Sarah and Dimity have a candid conversation with two African-American mother runners, Brandi Dockett and Jennnifer Baskerville-Burrows, about being a black runner in America today. In this special ad-free episode, the guests talk about:
- -when they first realized how white the sport of running is;
- -the necessity of picking “safe” routes and times of day to run;
- -the support and camaraderie the group Black Girls Run! provides them;
- -how a “raggedy” conversation is better than no conversation at all.
So many feelings. How to take the sadness and shame and do something constructive. Thank you for having these two wonderful ladies. I read Just Mercy four years ago as it was required reading for my son. I was shocked at the double standards. Lots of innocent people are locked up, on death row because they are black. I am ashamed that I did nothing constructive after reading the book four years ago. Today I started a monthly commitment to the Equal Justice Initiative. It is small but I hope to build on that to more engagement. I think it would be great to have an AMR book group that read this book and White Fragility. Also, it would be great if you could diversify the co-host position to include a black woman.
Thank you for this episode. It was hopeful and uniting. Please keep talking about race and using your voices to forward the equal justice movement.