The Breathing Room Podcast
Hi everybody and welcome to The Breathing Room. This is a space where people of color and faith can come together to have our lived experiences acknowledged, witness each other's journeys, and take a collective deep breath. Join Kevin Holland and others each week as we explore what being a person of color in a multi-cultural American Christian church has been and is like. These conversations will touch on the spiritual, relational, and socio-political realities that influence us and our faith communities. The goal of this podcast is that fewer of us will feel alone and unseen and that more of our stories will be understood, valued, and championed. This conversation might also help us move from awareness to action in promoting justice as Jesus and the prophets of old did. Learn to do good. Seek justice. Help the oppressed. Defend the cause of orphans. Fight for the rights of widows. Isaiah 1:17 (NLT)
The Breathing Room Podcast
"Tim Scott Says ‘America Is Not a Racist Country’ – The Data Says Otherwise"
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Kevin Holland
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Season 1
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Episode 7
From the founding of our nation until now, there’s been an open question of who we are as a country. Whose country is it? To whom does it belong? Which people make up the “real America?” Who is wanted and welcomed and who is “othered” and shunned? What is our true national identity? Are we more of a split personality entity? Are there two Americas? Is racism actually a prominent part of our national DNA?
We all know that there is no way to solve a problem or repair what is broken if those involved don’t agree that there is a problem or that something is broken. Here’s to hoping that we can engage this issue, make actual progress, and let data and lived experience trump opinion and ideology.