White On White: Re-Imagining White Identity Apart From Pseudo-Supremacy

Michael W. Waters is an award-winning author, activist, professor, and pastor. A sought-after speaker to national and international audiences, he is a frequent social commentator for major media outlets. He was named one of America’s emerging leaders by Ebony magazine and has received multiple honors for his work in peace and justice. Michael W. Waters lives in Dallas, Texas. For more information, visit www.michaelwwaters.com.

In this episode, Kerry speaks with Michael, who wrote the foreword to her book, Good White Racist, about gun violence, white pseudo-supremacy, and how whiteness perpetuates violence against Black bodies in insidious ways.

In our first of a new type of segment that's quick, bite-sized monologues about white pseudo-supremacy, Kerry Connelly talks about the troubling ways in which white spirituality perpetuates the oppression of the BIPOC community.

WoW 15 are always under 15 minutes -- no guests, no dialogue, but always something for you to think about.

In this recording of a Facebook Live event, Kerry speaks with Lisa Boeving Learned, a retired police officer, about the Minneapolis riots, the murder of George Floyd, and police brutality.

In 2018, I had the pleasure of hearing Mark speak at the Revolutionary Love conference in NYC. The way he broke down and broke open our country’s founding documents to demonstrate the inherent racism embedded in them blew me away. I knew I had to have him on the podcast. In part one of the this 2-part interview, Mark takes a good, long look at our nation’s history and heroes and deconstructs them so it’s impossible to continue the practice of not-knowing that white people cling to.

Also in this episode, Aisha + Kerry talk about Bernie Sanders, how Martin Luther King’s famous speech has been appropriated by whiteness, and of course, they giggle.

Is being called a racist the worst thing that can happen to you? In this episode, Kerry talks with Kathy Khang, author of Raise Your Voice, about how white people can press through the discomfort of racial conversations.

Can a queer, non-binary transgender Latinx public theologian and a yoga-pants-wearing white suburban soccer mom actually get along? In our 8th episode, Kerry and Dr. Robyn Henderson-Espinoza proves it's not only possible, but it leads to fascinating conversation, too! Listen in as they talk about how to fall into relationship with people who are different, and about what a radical inclusiveness and justice-oriented world might actually look like. Other topics covered are theological dominance, the stability of whiteness, and what it means to radically flourish. This is one of Kerry's FAVORITE interviews!

Meanwhile, Kerry and Aisha talk ecological injustice in between our usual antics.

In this episode, Kerry speaks with Reverend Dr. David N. Moore, author of Making America Great Again:Fairy Tale? Horror Story? Dream Come True?  The book, and this conversation, delve into the church's complicity in racist systems, and explore connections with abortion and the NRA -- and how it all connects to Les Miserables. Plus, Aisha and Kerry talk about the Starbucks debacle and more.

In this episode, Kerry speaks with Ben Tapper, writer, speaker, social activist. Faith, healing and social justice are the topics that most invigorate Ben, and the topics he most often speaks and writes about. He hopes to encourage, inspire and challenge those who read or listen. Ben is a co-founder of The Hear Me Project, an initiative designed to foster communication between strangers.

In this episode, Kerry talks with Mason Mennenga, a fellow seminary student and the founder of Religionless Church, about an experience they both had with white fragility and how we, as white people, can combat white supremacy and privilege when it's right in front of us. What does that look like? Who's responsible?

In our 4th episode, Kerry speaks with award-winning journalist-turned-activist Nadine Smith about what it really means to be a white ally, confederate statues, and exploring just how close America's racial history really is. Here's a hint: it's as close as living relatives.