Lets Talk About Race: Recent Episodes
Diane Wong
For all of us who love Black people, and want to know about Action hear Michelle talk about her new book. Mother's of Black Boy's in Action.
Yes, folks, the time is now. It is time for ACTION. We are in the midst of a transformation. Get a sense inside yourself of what you are here to do at this time.
"This book is not just a success story of a mom and her impact on her son. It is a timely message which is relevant and important in our current climate of race and the image of our boys.
With decades of personal labor, a long awaited revolution whose time has come to cause transformation in our raising of our boys. This exhilarating and inspiring conversation is finally being delivered to you mom, grandma, auntie, and anyone else raising a boy of color. The transformation of our young boy’s is happening now and will continue for generations to come."
hat will it take for Boston to come together to develop a society that works for all of us. Ruthzee is the 34-year-old daughter of Haitian immigrants. She is ready to bring her passion for community and experience as an attorney to combat the city’s wealth disparities with intentional housing and homeownership policies. “I care deeply about creating a city that’s inclusive and affordable for all of its residents where the budget reflects what we say we value,”
Diane Wong and Pharaoh Saunders of Let's Talk about Race welcome Dr. Jennifer Cole on Friday, April 16. We will talk about Climate and Racial Justice. In our Friday, April 16 discussion of Climate and Racial Justice you'll hear about the challenges of this global atmospheric phenomenon, but also the many exciting opportunities that come about as a result of climate change. We will hear about jobs created, engineering innovations, art opportunities, and architectural solutions. Jennifer Cole is concurrently faculty in the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Cole was Director of the Environmental Studies Program at Northeastern for fifteen years and has also taught at Tufts and MIT. Dr. Cole holds a Ph.D. in groundwater geochemistry from Syracuse University and has published extensively in the fields of wetlands, agriculture, energy education, and natural disasters. She also has served as an expert witness in wetlands and river protection act litigation. She was a Senior Hydrologist at Weston. and Sampson Engineers. She has given many invited talks, including at the US Environmental Protection Agency. She represented Harvard’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the White House on two occasions.
On April 9, 2021, at 7:30 PM EDT, Facebook Live and Let's Talk About Race, Diane Wong and Pharaoh Saunders welcomed Peter Brown of the Ledge Group for a discussion of the future for African-Americans in Africa.
The Let's Talk About Race Podcast for February 19, 2021 Diane, Pharaoh and Charles Minton talk about the Racial Justice Collaborative, the latest offering for February 27, 2021. Sundiata the Tale Weaver. The trio also spoke about the latest more in depth work of the Collaborative. Bringing the issue of Reparations for African-Americans out for discussion. Truth, Justice, Reckoning, Apology and Reparations.
Current topics, GameStop, Robin Hood, What does the black community want? What happens to blacks who insurrect? and whites?
Demilitarize, defund or abolish. What does it mean to be a Democracy? What kind of Democracy are we? How does that impact our policing? How can we change our systems of policing so that black people are not brutalized and abused.
This is our topic of discussion. Join us.
A new podcast series on Let's Talk About Race. Racial Justice Collaborative members Charles Minton, Pharaoh Saunders and Diane Wong talk about the 2020 pandemic and how it is affecting the black community.
Sit in the fire, burn your wood and eliminate your own Anti-Black racism. Then we can begin to work together to heal our world.
Artemis J Rose (she/they) is a multiracial, Queer feminist who is committed to combatting anti-black racism, systemic oppression, and white supremacy. Artemis is a licensed marriage and family therapist, life coach, yoga teacher, writer, poet, and human and is finishing up her doctorate in clinical psychology. Her clinical and research topics include treating trauma and shame.
Originally from Germany she now lives in the UK. Eva is involved with the UK and the German Process Work schools. Eva works with companies worldwide around conflict facilitation and leadership training as well as supporting couples and individuals in her private practice in rural England and online. Eva is interested in intersectionality and believes that we need to learn to sit in the fire together in order to transform how we interact and perceive each other.
Diane Wong talks about her racism experiences and her work on Let's Talk About Race and Sitting in the Fire. She explores her vision to take her facilitation team into US hot spots and about her vision of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission using Public Acess Audio Visual to every city and town in America bringing Americans together to talk about anti-black racism and what America Owes its African American Citizens.
A discussion on white privilege and white supremacy. Race issues are all over. Not just one location. Race dialogue is critical to the change we need.
Three millennials who find themselves sharing space and time in Cambridge/Somerville, MA. Join us as we Talk About Race. We are a deeply racialized society thus, everyone has a story about race. Some of us are fully aware of race operating in our lives, some of us are less aware. But, aware or not, race plays a huge part in the unfolding of the world all around us, and the unfolding of our lives. Luca, Pharaoh and Andrew talk about what race means to them.
Let's Talk About Race, Diane Wong and Pharaoh Saunders spoke with Xenia Bhembe, Race Recovery TV about White Supremacy and black lives.
Applying Processwork Worldwork Skills to Sit in the Fire of Police/Community Relations. Plenty of white men have years and years of hard-earned skills. We welcome their help when they are ready to give it. Come listen to Lane. "We will talk about the challenges of white centrality and the difficulties white men face when they have to work hard, and do good work, but stay in the background in the fight to eliminate anti-black racism.
Noon EST, Sunday, April 19, Let's Talk About Race cohosts Diane Wong and Pharaoh Saunders in collaboration with Somerville Community Access TV | Channel 3 is pleased to bring Dr. Jennifer Rivers Cole for a thought-provoking discussion on where we are now and where we might be going as we begin to envision new ways of living in the age of COVID-19 and beyond.
