Jews Talk Racial Justice - Ep 77: When you think you’re The Good Place 😇 but you’re really Schitt’s Creek 😮

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A couple of weeks ago, we did a Facebook Live where we used popular tv shows to help us playfully make a point about how folks sometimes overestimate their skills when it comes to DEI work–or really anything. In this episode, we revisit that conversation and add some additional commentary. If you tuned in the first time around, stick around for a whole lot more. And, fair warning, there are some definite spoilers of the tv show the Good Place in our follow up conversation.

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Jews Talk Racial Justice - Ep 76: Jewishness is a particle AND a wave

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In today’s conversation, April and Tracie unpack white Jews’ whiteness, the history of race and Jewish racialized identities, and the benefits of getting clear about who is actually in the ingroup. Using metaphors from physics to sanctuaries, we talk about historic and contemporary intersections of the social construct of race and lived identities of Jews.

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Jews Talk Racial Justice - Ep 75: Whoopi Goldberg, the Oppression Scale, and the Emotional Thermometer

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In this edited version of a Facebook live that April recorded after Whoopi Goldberg’s comments and the controversy that followed, April digs deep into her analysis of the reactions many in the Jewish community expressed. Internalized terror and persisting unhealed trauma–elicited by the Holocaust and centuries of persecution–among white Ashkenazi Jews has caused an understandable misalignment between those folks’ emotional thermometer and the actual thread of danger on the oppression scale. Despite the elevated blood pressures the situation has caused, it seems clear to April that compassion (for ourselves and others!), healing, and solidarity across lines of difference will lead us toward the future we want.

Trigger Warning: This episode is not for you in this moment if as a result of this controversy, you are feeling terror or are in a panic mode.

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Discussion and Reflections Questions for Ep. 74 of Jews Talk Racial Justice: Intellectual intimacy and interdependent intellectual independence

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Many of us learn about racial justice and try to implement DEI in our lives/workplaces, but sometimes we become so stuck in our questions that it keeps us distanced and prevents us from staying in the deep end. April & Tracie challenge us to get intellectually intimate with the learning and to use our systems of accountability/partnership to stay in close relationship while also taking ownership.

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Jews Talk Racial Justice - Ep 63: Proximity Alone is NOT Antiracism

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April and Tracie dig into and challenge the oft-repeated notion that proximity across a line of difference immunizes against bigotry or racism. In other words, the assertion “I can’t be racist, my (fill-in-the-blank) is Black." We discuss how the good/bad binary plays into this misconception about proximity and clarify the fact that power and privilege remain intact even in proximate relationships. Ultimately, we offer listeners thoughts on how to counter these normal impulses and ultimately move toward greater liberatory consciousness.

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