#PodcastBlackout & #PodcastersForJustice
I'm participating in the #PodcastBlackout and the #PodcastersForJustice campaign. Take a listen to this episode to learn more.
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Transcript
Welcome to this special non episode of podcasting for coaches. As evidenced by the title of this episode, I am participating in both the podcast blackout started by the Colt 45 podcast. And in the podcasters, for justice campaign started by the women of color podcasters community, I will have links to that community to information about the campaign if you want to participate yourself, both of them actually, in the show notes for this episode, as well as so many more resources for you. But as part of participating in the podcast is for justice campaign that involves reading a statement on this show, a statement that I hope you will join me in doing on your show. And I would not be reading this statement if I didn't wholeheartedly agree with it. So the statement goes as follows. We are podcasters. United to condemn the tragic murders of George Floyd and Breanna Taylor, and many, many others at the hands of police. This is a continuation of the systemic racism pervasive in our country since its inception. And we are committed to standing against racism in all its forms. We believe that to be silent, is to be complicit. We believe that black lives matter. We believe that black lives are more important than property. We believe that we have a responsibility to use our platforms to speak out against this injustice whenever and wherever we are witness to it. In creating digital media, we have built audiences that return week after week to hear our voices. And we will use our voices to speak against anti blackness and police brutality. And we encourage our audiences to be educated, engaged, and to take action. Now, I'm not going to say too much about my own experiences with what's been going on my own feelings, my own thoughts. I will say that as a white woman with privilege, I have been slapped in the face with what that means this past week. And I'm I'm grateful for that. I am realizing just how whitewashed my upbringing was. And what that means. Now, as an adult, I am somebody who has obviously never considered myself to be racist. But the thing is, it's not enough to just not be racist, not anymore. Now is the time for anti racism. Now is the time to speak up. Now is not the time for things that I used to say, like all lives matter, or Well, let's look at this objectively or any number of things, when I thought maybe I was being a good, objective person. But now I see actually comes from a place of privilege or a place of disguised racism inherited by growing up with that privilege, and being educated in a system that is inherently racist. And in a society that is also inherently racist. So I have been educating myself this week on actual black history because of course, we're not taught that in school. And just really working on dismantling pretty much every belief I have on all of this and looking at it through a frame of, of the truth, and not my you know, white privilege lens that I've been looking at everything through my entire life. So this episode is part of encouraging others to do the same. I will have, like I said, links in the show notes for this episode to one particular article. I mean, there's going to be more than this one. But there is one particular article in there that I would love for you to check out about how basically as a white person, you can be a better ally, which by the way is not a name that we can apply to ourselves. It's a name that we need to earn through our actions. And in this list, there are books to read documentaries, to watch podcasts, listen to businesses to support organizations to donate to. And as part of the podcast for justice campaign, they actually have some suggested organizations as well, to participate in podcasters for justice, obviously, you would read the statement, which again, I will have more information about in the show notes, but you can donate a portion of your show's proceeds, if you make any of course, and ask your audience members to donate anything that they can to the George Floyd Memorial Fund, Minnesota freedom fund black visions collective campaign zero, Black Lives Matter. And the Minneapolis NAACP branch. Those are the organizations they have suggested. There are links again in the show notes. And then the third way that you can participate in this campaign is by signing a petition and asking your audience to sign you just text the word Floyd 255156, to sign a petition and demand justice for George Floyd. And then there is also the color for change organization. You can sign up And be notified for more opportunities to take action. And then again, also check out the list of resources, the article that has all those resources I just mentioned. And then just educate, educate, educate, educate, unlearn all the things that you thought you knew. And build that back up again, with the truth from resources that are credible from resources that are not whitewashed. Make sure that you are thinking about things, from the perspective of if this had been happening to you your entire life, if this had been happening to your parents, your grandparents several generations, and that's just in this country. So that's what I ask. I just ask that you educate yourself. And that you take action beyond sharing images on social media, beyond posting a black image on your Instagram account, take action, do what you can. And I am going to wrap up this episode by actually following Nickelodeon's lead of all things, which is a sentence I never thought I would say. They recently if you're not aware, Nickelodeon went off the air for eight minutes and 46 seconds in honor of George Floyd and the protests that are happening to show their support. So what I'm doing is there's going to be eight minutes and 46 seconds of silence at the end of this episode. And I don't want you to just hit the stop button. It's gonna be so easy to just stop playing this episode. But please don't do that. Please sit with this episode, please sit in the silence. Please close your eyes and imagine if that were you. pinned on the ground, slowly suffocating to death. Imagine if that were your child, or your parent or your grandparent, cousins, aunts, uncles, friends. Imagine if it was a stranger and you were standing there watching this happen watching someone slowly suffocate to death. hearing them call out for help, and wanting to do something about it and being stopped from doing it. Being powerless to help this person. hearing them call out for their mom. a grown man call out for their mother moments before they take their last breath. Just imagine that. Feel it for this next eight minutes and 46 seconds