Christiana
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1,364 appearances
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Jun 2025
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I think it's a tool for censorship, though.
Because I can't tell them how to articulate their experience. Exactly. So if we invert that, if we say, well, I believe it's a genocide. This is a chant that I choose to use as an ally. If I then in turn say, well, your language is problematic and it's insulting to me. I'm not allowed to do that. No.
My view is if we really do have free speech, if we have freedom of thought and expression and views, everything is fair game. You know my favorite saying, racists have outlets too. It's the fact that people should be free to say what they like, and I resent that policing instinctively on either side.
Okay, what are you speaking to?
I've always kind of thought that's a straw man argument, just because if we look at the state of society today and who has actual power, you know, these people aren't talking about freedom of speech. We know people are free to say what they say. But the people who bear the most consequences, I think, seem to be the most radical, especially if we think about it.
The brunt. of the consequences have the more radical view. Which I think is normal in a society. Right now, it's very hard to find a professor on probation for being pro-Israel. Let's be clear.
probation for being pro-Palestine. And it's the chance of the people who align with Palestine who are being censored and making me uncomfortable.
Yeah. Right.
Yeah, you are. I'm a product of girl school. Yeah, and so...
It's going to be tough for you mixed race people, isn't it? Don't worry about us.
Dominican, Nigerian, Puerto Rican, Brazilian, British and American. They're going to be the only ones in the lab.
I like that.
He was a joke.
Also, off that, I'm curious about the we, because my world is predominantly women and people of color. And our complaint is that we can't get rid of people like, you know, like you've started off with like kind of this collective we, which I'd like to disrupt a bit. Right. Because there is no real collective. We hence this kind of political the political differences that we have.
And black women in this country are probably one of the few groups where life expectancy is actually holding or going up. Right. And one of the reason they say that and one of the reasons black women don't. vote the way they do and behave the way they do is because they have this deep sense of community among each other.
So I'd say speaking for Black women statistically, these aren't Black women's problems. And that's often because we are the carers. We are the people that are looking after children, elderly family members. They're looking to us. So I don't know many isolated Black women in the way that you speak of. Also, I say just like ethnically, I'm Nigerian-British. I'm Igbo. It wasn't just about my tribe.
It was about my clan, which is a whole people. And we had this group where people pay dues all the time. And when my great uncle died, part of the dues contributed to his funeral. So I think for ethnic minorities in this country, whether it's Latinos, it's African-Americans, it's Asians.
There are different cultural ties there that the idea of when I pick up the newspaper and I hear a story of somebody dying alone and they don't find the body for months, I'm like, how does that happen? Because there's 20 people knocking your door. And I'm not saying that from my personal experience.
No, I actually come from that world. A huge extended family, a huge church family. My husband's an only child, but comes from a big extended family and loads of friends. So my conception of, as much as I had the depth of my clan and my ethnic group, When it was time to dedicate my kids, I flew back to London. So it happened in the home church where I was dedicated in.
The man that christened me christened my children. Do you know what I mean? I guess what I'm trying to articulate is that for a lot of people, maybe from similar backgrounds as mine, that's our conceit already. The fact that it's not foreign. Do you get where I'm going? Yeah, I hear what you're saying. It's like this extended group and clan. It's very different and it's very diverse.
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