Why is race so hard to talk about?
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"The best things in life are on the other side of a difficult conversation." - Kwame Christian
2020 has given us a lot to talk about. We’ve got a global pandemic, quarantine and isolation, we even had a potential for killer bees at one point and most importantly and most hopeful - we’ve got a real moment of pause in history for race relations with the black lives matter movement that is finally getting a collective uprising - all from the incredibly inhumane and vile murder of George Floyd, may he rest in peace, and so many more Black and Indigenous people across North America. Something that we can’t ignore or pass by in Canada yet something that us polite Canadian’s get so very uncomfortable talking about.
We spend this episode dissecting why race is so difficult to talk about - it's not political, it never has been. It's about human rights, yet talking about race still proves to be hard. Let's dig in on Season 3, Episode 1.
Article mentioned in the episode: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/05/how-to-thoughtfully-talk-about-racial-inequality-with-your-coworkers.html
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