45 min
"Is the American Dream at the expense of the American Negro?" Does That Question Still Resound Today? Uncomfortable but Necessary Conversations with Nicole Jennings
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- Society & Culture
In 2020, most people don't walk around calling Black people "Negros." Still, the question asked during a debate in 1965 by essayist, playwright, novelist, and voice of the American civil rights movement James Baldwin and founder of the conservative journal National Review, William F. Buckley. The debate was held at the Cambridge Union, and the question that held the audience captive and that also gave James Baldwin a standing ovation was "Is the American Dream at the expense of the American Negro?"
We will enter this episode of Uncomfortable but Necessary Conversation by listening to a portion of the speech given by James Baldwin and then move into the discussion of why must Black people become "storytellers" of their repeat acts of microaggressions and racism for the world around us to remain motivated to do what is right in the fight to end systemic racism and inequality?
The truth of the matter is that after watching the murder of George Floyd, Ahmad Aubry, Breonna Taylor, and the like; for what has seemed like it was on repeat until the Presidential election overtook our airwaves; Black people shouldn't need to open their mouths for the world to be "awakened" to what we as Black people have been saying for centuries. Furthermore, if you are still holding to "everything isn't always about race, I don't see the color of people I just see humans and the I am not a racisist" vernacular. You choose to remain oblivious because racism's impacts must not impact you or anyone you care about enough to be enlightened to the current state of our affairs.
Join me as I guide you through my perspective on the matter and leave you with a summation of the Baldwin speech by author Nicholas Buccola who recently wrote about that debate in 1965 is coming to fruition in the year 2020 in our politics and the world around us.
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nicole-jennings/message
In 2020, most people don't walk around calling Black people "Negros." Still, the question asked during a debate in 1965 by essayist, playwright, novelist, and voice of the American civil rights movement James Baldwin and founder of the conservative journal National Review, William F. Buckley. The debate was held at the Cambridge Union, and the question that held the audience captive and that also gave James Baldwin a standing ovation was "Is the American Dream at the expense of the American Negro?"
We will enter this episode of Uncomfortable but Necessary Conversation by listening to a portion of the speech given by James Baldwin and then move into the discussion of why must Black people become "storytellers" of their repeat acts of microaggressions and racism for the world around us to remain motivated to do what is right in the fight to end systemic racism and inequality?
The truth of the matter is that after watching the murder of George Floyd, Ahmad Aubry, Breonna Taylor, and the like; for what has seemed like it was on repeat until the Presidential election overtook our airwaves; Black people shouldn't need to open their mouths for the world to be "awakened" to what we as Black people have been saying for centuries. Furthermore, if you are still holding to "everything isn't always about race, I don't see the color of people I just see humans and the I am not a racisist" vernacular. You choose to remain oblivious because racism's impacts must not impact you or anyone you care about enough to be enlightened to the current state of our affairs.
Join me as I guide you through my perspective on the matter and leave you with a summation of the Baldwin speech by author Nicholas Buccola who recently wrote about that debate in 1965 is coming to fruition in the year 2020 in our politics and the world around us.
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nicole-jennings/message
45 min