November 15, 2023 • 33 mins
Known for her interview style and engaging onscreen presence, today's special guest is Emmy award-winning broadcast journalist and new podcast host Sharon Reed.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Sharon Reid is a journalist, actress, producer, and Emmy Award
winning host known for her thought provoking interview style and
engaging on screen presence. Whether sitting opposite a celebrity or newsmaker,
she has an uncanny ability to get them to open
up and share intimate and often difficult details. She has
previously worked as an anchor and reporter in Atlanta, Saint Louis, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Miami,
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and Baltimore. She currently hosts The Sharon Reid Show, a
dynamic and insightful fifteen minute podcast that delves into topics
and issues that are typically ignored by mainstream media or
reported through a filter that lacks cultural insight. We are
honored to have her as our guest today. This is
the Black Information Network Daily Podcast, and I'm your host,
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ramses Jah. All right, Sharon Reid, welcome to the show.
It's been a long time coming. How you doing today.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I'm honored to be on the show, and I thank you.
I'm a little under the weather, but there's work to
be done, so it doesn't stop me.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Okay. I like that attitude. We'll keep you too long.
It's we've promised our listeners a proper introduction, So we
want to give them that much at the very least.
But we'll get you. Let's get you in.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
And out long if you need me, Okay, we'll do
it then.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
So for those listeners that may not be intimately familiar
with your work so far, do us a favor and
give us a bit about your background. Tell us, uh,
sort of where you grew up and what sort of
inspired you to adopt this career path in mass media.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
I'll start on the back end. I'm nosy. People try
to deny that or dismiss that, but I am nosy.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
But I'd like to think of it as a greater good,
you know, on behalf of a greater good. And I
always was.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Like that, opinionated, curious, so curious as a kid. I
grew up in Westchester, Pennsylvania, by your bruston home of QBC,
and it was fine right outside of Philadelphia. But I
knew there's a big world out there, and I wanted
to explore it. I looked at journalism, I think through
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the lens of a Philadelphian, because you don't realize when
you grow up there. We were also spoiled by the quality,
I'll say of the news presenters Lisa Thomas. Lorie was
this beautiful black woman who and still is I just
was captivated by her. I loved her and I thought, wow,
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she was probably my first introduction to I could do this.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
And we always had.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
To watch the news because back then kids didn't demand
the remote, and this is what my mother had on
at dinner hour, and we thought there was only one station,
you know, Action News WPVI. So that's probably where I
got the bug. I had the opportunity to meet her,
and that cemented it. Went to college and DC see,
fell in love with politics. Went to Georgetown, I fell
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into this coveted internship in Senator Kennedy's office is press office,
so there was only two of us, and I would
cut out and make a paper for the Senator, and
the rules were to go through. You know, there wasn't
the internet as we know it today where you could
just cut and paste.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I would go through the newspapers.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
And anything negative about him, I would cut that out
and I would put together whatever on his policy, good
things you know about the family, a foundation, whatever it was.
And I, just as I said, fell in love with
politics so much, just kind of would go to sleep
dreaming about it. I got to work on a nightline.
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That was fun, interesting work because I got to meet
I remember meeting Jean tron aristat was you know, he
was in exile and in fear in a hotel room
and I got to go along artist Waters. I'll never
forget the producer who said, you want to take a riding?
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Every said where we were going, and he opened the
door to this hotel room and there was someone who
wasn't expecting me to probably be with him, but it
was just captivating, and I think that cemented again this bug.
Georgetown didn't have a journalism program, but Howard did, and
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so I would commute and take the bus across town
and take some courses there in journalism and I loved it.
So I went to Chicago next Northwestern, not because I
wanted a master's degree, but because I wanted to start
a career and I needed a tape. So that's how
it began. And then it was city and city and
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another city after that. And here I sit.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
That I mean that that kind of jives with you
know what I know to be true of you. Yeah,
you have done a good amount of work around the country.
So so let's let's talk about let's pick one. Let's
talk about your time with CBS Atlanta. What was that like?
You know, for folks that have never been in the newsroom.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Well, Atlanta was always the prize for me in a
city that I really wanted to get to. I visited
it before I dated someone here. I just loved it.
I like a lot of black people, I fell in
love with this black Meca.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Cassine Reeve was the mayor.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
And you know, for those of us who didn't live
in Atlanta, it was a zip boy, this young black
and I mean he's black man. Okay, there's no mistaking
his pride. He was our mayor too, even when we
didn't live here. So I just loved everything about it
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and the fact that you could have a quality of
life here and still be seen, have eyeballs, have opportunity.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
So that's why I came. Newsrooms a challenging and this
one was perhaps.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
The biggest challenge because I joined a station that had
always been last, which if you know anything about me,
people who do know me would tell you that's what
I would want. You want to join someone or a
place that has room to grow. You want to build
something together, not just show up when it's nice and shiny.
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So I liked it, but I tried to remember it
was the vehicle, get here and see what else is
going on? And that really led to my decision to say,
now what, I think I've seen enough inside the newsroom.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
I want to see what's outside of it.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Streamings, big nows out, there's other things to do, and
when you are.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
A local news journalist, a couple of things happen.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Number One, you look to the right, you look to
the left, and it's why viewers say every product looks
the same.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
And that's just not who I am.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
You know, if you want to rerun the tape from
last year's parade, okay, but I think we're telling real stories,
real people, and you can always make it interesting, informative
and honest, and we don't always do that. There's a
lot of group think. This not to trash local news.
