Content Warning:
This episode includes explicit discussion of racis, and the N-word in an educational and reflective context. Listeners are advised that the conversation addresses painful historical and contemporary experiences related to race, power, and identity. Please listen with care and discretion.
SHOW NOTES:
In this episode of Humanize, Courtney Rutherford Jr. and Emily Braucher reflect on the origins of the podcast, their cross-racial partnership, and what it means to stay in relationship through discomfort. They explore a deeply nuanced question about parenting, race, and responsibility as Emily asks how and when to talk to children about the N-word. The conversation expands into reflections on whiteness as a system, reactivity versus responsibility, and why humanizing conversations across difference remain essential for healing, accountability, and collective growth.
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