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Growing Up White: An Upbringing without Race
In the first two episodes, you could see how Todd and Andre think about and approach the issue of race in our country very differently. In the next three episodes, they turn the clock back to explore how their different upbringings laid the groundwork for their different approaches to race relations. In this episode, Andre…
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The Buffalo Shooting: How Far Have We Come on Race?
In this video, Todd and Andre react to the racially motivated Buffalo shooting at Tops supermarket. Andre shares the impact that public racially motivated deaths have on him and others in the Black community and how important to him it is to heed the wisdom passed down through generations of his and other Black families…
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What is the Toll of Racial Violence on Black Lives?
In this video, Andre reflects on how the threat of racial discrimination and violence has impacted him and his relationships and the walls that our racial challenges can lead us to put up between each other. They also talk about whether the focus on racial stories in today’s media is a net good or net…
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Is There A Case for Black Skepticism of White Motivations in Today’s America?
In this episode, Andre and Todd discuss their different views on the threat of racial violence, whether anyone is capable of being pushed to violence, what’s behind the caution that Andre brings to Black-white relationships, and how canceling each other’s views and experiences impedes our ability to have open, honest conversations about race. They then…
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Living On Guard: How Much Does the Threat of Racist Violence Burden Black Lives?
In this video, Andre and Todd reflect on their conversation in the first episode, discussing the parallels between Black and Jewish histories of discrimination and hate and how they think about those histories when it comes to our country today. Andre asks Todd about times when he’s felt fears for his own safety and relate…
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Our Racial History and the Threat of Racial Harm for Black Lives
What happens when college freshman roommates, friends of 25 years – one black, one white – have their first conversation about race? Talking about race isn’t always easy. Andre and Todd were college freshman roommates – one black, one white – who spent the first 25 years of knowing each other without ever discussing the…
