Description

Jolly Good Ginger was born in the mountains of North Carolina, Jolly was raised, not just around racists, but by them.   At age 15 he became an advocate taking his learnings from his upbringing into unlearning, relearning and being an advocate for social justice, civil justice and racism.  He has become an internet sensation who speaks his truth.  One of the things he says, “People are dying everyday, if you’re not part of the solution, get out of my way, good day.”  

What You Will Hear:

• No safe spaces for racists.
• Calling out racism and challenging the belief systems.
• LBGTQ+ parents and causing change.
• Cognitive dissonance and white people owning racism.
• Recognizing and associating the results of history and systems.
• Collective mental health and marginalized community trauma.
• Poor white america, generational trauma and dissonance.
• The dehumanization of black communities built into the american systems.
• Compromising with white america.
• Creating an army of unapologetic white people who aren’t going to have a safe space for people to operate in their own bigotry.
• White america perceiving they are under attack.
• Projecting who we are on other groups.
• Being activist.
• Changing the narrative

Quotes:

“I don’t need to know what it’s like to be black in America, I just need to believe it exists.”

“Change happens in relationships more than it does from the outside in.”

“We systematically dehumanized black america.”

“White supremacy is this a blanket of protection around white america.”

“Compromised white america has given every problem we have in history.”

Mentioned:

IG and Twitter @jolly_good_ginger

Malcolm X

Martin Luther King

El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz