***Trigger Warning***
Past Listen - PoliTea podcast: Episode 81: “Normalizing Trump’s Hate Harms Children” (Released May 17, 2018)
“We have covered quite a bit: the attack on food programs and food assistance programs for mothers and children. There are a lot of groups that are participating in the #HandsOffSnap and #ProtectSnap effort, really basically calling out Trump’s regime to cut programs proven to really have a positive effect on and outcomes for pregnant women and their children, and especially since black women are 3 to 4 times more likely to suffer from complications due to birthing and even death.” - Ifeoma
“So in a conversation with sheriffs, Trump decided to say that undocumented immigrants quote, ‘These aren’t people. These are animals.’” - Turquoise
“I remember some folks even tweeting, ‘If I hear sh*thole countries one more time’ and my whole thing was like, I have absolutely no problem introducing myself at events being like, “I am a proud first generation member of a sh*thole country’ because I have to remind people that with all the, whether you invite me to this space or not, this man, with just a couple words, will completely erase your humanity, completely erase it. And in some ways we have to remind ourselves that this is the kind of nation that we’re under, and we need to stop fooling ourselves as to what it is that he’s signaling.” - Ifeoma
“Clint Smith put out a really good tweet that I retweeted that says, ‘Before enslavement Africans were called “apes.” Before the Holocaust Jewish people were called “rats.” Before the Rwandan genocide Tutsis were called “cockroaches.” Calling undocumented people “animals” as the president just did gravely serious. It’s not just an offensive word.’ And that literally encapsulates why I don’t give a f*ck where you fall on the side of the aisle, you can’t let this dude call people any type of animal reference, even if it’s just for the simple fact that we have history that has shown that that has led to the desensitization of a people’s existence, and we don’t even need to leave outside of the United States.” - Ifeoma
"That’s where we’re putting babies. And it underlines the fact that they are committed to removing children from their family. Because the detention centers are overflowing at max capacity so they’re looking for other locations, and what they’re going to do is take children away from their parents and put them in internment camps on military bases. So this is underlining the separation of families, the intentional and deliberate separation of families and then jailing children who have not actually committed a criminal offense." - Turquoise
Have you listened to this episode of PoliTea?
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Featured Song - Feb. 19, 2020
Featured Song: “Crowded Table” by The Highwomen
“I want a house with a crowded table/And a place by the fire for everyone/Let us take on the world while we're young and able/And bring us back together when the day is done”
“If it's love that we give/Then it's love that we reap/If we want a garden/We're gonna have to sow the seed”
“The door is always open/Your picture's on my wall/Everyone's a little broken/And everyone belongs”
Yes, this is a country song. And yes, I cry when I listen to it. Out of all the songs on The Highwomen album, I listen to “Crowded Table,” “Redesigning Women,” “Highwomen,” and “If She Ever Leaves Me” on repeat. I know that country music isn’t for everyone, but these songs capture beauty, longing, community, strength, dignity, hope, and resilience. I’ve learned to worship in deeper ways as a result of these songs.
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Book Rec. - Feb. 22, 2020
Current Read- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
“It seemed far more important to him that the white people who were spreading and upholding racism be spared the effects of being called racist than sparing his black friend the effects of that racism...That was when I learned that this was not a friend I could talk to about this really important part of my life. I couldn't be my full self around him, and he would never truly have my back. He was not safe. I wasn't angry, I was heartbroken. We couldn't talk about the ways in which race and racism impacted my life, because he was unwilling to even acknowledge the racism that was impacting my life and he was unable to prioritize my safety over his comfort - which meant that we couldn't talk about me” (Oluo, 2018, p.26).
“Systemic racism is a machine that runs whether we pull the levers or not, and by just letting it be, we are responsible for what it produces. We have to actually dismantle the machine if we want to make change” (Oluo, 2018, p.30).
“The concept of privilege makes the world seem less safe. We want to protect our vision of a world that is fair and kind and predictable. That reaction is natural, but it doesn't make the harmful effects of unexamined privilege less real. When somebody asks you to check your privilege they are asking you to pause and consider how the advantages you've had in life are contributing to your opinions and actions, and how the lack of disadvantages in certain areas is keeping you from fully understanding the struggles others are facing and may in fact be contributing to those struggles. It is a big ask, to check your privilege. It is hard and often painful, but it's not nearly as painful as living with the pain caused by the unexamined privilege of others” (Oluo, 2018, p.63).
“As a black, queer, middle-class woman, my queer identity may often be overlooked by anti-racist or feminist movements; my female identity may be overlooked by anti-racist or
queer movements; my black identity may be overlooked by feminist or queer movements; and my middle class identity may well cause me to overlook poor people in all movements. And when that happens, none of them can really help me or many others...How do our social justice efforts so often fail to help the most vulnerable in our populations? This is primarily a result of unexamined privilege. Because of how rarely our privilege is examined, even our social justice movements will tend to focus on the most privileged and most well represented people within those groups” (Oluo, 2018, p.76).
“People of color are not asking white people to believe their experiences so they will fear the police as much as people of color do. They are asking because they want white people to join them in demanding their right to be able to trust the police like white people do” (Oluo, 2018, p.98).
“Microaggressions are a serious problem beyond the emotional and physical effects they have on the person they are perpetrated against. They have much broader social implications. They normalize racism. They make racist assumptions a part of everyday life. The assumption that a black father isn't in the picture reinforces an image of irresponsible black men that keeps them from being hired for jobs. The assumption that a Latinx woman doesn't speak good English keeps her from a promotion. The assumption that a child of color's parents wouldn't have a college degree encourages guidance counselors to set lower goals for that child. The assumption that black people are ‘angry’ prevents black people from being taken seriously when airing legitimate grievances. These microaggressions help hold the system of White Supremacy together, because if we didn't have all these little ways to separate and dehumanize people, we'd empathize with them more fully, and then we'd have to really care about the system that is crushing them” (Oluo, 2018, p.172).
“The model minority myth fetishizes Asian Amcricans - reducing a broad swath of the world's population to a simple stereotype. The model minority myth places undue burdens and expectations on Asian American youth and erases any who struggle to live up to them. The model minority myth erases religious minorities, it erases refugees, it erases queer Asian Americans. The model minority myth gives a pretty blanket for society to hide its racism against Asian Americans under, while separating them from other people of color who suffer from the same white supremacist system. The model minority myth is active racism that is harming Asian Americans, and we need to talk about it” (Oluo, 2018, p.192).
"When you instead shift your focus to getting people of color to fight oppression in a way in which you approve, racial justice is no longer your main goal - your approval is. Find areas of the movement for equality with which you feel confident that the main goal is equality and within which you do not feel that you are violating your principles. Do work there, and where that work coincides with the work of others, join hands. Remember, this isn't about you, and it isn't about the person in the movement that you do not like” (Oluo, 2018, p.208).
“You have to get over the fear of facing the worst in yourself. You should instead fear unexamined racism. Fear the thought that right now, you could be contributing to the oppression of others and you don't know it. But do not fear those who bring that oppression to light. Do not fear the opportunity to do better” (Oluo, 2018, p.224).
Have you read this book?
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