Ep. 3 "The Great Unlearning" AKA: MY LIFE

hello everybody and welcome to episode what are we in episode three gosh look how tired I look I'm gonna keep my glasses on of Meghan Tries To Grow The Good

The first thing I want to start with is thank you very much for subscribing and listening.

It is now June 22nd, 2024.

That feels impossible.

And I just wanted to out myself in something that I do find concerning.

I am unnaturally obsessed with Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce.

I'm just admitting that right now.

The Chiefs beat the Whos and Faces last night, the Bills.

And I don't know.

I just, I don't know why I'm so invested in that couple, but it's not healthy.

And is anyone else invested?

You may be listening to this months, years later.

They may now be married.

They may now be broken up.

They may now be dating.

There's no knowing.

And either way, it has nothing to do with me.

I mean, it's not news that I'm interested in their relationship.

A lot of people are, but I'm almost 50.

So, yeah.

Today in Meghan Tries To Grow The Good I wanted to describe a big way that I understand my life.

And by the way, if you hear creaking floors or dogs barking or anything else happening it's because I'm in my home, I'm in my basement, I'm in my life.

I'm not in a fancy studio with editors.

welcome to my life um so something that I wanted to um talk about today is I was born in 1975 and I like all of you was born in a space and time unique to the country the world my community

My lineage, ancestry, everything, right?

Just like everybody even being born right now.

And part of being born white and straight in 1975 meant that, for me, most of what I learned was either untrue or so incomplete that

I've started calling my life in the last couple years the great unlearning.

So for a long time, I carried a lot of shame around how little I knew or understood about, let's just even keep it to American history and culture.

And let's keep it to, for instance, African American or Black Americans' lives in our country, their history.

I carried around a lot of guilt and shame around how much I didn't know, how much I had wrong, how off base I was.

And with every event that happened in this country that brought or even brings attention to what is happening to non-white people, I am again

thrust into something I did not know.

So let me tell you what made me think of this.

I was driving, I'm always driving to Poultsville and I was listening to the news and there was a recent study and I'll find it and like put it in the notes or you can google it yourself because google is your friend. (here it is: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/01/18/1225270442/health-inequities-pediatrics-kids-of-color-disparities)