My second appearance on the Tiny Spark podcast is probably my favorite, only because I only found out after the episode was published that the entire episode was full of some of my favorite people. I was joined on this episode by Solome Lemma, Jennifer Lentfer, Lydia Namubiru, and Angela Bruce Raeburn. Such a great topic, and the other guests brought out the broader complexity of the White Saviour Complex.
“If we can do our job in building our own countries, and in fixing our own schools, and building our own water infrastructure. If we can rise up to actually do that, that automatically takes care of that inequality. When we’re unable to actually defend our own agency, our own worth against this structural racism, it actually creates a further problem because we have generations that are watching and learning where they belong, what their agency is, what their responsibility is, what their opportunity is. This is part of the reason why I decided I needed to come back to Uganda. I needed to stop, yes – I was doing a lot of critiquing and writing op-ed pieces – but op-ed pieces don’t change paradigms. Work does. Sweat does. You come here, and you get involved in this muck.”
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