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It has its purpose, but it got to be very
formulaic and it's just not who I am, and I
wanted to see more.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Okay, Well, I know that you know, you were talking
about Atlanta being the prize, but and I would have
never guessed that just kind of you know, becoming familiar with,
you know, some of the more some of the less
I guess obvious details in your story. I would have
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thought it would have been kind of your appearance on Letterman.
That's something I didn't know about it, actually, So let's
talk about that, Like what was that like?
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Nerve wracking? You know, it's one thing when you are
a confident, and I.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Was a bold anchor when I was in Cleveland because
it was necessary.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Again.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Not a perennial loser, and we we did some things
there that I'm super proud of. That appearance came out
of my naked news report, which I'm bold, But at
the same time, I've got this like internal conflict. I'm
a bit shy when I'm not on the air. I
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covered privacy my little bubble. Yeah, but I also believe
what I believe. And so when Spencer Tunick, who is
the artist who would do these nude installations, was being
beaten up at the time by Rudy Giuliani, who was
the mayor of New York. And I mean, these pictures
are pretty incredible. Where why would all these people gather
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get naked? And then he would take this like mass
I guess now you would do it by a drone
or something photo. It was award winning and it was,
you know, on display, and it was deemed indecent.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
And you know, Rudy was on a mission. The Supreme
Court was weighing in all kinds of things.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
So he came to Cleveland and I remember being in
my boss's office saying, you.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Know, I don't want to I don't want to cover
this the same way.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I wasn't talking about me, but I just met as
a newsroom, we should cover this in a different way.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Why do people do this?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Because I think it's kind of like, who wants to
get naked with everybody? Unless you want to get naked
with somebody, you know. And he instantly said, I think
it's a great idea.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Would you do it? Let me get back to you
next thing. You know, I'm naked.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
With lake Erie in the background and out of my
comfort zone. Sure, And I got to be honest with
you as a journalist, I think that's important too.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
But that led to Letterman.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
He thought it was funny and he joked about it
again and again and un till I showed up.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Okay, okay, all right, I'll take that. So let's shift
gears a bit here. Let's talk about what you got
going on now. So let's discuss the Sharon Reid Show
and what led to its creation and who it's for.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Unapologetically, it's for us.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
And having worked in so many newsrooms, mainstream newsrooms, which
I hate using that term because what about us. Okay,
you're not the main and we're the side piece, but
that's how they treat black people, and the lens is
so so important. I can't tell you how many stories
that I've covered in my career and I've had to
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fight in the newsroom to say, now, I'm not going
to call Katrina survivors refugees, even if it's.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Technically correct, and I don't care what CNN is doing.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
They're calling them that because they look like Haitian refugees
and they wouldn't call people from Madison, Wisconsin that.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
So when Real Times.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Media, who I just love, said, you know there's something here,
there's something here where we can be ourselves, cover stories
in a truthful way through our lens, but don't take people's.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Time for granted.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
If you just give me fifteen minutes, I gotcha, Okay,
I have your back, and we will weed through.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
That's our job.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
We through all the bs, all the false narratives, the stereotypes,
and let's just have this inside conversation. Anybody can listen,
and I think others ill, but this is our thing
and I couldn't be more proud of it.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
I love the team.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Eric Roberts is a tremendous leader who kind of filters
and comes up with these masterpieces. And sometimes I feel
like I'm just the vehicle. But oh yeah, he lets
me talk and way in. But it's just fun. It's
fun to have the you know, training wheels come off
and just be able to talk black way in whatever.
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We have a varying wide interest and to be able
to dive into anything we want.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
It just makes me happy.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
We are here today with Sharon Reid, an actress, producer, journalist,
and Emmy Award winning multimedia host as well as the
host of The Sharon Reid Show. Okay, so let's get
your take on some of the head lines that we're
covering here, just to kind of give folks an insight into,
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you know, just your thought process and how you make
heads or tails of these stories. So a big one
obviously over the past weekend. In this past week is
Ebanie K. Williams making headlines again, this time by urging
black women to pursue college and marriage simultaneously. Have you
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heard about this one?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
I have, Okay, And well she's done it again.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I think saying the quiet part out loud that so
many people are weighed in as if this is some
kind of lashing at black women. I actually agree with her,
and I'm going to tell you why when you team
up with someone, when you find your life partner. I
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can't think of a more important decision. And I see
so many of us out here who are trying to
get it in, working really hard, building up resources, wealth, education,
taking care of kids, and the one decision that we
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seem to have gotten wrong has blown up on us.
And you're losing precious time, you're losing large sums of money,
You're having to divide things, and I think some of
that comes from desperation for the institution of marriage instead
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of trust yourself. Find that life partner. It doesn't matter
what they do. Right, She's talking about college kids and students.
Why not before anybody's made anything or set out and
built anything, that to me.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Is about character, soulmate, and.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
If you find the right one going to have everything
you've ever dreamed of, which will change over the course
of time. So I know people are, like you know,
on fire over her latest it's not exactly the bus driver,
which I understood too, but I also understood Iyama.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
But this is the greatest advice. I have a.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Niece who is about to go to medical school now,
and I told her the best advice I could give
you is you know she's talking about and should I
date this one.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Or a lawyer?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Put all that out of your mind. And I'm an
ambitious woman, and I make no apologies for it. Why
wouldn't you want an ambitious partner, someone who's supportive though too,
of your goals, of your dreams.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
You feed each other.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
But I told her I wouldn't worry about anything that
he did, as long as with not criminal enterprise. Okay,
just find someone who is good for you and has
those qualities, and I swear to you the rest will
take care of itself. It's a lesson learned too late
for you know, a law of people, a lot of us.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
But I think she's onto something. I'm glad that she
said it out loud.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
All right, there we go. You know I was far
be it for me to offer too much in the
way of those conversations. But I appreciate your perspective, and
I think it will be.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Dying to hear what you think. Now I'm dying to
hear your perspective.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Oh no, I could never. Yeah, they would, you know what.
