The Abstract Truth: Recent Episodes
Marco Martinez
The world seems to be falling apart at the seams. Join us every week as four educators who have a deep love of learning attempt to make sense of it all. If you embrace the struggle and the joys and pains that comes with learning, this podcast is for you.
In this antiracist discussion series episode, our guest, Yahya Sultan, discusses the intersectionality of colorism within racism and how fair skin is valued within the South Asian community and in communities of people of color, how colorism affects women more than men, the colonial rule of India/Pakistan and its influence on colorism, and the generational trauma caused by this. Yahya also discusses peoples’ perspectives on colorism within race and how that impacts the way young people view themselves.
In this episode, we have a segment featuring student perspectives, where two college students talk on their experiences with racism in their schooling, and the challenges they are facing in attending college as students of color, and their thoughts on what schools/colleges should do moving forward to be anti-racist.
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In this special antiracist discussion series episode, our guest today is Dr. Leslie Wilson, who is the associate dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Montclair State University, and professor of American history, who teaches American, African American and African history. Dr. Wilson will address how America is one of the most racist nations in the world because we are open deniers of the truth and how the length of American history is filled with degrees of racist behavior. When we teach, we tend to stick to one aspect of racism or we shift around to various topics. However, that is not how racism works. It is always interconnected to other groups and never isolated to one group for the course of time. Dr. Wilson also provides us with tools on how to become antiracist in a society where being racist is the much easier choice.
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The crew share memories of their own fathers, talk about the role of fathers as hero figures and how they feel about displaying affection towards kids while unknowingly picking their own favorite parent. And Thuraya judges the men on the team based on the Patriarchy because that’s what she does...that’s what she does.
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On the this episode, the crew discusses the importance of being teachers of color and how teaching unafraid and delivering an authentic education meets the needs of both our students and society.
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In this episode of The Abstract Truth, Rob and Marv interview educator, writer, and Black Lives Matter organizer, Zellie Imani. We discuss the current energy of the movement, Generation Z, and what progress may look like moving forward.
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On this episode, the podcast discusses the cultural climate of America in the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd. We discuss the response through our lived experiences and ruminate on where we think society will go from here.
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Dr. Peniel Joseph is the Barbara Jordan Chair in Ethics and Political Values at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and professor of history and the founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the University of Texas at Austin.
On this latest episode the crew talks with Joseph on his latest book The Cross and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Race in America, the prison industrial system and the extraction of money off of brown bodies.
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Welcome to The Abstract Truth. On this episode we discuss how to be in relationship and share space with folk whose views are fundamentally different than our own. Video of this conversation can be found on our Instagram page: the_abstract_truth. And check out our website theabstracttruth.org
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The office of the Vice President is one that is famously seen as an office that has little to no power or influence. This year however the choice of who is going to get the nod as Joe Biden's Vice President during his campaign to the White House carries some more weight as it is being seen by many as a choice that will determine the direction of the Democratic Party for the foreseeable future. On this episode of The Abstract Truth, the team explores the names being mentioned for a place behind the desk in the office of the Vice President, and we'll do a little dreaming and discuss who each of us would love to see sitting in that chair,
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