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We discuss Juneteenth and the impact of cultural gaslighting surrounding Juneteenth becoming a federal holiday.

Check out today's episode from Sanchez's sermon, Where's Your Loyalty?

Cedric Lundy preaches on the Hero's Journey: Refusal of the Call & When the Typecasted Take the Spotlight.

The Hero’s Journey is a narrative motif through which many mythologies fairytales and adventure stories follow. From Moses to Homer’s Iliad, to Lord of The Rings, to The Avengers it is a lens to see the stages of the journey of the hero. However, if you are not a cisgender white male you are often not represented as the hero of some of the pay enduring stories.

Cedric and Sanchez discuss the Hero’s Journey motif, which has often been used as a lens to see our personal journey’s, and ponder what the journey looks like if you’re not a straight white male.

The Derek Chauvin trial is nearly over. As if reliving that wasn’t traumatizing enough, there have been multiple high-profile police shootings of unarmed Black people during the course of the trial. All of the victims were twenty years old or younger. In this episode, Cedric updates Sanchez, who has been diligently working on his dissertation on the latest with the trial and the shootings. Take a listen as we process and discuss this latest string of shootings.

Sanchez and Cedric discuss and process their reactions to the verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial with good friend Ray McKinnon.

Things that people who claim not to be racist say that let you know they make space for racism aren’t safe and have unchecked anti-black thinking.Whether intentionally or unintentionally, gaslighting has become commonplace in conversations regarding race. We discuss some of the most frequently used and annoying ones crowd-sourced from a recent post by one of our hosts.

Happy New Year. Let's continue our conversation about the Trump Cult and Capitol Hill!