I good luck and God bless everybody on their journeys.
That's the most that I will commit to that. But again,
I appreciate what it is that that you're saying there,
because you know, what I can say is that these
conversations are very important. What I can say is that
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with a lot of people kind of having marriage as
the goal, when they don't consider all of the factors,
a lot of times they can internalize any shortcomings, any
failures to kind of manifest that goal. And there are
other factors that need to be considered. And my thing is,
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I don't want anyone to feel bad about themselves individually,
just to kind of take a couple of steps back
and look at the larger picture. And I think that
your insight allows the framework for people to kind of
adopt a different perspective, a different posture when looking at
those things. And so that's where it comes from But again,
good luck and God's be to everyone on their journeys.
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You know, I hope everyone gets what it is they want.
Why would I stand in the way of anybody being happy?
Speaker 2 (17:33):
But right, and let me say this, I understand we're
really having We're judged from an outside lens. Right. Black
women are aggressive, Black women are angry, they're too demanding,
they can't keep a man. That's that outside you know that.
I think a lot of the chatter is framed through
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because when people tell you that that's who you are,
even though it's not true, there's a part of you
that holds onto that, and so you resist any advice
like what Ebony's talking about. But the inside conversation is
what do you want for your sister, your your your mother,
your daughter who wants to Maybe there are people who
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want to grow old alone. I think it's a beautiful
thing to have a partner to walk through life with.
However you want to frame it, ring on the finger, no,
ring whatever. I think it's a beautiful thing. And so
I'm having that inside conversation and trying to be true
and authentic about it, and that I really do agree
with some of what she said.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
There and that's that's that's kind of what I was
getting at, and that's why you know, these conversations they're
they're very challenging, but again they're very necessary. I remember
the name Kevin Samuels, and he was a person that
people were very divided on his opinions, but for better
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or worse, he was at least getting people to have conversations.
And I think Ebony kind of doubling down on her
bus driver comments in this way is continuing to kind
of continuing the conversation. And because this is kind of
an important milestone for some people. Again, when they internalize
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the the the failure to manifest this goal, it leads
to those outcomes of like kind of reassessing your self
worth or your value and that sort of thing. And
those are the things that fundamentally I push back against
because in no way is you know, the pursuit of
becoming a better person in this instance, better woman, and
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that that doesn't count against anyone. You know, there's personal
fulfillment and personal goals that people can accomplish, and in theory,
those would translate into you know, all of your relationships,
not just your romantic relationships, and so you know, the
path of self discovery, the path of kind of appreciating
who the person that you are, those sorts of things
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that I I love that for every one of us.
I think it's very important for us in particular because
of you know, as you mentioned outside chatter, and you know,
even me a man, I try not to offer any advice,
if anything, I just say, hey, here's what I know,
and that's what I know. You know, and that's just
take it as food for thought, but not just ebony,
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but you know yourself. Just allowing other people to have
different apertures into that conversation there, whatever it is that
they need in order to kind of start having either
the internal dialogue or you know, to you know, diffuse
this information through their their friend groups or their their
social framework. I think that's that's critically important. And so
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again I appreciate you providing that for our listeners today.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
I appreciate the question.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Can I just say quickly about Kevin Samuel's you know,
I think there's a difference between sparking conversation and even
debate versus dictating tearing down, and so I didn't even
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want to put her in that category. And I understand
that people look to that. But I think you're right.
When you're on a self journey to become a better person,
it's about discovering who's right for you. A lot of
times people don't end up in the place they want
to be because maybe they hadn't done that individual work. Sometimes,
you know, just find what's best for you. Don't hurt anybody.
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Sometimes it really is just as simple.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Absolutely, And I want to make sure that I'm here too.
That in no way was an endorsement of Kevin Samuels.
That was just a popular figure that people would know.
Oh and he again, for better or worse, was causing
people to have conversations, and so that was It's the
conversation is the part that I'm pushing for, not one
side or the other, because I wouldn't know what's right
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for anybody except me, So that's it's important for me
to say that. So anyway, let's shift gears here a bit.
I'm I'm confident that you're following you know, politics, and
so I want to kind of give you know, our
listeners some insight into how you know you're you're tracking
what's going on in the political arena as well, and
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just kind of give them a bit of a preview,
uh into you know, what they might expect on the
The Sharon Reach Show in terms of how your opinions
come across. So I'm sure you've paid attention at least
some attention to the Republican nominee debates here and there.
I think there's only been two, but.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
I did.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Yeah, yeah, I know what you mean. I know, but
it's it's topical. So let's get your thoughts on uh,
Tim Scott. You know, he's he's a person that we've
been having conversations about. And I guess something that has
come up recently in the news is he has an
alleged girlfriend. But really his sexuality is coming to play.
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So ether is politics or anything behind the scenes or
anything like that, whatever moves you to share with our listeners.
I just love your perspective on that and him and
what's going on there.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
I think Tim Scott is overall a good man.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Okay, That's what I think and feel when I see
him and not in person.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Think us all once covered a debate live, but.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
He's lost his way or perhaps ever found it to me, okay,
because he's all over the place. He's a good man
and doesn't know how to do goodbye himself and us.
He doesn't know how to do it. He's allowed himself
to be propped by his party, as you know, one
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of the only ones to give rebuttals to our very
existence and our blackness, and he's been used to discredit us.