Jennifer is a cutting edge earth-centric researcher, a scholar, an author, a scientist, a teacher, and a mother.
A discussion amongst cohost Diane Wong and Pharaoh Saunders and Bindu Kalesan. Bindu speaks of the pandemic team that was disbanded and what it will take to get America back on track. We don't expect it will ever be the same. Universal health care are needed and Universal basic income.
Decarli Organizing. You need to organize. Your outsides reflect your insides. Get your outside organized. Simplify your life. Make space for the future of your dreams. Contact Luci at decarliorganizing.com
Modern whiteness. What is it? What constitutes the white category of race? Do some vews actually perpetuate a nazi perspective on race? Its important to know where views come from so we can have informed dialogue. As you go back in history and races mix, what constitutes modern whiteness. Were the greeks ever white? The romans? Parts of those areas were occupied by non whites for centuries. If they were white, are they still? Italians, French with all the colonialism that brought colonials to their french mainland? The english? Maybe the germans, for now? Most are not blue eyed blond hitler sought after nordic types although able bodied straight tall nordic types are most favored. What is modern whiteness, how has it evolved? Just like modern blackness. Does it all evolve into self identification? Are we headed to collide in the middle? What about those folks? Where are we with our racial myth? What is whiteness?
Nina Walcott Wentzell and Jerry Wentzell take politics by storm as we start the 2020 political campaign for president of the United States. Who should it be for the Democratic ticket? Sanders? Warren? Buttigeg, Biden? But whoever it is. Will we all come out to support the Democratic ticket? If yes, Democrats will win up and down the ballot. If no, then the republic plan of cheating, gerrymandering, slandering and bullying will win the day. Which will it be?
The criminal justice system is perhaps the clearest example of structural racism in the United States. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and the overwhelming burden of contact with the system has fallen on communities of color, especially African Americans.4 African American adults are five times more likely to be imprisoned than white Americans.5 According to data detailed in this issue brief, African Americans are twice as likely as their white counterparts to have a family member imprisoned at some point during their childhood.6 With overall incarceration rates more than 500 percent higher than they were forty years ago, black Millennials and post-Millennials are at greater risk of contact with the system than any previous generation.7 In fact, a new CAP analysis finds that 1 in 4 black Millennials had an incarcerated loved one before they even turned 18. For those born in the early 1990s, the rate is almost 1 in 3.
Life is so fragile. There is no time to discriminate, flex, hate, draw racial lines, powerplay, define another person according to our made-up beliefs. Make time only to soothe, forgive and love
Let's Talk About Race discusses Equity and Excellence with Somerville Public Schools new director Jessica Boston Davis, new Somerville School Committee Member Ilana Krepchin and former Somerville public school student and intern to Dr. Jessica Boston David Nabila Anandira.
Somerville Public Schools are looking closely at the issues of Equity and we talked about some of the possibilities.
LProduct brings positive vibes to the rap scene. Put your guns down. An important message for all to hear.
We will talk about Music and the End white supremacy revolution. True Influencers politicalizing Hip Hop: Dr Dre/NWA/Tupac/Biggie/Public Enemy/Yassin Bey (Mos Def,) Talib Kweli, Immortal Technique, Kayne, Snoop Dog, Grandmaster Flash, Run DMC, Wu Tang Clan and Gang
Nicole is a Boston hip hop artist. She talks about the challenges of breaking into the Boston music scene. We talked about many things including: race and navigating the Boston hip hop scene; the experiences of her biracial children living and going to school in Winchester and Arlington; and the challenges of parenting in the age of social media.
Dr Bindu Kalesan on Food Deserts, Race, Health Insurance, conditions of homelessness and the experiences of an Immigrant Brown person on race separation in America.
Terrence Duren, Former Marine, Retired Police Officer. This is what Terry Duren wants to talk about. Tomorrow, October 24, 7-8 pm let's talk about race. He is raising the alarm and he has ideas to improve this situation for black young people. Terry and I dont need to see eye to eye on white supremacy barriers to know that you need money to live. Getting an education is not enough. We need wealth. Opportunities don't abound when you are locked out of the game. And with zero to low wealth, that is a beggarly situation to be in. Not a position of strength. \ So let's welcome Terry and see what we can learn. Let's open our ears to possibility and then let's take massive action. Folks, It's time to engage.
Just after Donald Trump was elected President, Christine came on Let's Talk About Race with Astrology and Tarot readings to give insight into Donald Trumps purpose and what we might expect. It is fabulous to revisit the Trump reading 2 years in. Enjoy. "A larger than life figure that captures the essence of the American Empire. The mask that the US is wearing right now. To show where we are with race we looked at the Holy Light Tarot and asked, Where are we now? The US symbolized by the 10 of cups -but at its darkest, just before the dawn. How to reach the promise of the 10 of Cups? Leap into the unknown -Justice Reversed -A family gathered round a mother dispensing karmic justice, -to each according to need. The challenge? Again, to gain the promise of the 10 of cups: End the incessant squabbling (3 of swords), learn to listen and speak with the heart."
Karen Welling is a long-time Somerville resident. She is a social worker/therapist/life coach/musician whose awareness of race began as a child in Brooklyn, NY. It was only in grad school, however, that she began to examine her own thoughts and attitudes about race. Working in human services in the greater Boston area has enabled her to work with people from many countries and cultures. She has participated in her current agency's Equity Committee for seven years, which has provided her with many eye-opening experiences about race. Karen has taken the class, "White People Challenging Racism" twice, in preparation for becoming a facilitator of the class.
