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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:01
Suggest Prompts for Black History Month. What stories should people tell? #TellYourStory
Wait and think about stories that you want to hear during black history Month and then let us know the prompt that would call out that story and we will choose the best prompts. And then, as we did last time, you will get tagged when your prompt is used. So that way you can know who's ever answering that prompt and you can reply if you'd like to. So just again, thank you so much for choosing some great prompts last time
Um, because we are all hurt in healing from something, from someone in some way. And I think it's time to shift from hurt people, hurting people to healing people. Healing people. Right. It
Speaking of musicals and contributions to culture, the musical Hamilton, which is one of the, or probably at this point, the most successful Broadway show of all time, featuring hip hop and casting all of the founding fathers and all historical figures with african american actors, with the exception of Lynn Manuel Miranda and the character of Eliza and some other characters, but strictly for the most part, driven by american culture, which is defined by hip hop and 1776 and the founding of our nation
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Evelyn Phipps
@LadyFi · 0:43
They think of the regular ones, but they don't think of some others. So, yeah, it would be great to hear what people have found out that black people invented, especially during Black History month, because that is a long list. Thank you
D. Meatrie
@wickedgypsybird · 1:10
To piggyback off of what Lady Phi just said a couple of years ago on a podcast that I host. I started doing these history quips during Black History Month that focuses on black culinarians that are tastemakers, innovators, pioneers, ones that have paved the way, ones that are doing work now that kind of highlights the work that they've done. Things that it is kind of set in motion when it comes to everything in my industry
So what I like to do whenever I am teaching black history, I try to stray away from some of those simplified versions of black history, like, oh, let's just talk about music, and, oh, let's talk about the first person to do that
You. Hi, everyone. So, my suggestion for Black History Month. Prompt. As I see this prompt, I think it is something to do with the pain a person has felt in the past and or a community or a large amount of people, anything like that. So my idea would be that we do not generalize black to only black people, because there is actually a day called Black History Month, and I did read about it online
Natasha Nurse
@DressingRoom8 · 4:12
But what I have seen as a DEI professional, as an HR professional, as a recruiter, as a lawyer, as a black female myself, is that every day I show up in the world and before the humanity of who I am ever is at the forefront for conversations. My blackness, my womanhood comes first, right? So I can't show up in the world and be Natasha, who happens to be black and who happens to be female. I am black
So they'll make statements like this, where they want black people to always include everybody else or put everybody else's wants, needs, and desires before their own, and they'll say, oh, well, black History month needs to include everybody, however, comma, when black people need assistance, when we need assistance for black people being brutalized by the police, an alarming rate of black women who are being basically ignored in the medical system when they're given childbirth
Evelyn Phipps
@LadyFi · 2:21
It's. Thank you so much for posting this. You know, when I listened to the initial swell about the inclusion of our indian brothers and sisters, I was a little taken aback because I get tired of people saying, well, it shouldn't just be about black people. It's never. And forgive me for raising my voice, but it's never been about black people. Not for real. For real. I mean, we only get middle. Can we have nothing?
Now, we all know that if we give the labels that society give, this one about adultery, which is biblical, no matter how you define it, coupled with rape, because black women were not allowed to make the decisions over their own bodies, and so they became the victims and remain the victims
Amen. I would like to see that, too. Let's all recognize the fact that we're all brothers and sisters, many generations since 1776. We're all Americans. We're all beautiful. Oh, my goodness. Yes. Let's talk about this. Let. Let's talk about Thomas Jefferson and the founding fathers of this nation and their illegitimate, unrecognized children with women that were slaves
So at the end of the day, it doesn't matter what color our skin is or what region of the world we come from. One common theme is God. And if we can all just circle around that positive energy that comes from the creator and not focus on our individual flesh, we could probably get so much further in the world with our social interactions. But it's tough
It. Amen. Dora, I think you are 100% correct. And I think that this. I mean, this conversation right here, everybody that's speaking, everybody that's telling their story or saying what's in their heart, it really does create that unity. And I realize my role in this group as being the only white man in here. And also, like you said, that's not the important thing
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:08
I want to thank you all for your incredible prompts. And we now have a prompt book for Black History Month, which you are all included in. So here's that link
Hello, everybody. Dora is listening here. I would like to have the swellcast team prompt around. Prompts, prompts, prompts. Black History Month stories, people origin, based on her book, Isabella Wilkinson's book. So that's what I would like. My. My suggestion for prompt for Black History Month
Susi Lawson
@susisouljourney · 0:52
I'm sure this is going to be a great topic and I just think we should celebrate diversity every day of our life. We're so blessed to have different cultures and different people to engage with. So anyway, thank you. Bye
But all of these voices this month as artists should be and will be appreciated, at least by me. But I have all these recommendations. Take them or leave them. But thank you. Thank you again for allowing or picking this, well, prompt
And not just to get information or insights for myself, but to be granular and to be selfish, to give some ideas to my eleven year old nephew back home in Virginia. So looking forward to what everybody has to say, looking forward to gaining all sorts of insights this month. So thanks very much and looking forward to it
If black people who are Christians, who believe in God, who go to church every Sunday, who do whatever, read their Bible or whatever, if they need support from other groups of people, those groups of people can believe in God, they can read their Bible, they can go to church often, and all of those things, they will not show us the same love and care that they expect for us to give up
Maurice Aoki
@mauriceaoki · 3:16
And it's like, why are we continuing to perpetuate more people or progenerate more people just to teach them this backwards indoctrination. Indoctrination. It's just like, we need to awaken ourselves and become alive to consciousness and find out who we are and then heal within ourselves. And then we need to fight for the things that matter, which is getting reparations and getting socioeconomic stability and status for ourselves. Like, sticking together, like so many other cultures stick together. We fight each other over what?
Susi Lawson
@susisouljourney · 1:56
You okay? My prompt would be for this topic is, how did segregation and integration affect your life in the course? I know I'm only addressing older people, but I remember vividly when Ruby Bridges and her courageous mom walked or marched to school back in 1960. I was twelve. I was ten. She was six. I remember it on the news. I remember the Norman Rockwell painting on the COVID of. I think it was Saturday Evening Post, the beautiful painting he did
However, upon arriving in Chicago, my grandmother and grandfather realized that things were not as different as they had hoped. Segregation and integration still deeply impacted their lives and the lives of their children. While my mother attended an integrated school, there were still many unfair aspects, such as limited availability of books and certain services that are now commonplace in schools like free school lunch and free breakfast. Equal participation in activities like sports and other opportunities was also not easily accessible during that time
Susi Lawson
@susisouljourney · 1:02
You. Hey, Doras. I want to thank you so much for answering the prompt idea that I posted, but also kind of, well, definitely edifying that you don't have to be in your sixty? S or seventy? S to be affected by segregation and integration, as you beautifully put it. The struggles were real for you, too, because your ancestors went through it, which passes on to you. The old domino effect. That's what history does. Right
Hi, Susie. You are so welcome. And I'm just so glad that I could be a part of this conversation. You know, I feel my generation is in a very unique place in life. We get to archive in a different way than the previous generations, and more people, we have more access to people to hear about out our ancestor struggles and what we still face today