Dr. Monea Tamara - "Racial Justice and Grounding Force"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

Yoga, Health & Fitness, Yogateacher, Alternative Health, Yogaindustry, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Dr. Monea Tamara Abdul-Majeed, Racial Justice Educator and Yoga Teacher, talks with J about anti-racism and the need for all voices to be heard. They discuss having courageous conversations with family and friends, change making from top down and bottom up, radical viewpoints and self care, understanding privilege without shaming, being resilient in the face of entrenched injustice, performative allyship vs real dialogue, the fraught polarization of our current politics and being forced to choose the lesser of evils in the coming election.

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0:00.0	All right, whoever you are that just hit play.
0:14.6	We are in a now or never situation.
0:18.1	This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast.
0:21.3	My name is Jay Brown, and I'm glad you're here.
0:24.1	Thank you very much.
0:25.0	Welcome, if you're new.
0:26.8	What's up?
0:27.6	Everyone else.
0:29.8	And if you have been around, then you've heard the refrain before, I'm afraid,
0:35.2	that I've waited to the last minute to record this.
0:40.4	And it's because I try not to come into this with a bad vibe.
0:45.9	You know, I don't want to put out more fear or dismay into the universe, you know.
0:54.4	But it's kind of hard to not feel fearful and dismayed right now.
0:59.6	I was texting with my sister.
1:01.2	She lives in Vancouver, Washington.
1:04.0	There's no daylight.
1:05.4	There's no, the sun is blotted out by the fires that are raging. And California's on fire.
1:16.1	Remember Australia was on fire not that long ago? Now California's on fire. It's like it's
1:22.2	right there in front of us. And you don't see like the kind of coming together and mobilization around
1:31.9	common tragedy that you would expect. Yesterday was 9-11. And I was in New York when 9-11 happened.
1:39.5	And on some level, the country came together. I mean, it was a Republican president. We hated him.
1:45.8	But after that tragedy, we weren't like, you know.
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