After Charlottesville my wife and I attended a talk on race in our community. There were probably 8 white guys in a room of 120 people of color. When the open mic time came, I would guess 40% of the people speaking where the 8 white guys in the crowd... that was probably my first real lesson in starting to understand the toxic nature of white privilege. Full disclosure, I’m a 35 Y/O white dude from Idaho. I have a pretty respectable life. I have enough financial and social walls and safety nets that getting out of my own bubble is incredibly difficult. Escaping how I see the world is an immense challenge for me anyway as I am a fairly ego-centric person by nature. I also have zero black friends who live here.. basically because (for probably a lot of awful reasons) black people don’t live here much. In the end I don’t get to see the world through the eyes of a black person much. I have emmense privilege, but I sadly don’t have access to that important and valuable perspective. That’s why I am so thankful for this podcast. It’s helping me see how I can prune my own poor (and at times highly misguided or to my great shame outright racist) thinking. I don’t know what to do about racism in our country. But I am done.. I don’t know what has to be done, but I am committed to the fight for the long haul. I think this podcast is an amazing resource. Thank you for sharing your world!