I think he's a good man, but he can't be
my president. And I don't want to hear any more
about drapes and curtains and nonsense, okay, when there are
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huge issues and trying to think if forgive is the
right word. I don't forgive him for pretending to work
on something that was meaningful to us with Corey Booker, Okay,
police reform. You can't be his age, a black man
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born in South Carolina, Okay, in the era he was born.
And to still pretend that you don't know what we're
talking about and what we're saying and feeling and experiencing
isn't real in many ways, is unforgivable. Now again, I
think he's a good man, but he can't be my president.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
I think that that's that's that's very very fair. That's
a fair statement. I've been probably a bit more vocal
and expressive in my opposition to his campaign for many
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of the reasons that are delineated in this conversation, but
you know many others as well. And I think that
that's fair because one of the things that I'm learning
is to be critical of black men in particular, because
often enough it's men without tearing them down. To be
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critical of black men while recognizing that they have, whether
it's based in a shared reality or a singular uh
a dvantage point that coincidentally, I say that in quotes
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happens to prop them up a little bit further in
society or you know, provide them a little bit more
security fiscally or otherwise, to allow them their perspective to
their their position, and to challenge it where it needs
to be challenged, and not let it devolve into you know,
they have a like their character comes into question, which
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sometimes it's absolutely necessary. But again, I appreciate that fair assessment.
I tried, Well, it sounds fair to me. It's certainly
a lot fairer than I would given him, So you
know that, I think that's a testament to just, you know,
how how well you execute on these things. And again,
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well said so uh, finally, before we let you go.
Let's let's get your thoughts. Have you heard about the
new Kerrie Washington book. This is another thing folks are
talking I have awesome Okay. So some of the revelations
that came out in this book have obviously caused people to,
you know, really feel for her. You know, there's a
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lot of stuff that we didn't know about her upbringing,
her parents keeping really important secrets from her, and so forth.
So I guess talk us through maybe how you would
have responded to maybe learning that your parents had kept
some secrets from you.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Well, every family has secrets.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
And I was an outspoken child who turned into an
outspoken woman. I think that oftentimes, and I don't know
that it's particular to color, to race. We don't talk
about things that are right in front of us. And
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you know, I had this conversation with one of my
sisters who was struggling with an issue, you know, a
parent who had kept a secret for all these years
that I can't even tell you what the secret was
because this was nothing, Burger, it was nothing, Okay. But
when you keep things inside, your mind plays tricks on you.
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And be smart, you can be present. Your mind actually
plays tricks on you and you actually think it's bigger
than it is.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
It's nothing.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
So I think I loved how she handled it and
the grace of learning that you know her father.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Is not her biological father.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Yeah, I don't understand it.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
I haven't read the book. I've only seen some interviews,
and that was one of the excerpts. My anger would be.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
To my parents in that situation, not that it's so
much hurt me, because if you had a good life,
if you know, she seems to have a good life,
but I would want to.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Free them of this burden.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
What mattered so much that you've kept this darkness in
here and between you?
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Shaane gil who cares?
Speaker 2 (29:44):
I really think secrets kill because it's not even what
they are, it's what they become when they're trapped inside
of us. But I think it's interesting and relevant that
she chose to put it out there. I mean, everybody
wants to sell a book. You write in a book,
you want to put something in it. If she could
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put other things in it, you know, look who she is,
Look look the places she's been, the things she's done
that are other things she could have picked.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
I think that part is brave, all right.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Well some some some very insightful takes there, and I
appreciate all of them. I couldn't let you go without
asking you, obviously, being as ambitious as you are and
kind of tackling the whole world, what's next for you? What?
What can people expect for you? On something on the horizon,
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Maybe a book, maybe a you.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Tell me, I'd love to write a book. You know.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
I'm I'm not Carrie Washington, but I enjoy acting and
exploring that arena, and I love being in our lane
and finding the value there. This is not an Azarin,
It's not a side piece. We are so important. I
was just doing a segment for another project on black
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voting power. We shouldn't have to convince each other. We
actually have black voting power and will likely decide the
next presidential race, and I'm so interested in how we
should wield it, what we should do with it, and
so anything that I'm involved in at this stage, my
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career is about my passion, my love, my energy, my blackness, unapologetically.
So maybe you'll have me come back one time and
we can talk more, talk more about something else, you know.
But I enjoyed the conversation, and I hope. I hope
that there's big things on the horizon for all of us.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Fantastic will leave the well, Chris will leave the door
open for you. He's the boss around here. But before
we let you go, do us a favor so that
we can, you know, keep up with you, plug us
with your social media, your website, anything like that, just
so we have that sort of connected tissue for our listeners.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
You can find me on social media Sharre and read
Live across all platforms.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
I believe the podcast website and Eric can correct me
if I'm wrong. The Sharon Read Show podcasts dot com.
If that's not correct, we have it linked right, well,
we have it linked. You could also go to Real
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Times Media because they do an excellent job. I should
know it by heart, but I think it changed a
couple of times to let me off the whol.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
No, that's that's that's totally fine. And we work really
closely with Real Times Media as well, and so I
know what you mean. They do a great job so
well that in mind. I'd like to thank you for
coming up today, for sharing your insight, and for your
overall commitment to the successful, informed, and inspired future of
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black people in this country. This has been a joy,
and as I mentioned, we'll leave the door open for
you, you know, as your story continues to be written once again.
