Today's guest on Women of Candor is Wendy Harmon, pastor, speaker, wife, and mother of two.

In this episode, host Sydney Plant speaks with Wendy about the unfortunate need for today's black and brown Americans to adhere to what she calls "respectability politics." She begins the conversation by relating her experience in dealing with a violent encounter that her son Levi once had at school. In particular, she talks about the tiptoeing that, as a black mom, she had to endure when confronting the school's authorities about the incident. This was one of the most extreme situations in which Wendy was faced with "the perils of being a non-angry black woman," but it surely wasn't the first or the last. And, sadly, her experience pales in comparison to the (sometimes, too often, fatal) challenges that many other blacks have to endure day-by-day in modern America.

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