The Small Town Girl Podcast with Jenn VanHekken

[REPLAY] Julian Newman & Crystal Wright on How to Be Anti-Racist


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Julian Newman, founder of Culture Creative, and Crystal Wright, Area Director for Young Life, sit down and share their own journeys and the ways that racism has affected them.

They share the importance of having hard conversations, being OK with stumbling as we grow, and taking a back seat as we learn from others.

Plus we talk about what it means to "do the work," next steps that we can take to move forward, and why it starts with nice, well-intentioned, Christian folks like you and me taking a stand and owning our words. 

You do not want to miss this episode.  YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS IT. Find it today on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, jennvanhekken.com/podcast or anywhere you get your favorite podcasts.  

Where to find Julian:

Facebook

Culture Creative

Where to find Crystal:

Facebook

Resources:

"White Fragility" Robin DiAngelo and Michael Eric Dyson

"How to Be Anti-Racist" by Ibram X. Kendi

"I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness" Austin Channing Brown

"To Heavy a Yoke: Black Women and the Burden of Strength" by Chanequa Walker-Barnes

Movie: Little Fires Everywhere

Documentary: Many Rivers to Cross

What they Said:

"If you are unwilling to risk being misunderstood or even being criticized, then this conversation is not for you." - JN

"For us to actually move forward, I need my white friends to start doing [the work] without a video.  They need to start doing this without someone calling them out to do it." - CW

"If I say, 'I never owned a slave,' but profit and benefit from a system that advantages some and disadvantages others, then you have a responsibility to change that. And that's everybody." - JN

"This is a contact sport." - JN

"You don't get to be MY voice, but you can be A voice. You can be a voice that speaks for those who are not at the table who should be." - CW

"You don't get credit for thinking about doing an assignment but not actually doing it. You don't get to believe Dr. King's dream and sit back and watch the plight of people of color and the marginalized without doing anything about it and still get an A on the test." - JN

 

 

 

 

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