Brown Sugar: The Podcast
Welcome to Brown Sugar: The Podcast, where we have candid conversations about everything from careers to culture, race to relationships, identity and anything in between. Grab your tea, we’ll bring the sugar! New episode out every two weeks...
Brown Sugar: The Podcast
Episode 2: #StopBlackPeople
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Brown Sugar
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Season 1
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Episode 2
In Episode 2, we dissect a term called 'white fragility' (coined by sociologist Robin D'Angelo), which describes the disbelief and sensitivity that white people exhibit when they are told they are complicit in society’s institutional racism.
Should the onus be on people of colour to keep having these exhausting conversations? Or should the supposed ally be in charge of their own “wokeness"?
Lastly, we discuss reverse racism and epistemic violence, and why tweeting #StopWhitePeople and #StopBlackPeople are NOT the same thing...
Chapter 4: Why you should put your mental health first above trying to make your white friend "woke"