Embodied Blackness: Colorism Part 2

Truth's Table

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 19 August 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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*TRIGGER WARNING* In this episode, Ekemini, Michelle, and Christina discuss Charlottesville and conclude the colorism series with a look at the global, historical and sociological impact of colorism on the diaspora. Pull up a chair and grab some tissues for this heart-wrenching episode. Articles referenced in this show: SKIN COLOR DIFFERENCES IN STRATIFICATION OUTCOMES: Colorism Over Time and Across Race by Eona Harrison Colorism as Racism: Garvey, Du Bois and the Other Color Line by Ibram X. Kendi Skin Lightening: The Beauty Industry's Ugly Billion-dollar Secret by Lester Davids Hosts: Michelle Higgins (twitter.com/AfroRising) Christina Edmondson (twitter.com/DrCEdmondson) Ekemini Uwan (twitter.com/sista_theology) Producer: Joshua Heath (twitter.com/J_DotMusic4) Executive Producer: Beau York (twitter.com/TheRealBeauYork) Special Thanks To: RAAN - www.RAANetwork.org (twitter.com/RAANetwork) Podastery - www.podastery.com (twitter.com/Podastery) Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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0:00.0	This episode is dedicated to the memory of Heather Hire. Rest in peace. Oh, yeah. Hey y'all, y'all,
0:28.0	welcome to Truth's table, midwives of culture for Grace and Truth.
0:32.0	I'm a Kimony.
0:32.9	I'm Michelle.
0:34.1	And I'm Christina.
0:35.9	This table is built by black woman and four black women.
0:38.6	So welcome to the table sisters.
0:40.0	How y'all doing?
0:42.1	Well. How y'all doing? Well, oh well.
0:47.0	Well, I am angry today.
0:48.0	I am angry.
0:52.0	I am. I was just talking to a dear friend of mine and we were talking about how
0:59.1	over last weekend it almost feels like in the household of faith, just for a minute, can we just talk to the people in the house? Park there.
1:10.0	In the household of faith, it's been harder to deal with going to church on Sunday and waking up and reading your emails or your Facebook posts and blogs on Monday. it's harder to do that than it has been to deal with, to denounce, to face what happened in Charlottesville.
1:31.0	And that is disturbing to me. That is disturbing. Like my Sunday
1:36.3	through today has been I mean forget the president calling terrorism beautiful
1:41.9	forget that.
1:44.0	Let's talk about how the household of faith is exchanging warnings and we're treating each other like terrorists.
1:51.0	That's been the hard thing for me.
1:55.2	Sorry I just went there but I am curious right now I am mad. It's real.
2:00.4	It's real. It's real. It's real. It, yeah. It's a lot and yeah it's just forget the agenda. We gonna we gonna get to what we gonna get to by God's grace but this matters and it's important.
2:14.0	How about you, see, where are you at, girl?
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