A Letter to America

This episode is kind of random. We talk about our schools and how they’re handling racism, give some important messages about Covid, and more. Stay tuned for next week! we have something special planned.

Colorism is a remnant of slavery and colonialism. It perpetuates a hierarchy of light-skinned people over dark-skinned people.

The fetishization of mixed children is a feature of colorism. People who promote colorism are like crabs in a barrel fighting for a spot at the top.

In America, popular culture is Black culture—and Black has always been trending. In this episode, we discuss some new harmful TikTok trends, and teen celebrity Danielle Bregoli.

Black people are currently being disproportionately affected by two pandemics--racism and covid. And when the two are mixed together, things go downhill real fast.

We discuss how police brutality and systematic racism have kept us down since the beginning of time. The injustices we face have no end in sight. Should we be hungry for equality, or revenge?

In this episode, we talk about who we are, and how societal racism witnessed and experienced by Black youth in our communities impacts us throughout our entire lives.

In this very first episode of “A Letter To America” we talk about the incident that brought us together- the beating of Elijah Tufano. We also discuss our thoughts on the ongoing issue of police brutality against black people, and the effect that it has on youth.

Meet Amandla and Indigo! Lifelong friends from Oakland, California who are passionate about speaking out against injustice and providing a youth perspective on being Black in America. A Letter to America was born in May 2020, following the beating of 14 year old Elijah Tufono by a police officer in Rancho Cordova, just a few weeks before the horrific murder of George Floyd and the historic protests that subsequently rocked the world. Join Amandla and Indigo as they use their platform to amplify the voices of a generation determined to change the course of American history.