Dang, Bruh! When Brothas Let Us Down

Truth's Table

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Ekemini and Christina are at the table talking about the arrest of Jonathan Majors and the allegations of abuse that occured shortly after the nationwide release of Creed III. They have a broader conversation about why this news hit the Black community hard and when do we determine when to call in, call out, and cast out within our community. Pull up a chair and have a seat at the table with us!

Links referred to in the show:

NPR: “Actor Jonathan Majors was arrested on charges of assault and harassment” https://www.npr.org/2023/04/02/1167645498/actor-jonathan-majors-was-arrested-on-charges-of-assault-and-harassment

A Conversation Between Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg2t5b0m2d4

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0:00.0	This episode of Truths Table is brought to you by our NAACP Image Award nominated book,
0:06.5	Truths Table, Black Women's Musings on Life, Love and Liberation. Get it where all books are sold.
0:30.0	Through these years and we are inviting you to partner with us and support our work at patreon.com slash Truths Table.
0:37.6	Now pull up a chair and have a seat at the table with us.
0:41.3	Hey y'all, welcome to Truths Table, Midwives of Culture for Grayson Truth. I'm Camini and I'm Christina.
0:47.4	This table is built by Black Women and for Black Women. So welcome to the table, see how you doing, guh!
0:52.8	I'm out here and we're doing. We're doing the things.
0:59.5	I'm doing okay today. It has been a doozy of 2023. Lots of ups, lots of downs, you know, level to the ground.
1:07.7	Right.
1:08.7	But here we are. How are you doing today?
1:10.7	I'm good. I'm good. I'm in my, um, Annie, um, you know, um, the someone come out tomorrow.
1:16.7	Annie, bag, there you go. Yes, for those who do not have patreon.
1:22.9	You've got to keep up with my hair styles and functions. Today she is rocking these ringlet curls.
1:28.9	I, I have a Truths Table exclusive baseball cap upon my head by the way.
1:34.1	So this two could be yours. This two could be yours. So that's what's going on today.
1:39.3	Well, you know, we have quite the discussion before us today.
1:43.3	What's on the table? What's on the table? Dang, bro. Dang. That is literally the topic for today.
1:51.7	What happens when we are disappointed by black men and the y'all know, y'all know the context for this.
1:59.3	But it's a much larger conversation. I think that we're going to be able to have today by God's grace.
2:04.5	And then I pray that we handle it well, um, and thoughtfully and, um, yeah, with a whole lot of wisdom.
2:11.3	So we're going to need, we're going to need a lot of work to help us do that for sure.
2:13.7	But then tell the people the context. If it's just in case they haven't been on this planet.
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