Black Like Me

Black Like Me with Dr. Alex Gee is a podcast that invites you to experience the world through the perspective of one Black man, one conversation, one story, or even one rant at a time.

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I’m More Troubled By “Woke” White Progressives Than Zoombombers Calling Me The N Word

July 21, 2020 by Alexander Gee

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Dr. Alex Gee shares his live rant in response to a virtual ally training session for his non-profit organization that was hacked on Zoom. This racist zoombombing attack has had a strong effect on Dr. Gee and the local community. As usual, Dr. Gee has turned this incident into a learning opportunity that provides insight into the Black experience and white allyship.

Read more about the incident and Dr. Gee’s insights in this article from Madison365.

What Do We Do Now?: Leaning Into White Allyship Pt. 2

July 14, 2020 by Alexander Gee

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Dr. Alex Gee continues his live, virtual conversation with those seeking to learn and take action amidst the racial unrest sparked by recent acts of police violence. In the second part of the conversation, Dr. Gee is asked questions from participants on a variety of topics related to anti-racist work and the experience of African Americans.

Join the conversation at the follow up virtual event on July 14 at 7pm.

Special thank you to Gener8tor for their generous assistance in hosting this virtual event.

What Do We Do Now?: Leaning Into White Allyship Pt. 1

July 7, 2020 by Alexander Gee

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Dr. Alex Gee has a live, virtual conversation with those seeking to learn and take action amidst the racial unrest sparked by recent acts of police violence. In the first part of the conversation, Dan Beltran asks Dr. Gee questions to give perspective on the experience of a Black man in America who has been speaking out on systemic racism for years.

Special thank you to Gener8tor for their generous assistance in hosting this virtual event.

Black Faces in White Places: Black Excellence Despite Exhausting White Environments With Season 4 Apprentice Champion Dr. Randal Pinkett and Dr. Jeffrey Robinson.

July 1, 2020 by Alexander Gee

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If the name Randal Pinkett sounds familiar, it may be because Pinkett was the first African-American winner on The Apprentice. When he won, this black man also became the only contestant to be asked to share his victory-with a white woman. The request (and Pinkett’s subsequent refusal) set off a firestorm of controversy that inevitably focused on the issue of race in the American workplace and in society. Dr. Gee discusses the book “Black Faces In White Places” with the authors, Dr. Randal Pinkett And Dr. Jeffrey Robinson.

Randal D. Pinkett is a Rhodes Scholar and Walter Byers Scholar, and is the founder and managing partner of the consulting firm BCT Partners. Jeffrey A. Robinson, Ph.D.is an award-winning business school professor, international speaker, and entrepreneur.

Relevant Re-Drop: US Black History With Professor Christy Clark-Pujara

June 25, 2020 by Alexander Gee

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Because of recent events that are bringing greater attention to issues that impact African Americans, Black Like Me is highlighting past episodes that are relevant to the current national conversation.

On this episode, Dr. Alex Gee has an eye-opening conversation with the University of Wisconsin Professor of History and one of the most celebrated lecturers in the Justified Anger African American History Class, Christy Clark-Pujara. Christy Clark-Pujara is a historian whose research focuses on the experiences of black people in French and British North America in the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries.

Books:
Dark Work: The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island (New York: New York University Press, 2016).

Relevant Re-Drop: White Women’s Tears and White Fragility with Dr. Robin DiAngelo

June 25, 2020 by Alexander Gee

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Dr. Alex Gee brings you an important figure in the White Allyship conversation, Dr. Robin DiAngelo. Their conversation is insightful, truthful, and challenging to the system of racism. Dr. Gee and Dr. DiAngelo share the ability to speak from life experience, both personally and professionally, in an episode that is not to be missed.

Dr. Robin DiAngelo is the Affiliate Associate Professor of Education at the University of Washington. Her area of research is in Whiteness Studies and Critical Discourse Analysis, explicating how whiteness is reproduced in everyday narratives. Dr. DiAngelo has numerous publications and books, including Is Everybody Really Equal?: An Introduction to Key Concepts in Critical Social Justice Education, co-written with Özlem Sensoy, and which received both the American Educational Studies Association Critics Choice Book Award (2012) and the Society of Professors of Education Book Award (2018). In 2011 she coined the term White Fragility in an academic article which influenced the national dialogue on race. Dr. DiAngelo’s book, White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism was released in June of 2018 and debuted on the New York Times Bestseller List.