Diane facilitated discussion between Pharaoh Saunders and Peter Ruggier on Let's Talk About Race as they wraped up a 3 part discussion of white supremacy with "Where do we go from here?"
Pharaoh Saunders and Diane Wong deep discussion on the historical underpinnings and the legacy of systemic white supremacy with Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Professor Peter Ruggiero. After Black veterns returned from WWI, what did we do to help them reenter society? Why, we discriminated against them at every turn, of course.
What will it take for the united states to do what Germany did after World War II After all, the US was solidly behind taking Germany to task for its Nazi history. "After the war, the Allies occupied Germany, outlawed the Nazi Party and worked to purge its influence from every aspect of German life. The party’s swastika flag quickly became a symbol of evil in modern postwar culture. Although Hitler killed himself before he could be brought to justice, a number of Nazi officials were convicted of war crimes in the Nuremberg trials, which took place in Nuremberg, Germany, from 1945 to 1949."
A discussion of European identify, ethnicity, whiteness, privilege and culture. When does race identity start and why? How do you teach current events and accurate history within the curriculum?
Eyes on the Prize Keys to the Kingdom featuring Jean McGuire, See this episode to contemplate Boston's racial history. This is not ancient history. This is the history of exactly where we are today. Watch this video and remember. The episode shows actual footage of the Boston clash between Roxbury black people and South Boston White people as they struggled over who would go to their neighborhood schools. The black struggle was for equal educational opportunity, the white stuggle was for continued white supremacy. Here we talked with Jean McGuire a black woman who was deeply involved in education and opportunity for black youngsters in Boston. Dr McGuire is featured in this episode of Eyes on the Prize.
Thursday, September 5, 2019, 7-8 PM Wolfgang Wentzel joins Let's Talk About Race. Millennials, Pharaoh Saunders and Wolfgang Wentzell talk about politics 2020. Biden? Bernie? Elizabeth Warren?
Thursday, August 29, 7-8PM, Jordana Hart and Roni Bennett of Unity360, Miami Shores People of Color join Lets Talk About Race remotely from Miami to help us take an indepth dive into Reparations. Will we need a truth and reconciliation commission? What might that entail?
Truth and Reconciliation as a way to engage the country in the formal discussion of our history of race and the debt owed. Reparations. How might we involve the people of America in a Truth and Reconciliation Process? What would a Truth and Reconciliation Process look like? How might topics be selected? What does the process look like?
People attempting to kill others are not as accurate shooters as suiciders. When they may try to kill someone else, they may hit but not kill them. Between Trauma care and bad shooting, lots of neighborhood shootings are not fatal. And even when they survive, black gun violence survivors suffer. First, Doctors are more biased when they treat black victims than whites. Whites are mostly hailed as heroes, Black victims get assigned criminality forgetting that they are victims, not the perpetrator.
What happens to black survivors of gun violence? After all, surviving gun injury is expensive. Involved are multiple morbidities such as depression, PTSD, multiple surgeries, disabilities, loss of a job, homelessness.
This is a largely unexplored field but it's so important. Racial disparity in survivors of gun violence is the focus of Dr. Kalesan's research.
Welcome Nina Walcott Wentzell. To talk about:
Current events in politics. -Trump is a racist, why can’t white America admit it? -Stereotyping Of whites -Jesus was a brown immigrant whose parents were turned away. And of course, the current and long-running:
White nationalist terrorism in America
Miles Selena Wentzell talks about looking for and finding women of color to support in upcoming elections. Where to look? How to look? How to ask? Who to look for? How do you know? What questions do we ask ourselves?
Vid The Visionary is making a way out of no way. Vid describes his process of moving forward with his life even with a tough system involved early childhood. He talks about what it takes to make a path right through the center of no early childhood with no guidance and a difficult start in life
The Biracial experience - Evolution of Race (Regional to Pigment-based) - The Racial Divide (Generational Stability & cultural history)
Black and Brown People have to build power. Black and Brown people must vote. Election 2020. Get out the vote. In this picture Ben Echacharria presents an award to another power house Yvette Wilks.
Benjamin Echevarria is the Executive Director of The Welcome Project an organization dedicated to building the collective power of immigrants to shape community decisions.
A pastor and a longtime leader in the Latino community Ben’s work in the social justice movement has led him to organizing and advocating for those whose voice isn't being heard. Ben now leads fights for equity, education, and leadership development.
On Thursday, June 20, 2019, Let's Talk About Race visits again with Annette McCarty and Choice to learn more about what happened in the aftermath of their horrific experience with 333 Huntington Ave Spa in Boston.
It seems that there is an upside. When Annette reached out, she found many helping hands. We want to talk about what Annette did to find help in this great city of Boston and who actually helped. Welcome back Annette and Choice.
Waking Up White is the book Debby Irving wishes someone had handed her decades ago. By sharing her sometimes cringe-worthy struggle to understand racism and racial tensions, she offers a fresh perspective on bias, stereotypes, manners, and tolerance. As she unpacks her own long-held beliefs about colorblindness, being a good person, and wanting to help people of color, she reveals how each of these well-intentioned mindsets actually perpetuated her ill-conceived ideas about race. She also explains why and how she’s changed the way she talks about racism, works in racially mixed groups, and understands the racial justice movement as a whole.
"We should have been treated fairly, with the utmost respect and dignity. I am concerned about the level of the nonchalance of bigotry, harassment of a child, physical assaults, racial profiling, and the change of prices rate for African American curly texture hair. This experience has tarnished my daughter. I believe we are victims of a hate crime and ugly racism. It hurts tremendously! I am a Mother reach out to you to ask for help for my daughter."
