Serene Jones — Grace in a Fractured World
On Being with Krista Tippett
Your Cherokee Grandmother, Great Great Grandmother
When the jim crow laws came into being in oklahoma, they declared themselves as pure white. They owned property, but because redmand brown was cherokee, they couldn't own it unless he signed a paper saying that he was not cherokee, that he was pure white. And so, you know, we have the actual story of whiteness pening in our family and i honestly think at the heart of our nation's turmoil is the fact that people honestly do not believe that we are all equal and loved equally and equally valued.
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