Coming up on the best of Black History year, we have to escape the plantation today.

Stay tuned. Contrary to what you might think, many of us are living on plantations in the present day.

The plantations look vastly different than our forebearers, but white supremacy

continues to trap us within these violent systems. We don't have to remain disconnected

from our needs, dignity, and freedom.

In November 2021, Dr. Christina Cleveland, a social psychologist, public theologian, author, and

activists, walked Jay through a guide exploring what leaving the plantation

entails. Imagine it just came off a 18 hour work day. It's 5 in the morning now you have to get up

to go to work despite being depressively exhausted.

The labor is back-breaking, physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually back-breaking.

And though you need to sleep in and take care of your well-being, you ask yourself,

How will I survive if I take space to nurture myself?

What violence awaits if I choose freedom?

I'm Jay from Push Black and you're listening to Black History Year. Now I may have sounded like I was describing a situation from slavery, life on a

plantation. But no, that's the reality for many of us today and the psychology is no different than most of us navigating this anti-Black

world working and living on the plantations that exist in our daily lives.

To break free from the generational chains shackling us to white supremacy requires a level of

healing that today's guest understands deeply.

Dr. Christina Cleveland is the social psychologist,

public theologian, author, activist,

and as founder and director of the Center for Justice and Renewal,

Christina urges justice advocates and others alike

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