Kimberly Manning
speaker
586 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2020
last heard Sep 2020
Kimberly Manning’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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One of our storytellers, who's a Black man, and the raw pain in his voice as he spoke of how he felt when he heard about George Floyd and his exhaustion and how tired he is,
It gave me sort of a unique empathy, I think, because I think I've just been so nestled in my space of, you know, Black mama bear on the hind legs.
I guess I just appreciated the opportunity to really step inside of what it is like to be the targeted.
You know what I mean?
I'm targeted adjacent.
And don't get me wrong.
We do know that black women are targeted.
But just thinking about black men and a target on them and what it's like to walk in that space, I really appreciated the vulnerability that our colleague offered us in that moment.
Yeah.
And just to think that, you know, with all that, the brother got to go back to work, you know, and do all the stuff everybody else has to do.
Probably got a paper rejected just like me.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, I mean, I think in this time with so much pain, everybody is slow singing and flower bringing when it comes to Black folks, you know.
And it is really a very, very joyful thing to be Black.
It is interesting because I don't know too many Black people right now who don't want to be Black.
I have to say my probably my favorite part of that Black joy had to do with when those bars came in on Lift Every Voice and Sing.
It is just the most triumphant and beautiful and resilient and celebratory song.
And it takes me back to being a little kid.
And so the fact that one of our contributors would
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