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Podcast: Woke AF Daily
Episode: Damon Young: A Very Smart Brotha
Description: Danielle chats with Damon Young, co-founder of the website Very Smart Brothas and author of What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker. Danielle and Damon discuss his book’s examination of the angst, anxiety and absurdity of being black in America. They dig into the process of embracing blackness, one which requires us to acknowledge the indoctrinated anti-black ideas that exist within all of us so that we are able to consciously deconstruct and extract them. Damon also talks about parenting black children and the challenge of reconciling two essential and deeply contradicting lessons – that black children can be wha...