EP53: Courtney Broussard: Why Having Uncomfortable Conversations About Race Can Change The World

 
 
 

In today’s episode, I am happy to introduce you to Courtney Broussard. 

She is an amazing freelance writer, editor, and podcaster. She lives in Las Vegas, Nevada right now but she was raised in San Diego, California. Courtney was raised by a black father and a white mother. And I've wanted to ask her a few questions about her life, from that point of view. I have to be honest with you, I struggled asking these questions at first because I'm not used to looking at the world or looking at anyone's world from the point of view of their color. But our world right now is trying to understand the spectrum of racism. What does it sound like? What does it look like when someone is being racist? And like Courtney said in our interview, there's this subtext that we all access and communicate from. We have to learn how to spot it and call it out. 

“I was 12 or 13 years old before somebody looked at me and said ‘what are you?’. I didn’t know what that meant, I literally said ‘a person?’ I didn’t know the question was about my ethnicity.” (Click to tweet!)

- Courtney Broussard

In this conversation, Courtney mentions that she was raised without seeing color or ethnicity, but as she got older, the people around her started to look at her differently. 

We also talk about the discomfort of these kinds of discussions and that we have to have them, so we can learn and grow and understand the full spectrum of racism and our response to it. 

More About Courtney 

Her self-titled blog focuses mostly on self-awareness and relationships and her podcast, “We’re All Human” is an honest place where she gets to know people from all walks of life to learn more about the insecurities, struggles, and experiences that we all have in common

You can connect with her on her via her website: https://courtneydiamond.com

Twitter and Instagram: @courtneydiamond 

Facebook: https://facebook.com/courtneydiamondblog

Twitch: https://twitch.tv/courtneydiamond

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Things We Mention In This Episode

 
 
 
 
 
 

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