Full 7 chakra guided meditation using relaxation, guided meditation, visualization and mantras.
Jessica talked about many important emerging city topics including: "Mitigating commercial and cultural displacement (affordable housing is a pressing matter that many great organizations have as their focus. Our focus with small business and cultural institutions is synergistic with these concerns) History of race in Union Square. Future of race in Union Square: how does the new and improved Square benefit all people living here?"
Kia is a 22 year old native Bostonian, growing up in Roxbury, Dorchester. Kia is a recording artist and model. Hear more about Kia on Thursday, May 16. Her artist name is OAZ. You can find her on any social media platform, Pandora, Spotify, ITunes.
In addition to her own journey to success, Kia talked about the school to prison pipeline, community violence, the importance of engagement, and community health & awareness.
Join us.
Join A conversation about politics with LTAR co-hosts Diane Wong, Pharaoh Saunders and special return guests Lew Gitelman and Bill Cavellini. A discussion on race, civil rights, Israel, Palestine, Anti-semitism, white supremacy, capitalism, ignorance and much more. How to engage a movement. Ideas? Passion? Both?
Alex is the Coordinator of the Immigrant Services Providers Group/Health, a member of the Sanctuary City Steering Committee, the Somerville Youth Workers Network, and the Tisch Center for Community Research at Tufts Steering Committees, the Health & Legal Immigrant Solidarity Network and a member of Our Revolution Somerville. He was gentrified out of Cambridge in the late 1970’s and moved to Somerville during its not so good old days
"Growing up in neighborhoods of black and brown folks I was acutely aware of racism and the deadly effects it had on friends and people I knew. I believe the turning point in my radicalization was the advent of Black Power/Malcolm and the murder of MLK! A lot of white liberals could accept civil rights but raising the question of power was going “a bit too far” I can remember as if it happened yesterday ; I was at a Martha Reeves and the Vandellas concert when it was announced MLK had been shot and my good friend Porky Rainey said, "Lew that was the last hope for non violence. There is no turning back”. Yet here we are today and the fight for true equality and liberation still stares us in the face."
Ryan brought his voice and perspective to the show with Diane and Pharaoh to share his thoughts on race in America. Raised in a traditional and homogenous community, Ryan witnessed strict religious, gender, sexual, and racial views throughout his life. While living in Boston, Ryan has begun to recognize and confront his own biases while attempting to understand his heritage and maintain the love for the place he, for so very long, called home.
Listen to Ryan talk about 1) Being from a small rural conservative and religious area in North Carolina. 2) Living as a southerner and confronting what that identity means outside of the south 3) Casual and unapologetic racism witnessed - and finally, a conversation about white supremacy
Bill Cavellini has been a community organizer all his adult life, in New York City, Atlanta, Georgia, Cambridge and Somerville, MA. He drove a taxi cab for over thirty years in Cambridge and worked as a case manager for a Housing First Program, Journey to Success, in Boston, Revere and Chelsea for ten years before retiring in 2016.
He grew up in a segregated housing project in the Bronx, NY. His father was born in Italy, came to this country when he was seven years old. His mother is a first generation Italian American. His father was a NYC police officer and his mother was a parochial school teacher. He has lived in the Boston area since 1970, when he came to attend MIT.
Bill's experiences as a white cab driver, driving at night during the 1970-80’s in the Boston area.
How the white dispatcher favored white drivers over drivers of color and how it challenged Bill to confront his white skin privilege.
Bill talked about how his own stereotypes were challenged almost continuously throughout his driving career.
And Bill talked about the organizing efforts that he has been involved in that tried to be inclusive and diverse….the successes, the failures; and the efforts to support the struggles of people of color.
A long-time resident of Somerville, Greg Hill worked as a library technician until his retirement in 2012. Formerly a freelance photographer, he was also sole proprietor of a screen-printing shop in Cambridge.
A local activist for many years, he’s been a member of the Somerville Producers Group, Union United Coalition, Concord Ave. Community Garden, Union Square Neighborhood Council, Somerville Stands Together and Mass. Senior Action Council.
An avid amateur historian, he’s also a member of the Somerville Museum and the Mass. Historical Society.
Greg has three topics to talk about:
(1) Three Urban Inequities: Housing, Transportation, Environment (2) 2nd Topic; P.A.N.I.C. in Cambridge (We look back at how African-American workers at Polaroid in Massachusetts helped launch the divestment movement against Apartheid South Africa in the early 1970s) and finally, (3) Reflecting on the assassination of Dr. King, 41 years ago on this date, we will begin to unfold discussion of White Supremacy: past, present and future. How might white people working together begin to dismantle the system of White Supremacy?
Let's Talk About Race with Tufts University student Joy Maina. 7-8 PM, Bostonfreeradio.com. We talked with Joy about:
-how conceptualizations of Africa as a idea/concept have shown themselves to be tangent with institutional racism, and anti blackness in the education system:
-that these things really all dissected with modernity as a shift in the way an orientation of a people is defined and valued in society;
- the African diaspora colonialism ( religion ) ( capitalism ) ( modernity ) performance;
educational organizing, bsu, the power that students and families have in advocating for themselves
Peter Brown on:
1)Definition of Friend and Enemy 2)What produces the society we live in today? 3)What is the way out?
John Philpot is a highly experienced Montreal based criminal lawyer. A member of the Barreau du Québec since 1984, he has specialized in Criminal Law since 1984 and International Criminal Law since 1998. He is a pioneer in trials in International Criminal Law. He acted at the International Criminal Court in The Hague (ICC) in the Kenya file and at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in three cases. He is a judge at the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal.
