Stony Road
A Podcast about Then and Now featuring educator Shannon Swilley & minister Rev. Robert Bushey, Jr. Whenever we discover what history has to offer it grounds us. We appreciate the opportunity to be connected to all that has come before us and all that will follow. We want this podcast to serve as a model for connecting the dots backwards as a means to bringing light and understanding to our current conversations about race and racial identity in America.
Stony Road
A History of Racial Identity
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Robert Bushey & Shannon Swilley
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Season 1
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Episode 1
Whenever we talk about racial identity, Whiteness or even Blackness, we believe the conversation must be rooted in history.
In this conversation we will discover that racial identities were created to provide freedom to dehumanize those who did not look like Anglo Europeans.
Our story is not a singular story of oppression, meaning it didn’t start with oppression. Who were we before the Transatlantic slave trade created African-Americans or Black people?