Season One: Key Findings

The Spillway

What has season one taught us about what it means to be a White person in the US today without supremacy or shame?

After 9 weeks, 28 hours of recording, and 12 hours of published material Jenny and Loran identify the key findings of season one.

In the conclusion of our first attempt at a community assessment of White people and Whiteness, Loran and Jenny sit down to discuss the incredibly thoughtful interviews, moments, and themes which left a lasting impact on them.

Questions include:

• What clips had the biggest impact on you and why?
• What five themes did you find were being repeated over and over again?
• What three clips keep creeping into your consciousness when you least expect them?
• What was the hardest thing to learn/hold and why?
• If you could have every White person in the US hear one clip, what would it be and why?
• Did anything surprise you in the making of this?
• What would you do over if you could?
• What’s your biggest takeaway?
• What have you changed in your life since the podcast began?

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Loran references Alok's guest appearance on The Man Enough Podcast which may be viewed here.

Bonus materials for select episodes may be found on specific episode's pages on The Spillway's website. Loran references bonus materials for Evangeline's episode which may be found here. ==========

TRANSCRIPT DISCLAIMER: The following transcript was auto-transcribed by Descript software. It will be updated and cleaned in the coming weeks. Please reach out if you would like a transcript in the interim.

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1. Engage sequentially. The show is a serial not episodic. We do this so we can build relation and find common ground and context. 2. We stay in our own lane. The Spillway is about White people talking to (predominately) White people about White people and White culture. We're not out here to critique anyone's actions but our own. 3. Our combined fabric of destiny. (3a) As Dr. King said, our humanities are deeply interconnected to each other. Racism negatively impacts me, too. (3b) The Spillway is one mechanism within a larger framework needed to sustain racial equity and justice. We're not a one-stop shop. 4. No one right way to liberation. We all share the same goals, but not every method works for every person. If this doesn't work for you. That's okay. Maybe it works for someone else.