In this powerful episode, Kevin Baker explores how mental incarceration precedes physical imprisonment in the Black community, challenging listeners to examine the deeper roots of the school-to-prison pipeline. Through a masterful weaving of historical trauma, cultural identity, and religious conditioning, Baker dissects how education and assimilation often serve to reinforce mental bondage rather than create true liberation. He confronts the intergenerational trauma African Americans carry from birth—what science calls epigenetics—and presents a radical proposition: reconnection with African identity as the key to unlocking these mental chains.
