia is a listener in upstate NY where she is a Juvenile Justice Attorney. She wrote us an email about her venue search and that kicked off an episode we did called Race and Representation with Tamara Jones (ep 153) and we did a follow up with Felicia after her wedding (189).

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Resources:

Books: White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo

Stamped from the Beginning - as well as

How to be an Antiracist - both by Ibram X Kendi

Social Media accounts to follow:

@theConsciousKid

@mireillecharper - 10 Steps to Non-Optical Allyship

@rachel.cargle

@privtoprog - links to petitions to sign as well

@colorofchange - we have donated a third of our ad income for this month

@blklivesmatter

Articles:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/parenting/kids-books-racism-protest.html

https://www.mic.com/articles/97900/10-simple-rules-for-being-a-non-racist-white-person

We invite you to share your thoughts with us. WE ARE LISTENING

What is happening? Are you ok? How can we help?

email us: [email protected] or call us (415)723-1625

Another massive thank you to Juli and Felicia.

Be safe everyone. We love you.

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