Thoughts! A new segment of The Offshoot Podcast

People forget that Black Americans/African Americans make up less than 13 percent of the US population. But that population has impact far beyond the population of its size - culturally, spiritually, economically, socially, politically, and globally.  The reason, or one of the reasons, Black identity is so expansive, and so well known and so copied is because of the stories. Most of our stories, rather it be movies, music, television, books, etc., come out of some form of oppression. Present oppression, historic oppression, inherent oppression. Because those stories come from such dire places, they resonate with people who have empathy. And they resonate on a lower level with people who have sympathy. And because of those good qualities in other people who are not African American/Black American, our stories, as a people, get magnified, and it creates a level of sorrow that people can’t help but to feel our pain. If they didn’t our stories, their influences in particularly, would not matter.