{"id":2406,"date":"2022-04-20T20:51:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T00:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=2406"},"modified":"2022-04-20T20:51:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T00:51:18","slug":"i-have-the-talk-with-brendan-kiely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=2406","title":{"rendered":"I have The Talk with Brendan Kiely"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I think I became aware of The Talk that African American parents have with their children a few years ago, most likely during the start of the Black Lives Matter movement. This is probably one of the surest signs that I have lived a life of white privilege. I&#8217;d grown up around casual racism with the N-word being an accepted part of many people&#8217;s vocabulary, so my not knowing about The Talk was par for the course. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brendan Kiely had in some ways a similar and in others a very different kind of youth, and that&#8217;s led him to confront racism and write <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brendankiely.com\/\">The Other Talk: Reckoning with Our White Privilege.<\/a> He&#8217;ll appear with at this year&#8217;s virtual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohioana.org\/programs\/ohioana-book-festival\/\">Ohioana Book Festival<\/a> from Friday, April 29 to Sunday, May 1, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen in as we discuss his book and efforts at understanding racism and how he feels he&#8217;ll deal with it with his children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>I said, &#8220;But it wasn&#8217;t me. It wasn&#8217;t me. I didn&#8217;t do that exact thing.&#8221;<\/p><p>And my father said, &#8220;But Brendan, did you stop your friends?&#8221;<\/p><cite>-Brendan Kiely<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Craft-2022-4-20-Kiely.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I became aware of The Talk that African American parents have with their children a few years ago, most likely during the start of the Black Lives Matter movement. This is probably one of the surest signs that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=2406\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-craft-productions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2406"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2411,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406\/revisions\/2411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}