I unpack what our kids are seeing in America right now—and why staying silent isn’t an option.
When your kid asks what kind of world they’re inheriting, you feel it in your bones. In this episode, I call out the normalization of state violence and the dangerous myth that “keeping your head down” keeps anyone safe. We talk responsibility, courage, and what it actually means to show up for our neighbors.
Chapters:
00:00 — The Question That Stopped Me Cold
01:00 — What Our Kids Are Seeing (No Euphemisms)
02:00 — Courage Is a Team Sport (What We Do Now)
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Left in Exile Outro
Left in Exile Intro
Transcripts
My oldest son said something to me the other day that stopped me in my tracks, and I didn't know how to respond.
He said, I'm gonna be out in the real world in a few years. What am I walking into? What am I walking into? That is a question that should be in the forefront of every parent's minds as they're looking at what's happening around them today and
what exactly is happening around us today. No matter how much you might be willing to. Kick under the rug. All of our kids are watching and seeing what's happening today, and they're calling it out for what it is. What they're seeing is the daily brutalization of people in this country by their government, and when your kids ask you that question, how are you going to answer?
use that's the only way that [:
we're going to be in For a world of hurt,
there are kids all around the country. That are seeing what's happening and they're viewing a potential future that they don't want to be a part of. This is where all of us who are striving to be good parents. Need to be willing and have the courage to call out What we are actually seeing, this is the systematic extermination and ethnic cleansing of brown and black people at the hands of our government.
No matter how much you try to wrap yourself in the language of law and order, let's understand what we're seeing. We're seeing masked, armed, unidentified, goons, terrorizing the population.
We've seen people getting dragged out of cars.
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We're seeing masked, armed goons going door to door, asking to see people's papers.
So when you view all of that, you need to ask yourself, does it serve? Everybody's interests to keep quiet. Let's make sure we understand the rules of engagement. When you're dealing with abusive authority, silence does not get that abusive authority to stop. Abusive authority only recognizes one response, and that response requires all of us to stand up for each other and for our neighbors and step into the fray. That's what's necessary.
