Sociologists Talking Real Sh*t

No intros, no guests, just Black rage and sorrow.  I could not let this moment pass, I wish I could but this shit has to stop and that's for real.  

Tiffany Lanoix, Glenda Flores, Sheryl Nomelli, and I talk about our less than enthusiastic support of Joe Biden, the historic moment of having a woman of color on the ticket, waiting on communist Jesus, and the urgency of this election. 

I talk about the ups and downs about parenting with my favorite sociologist, my partner and wife, Dr. Rebecca Romo. We discuss the difficulties of raising kids, single parenting vs coparenting, mother guilt, policing of Black and Brown children, being poor parents vs. middle class parents, parenting during Covid, and being a multiracial queer family.  

Dr. David Embrick and I talk about sociology and academia's complicity in oppression.  We talk race, white sanctuaries, and Palestine.  Its gonna be a hot one.  

Great conversation with Dr. Rashawn Ray, who is Professor of Sociology and Executive Director of the Lab for Applied Social Science Research (LASSR) at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is also one of the co-editors of Contexts Magazine: Sociology for the Public. Formerly, Ray was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. Currently, he is a Rubenstein Fellow at the Brookings Institute. We talk about the Black Lives Matter movement, reform vs. defund vs. abolishing the police, why voting matters, and which white people get an invite to the cookout. 

• Introduction - Dr. Rashawn Ray's background and how he got into sociology (hint: white dude in a bathrobe)
• Black Lives Matter and what makes this moment different - 10:58
• White Folk at the Cookout (White people's participation in BLM) - 18:20
• Defunding the Police - 31:30
• What the hell is Implicit Bias and why does it matter - 52:00
• Dealing with Critics from all sides - 56:00 
• Our best chance for changing law enforcement - 59:00
• Staying Grounded - 1:02
• Breaking down that BS Black on Black crime argument - 105
• Why Public Sociology - 1:10
• How can we keep the momentum going - 1:13
• "The Notorious RGB" With the courts on the line, why this election is so important - 1:19
• Joe Biden, Angela Davis, and Yoga - 1:20