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I'm Steve Allman.
I'm Cheryl strayed.
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Hi, Steve.
Hi, Cheryl.
So we're going to do an episode today talking about privilege, which I think it's something that's always been important, but I think a lot of people, if I'm speaking for a lot of the white people I know, are waking up to the fact that essentially what's happened in our nation requires us to have a deeper and more intentional sense of consciousness about how we make real change in the world.
Not just lip service to diversity and inclusion, but how we actually think about the ways that we have been ourselves complicit in racism with sexism, homophobia, and transphobia and classism, and all of the ways in which power is invisible in the form of privilege.
Right?
No, that's exactly it.
And the way that privilege operates is if you're living in the midst of it, it can be invisible to you and usually is.
And for lots of groups within the United States and all over the world who are marginalized, they are well aware of the power arrangement that we call privilege.
They are the victim of it on a daily basis.
What we want to talk about with these letters and this week is how to make privilege visible to all of us and what to do once we.