Kimberly Manning
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586 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2020
last heard Sep 2020
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that.
But to me, what it amplified is this other quiet narrative that's happening as a lived experience for Black people, which is that
COVID-19, like you see the charts that say, oh, it disproportionately affects people of color.
But we have real stories to connect to that data.
Somebody on the other end of a phone call calling us to say, my mama is on the way to the ICU, or my daddy is prone in an ICU right now, or what do you think about, you know, death severe, or what you think about
all of these medications and all these trials.
And I could go through my cell phone and run out of fingers to count on at how many
direct, you know, asks I've gotten about people who are acutely affected by this.
And so that story really resonated a lot with me too, because I think that though, you know, I haven't had an ex call me up to say such a thing, what I have had is long lost friends who think of me as the doctor in the family.
who
a long time, who are like, yo, my people are on death's door with this thing.
And I just think it's less hypothetical for a lot of us.
I was in love with so much of that episode.
You know what, I think there were pieces that really, like the kind of things that make you snap your fingers and go, yes.
Yes, I feel that.
Yes.
One piece was one of our storytellers talking about finding out that she was having a son.
And this storyteller, one of the complexities of being who she is is that she described herself as somebody who self-described as mixed and then disclosed that the father of her child is her husband, who is white.
and wondered what this child would be like.
One, would this child be safe?
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