Today's guest is Sharon Reid, an actress, producer, journalist, and
Emmy Award winning multimedia host as well as the host
of The Sharon Reid Show.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Thank You.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
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from our perspective right here on the Black Information Network
Daily Podcast
Sharon Reid is a journalist, actress, producer, and Emmy Award
winning host known for her thought provoking interview style and
engaging on screen presence. Whether sitting opposite a celebrity or newsmaker,
she has an uncanny ability to get them to open
up and share intimate and often difficult details. She has
previously worked as an anchor and reporter in Atlanta, Saint Louis, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Miami,
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and Baltimore. She currently hosts The Sharon Reid Show, a
dynamic and insightful fifteen minute podcast that delves into topics
and issues that are typically ignored by mainstream media or
reported through a filter that lacks cultural insight. We are
honored to have her as our guest today. This is
the Black Information Network Daily Podcast, and I'm your host,
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ramses Jah. All right, Sharon Reid, welcome to the show.
It's been a long time coming. How you doing today.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I'm honored to be on the show, and I thank you.
I'm a little under the weather, but there's work to
be done, so it doesn't stop me.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Okay. I like that attitude. We'll keep you too long.
It's we've promised our listeners a proper introduction, So we
want to give them that much at the very least.
But we'll get you. Let's get you in.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
And out long if you need me, Okay, we'll do
it then.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
So for those listeners that may not be intimately familiar
with your work so far, do us a favor and
give us a bit about your background. Tell us, uh,
sort of where you grew up and what sort of
inspired you to adopt this career path in mass media.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
I'll start on the back end. I'm nosy. People try
to deny that or dismiss that, but I am nosy.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
But I'd like to think of it as a greater good,
you know, on behalf of a greater good. And I
always was.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Like that, opinionated, curious, so curious as a kid. I
grew up in Westchester, Pennsylvania, by your bruston home of QBC,
and it was fine right outside of Philadelphia. But I
knew there's a big world out there, and I wanted
to explore it. I looked at journalism, I think through
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the lens of a Philadelphian, because you don't realize when
you grow up there. We were also spoiled by the quality,
I'll say of the news presenters Lisa Thomas. Lorie was
this beautiful black woman who and still is I just
was captivated by her. I loved her and I thought, wow,
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she was probably my first introduction to I could do this.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
And we always had.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
To watch the news because back then kids didn't demand
the remote, and this is what my mother had on
at dinner hour, and we thought there was only one station,
you know, Action News WPVI. So that's probably where I
got the bug. I had the opportunity to meet her,
and that cemented it. Went to college and DC see,
fell in love with politics. Went to Georgetown, I fell
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into this coveted internship in Senator Kennedy's office is press office,
so there was only two of us, and I would
cut out and make a paper for the Senator, and
the rules were to go through. You know, there wasn't
the internet as we know it today where you could
just cut and paste.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I would go through the newspapers.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
And anything negative about him, I would cut that out
and I would put together whatever on his policy, good
things you know about the family, a foundation, whatever it was.
And I, just as I said, fell in love with
politics so much, just kind of would go to sleep
dreaming about it. I got to work on a nightline.
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That was fun, interesting work because I got to meet
I remember meeting Jean tron aristat was you know, he
was in exile and in fear in a hotel room
and I got to go along artist Waters. I'll never
forget the producer who said, you want to take a riding?
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Every said where we were going, and he opened the
door to this hotel room and there was someone who
wasn't expecting me to probably be with him, but it
was just captivating, and I think that cemented again this bug.
Georgetown didn't have a journalism program, but Howard did, and
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so I would commute and take the bus across town
and take some courses there in journalism and I loved it.
So I went to Chicago next Northwestern, not because I
wanted a master's degree, but because I wanted to start
a career and I needed a tape. So that's how
it began. And then it was city and city and
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another city after that. And here I sit.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
That I mean that that kind of jives with you
know what I know to be true of you. Yeah,
you have done a good amount of work around the country.
So so let's let's talk about let's pick one. Let's
talk about your time with CBS Atlanta. What was that like?
You know, for folks that have never been in the newsroom.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Well, Atlanta was always the prize for me in a
city that I really wanted to get to. I visited
it before I dated someone here. I just loved it.
I like a lot of black people, I fell in
love with this black Meca.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Cassine Reeve was the mayor.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
And you know, for those of us who didn't live
in Atlanta, it was a zip boy, this young black
and I mean he's black man. Okay, there's no mistaking
his pride. He was our mayor too, even when we
didn't live here. So I just loved everything about it
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and the fact that you could have a quality of
life here and still be seen, have eyeballs, have opportunity.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
So that's why I came. Newsrooms a challenging and this
one was perhaps.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
The biggest challenge because I joined a station that had
always been last, which if you know anything about me,
people who do know me would tell you that's what
I would want. You want to join someone or a
place that has room to grow. You want to build
something together, not just show up when it's nice and shiny.
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So I liked it, but I tried to remember it
was the vehicle, get here and see what else is
going on? And that really led to my decision to say,
now what, I think I've seen enough inside the newsroom.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
I want to see what's outside of it.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Streamings, big nows out, there's other things to do, and
when you are.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
A local news journalist, a couple of things happen.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Number One, you look to the right, you look to
the left, and it's why viewers say every product looks
the same.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
And that's just not who I am.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
You know, if you want to rerun the tape from
last year's parade, okay, but I think we're telling real stories,
real people, and you can always make it interesting, informative
and honest, and we don't always do that. There's a
lot of group think. This not to trash local news.
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It has its purpose, but it got to be very
formulaic and it's just not who I am, and I
wanted to see more.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Okay, Well, I know that you know, you were talking
about Atlanta being the prize, but and I would have
never guessed that just kind of you know, becoming familiar with,
you know, some of the more some of the less
I guess obvious details in your story. I would have
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thought it would have been kind of your appearance on Letterman.