Tina Cabral. March 14, 2019, 7-8 PM. Bostonfreeradio.com and Facebook live. Tonight's discussion centers on:
How do we change the culture of our race dialogue?
Who's ready to talk about race?
And, being proud of your immigrant identity!
Let's Talk About Race on Thursday, March 7 7-8 PM on bostonfreeradio.com with Wolfgang Wentzel "Wolfie". Wolfie is the son of Nina Walcott-Wentzell and Jerry Wentzell. What is Wolfie's perspective on race as it applies to him? Wolfie's mom Nina is bi-racial, Nina is the child of a white mother and a black father. His dad, Jerry Wentzell is white. So, how does Wolfgang Wentzell view himself racially. Wofie is 1/4 black and 3/4 white. How does Wolfie rationalize what race feels like to him? Does the US one drop rule still apply in any way with Gen Z's like Wolfie? Or, is being black in 2019 more a self-identified political designation? How does a 1/4 black, 3/4 white gen z young man look at race for himself? Find out this and more. Welcome Wolfgang Wentzell and let's talk about race.
As Larry describes himself: Throughout, I was always a curriculum developer, increasingly became teacher mentor/trainer, teaching for deeper understanding, making learning visible. I was always a teacher activist/community organizer for social and restorative justice, for race, class and gender equity. I believed it was critical to introduce students to understand deeply the concepts of historiography. I taught that the electoral franchise is our American birthright . My main text was Howard Zinn's "Peoples History of the United States."
Let's Talk About Race: A lively discussion with my cohost Pharaoh Saunders, contributor Nina Walcott-Wentzell and guest Lisa Ward. A discussion of current events in race, along with specific topics:
Not Black Enough Black Family Issues Vs White Family Issues Black Woman’s Strength
Let's Talk About Race
Let's Talk About Race joins co-hosts Diane Wong and Pharaoh Saunders in a discussion of Blackface and Appropriation. Why is it coming up strongly now? How does our white supremacist society factor in to some of our white citizens joy in appearing in blackface? What does it all mean? Why is there pushback against white appropriation of black culture, ideas and concerns? What about black appropriation of white beauty, eg hair, features, skin color, etc? What does it all mean? We will add our thoughts and opinions to the mix.
Our country has a long history of race oppression. Because of this largely unprocessed history, fear of discussing race permeates our national culture. Somerville is no different. We must engage with race in order to break the cycles of oppression that penetrate our lives. In celebration of Martin Luther King Day 2019 Diane Wong, in collaboration with the Somerville Media Center offered a panel of educators, activists, young people, and community members who have engaged in these critical conversations over the past year as part of Somerville resident Diane Wong’s ongoing podcast of the same name.
The event happened on January 19th from 11am-2pm at Somerville Media Center and featured a panel discussion , community meal, and break out dialogues with trained facilitators which answered the questions “Where are we now?” and “Where do we go from here?”
Let's Talk About Race, Thursday, January 24, 7-8PM, meet Byron, "Byron the poet" Morgan, Marcus "Takz" Alimayu and Lewis "Xanza" Gay. Creators of the podcast, "Future//Perfect".
Join us for stimulating conversation on: - Racial ambiguity; the psychological effects and its benefits/perks - If white folks lost control of the capitalist system we live in, would they be ok with that? What would a world look like in that instance? - Empathy and the importance of owning the narrative about black history, the present, and the future
Join us in discussion with "Future//Perfect!"
Yosef brought great discussion to the show. Come listen to the discussion: "I was thinking ...of talking about... my Sicilian background and a little of my story, my messianic Jewish background/ antisemitism, and Palestine/Israel: Also faith matters in race relations, like Martin Luther King and his faith as a minister. And, my perspective on the solution to racism."
White Privilege. Ok, why do nearly all people of color, especially black people get this, but whites can be clueless? Why is that? What about the shifting history of who is white in America? What do we make of all that?
Police brutality, inter-sectional feminism, and building generational wealth to close the racial wealth gap. We talk about it all.
Founder of production company RMC Pictures, Raeshelle writes about the many misadventures of love, with music and spoken word often leading the narratives. She's also recently started writing films with social commentary in them, telling them in a Twilight Zone-inspired way. She's won 3 film awards, one from the LA Film Awards; she had a film screen at the Reel to Real Film Promotion featuring Omari Hardwick in NY this year; and her new film Wrath City screened all across the country and was even accepted to the Africa Movie Academy Awards this year.
Henry will talk to us about the early days being a black family in Somerville, MA, attendance at the local high school and his experience in a black college. Topics we will discuss include: 1. Race in Somerville 2. Race national and international 3. The system of white supremacy. Join us at 7PM on December 20 and learn about early black family life in somerville, MA. Meet Henry Parker.
Meet Halley Murray, Northeast Regional Coordinator of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement and Chair of the local chapter Uhuru Solidarity Movement Uhuru solidarity Movement Boston; and Allie Aiello, National Secretary of USM and Chair of the Birthday Fundraisers for the . They will talk about The Uhuru Solidarity Movement and why white people owe reparations.
The Woman and the Land. Morocco, land of magic.
"I am not an Arab and North Africans are not really Arabs. We were colonized by the Arabs during the Islamic invasions dating back to 7th century." Najat Kessler.
Najat talks about:
-Being a woman in the world -The magical land of Morocco -Acceptance, love, and gratitude to heal our old wounds
The topic is Reparations: We are working with the hypothetical situation where it is determined that Reparations are in order. So, let's design the program. Who should the program be designed to reparate? In other words, Who should get get paid and why? And, Who should decide who gets gets? How should it all work? We will start off with the show hosts making a pitch for what they think. Then, we ask you to call in and participate. Get ready to talk about Race. Get ready to talk about Reparations. Hypothetically, we have it. Now who should get paid?
