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Dr. Wendy Osefo

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
246 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: The Truth About Confidence, Criticism, and Real Legacy with Dr. Wendy Osefo

We don't own guns because people think that you're going to kill them. So that is just something that says, that's how our lives are different. My son wants a super soaker. No, you can't get one. So just simple things like that, like just the bare things that make our lives different, but we live in the same country.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: The Truth About Confidence, Criticism, and Real Legacy with Dr. Wendy Osefo

We don't own guns because people think that you're going to kill them. So that is just something that says, that's how our lives are different. My son wants a super soaker. No, you can't get one. So just simple things like that, like just the bare things that make our lives different, but we live in the same country.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: The Truth About Confidence, Criticism, and Real Legacy with Dr. Wendy Osefo

And I just, you know, sharing stories like that with my friends and them sharing different stories with me have just really made this time period one of learning, not just for white people, but also for black people. Like we're all learning. And as long as we continue to learn with open arms, I think that this country is on the right track.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: The Truth About Confidence, Criticism, and Real Legacy with Dr. Wendy Osefo

And I just, you know, sharing stories like that with my friends and them sharing different stories with me have just really made this time period one of learning, not just for white people, but also for black people. Like we're all learning. And as long as we continue to learn with open arms, I think that this country is on the right track.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: The Truth About Confidence, Criticism, and Real Legacy with Dr. Wendy Osefo

And I just, you know, sharing stories like that with my friends and them sharing different stories with me have just really made this time period one of learning, not just for white people, but also for black people. Like we're all learning. And as long as we continue to learn with open arms, I think that this country is on the right track.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: The Truth About Confidence, Criticism, and Real Legacy with Dr. Wendy Osefo

Yeah, I think it's interesting when people say defund the police and what it means. It's like this whole notion of, I don't know if you ever heard of, you know, No Child Left Behind. I believe that was like one of the acts and everyone was like, yeah, you know, that's a great thing. No Child Left Behind. Nobody really read the policy because if you read it, it's really like, it's really bad.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: The Truth About Confidence, Criticism, and Real Legacy with Dr. Wendy Osefo

Yeah, I think it's interesting when people say defund the police and what it means. It's like this whole notion of, I don't know if you ever heard of, you know, No Child Left Behind. I believe that was like one of the acts and everyone was like, yeah, you know, that's a great thing. No Child Left Behind. Nobody really read the policy because if you read it, it's really like, it's really bad.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: The Truth About Confidence, Criticism, and Real Legacy with Dr. Wendy Osefo

Yeah, I think it's interesting when people say defund the police and what it means. It's like this whole notion of, I don't know if you ever heard of, you know, No Child Left Behind. I believe that was like one of the acts and everyone was like, yeah, you know, that's a great thing. No Child Left Behind. Nobody really read the policy because if you read it, it's really like, it's really bad.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: The Truth About Confidence, Criticism, and Real Legacy with Dr. Wendy Osefo

But because of the name. Right. So defund the police doesn't necessarily mean like we want to defund the police. You know, I actually go further. That was my grandfather that I mentioned. My brother is actually a police officer currently. So I have police force. So every time I speak out, people always want to attack me like you hate police. No, my brother puts his life on the line every day.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: The Truth About Confidence, Criticism, and Real Legacy with Dr. Wendy Osefo

But because of the name. Right. So defund the police doesn't necessarily mean like we want to defund the police. You know, I actually go further. That was my grandfather that I mentioned. My brother is actually a police officer currently. So I have police force. So every time I speak out, people always want to attack me like you hate police. No, my brother puts his life on the line every day.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: The Truth About Confidence, Criticism, and Real Legacy with Dr. Wendy Osefo

But because of the name. Right. So defund the police doesn't necessarily mean like we want to defund the police. You know, I actually go further. That was my grandfather that I mentioned. My brother is actually a police officer currently. So I have police force. So every time I speak out, people always want to attack me like you hate police. No, my brother puts his life on the line every day.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: The Truth About Confidence, Criticism, and Real Legacy with Dr. Wendy Osefo

But defunding the police, for me, Wendy's definition, it simply means that we give so much money to police, we need to start giving that money and allocating it to different entities. It doesn't mean police won't have. It's just that police have so much, like... The point that sometimes when you see things going on, you see them riding down the streets in tanks.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: The Truth About Confidence, Criticism, and Real Legacy with Dr. Wendy Osefo

But defunding the police, for me, Wendy's definition, it simply means that we give so much money to police, we need to start giving that money and allocating it to different entities. It doesn't mean police won't have. It's just that police have so much, like... The point that sometimes when you see things going on, you see them riding down the streets in tanks.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: The Truth About Confidence, Criticism, and Real Legacy with Dr. Wendy Osefo

But defunding the police, for me, Wendy's definition, it simply means that we give so much money to police, we need to start giving that money and allocating it to different entities. It doesn't mean police won't have. It's just that police have so much, like... The point that sometimes when you see things going on, you see them riding down the streets in tanks.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: The Truth About Confidence, Criticism, and Real Legacy with Dr. Wendy Osefo

Why are we militarizing our police when we have schools that don't even have books that are older than the 1970s? In Baltimore, they don't even have air conditioning for students when they're in school during the summer months. But police officers are equipped with all types of stuff as if they're going to war. And they're not.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: The Truth About Confidence, Criticism, and Real Legacy with Dr. Wendy Osefo

Why are we militarizing our police when we have schools that don't even have books that are older than the 1970s? In Baltimore, they don't even have air conditioning for students when they're in school during the summer months. But police officers are equipped with all types of stuff as if they're going to war. And they're not.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: The Truth About Confidence, Criticism, and Real Legacy with Dr. Wendy Osefo

Why are we militarizing our police when we have schools that don't even have books that are older than the 1970s? In Baltimore, they don't even have air conditioning for students when they're in school during the summer months. But police officers are equipped with all types of stuff as if they're going to war. And they're not.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: The Truth About Confidence, Criticism, and Real Legacy with Dr. Wendy Osefo

So for me, defunding the police is not something necessarily that I'm advocating for. But I am saying that when we look at public service entities, they should all be equally yoked as far as finances. That's it. I want kids to go to schools with the books that they can read. And they're not, you know, kids are getting kicked out of school because they owe a lunch balance of $2, $4.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: The Truth About Confidence, Criticism, and Real Legacy with Dr. Wendy Osefo

So for me, defunding the police is not something necessarily that I'm advocating for. But I am saying that when we look at public service entities, they should all be equally yoked as far as finances. That's it. I want kids to go to schools with the books that they can read. And they're not, you know, kids are getting kicked out of school because they owe a lunch balance of $2, $4.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: The Truth About Confidence, Criticism, and Real Legacy with Dr. Wendy Osefo

So for me, defunding the police is not something necessarily that I'm advocating for. But I am saying that when we look at public service entities, they should all be equally yoked as far as finances. That's it. I want kids to go to schools with the books that they can read. And they're not, you know, kids are getting kicked out of school because they owe a lunch balance of $2, $4.