W. Kamau Bell
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And I'll declare it was our first time we ever scored points. You tied. You both tied. I've added up the points.
Everyone's a winner. Wait a minute. You had to come from behind.
That chocolate muffin thing was really... Thanks to our guests and thanks to you for listening. And remember friends, friends help friends stay in the fight. Join us. And if you enjoyed listening to this episode of At Liberty, please subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and rate and review the show. It really means a lot to us. Give us five stars. We're doing the big work here.
Until next time, I'm your host, W. Kamau Bell. At Liberty is a production of the ACLU. This episode was executive produced by the ACLU's Jessica Herman-Whites and Gwen Schroeder. And who knows best productions? Me, Kelly Rafferty, Ph.D., and Melissa Hudson-Bell, Ph.D., and it was recorded... at the great Skyline Studios in Oakland, California. What's up, Brian?
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But it was better than vague. It was
I feel like vague is totally accurate. And I think it's been longer than 15 years. It's just we didn't. That's how vague it is. Yeah, no one knows how. At some point, we were in the same place, but we weren't like, ah, we didn't.
That's probably the first time you remember me.
Yeah. We were in Berkeley, but now we're in Oakland. We've been in Oakland for a while.
No, no. I wanted to live in Oakland. When I moved to the Bay Area in 97, I started in Oakland. Then I lived all over in San Francisco for a long time. But I got three mixed race kids, so Oakland is kind of the mixed race kid capital of the world.
Do they keep stats? I don't know why we would keep stats because they're reproducing quite quickly. But it's like my kid goes to a school where it's like 50% kids of color, but most of those kids are mixed. Got it. It's funny, it's like, oh, it's a lot of people of color. And you're like, oh, but there's not one, there's not that many regular black people. They're just, yeah.
So it actually sort of starts to go like, oh, she needs to be around regular black people.
Well, I think if you are a mixed kid and you only grew up around... First of all, let's be clear. I'm happy that my daughter has other mixed kids around her. One of her best friends is mixed, but they're not even mixed in the same way. So it's like, I think there's a mixed experience that I'm happy that she's able to discuss with other kids who are mixed. But then there's also just like...
Black people, you know, just like who aren't mixed and aren't thinking about being mixed and aren't, maybe some of them aren't that excited about mixed people.
I don't have, I'm an only child.
Well, the immersion program is that, so is that my dad lives in Mobile, Alabama. Say no more. Every time we go to Mobile, Alabama, I give them a speech of like, all right, we're about to go to Mobile, Alabama. We're traveling back in time. And I'm like, there are going to be 80-year-old black women who you've never met before who are going to say they've known you since you were a baby.
and you're just going to have to be like, uh-huh. And then that happens? Yeah, you just have to accept it. They're going to be like, oh, I saw you when you, you've never met this person before. And they're going to, and every woman is going to want to hug and kiss you. And I know we talk about bodily autonomy and da-da-da.
Yeah, yeah, over black. There's going to be a lot of black women who are going to hug and kiss you, who are going to tell you they're your aunt. They may or may not be your aunt, but you need to sort of like be around this.
No, for sure. Yeah. I mean, I don't think I would say bodily autonomy is overrated to my six-year-old. That seems like an out of sight of what... But I know, but I do say they're going to want to hug you and kiss you. I want you to know that so that you can have that in you. And then there are going to be times where they're going to literally be like, come here, baby.
Like a thing that doesn't happen, come here, give me up. And I want you to be prepared for that. I'm not going to tell you how to handle it, but I just want you to know that's going to happen. And these are people who – and this is the thing I tell them. These are people who love you even though they've never met you. They have an investment in your future.
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