"Recognizing racism in Trump's Republican Party." Gen Z, Millennials. How do they define "whiteness" and what role does whiteness play in racism in and out of the republican party? Hear from white young people on racism in the US and more.
Learning podcast skills by creating a podcast. A deep discussion about bring forth your authentic self and creating space for others.
Race and policing, working through difficult issues in the heat of the moment. Keeping to the letter of the law.
Let's Talk About Race presents K,C McConnell on Thursday, October 11, 7-8 PM for a conversation on the intersection of race/gender and religion.
K.C. McConnell was raised in the suburbs surrounding Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 2016 with a BA in Religion with a Concentration in Gender and Sexuality Studies. She currently attends Harvard Divinity School and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy as a dual degree candidate, and will graduate with a Master in Theological Studies and Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy in 2020. She has spent extensive time living and researching in northern and central India. Most recently, she spent summer 2018 at a cow sanctuary in Jabalpur.
Jerry Wentzel. Jerry describes himself as a non-trump supporting white guy. An American. Jerry is married and has a family with Nina Walcott-Wentzel, a biracial, black/white woman. We talked with Jerry about what it means to live with acceptance amongst black people. And what it means to be that white guy in the age of Trump. The ins and the outs of living with race.
Diane Wong identifies as a black woman from a long time multiracial family. This is her story.
What are New England school systems doing about race issues? How are they choosing to address increasing diversity and widening achievement gaps? What should they do? Join Kate to talk about race in our school systems.
Creating a podcast that works requires that you find your voice. And then follow your intuition. Don't think about doing a podcast. Create a podcast and see what happens.
Relax and meditate on your path in life. Create the dreams that make you feel your authentic self.
Kathryn talked with us about the black family, about the particular challenges and rewards inherent in nurturing a black family in a white supremacist society. She talked about her own personal black family related experiences as well as her professional experiences leading a family related organization that serves communities of color.
Working to heal body, mind and spirit. Bringing the third eye in line with the heart to bring you step by step toward your heart's desire.
Buffalo Soldiers. My Winslow ancestor, my mom's dad Cedric Dillard Winslow served in the 10th calvary at Fort Huachuca 1917-1920. He fought in the August 1918 battle of Ambos Nogales, - keeping the US border "safe" from "foreign" troops. He and his Buffalo Soldier comrades then participated in the building of the first permanent border fence separating two towns anywhere on the U.S.-Mexico border.
My dad, Seihong David Wong born as the eldest son in a prosperous Chinese household. Number one son, his siblings called him. At 10 his Chinese dad was deported. He, his 4 siblings and his black/native american Irish mother moved into her brothers shotgun home with her brothers family of six children. They settled into life in the black segregated neighborhoods of Cleveland ohio. His life changed, forever.
Focus on the heart chakra to help you identify your hearts desire. Work with the heart chakra in all its detail to bring about love and happiness that lasts.
Omaru is "a native born American whose parents immigrated from Sierra Leone in search of a better life for their children and family. Growing up as a first generation American I have been fortunate to have experienced two distinct and colorful cultures that have molded me to the person I am today. The skills I learned navigating both cultures has allowed me to face challenges with a perspective that unites the two. With these experiences and growing up as an African American male, it became obvious that I didn’t fit into either mold of being “Black” enough or African enough in the respective communities. One thing that was consistent was that I was a Black man to the rest of the world."
We will talk about Three Topics:
Navigating a predominately white Undergraduate Institution as an African American
Growing up as a 1st generation American
The importance of mentorship
A few years back, Genevieve was struggling with her self esteem, the need to set boundaries and overall need to simply improve her relationship with herself. There are many young women struggling like Genevieve was a few years ago. Today, Genevieve joins us to talk to us about her struggles and her triumphs so that she can help other young people like herself, struggling to live and thrive in a white supremacist, thin oriented society. Genevieve took many steps to helping herself, including taking the opportunity to cohost her radio show, Boston Come Through.
Jordana Hart is a serious ally. Located in Miami, Jordana, an immigration lawyer works with the South Miami People of Color group on Sitting in the Fire race dialogue. Race dialogue that stays in the heat of the moment to allow transformation and new beginnings to occur. White Privilege? Hear about it right here. Learn what it takes to be a strong and committed white ally on our journey toward race renewal.
Full Body Scan, clear and balance the heart chakra. What is your heart's Desire? Feel it!
Race, the Big Picture. Donald Trump is the perfect representation of the United States as it makes its energetic way out of martyrdom and the patriarchy. A larger than life figure that captures the essence of the American Empire. The mask that the US is wearing right now. To show where we are with race we looked at the Holy Light Tarot and asked, Where are we now? The US symbolized by the 10 of cups -but at its darkest, just before the dawn. How to reach the promise of the 10 of Cups? Leap into the unknown -Justice Reversed -A family gathered round a mother dispensing karmic justice, -to each according to need. The challenge? Again, to gain the promise of the 10 of cups: End the incessant squabbling (3 of swords), learn to listen and speak with the heart.
Dr Hobbs is the Coordinator of African American Studies at Valdosta State University. She studied at Florida A&M University. Her award winning book Democracy Abroad, Lynching at home tells the story of racial violence in Florida. Her talk tonight is on Awkward Dinners, a way to engage thoughtful, meaningful discussions on race with a mixed race audience.
