What black people in America need today is equity, not equality. Equality is too convenient and is designed to deny us freedom, which is equity. Our decades of suffering and brokenness cannot be fixed where we are but by giving us what it is that we’ve been missing.
In this episode of the True2Kings podcast, Temi and Sean talk about the meaning of equality, exceptionalism, and defund the police in the black community. Listen in to learn why the system was designed to break black people, plus how we’re excluded in American exceptionalism.
What you will learn:
· [0:34] Intro
· [2:32] Understanding equality and how it’s different from equity.
· [6:44] Temi explains why equality is an endless strive while equity meets you where you are.
· [10:26] Understanding the meaning of equity, which is freedom while equality is just a limited hangout.
· [15:25] The convenience of equality and why it must prove itself after equity.
· [17:36] How the system was designed to break you as a black person because of your exceptionalism.
· [24:14] Understanding the American exceptionalism and how it excludes black people even though we belong to it.
