Episode 23: International & Interracial Relations: Maintaining your identity.

Happy Friday BU&Y Family! Episode 23 of the Between Us & Y’all Podcast is available for your listening pleasure. This is our FINAL EPISODE for Season 1!! This has been such an awesome journey. Nafees & I have learned so much from all of our guests and look forward to what’s to come in future Seasons. We thank you for your support, for listening in, and for being a part of our BU&Y family. We appreciate you!

In this final episode, we are joined by one of our favorite Mama/son duos and dear friends Mama Adero & her son Nadir. We have been friends with them for close to ten years, with Nadir being one of Nafees’ first best friends, so it is only appropriate that we end Season 1 with this type of friend & guest just as our first guests to the podcast were also of this same friend type. Mama Adero ‘Nas’ as we affectionately call Nadir has always been an amazing resource to Nafees and I and so many others and we are grateful for having them in our lives. We learned so much from them in this episode as we discussed the topic of International & Interacial Relations, focusing on Maintaining your identity.

As families of African centered, religious, and any other tight-knit community type within communities of African descent, we want to create space for our young people who come from these backgrounds and who need to be prepared to enter general society at some point. We want to arm our young people with the tools to communicate, do business, etc. with people who don’t look and think like them while also teaching them how to maintain their unique identities during those processes.

Sometimes this process may involve a conversation about topics that are not comfortable for certain families who are not in favor of interracial or even international relationships/friendships of the same race or community type. Although it may be uncomfortable, creating space for this type of dialogue will allow our families to work through differences before they become things that cause communication blockages or other breakdowns in our family structures. When our young people are able to function successfully on the foundations set at home in the larger society, it is then that we can learn about the lessons we have instilled in them.

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It was awesome to hear Nafees & Nas dialogue on their experiences of entering into community & educational spaces that were drastically different from what they were used to and how they endured. It was also encouraging to learn how Mama Adero has supported Nas in this new path in life and how that process was very similar to my own.

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We give thanks for everything shared with us and our listeners on the topic and hope you will too. 

About our guests:

Mother, wife, Virtual Assistant at Kilombo

Rising Senior Prescott College (Regenerative Ecological Design major), Musician

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Family motto: “If you get, give, if you learn, teach.”-Maya Angelou