Anita is Korean American but with the emphasis on American. She was raised mainly American. We talk about being persons of color in a white dominated society attending predominantly white institutions. She does not speak much Korean. Just a few words here and there. Her parents wanted the children to be American and that is how they grew up.
Cathy Bernatt is white, Jewish woman, a process worker studying and teaching Sitting in the Fire. We talk about Cathy growing up in Canada and Florida learning to recognize and process structural and systemic racism. In this podcast we discuss ways to recognize your own internalized racism.
The show starts a little over 4 minutes in. So, cue up 4 minutes and start listening.
Andrew and I are practicing talking about race. Making it easier to do, even fun to do. Andrew self identifies as white male. Born and raised in Chicago Andrew was racialized as a white man. He is also Jewish. How does an historical Jewish person morph into a white person. To hear the answer to this, start listening now.
Joyce Lewis is a white woman, the mother of two white and two black sons. Her family talks about race. Race is very complex. No one's experience of race is the same. Its time for us to talk about race. Its time for us to heal race issues in this country. Joyce has a facebook presence and she brings up race boldly. Joyce is comfortable talking about race. She lived in the Cambridge black community for years. So, Joyce talks about race and she is comfortable calling people out on their racism. Joyce thinks its part of her responsibility to be part of our national racial discussion.
Nina is a biracial woman. A long time resident of Cambridge, MA. Nina's husband, Jerry, is white. They both grew up in Cambridge, MA. The focus is on being biracial. Katie is a white woman with 3 biracial children. Nina talks about growing up in Cambridge as a biracial child.
How did we get where we are today on race. What is the long historical perspective. What happens when we look at the macrocosm. Looking at white supremacy looking through the long lens of history. Pharaoh Saunders discusses some of the factors that led to white cultural dominance. And notes that although we are still in the grips of white supremacy and white cultural dominance, it hasn't always been that way. If you look at the world before white cultural dominance, we see the age of arab islamic supremacy. Join us. Listen and learn.
Many years a teacher at the Rindge and Latin School in Cambridge, MA, Larry knows about race and race history in Cambridge, and in the US. Larry talks about "what is race?". And the history of the narrative about the human race. Larry starts off saying, "there is no such thing, scientifically, as race". Race is a construct, but racism pervades everything in our culture
Before World War II, German people, like many people in Europe and elsewhere migrated to different parts of Europe to live, create communities and raise families. In our discussion of race tonight Lena talks about her German origin family who had no participation in the German army at all, and indeed were living in Hungary for generations. Post WWII this family and their whole village were evaculated from their farms, homes, lands, animals, friends and forced to move to Germany with nothing simply because they were German ethnic and German Speaking. Let's Talk About Race.
The DeCola family joined Let's Talk About Race for a discussion of the challenges inherent in raising decent, non-racist, white children growing up in the age of Trump. How does one family respond to the challenges of raising children who are self-aware and successful in these troubling times? Join us for an empowering discussion on Let's Talk About Race.
White people have been deluded into believing they are superior. Religion has played a big part in this delusion. We need to uncover that and bring out the truth. All we have is this moment and all we have is each other in this moment. When we fall, we are called to help each other up. We are ultimately vulnerable human beings.
Diane Wong, a black woman with a multiracial family background talks about race from her personal perspective.
HOW CAN WHITE PEOPLE UNLEARN RACISM & WHITE SUPREMACY BELIEFS?
Unlearning racism requires reaching both the “head” and the “heart” of white Americans. White Americans need to learn the actual, accurate historical facts of our nation. At the same time, white Americans need to identify with and feel human kinship with Americans of color. Cognitive learning – learn the facts of what really happened as our nation was founded and how the structures of white supremacy continue today. Emotional learning – begin to see how different it is to be a person of color living in the US then a white person and how unfair those differences in advantages/unearned privileges are.
Full body scan and relaxation with focus on the three physical chakras. Once you have everything you need, you are feeling ground and ready, all the ideas spring forward with ease. Now its time for the fire in the belly. Time to take action, to move forward. Take a first step and then another. Let the Universe guide the way, but definitely take that action step.
A young 20 something couple enjoying a long-term interracial relationship. Here in 2018 what is it like to date interracially? How is interracial socializing and dating evolving? Are there ways that it is still the same? Race is a big deal in American society. Are we making progress? What about the education of black children? How are predominantly white institutions affecting black children's? In what ways is a Predominantly white institution doing well and in what ways does it fail black children?
Focus on the heart chakra. Breathe into it. Let all blockages evaporate. Let the Universe send stream after stream of whatever it is you want into your life. Allow. Focus on the mantra HAM, HAM, HAM. See it, feel it, be it. What will make you happy?
On Let's Talk About Race Nina Walcott-Wentzell. Nina and her husband Jerry are an interracial couple. A married couple for 25 years. 25 years of life together with 3 children. What are our stories about race. What are the stories we hear and know and tell ourselves. Nina's stories led her to a successful, happy, interracial marriage that still thrives today after 25 years of marriage. What are some of the stories you tell yourself? Do they make you happy about you, about your life? What about your stories?
Co-create your reality with passion and fullness. Love is a power available to all. You just have to feel it.
Heather McCormack is passionate about using the power of community media to engage all people, especially those who are traditionally underrepresented, in telling their stories in ways that are empowering, accessible, and active in promoting social change. Heather talks about the problems with gentrification in Somerville and what we can do about it.
Angel Lozada, Diane Wong and Pharaoh Saunders discuss James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time. We look wondering what it will really take for white people in this country to commit to dismantle white supremacy? What will it take to get white people to look at themselves and give up the false notion of "white innocence"? What will it take for white people to seek out black leadership - leadership tempered by centuries of hatred, disregard and deep suffering in the hopes that Black Americans can save us all?