That's something I didn't know about it, actually, So let's
talk about that, Like what was that like?
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Nerve wracking? You know, it's one thing when you are
a confident, and I.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Was a bold anchor when I was in Cleveland because
it was necessary.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Again.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Not a perennial loser, and we we did some things
there that I'm super proud of. That appearance came out
of my naked news report, which I'm bold, But at
the same time, I've got this like internal conflict. I'm
a bit shy when I'm not on the air. I
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covered privacy my little bubble. Yeah, but I also believe
what I believe. And so when Spencer Tunick, who is
the artist who would do these nude installations, was being
beaten up at the time by Rudy Giuliani, who was
the mayor of New York. And I mean, these pictures
are pretty incredible. Where why would all these people gather
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get naked? And then he would take this like mass
I guess now you would do it by a drone
or something photo. It was award winning and it was,
you know, on display, and it was deemed indecent.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
And you know, Rudy was on a mission. The Supreme
Court was weighing in all kinds of things.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
So he came to Cleveland and I remember being in
my boss's office saying, you.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Know, I don't want to I don't want to cover
this the same way.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I wasn't talking about me, but I just met as
a newsroom, we should cover this in a different way.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Why do people do this?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Because I think it's kind of like, who wants to
get naked with everybody? Unless you want to get naked
with somebody, you know. And he instantly said, I think
it's a great idea.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Would you do it? Let me get back to you
next thing. You know, I'm naked.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
With lake Erie in the background and out of my
comfort zone. Sure, And I got to be honest with
you as a journalist, I think that's important too.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
But that led to Letterman.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
He thought it was funny and he joked about it
again and again and un till I showed up.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Okay, okay, all right, I'll take that. So let's shift
gears a bit here. Let's talk about what you got
going on now. So let's discuss the Sharon Reid Show
and what led to its creation and who it's for.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Unapologetically, it's for us.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
And having worked in so many newsrooms, mainstream newsrooms, which
I hate using that term because what about us. Okay,
you're not the main and we're the side piece, but
that's how they treat black people, and the lens is
so so important. I can't tell you how many stories
that I've covered in my career and I've had to
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fight in the newsroom to say, now, I'm not going
to call Katrina survivors refugees, even if it's.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Technically correct, and I don't care what CNN is doing.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
They're calling them that because they look like Haitian refugees
and they wouldn't call people from Madison, Wisconsin that.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
So when Real Times.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Media, who I just love, said, you know there's something here,
there's something here where we can be ourselves, cover stories
in a truthful way through our lens, but don't take people's.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Time for granted.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
If you just give me fifteen minutes, I gotcha, Okay,
I have your back, and we will weed through.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
That's our job.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
We through all the bs, all the false narratives, the stereotypes,
and let's just have this inside conversation. Anybody can listen,
and I think others ill, but this is our thing
and I couldn't be more proud of it.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
I love the team.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Eric Roberts is a tremendous leader who kind of filters
and comes up with these masterpieces. And sometimes I feel
like I'm just the vehicle. But oh yeah, he lets
me talk and way in. But it's just fun. It's
fun to have the you know, training wheels come off
and just be able to talk black way in whatever.
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We have a varying wide interest and to be able
to dive into anything we want.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
It just makes me happy.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
We are here today with Sharon Reid, an actress, producer, journalist,
and Emmy Award winning multimedia host as well as the
host of The Sharon Reid Show. Okay, so let's get
your take on some of the head lines that we're
covering here, just to kind of give folks an insight into,
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you know, just your thought process and how you make
heads or tails of these stories. So a big one
obviously over the past weekend. In this past week is
Ebanie K. Williams making headlines again, this time by urging
black women to pursue college and marriage simultaneously. Have you
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heard about this one?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
I have, Okay, And well she's done it again.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I think saying the quiet part out loud that so
many people are weighed in as if this is some
kind of lashing at black women. I actually agree with her,
and I'm going to tell you why when you team
up with someone, when you find your life partner. I
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can't think of a more important decision. And I see
so many of us out here who are trying to
get it in, working really hard, building up resources, wealth, education,
taking care of kids, and the one decision that we
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seem to have gotten wrong has blown up on us.
And you're losing precious time, you're losing large sums of money,
You're having to divide things, and I think some of
that comes from desperation for the institution of marriage instead
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of trust yourself. Find that life partner. It doesn't matter
what they do. Right, She's talking about college kids and students.
Why not before anybody's made anything or set out and
built anything, that to me.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Is about character, soulmate, and.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
If you find the right one going to have everything
you've ever dreamed of, which will change over the course
of time. So I know people are, like you know,
on fire over her latest it's not exactly the bus driver,
which I understood too, but I also understood Iyama.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
But this is the greatest advice. I have a.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Niece who is about to go to medical school now,
and I told her the best advice I could give
you is you know she's talking about and should I
date this one.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Or a lawyer?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Put all that out of your mind. And I'm an
ambitious woman, and I make no apologies for it. Why
wouldn't you want an ambitious partner, someone who's supportive though too,
of your goals, of your dreams.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
You feed each other.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
But I told her I wouldn't worry about anything that
he did, as long as with not criminal enterprise. Okay,
just find someone who is good for you and has
those qualities, and I swear to you the rest will
take care of itself. It's a lesson learned too late
for you know, a law of people, a lot of us.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
But I think she's onto something. I'm glad that she
said it out loud.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
All right, there we go. You know I was far
be it for me to offer too much in the
way of those conversations. But I appreciate your perspective, and
I think it will be.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Dying to hear what you think. Now I'm dying to
hear your perspective.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Oh no, I could never. Yeah, they would, you know what.
