Ep 7: Everyone is Racist‪!‬ The Joyous Justice Podcast

April and Tracie unpack the notion that everyone is racist, naming the trauma and the cost of racism. Their conversation delves deep into the American investment in systemic racism and the human and environmental effects of systems of oppression.

Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at JewsTalkRacialJustice.com

Learn more about April’s work at Joyous Justice
Learn about Tracie at TracieGuyDecker.com and read more of her thoughts at B’more Incremental

Resources mentioned:
• Joy DeGruy's Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome
• Vernā Myers on biases
• James Baldwin's actual quote was "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
• Langston Hughes' poem Let America Be America Again
• More on the concept of Restorative Justice
• For more on teshuvah (return) listen to our Yom Kippur episode (S1 E3)!
• Movement for Black Lives Policy Platforms
• More about environmental racism and the disproportionate negative effects of climate change on communities of color from the Atlantic.