Veronica talks about her mother's passage to America. Not in flight from Castro, but before. Veronica's mother chose to migrate to the US to make a better life for herself before the revolution caused great upheaval of the people. Here we talk about Cubans and whiteness. Many if not most white Cubans, the ones with status and money, fled the island. Most of the Cubans that remain are black and mestizo. The question we ask is: are Cubans in Miami - Cuban first and white or black second? One answer is that for White Cubans, race trumps nationality. Many if not most white Cubans are white first and Cuban somewhere second. It seems that the scourge of white supremacy is everywhere and doesn't seem to be abating.
How can we realistically educate children in racialized America when teachers don't feel and appreciate their implicit bias? Here at the dawning of the 21st century, the issue of race remains unprocessed. We don't seem willing and able to look closely enough at ourselves to make the shifts and changes needed in our soon to be majority "minority" white supremacist society. Some of our teachers are willing, but they need help. Who will help them learn to process their racial understanding of superiority/inferiority? Do they need to learn about their own biases implicit and explicit, before they can undertake teaching in a racist society. Why will help our teachers teach an accurate American history? Here we are post-slavery, post-jim crow, post blatant, legal discrimination and still we aren't willing to look at ourselves and our white supremacism past and present. Who will help our teachers teach a non-racist curriculum? Are we willing to look at ourselves and teach our children something closer to the truth about America? Are we willing? Or will we melt, like snowflakes in the sun?
Let's Talk About Race: Sam Simpson on the idea that God as we have known him is wrong We are working on understanding race in the big picture. I'm talking with guests, some of whom have ideas about how we must develop in order to finally put conflict involving race behind us. There are many questions to answer. Or at least ideas and questions to look at. Is it time for us to put the notion of God as an entity separate from ourselves away? Is that notion, just as the notion of race, merely a social construct, developed in some far off time to serve some purpose that is now complete? It is clear that new ideas, new ways must emerge to move us beyond violence, distrust and hate. But what are those ways and who must develop them? Engage with this discussion and see if any insight can be gleaned to help us on our way. Keep listening Thursday nights 7-8 PM Eastern time on Bostonfreeradio.com.
Let's Talk About Race with David Bedrick. A stimulating, free flowing discussion of race focused on hate, where it comes from, shame and racism.
3 diverse millennials living in Cambridge MA talk about race and the racial divide. How is race played out in the North East? Should we do something differently?
How did we get to this place of hatred and inequality in the United States of America? This question is complex and requires a longer look at history. But when we take the time to look, the answers are all there.
-White Supremacy and Christianity are the underlying currents on basically all oppressions - Angel Lozada
Join me and my cohost Pharaoh Saunders to talk with Angel Lozada about White Supremacy, and how its collusion with Christianity found a home in capitalism and lead us to the entrenched income inequality, and race/gender discrimination quagmire that we find ourselves stuck in today.
And equally importantly, what can we each do about it?
Crystal is a dynamite Media Personality, DJ host of Boston Come Through, on bostonfreeradio.com, multi-technologically gifted media Producer including: the award winning Dear Little Black Girl, Black Boy. Crystal is a leader in Boston's Black Millennials demonstrating Boston Black Talent/Black excellence. Crystal talks with cohosts Diane Wong and Pharaoh Saunders about her work demonstrating black boston excellence.
Escaping Hitler, Dahlia's great grandparents landed in Mexico from Eastern Europe. From there, her parents moved to Canada where Dahlia was born. When you see Dahlia, you might think you see just another white woman, but this Jewish woman has deep roots in Mexico. She learned Spanish before English and her home girl comfort foods are burritos, tortillas, tacos and refried beans. Dahlia knows who she is, she is more than just another white woman. Is race important? Maybe, but more than race, we are very much reflections of our cultural upbringing.
Guided meditation to help you realize your purpose. To allow the Universe to flow through you.
Three millennials who find themselves sharing 2018 space and time in Cambridge/Somerville, MA. Join us as we Talk About Race. We are a deeply racialized society thus, everyone has a story about race. Some of us are fully aware of race operating in our lives, some of us are less aware. But, aware or not, race plays a huge part in the unfolding of the world all around us, and the unfolding of our lives. Luca, Pharaoh and Andrew talk about what race means to them.
Peter Ruggiero is an adjunct professor of English, writing and literature in universities in the Boston area and other places in the US. Through his work, Peter often works with immigrants improving their English writing skills in preparation for new life as Americans. We talked about anti-black sentiment detected in new immigrants and we discussed reasons for that. We also speculated about why African-Americans are kept at the bottom of the social ranking of groups in the US. As a purportedly egalitarian society, we need to heal to allow all of our people to reach their full potential but before we get to that, there are matters that must be brought out of the shadows and discussed.
Let's Talk About Race with Gwendolyn VanSant: Berkshires, Founding Director Multicultural Bridge
Gwendolyn developed award winning cultural competence trainings in Western Massachusetts. She is the founding Director of Equity and Inclusion at Bard College at Simon's Rock. In 2015-16 Gwendolyn was recognized as a "Berkshire Trendsetter" by 1 Berkshire as an entrepreneur/vision of the year while Multicultural Bridge was recognized with the Nonprofit impact award. In 2016 Berkshire Magazine named Gwendolyn one of the 25 most creative, talented and influential leaders in the Berkshires. Gwendolyn consults on a full range of equity issues including: Translating talk of reparations into practice. See more about her work on: GwendolynVanSant.com