I good luck and God bless everybody on their journeys.
That's the most that I will commit to that. But again,
I appreciate what it is that that you're saying there,
because you know, what I can say is that these
conversations are very important. What I can say is that
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with a lot of people kind of having marriage as
the goal, when they don't consider all of the factors,
a lot of times they can internalize any shortcomings, any
failures to kind of manifest that goal. And there are
other factors that need to be considered. And my thing is,
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I don't want anyone to feel bad about themselves individually,
just to kind of take a couple of steps back
and look at the larger picture. And I think that
your insight allows the framework for people to kind of
adopt a different perspective, a different posture when looking at
those things. And so that's where it comes from But again,
good luck and God's be to everyone on their journeys.
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You know, I hope everyone gets what it is they want.
Why would I stand in the way of anybody being happy?
Speaker 2 (17:33):
But right, and let me say this, I understand we're
really having We're judged from an outside lens. Right. Black
women are aggressive, Black women are angry, they're too demanding,
they can't keep a man. That's that outside you know that.
I think a lot of the chatter is framed through
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because when people tell you that that's who you are,
even though it's not true, there's a part of you
that holds onto that, and so you resist any advice
like what Ebony's talking about. But the inside conversation is
what do you want for your sister, your your your mother,
your daughter who wants to Maybe there are people who
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want to grow old alone. I think it's a beautiful
thing to have a partner to walk through life with.
However you want to frame it, ring on the finger, no,
ring whatever. I think it's a beautiful thing. And so
I'm having that inside conversation and trying to be true
and authentic about it, and that I really do agree
with some of what she said.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
There and that's that's that's kind of what I was
getting at, and that's why you know, these conversations they're
they're very challenging, but again they're very necessary. I remember
the name Kevin Samuels, and he was a person that
people were very divided on his opinions, but for better
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or worse, he was at least getting people to have conversations.
And I think Ebony kind of doubling down on her
bus driver comments in this way is continuing to kind
of continuing the conversation. And because this is kind of
an important milestone for some people. Again, when they internalize
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the the the failure to manifest this goal, it leads
to those outcomes of like kind of reassessing your self
worth or your value and that sort of thing. And
those are the things that fundamentally I push back against
because in no way is you know, the pursuit of
becoming a better person in this instance, better woman, and
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that that doesn't count against anyone. You know, there's personal
fulfillment and personal goals that people can accomplish, and in theory,
those would translate into you know, all of your relationships,
not just your romantic relationships, and so you know, the
path of self discovery, the path of kind of appreciating
who the person that you are, those sorts of things
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that I I love that for every one of us.
I think it's very important for us in particular because
of you know, as you mentioned outside chatter, and you know,
even me a man, I try not to offer any advice,
if anything, I just say, hey, here's what I know,
and that's what I know. You know, and that's just
take it as food for thought, but not just ebony,
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but you know yourself. Just allowing other people to have
different apertures into that conversation there, whatever it is that
they need in order to kind of start having either
the internal dialogue or you know, to you know, diffuse
this information through their their friend groups or their their
social framework. I think that's that's critically important. And so
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again I appreciate you providing that for our listeners today.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
I appreciate the question.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Can I just say quickly about Kevin Samuel's you know,
I think there's a difference between sparking conversation and even
debate versus dictating tearing down, and so I didn't even
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want to put her in that category. And I understand
that people look to that. But I think you're right.
When you're on a self journey to become a better person,
it's about discovering who's right for you. A lot of
times people don't end up in the place they want
to be because maybe they hadn't done that individual work. Sometimes,
you know, just find what's best for you. Don't hurt anybody.
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Sometimes it really is just as simple.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Absolutely, And I want to make sure that I'm here too.
That in no way was an endorsement of Kevin Samuels.
That was just a popular figure that people would know.
Oh and he again, for better or worse, was causing
people to have conversations, and so that was It's the
conversation is the part that I'm pushing for, not one
side or the other, because I wouldn't know what's right
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for anybody except me, So that's it's important for me
to say that. So anyway, let's shift gears here a bit.
I'm I'm confident that you're following you know, politics, and
so I want to kind of give you know, our
listeners some insight into how you know you're you're tracking
what's going on in the political arena as well, and
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just kind of give them a bit of a preview,
uh into you know, what they might expect on the
The Sharon Reach Show in terms of how your opinions
come across. So I'm sure you've paid attention at least
some attention to the Republican nominee debates here and there.
I think there's only been two, but.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
I did.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Yeah, yeah, I know what you mean. I know, but
it's it's topical. So let's get your thoughts on uh,
Tim Scott. You know, he's he's a person that we've
been having conversations about. And I guess something that has
come up recently in the news is he has an
alleged girlfriend. But really his sexuality is coming to play.
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So ether is politics or anything behind the scenes or
anything like that, whatever moves you to share with our listeners.
I just love your perspective on that and him and
what's going on there.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
I think Tim Scott is overall a good man.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Okay, That's what I think and feel when I see
him and not in person.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Think us all once covered a debate live, but.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
He's lost his way or perhaps ever found it to me, okay,
because he's all over the place. He's a good man
and doesn't know how to do goodbye himself and us.
He doesn't know how to do it. He's allowed himself
to be propped by his party, as you know, one
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of the only ones to give rebuttals to our very
existence and our blackness, and he's been used to discredit us.
