S4 EP 16: On White Latinx Fragility

Summary: Y'all, this time two of our good friends join the Zoom. In this special episode, we collaborated with Seb and Yaz of our sibling podcast Café con Chisme to tackle an intra-community conversation: how non-Black Latinxs, like us benefit from white privilege and how we can begin to unpack it. This is Part 1 of 2, (you can find the second part over at @cafeconchisme) In part 1 we tackle 2 main questions: Why are we addressing our own white-passing non-Black Latinx community? How do we benefit from whiteness, both in our lived experiences and systemically? This conversation captures the consciousness we are at now, and it has been a process. We hope that if we need to be corrected, we can be called in with compassion and restorative justice. The book Jack mentioned is “Me & White Supremacy” by Layla Saad and is a great resource to keep the conversation going, wyourself and other non-Black Latinxs.