Revolution 2.0

Race: A Personal Journey, With Broader Applications (EP.342)

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Sinopsis

Introduction Come with me on a decades-long journey, with the selected mileposts for this topic being observations and encounters involving race. Looking back, I see a parallel between my personal experiences, and the path that our nation is on.   That is the subject of today’s 15 minute episode. Continuing I grew up for my first 15 years in a lily white neighborhood in suburban Philadelphia before the civil rights movement in the 60s. This was the Jim Crow era, but not a Jim Crow area, not the Jim Crow geography. My only contact with blacks, and it was not at all in depth, was with our weekly maid, Elsie Kiyah. She was hard working, kept to herself, and was known to be a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roller (Holy Roller), a Protestant movement, pun intended, known for dancing, shaking or other boisterous movements by church attendees who perceive themselves as being under the influence of the Holy Spirit. I also remember getting autographs from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilt_Chamberlain (Wilt Ch