A’ja Wilson on inspiring the next generation with ‘Dear Black Girls’

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The Washington Post

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🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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In this conversation recorded for Washington Post Live on Feb. 15, two-time WNBA champion A’ja Wilson discusses her new book, “Dear Black Girls: How to Be True to You,” as well as how her grandmother made her a dreamer, what brought her to basketball and why Black women and girls need to have “the talk” that’s associated with Black men and boys since the death of Trayvon Martin.”

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0:00.0	I'm Jonathan Kapart and welcome to Kapart. In 2021, W.N. Bia
0:05.8	player Asia Wilson wrote an essay for the Player's Tribune entitled Dear Black
0:10.4	Girls, the two-time W. N. B. A. Champion, two-time MVP for the Las Vegas Aces and Olympic Gold Medalist,
0:17.7	Team USA, said the reaction to her essay is what led to her new book,
0:22.9	Dear Black Girls, how to be true to you.
0:26.4	Wilson stresses, this is not a self-help girl boss
0:29.6	or ten ways to become a champion book.
0:32.2	In this conversation first recorded for Washington Post
0:35.1	live on February 15th, Wilson talks about how her grandmother made her a dreamer,
0:40.3	how she came to basketball after avoiding it, why her dad said her game when she first got into
0:46.2	basketball was, quote, trash, and why black women and girls need to have the talk that's been
0:52.1	associated with black men and boys since the death of Trayvon Martin.
0:56.0	Talk would be the same as to be aware of your surroundings.
0:59.0	Understand that you are a target no matter what and just put yourself in possibly the safe place that you can be in that moment and
1:06.0	understand that no one is truly safe that it could happen to anybody and so to help prevent that you kind of have to be aware.
1:12.7	My mom always tells me to this day,
1:14.8	be aware of your surroundings.
1:15.9	It doesn't matter that you're a professional athlete.
1:17.7	It doesn't matter that you're a professional athlete. It doesn't matter that you're dribble basketball
1:20.5	well in that city.
1:21.7	It's just like, no, you're still a black woman in
1:23.7	America you have to survive.
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