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Episode: How I Know White People are Crazy and Other Stories by Dr. Jonathan Lassiter read by Dr. Jonathan Lassiter
Description: This psychologist is frustrated.
In the final stretch of his doctoral internship, Dr. Jonathan Mathias Lassiter had just one more milestone to complete—the diversity project—where candidates insert themselves into a situation in which they’d experience what it’s like to be a minority. Surprisingly, the all-white training committee failed him! They concluded that the program’s only Black intern did not understand diversity. Frustrated and panicked, he thought, These white people are crazy.
In How I Know White People Are Crazy and Other Stories, Dr. Lassiter pulls back the curtain on the mental health system and reveals the hurdle...