Fireside Chat Ep. 263 — Is Your Race Your Identity? | Fireside Chat — Transcript

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1. 0:00hi everybody and welcome to fireside
2. 0:02chat I asked already number 263.
3. 0:06amazing but I say that every week so I
4. 0:08won't belabor the point normally for the
5. 0:12first 250 I would say Auto
6. 0:15was in the Fireside seat or bed
7. 0:20but he is gradually given that up and
8. 0:24now Snoopy seems to have taken his place
9. 0:26but I'd like you to know that Otto is in
10. 0:29here so if you could lower the camera
11. 0:30for just a moment you now see Otto which
12. 0:34brings many of you mirth so let's begin
13. 0:39with this is from Megan one through
14. 0:42Megan too
15. 0:44I'm very touched
16. 0:47so apparently this is a book that's used
17. 0:49in what grade
18. 0:52um it's used I believe in a middle
19. 0:54school in a middle school in Burbank
20. 0:57California
21. 0:58and I'm sure elsewhere as well
22. 1:01this book is anti-racist
23. 1:0520 lessons on how to wake up take action
24. 1:08and do the work by Tiffany Jewell
25. 1:12mm-hmm let me read to you a little about
26. 1:15Tiffany Jewell by the way
27. 1:18Tiffany Jewell is a black biracial
28. 1:21writer and anti-racist Montessori
29. 1:25educator and consultant
30. 1:27she spends her time baking bread
31. 1:30building Legos watching British
32. 1:33detective shows and dreaming up how she
33. 1:36can dismantle white supremacy
34. 1:39that's a full life
35. 1:42how she can dismantle
36. 1:45what essentially doesn't exist
37. 1:49see you have to understand all of this
38. 1:52woke stuff is substitute religions
39. 1:55it's for people who are overwhelmingly
40. 1:59secular
41. 2:00they don't have traditional
42. 2:02judeo-christian religions not
43. 2:04protestantism Catholicism Judaism LDS
44. 2:07Mormonism whatever it might be so they
45. 2:11need desperately to fill that hole with
46. 2:15meaning and they get their meaning from
47. 2:19left-wing causes they're secular
48. 2:21religions
49. 2:22and they proved the old Chesterton line
50. 2:24or at least attributed to Chesterton
51. 2:26when people stopped believing in God
52. 2:28they don't believe in nothing they
53. 2:31believe in anything
54. 2:33so they have developed this meaning in
55. 2:36life dismantling white supremacy
56. 2:40it's a made-up meaning
57. 2:42but
58. 2:44that's what happens when you lose real
59. 2:46meaning and a real grasp of life okay
60. 2:50Tiffany Curley lives in Western
61. 2:52Massachusetts on the occupied land of
62. 2:54the wabanaki and the nipmuk this is the
63. 2:57newest thing on the left What lands
64. 3:02did Indian tribes or Native American
65. 3:05tribes live on and you're supposed to
66. 3:07say that to show how sensitive you are
67. 3:10to that fact now how do we know that the
68. 3:15wabanaki and nipmuk
69. 3:17did not take over that land from prior
70. 3:20tribes the odds are overwhelming that
71. 3:23they did so should we try to find that
72. 3:27out and say which they are occupied the
73. 3:32lands of
74. 3:35okay
75. 3:36with her two young activists
76. 3:39her partner and a turtle she's had since
77. 3:42she was nine
78. 3:45what does that mean her two young
79. 3:47activists I assume her children yeah and
80. 3:49she calls them activists
81. 3:52well that's what she's training them to
82. 3:55be
83. 3:56that's honest
84. 3:57okay so she's the one who wrote this
85. 4:01book this book is anti-racist for Middle
86. 4:04School
87. 4:05and this is what they're giving out at
88. 4:07Schools they're not teaching your kids
89. 4:09how to read better write better think
90. 4:12better
91. 4:13about history math whatever they're this
92. 4:17is what is overwhelmingly now offered as
93. 4:21education it's very sad
94. 4:23so here for example by not allowing
95. 4:26yourself to see someone's race you are
96. 4:29not seeing them as a whole person
97. 4:35you are looking at them through a skewed
98. 4:37lens you see them only how you want to
99. 4:41see them you are looking at them through
100. 4:43your lens of comfort you are not seeing
101. 4:46your students and their families how
102. 4:49they want to and need to be seen
103. 4:53this is a this is the fight against
104. 4:57colorblind the concept of being
105. 4:59colorblind
106. 5:01that that's wrong
107. 5:04so this is a perfect example of the
108. 5:06difference a difference between liberal
109. 5:07and left liberalism advocates for color
110. 5:11blindness and leftism advocates for
111. 5:15being preoccupied with color
112. 5:18so let's Analyze This
113. 5:20by not allowing yourself to see
114. 5:22someone's race you are not seeing them
115. 5:24as a whole person
116. 5:26let me put it to you the opposite way by
117. 5:29concentrating on a person's race you are
118. 5:31not seeing them as a whole person
119. 5:34are you your race you you watching me
120. 5:37now if you're black
121. 5:40is that the primary constituent of your
122. 5:44character and and life and meaning your
123. 5:48blackness
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