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Chris Sullivan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
5953 total appearances

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That Was Us
Laurel's Story | "Birth Mother" with Writer Kay Oyegun (506)

But then there's a rich history of life and ancestry that extends before that, where there is no incarceration, there is no slavery, that there is freedom or whatnot.

That Was Us
Laurel's Story | "Birth Mother" with Writer Kay Oyegun (506)

That like, I think a lot of people sort of,

That Was Us
Laurel's Story | "Birth Mother" with Writer Kay Oyegun (506)

yearn to know that specificity because you can speak to other folks of the diaspora or either people from the motherland.

That Was Us
Laurel's Story | "Birth Mother" with Writer Kay Oyegun (506)

And like, I've had people come up to me and be like, what tribe are you from?

That Was Us
Laurel's Story | "Birth Mother" with Writer Kay Oyegun (506)

And I'm like, I'm from the St.

That Was Us
Laurel's Story | "Birth Mother" with Writer Kay Oyegun (506)

Louis tribe.

That Was Us
Laurel's Story | "Birth Mother" with Writer Kay Oyegun (506)

And they're like, no, no, no, no.

That Was Us
Laurel's Story | "Birth Mother" with Writer Kay Oyegun (506)

Before that.

That Was Us
Laurel's Story | "Birth Mother" with Writer Kay Oyegun (506)

What tribe are you from, bro?

That Was Us
Laurel's Story | "Birth Mother" with Writer Kay Oyegun (506)

You know, and I was like...

That Was Us
Laurel's Story | "Birth Mother" with Writer Kay Oyegun (506)

I don't know.

That Was Us
Laurel's Story | "Birth Mother" with Writer Kay Oyegun (506)

I don't know.

That Was Us
Laurel's Story | "Birth Mother" with Writer Kay Oyegun (506)

And I feel like Randall hearing, listening, knowing that he comes from a place of love and wanting is sort of the fulfillment of that.

That Was Us
Laurel's Story | "Birth Mother" with Writer Kay Oyegun (506)

Do you know what I'm saying?

That Was Us
Laurel's Story | "Birth Mother" with Writer Kay Oyegun (506)

So it's really cool.

That Was Us
Laurel's Story | "Birth Mother" with Writer Kay Oyegun (506)

They finish telling the story very simply.

That Was Us
Laurel's Story | "Birth Mother" with Writer Kay Oyegun (506)

And when it's all done...

That Was Us
Laurel's Story | "Birth Mother" with Writer Kay Oyegun (506)

High says, it gives him the keys.

That Was Us
Laurel's Story | "Birth Mother" with Writer Kay Oyegun (506)

He said, these are yours.

That Was Us
Laurel's Story | "Birth Mother" with Writer Kay Oyegun (506)

And he's like, you sure you don't want it?