I think he's a good man, but he can't be
my president. And I don't want to hear any more
about drapes and curtains and nonsense, okay, when there are
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huge issues and trying to think if forgive is the
right word. I don't forgive him for pretending to work
on something that was meaningful to us with Corey Booker, Okay,
police reform. You can't be his age, a black man
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born in South Carolina, Okay, in the era he was born.
And to still pretend that you don't know what we're
talking about and what we're saying and feeling and experiencing
isn't real in many ways, is unforgivable. Now again, I
think he's a good man, but he can't be my president.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
I think that that's that's that's very very fair. That's
a fair statement. I've been probably a bit more vocal
and expressive in my opposition to his campaign for many
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of the reasons that are delineated in this conversation, but
you know many others as well. And I think that
that's fair because one of the things that I'm learning
is to be critical of black men in particular, because
often enough it's men without tearing them down. To be
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critical of black men while recognizing that they have, whether
it's based in a shared reality or a singular uh
a dvantage point that coincidentally, I say that in quotes
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happens to prop them up a little bit further in
society or you know, provide them a little bit more
security fiscally or otherwise, to allow them their perspective to
their their position, and to challenge it where it needs
to be challenged, and not let it devolve into you know,
they have a like their character comes into question, which
(26:47):
sometimes it's absolutely necessary. But again, I appreciate that fair assessment.
I tried, Well, it sounds fair to me. It's certainly
a lot fairer than I would given him, So you
know that, I think that's a testament to just, you know,
how how well you execute on these things. And again,
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well said so uh, finally, before we let you go.
Let's let's get your thoughts. Have you heard about the
new Kerrie Washington book. This is another thing folks are
talking I have awesome Okay. So some of the revelations
that came out in this book have obviously caused people to,
you know, really feel for her. You know, there's a
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lot of stuff that we didn't know about her upbringing,
her parents keeping really important secrets from her, and so forth.
So I guess talk us through maybe how you would
have responded to maybe learning that your parents had kept
some secrets from you.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Well, every family has secrets.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
And I was an outspoken child who turned into an
outspoken woman. I think that oftentimes, and I don't know
that it's particular to color, to race. We don't talk
about things that are right in front of us. And
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you know, I had this conversation with one of my
sisters who was struggling with an issue, you know, a
parent who had kept a secret for all these years
that I can't even tell you what the secret was
because this was nothing, Burger, it was nothing, Okay. But
when you keep things inside, your mind plays tricks on you.
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And be smart, you can be present. Your mind actually
plays tricks on you and you actually think it's bigger
than it is.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
It's nothing.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
So I think I loved how she handled it and
the grace of learning that you know her father.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Is not her biological father.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Yeah, I don't understand it.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
I haven't read the book. I've only seen some interviews,
and that was one of the excerpts. My anger would be.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
To my parents in that situation, not that it's so
much hurt me, because if you had a good life,
if you know, she seems to have a good life,
but I would want to.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Free them of this burden.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
What mattered so much that you've kept this darkness in
here and between you?
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Shaane gil who cares?
Speaker 2 (29:44):
I really think secrets kill because it's not even what
they are, it's what they become when they're trapped inside
of us. But I think it's interesting and relevant that
she chose to put it out there. I mean, everybody
wants to sell a book. You write in a book,
you want to put something in it. If she could
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put other things in it, you know, look who she is,
Look look the places she's been, the things she's done
that are other things she could have picked.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
I think that part is brave, all right.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Well some some some very insightful takes there, and I
appreciate all of them. I couldn't let you go without
asking you, obviously, being as ambitious as you are and
kind of tackling the whole world, what's next for you? What?
What can people expect for you? On something on the horizon,
(30:41):
Maybe a book, maybe a you.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Tell me, I'd love to write a book. You know.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
I'm I'm not Carrie Washington, but I enjoy acting and
exploring that arena, and I love being in our lane
and finding the value there. This is not an Azarin,
It's not a side piece. We are so important. I
was just doing a segment for another project on black
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voting power. We shouldn't have to convince each other. We
actually have black voting power and will likely decide the
next presidential race, and I'm so interested in how we
should wield it, what we should do with it, and
so anything that I'm involved in at this stage, my
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career is about my passion, my love, my energy, my blackness, unapologetically.
So maybe you'll have me come back one time and
we can talk more, talk more about something else, you know.
But I enjoyed the conversation, and I hope. I hope
that there's big things on the horizon for all of us.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Fantastic will leave the well, Chris will leave the door
open for you. He's the boss around here. But before
we let you go, do us a favor so that
we can, you know, keep up with you, plug us
with your social media, your website, anything like that, just
so we have that sort of connected tissue for our listeners.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
You can find me on social media Sharre and read
Live across all platforms.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
I believe the podcast website and Eric can correct me
if I'm wrong. The Sharon Read Show podcasts dot com.
If that's not correct, we have it linked right, well,
we have it linked. You could also go to Real
(32:43):
Times Media because they do an excellent job. I should
know it by heart, but I think it changed a
couple of times to let me off the whol.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
No, that's that's that's totally fine. And we work really
closely with Real Times Media as well, and so I
know what you mean. They do a great job so
well that in mind. I'd like to thank you for
coming up today, for sharing your insight, and for your
overall commitment to the successful, informed, and inspired future of
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black people in this country. This has been a joy,
and as I mentioned, we'll leave the door open for
you, you know, as your story continues to be written once again.
Today's guest is Sharon Reid, an actress, producer, journalist, and
Emmy Award winning multimedia host as well as the host
of The Sharon Reid Show.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Thank You.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
This has been a production of the Black Information Network.
Today's show is produced by Chris Thompson. Have some thoughts
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