Austin Channing Brown is a writer, speaker, and practitioner who helps schools, nonprofits, and religious organizations practice genuine inclusion. She is passionate about the advancement of racial justice and reconciliation and her words will most certainly move you to action. In her work, she shares her experiences as a black woman who "navigates whiteness on a regular basis". After listening to this interview and reading her book, your mind and heart will be broadened towards understanding and inclusion - regardless of where you are on that spectrum today.
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In This Interview, Austin Channing Brown and I Discuss...
- Her book, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in A World Made for Whiteness
- The importance and value of anger
- How we can fight the monsters without becoming the monsters
- That anger reveals something is wrong
- White fragility - sadness and anger
- Naming the things that can come in the way of a discussion, before the discussion happens
- Realising racial bias
- Transformation comes after a moment of realization
- The idea of "whiteness being normal"
- Books to read to gain an understanding of racial injustice
- Disunity in Christ
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race
- How to look for opportunities to talk with others about topics of racial injustice
- Check out "Be the Bridge"
- The white confessional being a shortcut to true reconciliation
- Skipping the confessional story and moving straight to the action step you'll take next
- What reconciliation means to her
- Racial justice and reconciliation
- Radical Reconciliation
- How reconciliation should revolutionize the relationships we have with each other
- The celebration of blackness that is throughout the book
- Cultural misappropriation
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