J.L. Beasley
@Her_Sisu · 3:42
Unpopular opinion: Why I don’t flinch on jokes about Jews 🤷🏾♀️
I mean, h***, we only get one month for Black History Month, right? And I have to, as the only black person on this call, endure a comment that everyone believes is funny. And of course, based on the institution I work, because this institution has been on the news before about their racial climate, if I mention it as the only black person, it's going to be met with, oh, well, you can't take a joke
Blair Redmond
@blairbearing · 4:57
And we just got to teach people outside like we always have and just live our lives, basically, and hope that one day the world decides that it wants to globally recognize it as the atrocity that it is and really have it be as frowned upon to have people make the jokes about whipping people in a meeting around professionals and just all the other microaggressions and all that other stuff that we have to deal with and only being like token and me feeling like, yeah, I feel like I'm the acceptable one because I'm quote unquote light
J.L. Beasley
@Her_Sisu · 4:59
I tend to do that when I'm in a reply with another smallcaster and I'll say, wait a minute, let me not assume everyone on this platform is in the United States, because the great thing about this platform is that it connects people from all over the globe. Back to my point, you laid out so many different elements of the history and yes, slavery wasn't just in the United States, it was all over
Blair Redmond
@blairbearing · 4:56
And, yeah, it can be wild, but my mom has hope that one day and we just have to keep on having the conversation and keep on talking about the hot topics and giving a different perspective and not being afraid because, yeah, celebrities have been canceled because of their opinion on this topic, and their delivery wasn't good. So I kind of don't blame them. And they said a whole bunch of other things, but behind that is like hurt, in pain, I feel like
Her sister was going off. Sounds like they finally pushed you over the edge. Yeah. You know, it's crazy. Just a few days ago, this guard that I was working with that I trained for this building that he was covering, I trained him on the job. And I want to say after a few days of working with him, I guess he decided to he feel comfortable enough to ask me, why are black women hateful?
J.L. Beasley
@Her_Sisu · 4:54
Also from torturing people, killing people, looting and stealing and all kinds of things of that nature. And so it becomes disheartening when this is how America was founded. And then you have people like the gentleman you described, the security guard, who has these biases not necessarily from his own experience at large, like he has copious amount of decades and years with experience with black people, but he's had what, less than three or four?
Yeah, that security guard. It was an interesting conversation, and I love to educate, but if you're having these stereotypes and if it's somewhat malicious, I have to call you out on it. And it was hard. I couldn't exactly tell. It looked like he was being so malicious about it. He could have just been curious. But I think he was being somewhat delicious, and it makes it worse because he's from the Deep South
J.L. Beasley
@Her_Sisu · 0:59
And I'm always, often, not always, often supportive of people who recognize they have a bias and are willing to at least ask questions, because at the end of the day, we all have them. It's having that space of humble curiosity to find out more, to learn something different and not remain stuck in misinformation