#53: Delete + Reset: Race, Racism, and Your Role in Racial Reconciliation with Dr. Lucretia Berry

In our second episode of the Delete + Reset series, we talk about race, racism, and your role in racial reconciliation as Dr. Lucretia Berry, founder of Brownicity, joins the show.

How exactly is “race” defined? What is racism? Who has white privilege? Dr. Berry defines these terms and helps us delete mindsets that are unhealthy and holding back our country (and our relationships!) like the “bootstrap mentality” and staying quiet so we don’t offend people. She also shares three practical ways to talk to your kids about race in a non-awkward way.

I love how Dr. Berry talked about how we don’t live in a vacuum so what we do impacts our collective and how silence aligns with complicity because lies don’t mind being loud, obnoxious, and wrong.

If you want to know how to talk about race with your kids and friends, how to replace antiquated mindsets with God’s truth, and how to make our country a better place to live, and you’re ready for a conversation about race that’s handled with grace and kindness, listen in.

You could win!

You could win a spot in Dr. Berry’s What LIES Between Us course. Here’s what you need to do:

Join the Grace In Real Life private Facebook group
Comment on the Wednesday, January 27 Facebook post within the group.
One randomly-selected winner will be chosen at 12p CST Friday, January 29.

Key Quotes

“Race is not biological. It’s policies and practices put in place to hold people in particular categories in relation to power.” – Dr. Lucretia Berry
“Race isn’t a topic we learn about; we just live the consequences of it.” – Dr. Lucretia Berry
“It does take miracles to intersect and disrupt the system.” – Dr. Lucretia Berry
“We all collectively impact each other. We don’t live in a vacuum.” – Dr. Lucretia Berry
“If you have the opportunity to contribute and cultivate and create a neighborhood that resonates love for everyone, wouldn’t you want to do that?” – Dr. Lucretia Berry
“Our silence aligns with our complicity.” – Dr. Lucretia Berry
“Lies don’t mind being loud.” – Dr. Lucretia Berry
“We do have to be conduits of love and truth.” – Dr. Lucretia Berry
“Silence allows the lies to be loud and obnoxious and wrong… and attractive.” – Dr. Lucretia Berry
“Shed the lies. Lean into the truth.” – Dr. Lucretia Berry
“When we talk about race, the Holy Spirit is always in the room.” – Jill E. McCormick

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Be a part of the Grace In Real Life Podcast Facebook group for a chance to win a spot in Dr. Berry’s course
What LIES Between Us course
Brownicity
Hidden Figures movie
“But slavery was so long ago” timeline
Brownicity’s course for kids
Books for kids
Jill’s book recommendations to learn about race and racial healing
Jill’s Inner Critic Challenge
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About Dr. Lucretia Berry

Dr. Lucretia Carter Berry is the founder of Brownicity: Many Hues, One Humanity, an agency dedicated to advocacy, education, and support for racial healing and antiracism that hosts thousands of learners committed to an antiracism learning journey.

She is a wife to Nathan and a mother of three girls.

A former college professor, she is learning to courageously create the world for which she is designed. Lucretia created a ‘beginners’ course and authored the accompanying study guide called, What LIES Between Us: Fostering First Steps Toward Racial Healing.

Lucretia earned her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction and MA in English from Iowa State University, and her BA from South Carolina State University.

Lucretia and her family get to be a part of the amazing community that is Mosaic Church, Charlotte. She finds joy in prayer, dark-chocolate covered almonds, and dancing!