Christiana
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1,364 appearances
23 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Jun 2025
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And I think in like this like hyper capitalist weird world where there are no communal bonds, like... You don't even know the name of your neighbors. It becomes really hard to be like, well, your neighbor is probably trustworthy and kind and somebody that is as valuable as yourself.
I think that our atomization is contributing to this very real fear of other people and people just hoarding their resources. So it kind of becomes like this self-fulfilling prophecy in a way, but the way we live our lives, I think, informs it a lot.
Yeah, I think your experience is also like informed by the body you're in, you know? So my experience as a black woman when I go to Nigeria and they kind of clock me as a westerner means like we can get money.
You're a white woman.
I can get money out of this one. You know, may vary in certain parts of Los Angeles. And, you know, so maybe lots of people in the world are like, you know what? When I come into a space, people aren't welcoming. And then that reinforces this idea.
Are humans really kind? Are groups really kind? And as you said, it benefits these billionaires.
Probably.
I want to preface this. I'm actually an abolitionist. No, I know you are. I don't even believe in police. But I guess what I'm trying to say is that like... The way my perception is shaped as a woman is that like the violence. Completely. It's not, I'm not, I'm afraid of straight, you know, I don't like men in general.
That's why the table is like this size. I mean, just to keep you. It's often, it's not just strange men, it's familiar men, right? And so it's just like, I think for some groups, it's really, I find tremendous safety in other women. Now, if it was a world where it's just like my community of women and my friends around me, they're who I lean on the most.
And I'm like, oh, if the world was them, I'd feel differently. And I say that as someone that's like generally very optimistic about myself. I wouldn't have moved to America if I wasn't an optimistic person. But I've had these like core experiences that have shown me that I guess it was a lot of racism. People are wicked, right? It was a racism I received as like a child in the classroom.
I'm raising my children to be like, it's a world out there and I have a son and I'm like, at a certain age, your boyhood ends much earlier than a kid with blonde hair and blue eyes. So there's certain things, you know, you can't do in public. Like you can't throw a tantrum past 10 because someone may call law enforcement.
So I think like the idealized worldview often comes, can come when you're kind of like a person who is automatically given the benefit of the doubt. And I think for people like myself and people that are like in far worse positions, that doesn't happen. And so you don't necessarily experience the kind world, even if you put kindness out there.
No, don't come here.
You know, but this is what I do think. Can I say something? All of it. I think the light bearers like Rutger, the nice white people, should go out there and do this type of work. I think what he's doing is very important because he's the type of person people listen to. You can have the ear of an entrepreneur and an activist. Because of your position, you're listened to and respected.
And you're using your white privilege, male privilege for good. I think it's like, this is actually the ideal. This is what you should use it for. That I agree with. You know what I mean? That I agree with.
Ten year fucking history of disagreeing. This is us.
I say Trevor's optimistic because he's like, he's like the chosen one, like Obama of South Africa. Everything's gone right for him.
everything has gone you were born right at the perfect he's like mixed race everything has gone apartheid fooled he's you know everything has gone right for me John Stewart quits he's fooled like I just feel like he's like got this like good karma yes you know what I mean so I'd be optimistic about Trevor yeah I'd love the world but this is the thing this is the thing that I believe yeah
No, I don't think you do.
You know I carry a box cutter in my handbag.
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