W. Kamau Bell
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1,269 appearances
5 recordings
5 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 14 Oct
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I feel a responsibility to, to make sure that, uh, the world is as easy a place to navigate for my three daughters is my three mixed race black daughters as possible.
Um, and you know, and I sort of think of it as the black baton.
Like when my,
grandparents handed the black baton to my parents.
It was lighter than when they got it because they had gotten it from people who hadn't been that disconnected from enslavement.
And then when my mom passed it to me and my dad passed it to me, it was much lighter because they had gone through the civil rights movement and everything that that entailed there and pushed the black people forward, black folks forward.
And now I got it and I'm like, it might be heavier than when I handed it to my daughters.
And so my goal right now is to sort of make sure
that I do everything I can to make sure that when I hand them the black baton, that it's not heavier than it was when I got it, which is going to be a lot, but it, but looks like I got Glenn and you and other people working on that too.
So, and then I think the other thing is like, I grew up in a household where you sort of knew as a, you had two jobs, the job to put food on the table and the job to make it easier on all the people who look like you, who couldn't get what you got.
And,
there wasn't really a choice there.
It was, no, it was just, it was just, it's what we do.
So this is just, I think if I was a car mechanic, I'd be an anti-racist car mechanic.
I just think this is just a part of the deal.
Slow down, slow down, slow down.
Nobody said it was good.
Let's not put misinformation out there.
Okay, continue.
He said it was good.
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