Ep 29: The Sea Never Parted

Send us a message via text message! Link accessible at joyousjustice.buzzsprout.com. ✅In the first of two Passover-themed shows, April shares her epiphany that despite a resonance between the story of the Israelites leaving mitzrayim (Egypt, the narrow place) and the emancipation of enslaved Africans in the U.S., the two stories diverge in important and significant ways.CONTENT WARNING: Discussions of slavery, enslavement, and violence against Black people and passing reference to sexual assault.Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.comLearn more about Joyous Justice where April is the founding and fabulous (!) director and Tracie is a senior partner: https://joyousjustice.com/Read more of Tracie's thoughts at bmoreincremental.comResources and notes:The film about Tamar Mannaseh is They Ain't Ready for Me.You can read documentation of enslavement in the U.S. into the 20th century in this article in VICEDig into Professor Joy DeGruy's thinking and research at her website.Michele Alexander's groundbreaking work The New Jim Crow makes the case that slavery adapted to emancipation in Jim Crow and then mass incarceration.Amy Cooper, a white woman, called the police on Christian Cooper (no relation), a Black man, when he asked her to leash her dog in Central Park in the summer of 2020. You can read about the encounter in the NY Times.Learn more about artist Dori Midnight at her website.Support the showDiscussion and reflection questions:What in this episode is new for you? What have you learned and how does it land?What is resonating? What is sticking with you and why?What, if anything feels hard? What is challenging or on the edge for you?If relevant. what feelings and sensations are arising as you reflect on themes from this episode, and where in your body do you feel them?What key insights or strategies are you carrying forward and how do you want to weave them into your living and/or leadership?