Respectability and the Price of Nice with Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson
In this season finale, Aisha Nyandoro sits down with Reverend Dr. Starsky Wilson, pastor, theologian, and CEO of the Children’s Defense Fund, to ask whether Southern niceness is actually kindness or a survival strategy inherited from an era when Black dignity had to be earned. Together they trace how respectability politics moved from the church pew to the streets of Ferguson, why Marian Wright Edelman’s ministry became a nonprofit instead of a pulpit, and what it really means to preach Jesus without preaching what Jesus preached.
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