#32 Being Black is Becoming

04/10/21 • 28 min

Dr. Eve Hudson, Founder and Chief Strategist of Evingerlean Worldwide and Professor of Higher Education at Bellarmine University focused on the main social mobilizer for Black people. She touched on the opportunity available to everyone regardless of the color of their skin or socioeconomic background.
"People were people. Even through my high school, I didn't recognize I was going to a predominantly Black institution, predominantly Black school even, because I was going to school with friends. But even with friends, depending on where I was, they were folks from South Eastern Asian descent, people from Mexico, just from all over the world. And so I had a different concept about people, loving and accepting people, and seeing people for people. And it wasn't really until I had gone to an HBCU that I had thought much about being Black. But then, when I moved to the deep south, I really thought about being Black..." - Dr. Eve Hudson
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#31 Equity is Tough but...

Julie Kefer, Senior Director of Operations at UCLA was resonate about the need for an equitable society as she acknowledged that racism was always there but it is easy to pretend that it was not. She recognized the enormity of the work can be overwhelming, but she insisted that the outcome must be the motivation.
"I feel very sort of overwhelmed by the challenge and the enormity of what we're all realizing especially as a white person, phew... we're not where we thought we were at all. How do we talk together, how do we get better.." - Julie Kefer

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#33 Start with Winners

James Lafferty, CEO of Fine Hygienic Holdings spoke from Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. A Cincinnati native, previously division CEO for P&G, Coca-Cola, British American Tobacco and many world class companies, now resides in Dubai.
Jim, also a feminist, described his voting record from '84 to now, his interpretation of mental disarmament from Nelson Mandela's story, his feelings about white privilege, thought about Klans, perception of minority progressions and how to win their votes and trust, and the importance of unifiers as he claimed "if America gets unified, we'd be unstoppable".
"I got 3,500 employees, 3,400+ are muslims and they the best people in the world. And some the finest people I know are muslims. People talk about Nigeria in a very negative sense, and its scams and this and that, honestly, some the greatest people I know are in Nigeria, and the most dynamic, most incredible people. Yes, there can be scams but there are scams everywhere..." - James Lafferty.