Putting on a Coat of Colours
This is the podcast Putting on a Coat of Colours. This podcast is a Community Storytelling project of Coat of Colours, a council of Cathedral of Hope, United Church of Christ, in Dallas, TX. Our hope is that this podcast will make room for persons of color and their white allies, who are both gay and straight…•To tell of their joys and frustrations•To tell of their sense of belonging and their sense of exclusion•To celebrate our uniqueness to the larger community and celebrate our commonalities•To invite members of the larger community to join in this purpose
Putting on a Coat of Colours
Episode 14 - The Water We Swim In
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Thomas Riggs
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Season 1
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Episode 14
For this third episode with Pam, Pat, and Roger, we hear them discuss how being a part of Coat of Colours has given them a nearer understanding of the day-to-day and system issues that their Black siblings experience. Even as they start to participate in more, they discover that they need to continue to learn how to de-center whiteness. They find deeper lessons in proximity that they couldn’t learn from a book. They find that empowerment leads to service and action.
Beautifully, this group of white allies see that Coat of Colours is a bright light, that is perhaps hidden under a bushel, and they themselves as the ones that are responsible for sharing Coat of Colours with their white siblings in the church and the community