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[Unedited] Robin DiAngelo and Resmaa Menakem with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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How Did You Grow Up Poor and White in the Bay Area?

I grew up poor and white in the bay area. I think from a very early age, i had a very deep sense of shame. We we used, if you will, black people to act our shame on to to realine us with the dominant white culture that our poverty separated us from. And when i use my white position to break with silence and white solidarity and speak up, i am simultaneously healing the lie that i am inherently inferior because i grow poor.

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