Jun 22, 2020
My guest today is Kimberly Latrice
Jones. Kimberly is an activist, writer, and director. It was
Kimberly’s recent impassioned
video
that powerfully moved me and
inspired me to reach out to her. Both
Trevor
Noah
and
John
Oliver
highlighted Kim’s video, where she
provides a poignant history lesson (all too often left out of our
formal education), outlines the broken social contracts between
whites and blacks in this country, and pleads for people to not
superficially focus on the WHAT (looting and rioting), but dig into
the WHY. Kim challenges us to look at the causes of the issues, the
conditions that create outrage, desperation and violence. Kim
shares the context in how this viral video came to be and why the
world needs to hear her message now. Kim acknowledges that the root
of the problem is economics so in order to make this movement
sustainable, we need to invest in black communities. Or simply
said: “white allies have black receipts”.
Kimberly is a published Young Adult author, director of film and
web series, but her primary focus now is being ‘boots on the
ground’ for all that is happening in the racial equality movement.
I’m grateful that while keeping boots on the ground, Kim’s
inspiring, empowering, truth-speaking voice is rising!
Check out the show notes for links to Kim’s
viral
speech
as well as her
website,
kimjoneswrites.com.
Please follow and support the
initiatives she rolls out, buy her book “I’m Not Dying With You
Tonight” (co-authored with Gilly Segal), and purchase her
great merch. I love her tee shirts: “Equality Not Revenge” & “Hood
Girls Can Be Heroes, Too”. Enjoy the
podcast!
Links:
www.kimjoneswrites.com
Kim's
Video
Kim's
Book
IG:
@kimberlylatricejones
IG: @really.gilly
(Gilly
Segal)
Trevor Noah/The Daily
Show
John Oliver/Last Week
Tonight