I posted this episode yesterday and took it down because I was uncomfortable with the tone.  It is impossible for a white person with my background to be an expert on the overtly negative effects of racism; I have not had to live it.   I was uncomfortable with allowing myself to have a one hour public monologue on the subject.  Mine is simply not the voice that needs to be heard right now.

However, that does not mean I am off the hook in the discussion or that white people should be silent when they see racism or recognize racism within themselves.  Obviously, silence from whites is a huge part of the problem.  I am placing it back up now as a placeholder.  Clearly this issue was not at the forefront of my consciousness when I started this podcast.  It was a very white / western thing for it not to have been at the forefront of my consciousness.  I intend to educate myself on the nature of systemic racism going forward.  Hopefully I can look back in a couple of years and feel that I have moved the needle within myself and my role in being a part of the solution to systemic racial violence and ignorance.

Yesterday I posted some donation links.  Along with those I am going to post links to films and books I have watched or will be watching and reading in the future.  I deeply appreciate anyone who is listening to this podcast.

Thank You.

DONATE

NAACP Legal Defence Fund:

https://naacplegaldefensefund.org/campaigns/donate-naacp-ldf/

Black Lives Matter:

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_blm_homepage_2019

Bail Funds:

https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/nbfn-directory

EDUCATE

13th - Film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krfcq5pF8u8

I Am Not Your Negro - Film

https://www.amazon.com/I-Am-Not-Your-Negro/dp/B01MR52U7T

Books:

The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin

https://www.amazon.com/Fire-Next-Time-James-Baldwin/dp/067974472X

Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison

https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Man-Ralph-Ellison/dp/0679732764

The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander

https://www.amazon.com/New-Jim-Crow-Incarceration-Colorblindness/dp/1595586431

Women Race and Class - Angela Davies

https://www.amazon.com/Women-Race-Class-Angela-Davis/dp/0394713516

How to be Anti-Racist - Ibram X. Kendi

https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Antiracist-Ibram-Kendi/dp/0525509283

The Color of Law - Richard Rothstein

https://www.amazon.com/Color-Law-Forgotten-Government-Segregated-ebook/dp/B01M8IWJT2

It's time to boldly look this thing in the face and ask ourselves what we can do about it.  To lend all of our energy to addressing the original sin of america in the hope that we may be transformed into a better society with an intrinsic understanding of the humanity, divinity, and the blessedness of each other.  As the bible says in Genesis Chapter 1, vs 27 and 28:  And so God created man in his own image.  In the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.  And he blessed them.

PLEASE DONATE:

NAACP Legal Defense Fund

https://naacplegaldefensefund.org/campaigns/donate-naacp-ldf/

Black Lives Matter:

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_blm_homepage_2019

Bail Funds:

https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/nbfn-directory

The end of the beginning......this thing just keeps getting weirder and weirder! Lookout now!

Rambling discovery trail with intermittent book reading!! Hooray!!