{"id":196,"date":"2016-02-24T13:55:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T21:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/home\/?p=196"},"modified":"2016-02-24T13:55:45","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T21:55:45","slug":"one-drop-of-love-testimonial-ashley-one-story-does-make-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/home\/one-drop-of-love-testimonial-ashley-one-story-does-make-a-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"One Drop of Love Testimonial: Ashley &#8211; one story DOES make a difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yKYozPVY-nI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>TRANSCRIPT:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>CHANDRA<\/strong>: One of the best parts about the post-show conversations is when people feel compelled to share their own stories. In this clip, Ashley shares what it&#8217;s like for her as a Black female traveling through the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ASHLEY<\/strong>: One of the things that really resonated with me was the dynamic with race in other cultures. As a Black individual I&#8217;ve had the experience to go live in the Dominican Republic and there&#8217;s this racial dynamic between Haitians and Dominicans and oftentimes I was cussed out in four languages, by Haitians &#8211; they were telling me I&#8217;m denying my Haitian roots. The Dominican family I lived with, they had problems with my braids because those were identified as Haitian. Especially as a Black American you go on these journeys to really figure out who you are because you DO have so many people trying to tell you who you are &#8211; or what it means to be Black, or what it means to be this and, you think &#8211; well I had the perception that if I go overseas, I&#8217;ll be able to connect more, and I&#8217;ll be able to just be me, and it won&#8217;t have to be about race or how dark I am or how I sound and, just hearing that my experience wasn&#8217;t the only experience like that. That it really didn&#8217;t matter, like I didn&#8217;t find that oneness, that wholeness that I was expecting to find. I found more divisions. And hearing that in the story, it was sad.<\/p>\n<p>Because I&#8217;m actually a Youth Pastor at an all-White church (laughs). At an all-White church. I never share that story. I always kind of tread on light water because I always have this feeling that&#8230;I know that my being here is a great thing, but it ruffles some feathers as well. And it&#8217;s like you never know when you&#8217;re put in these environments how you&#8217;re supposed to be. What&#8217;s uncomfortable? What&#8217;s not comfortable enough? What&#8217;s too, what&#8217;s saying too much? How bold can I be? Our congregation is older, white individuals, it&#8217;s a highly conservative church and things that are just uncomfortable? We don&#8217;t really do.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PATTI<\/strong>: And that&#8217;s the show. Like, if it&#8217;s uncomfortable&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>ASHLEY<\/strong>: You just gotta deal with it yourself. You&#8217;re uncomfortable within yourself because you can&#8217;t find any comfort talking about it. But, with this show I appreciate it because you realize how many people have similar stories. Even if it&#8217;s just a little part of her story resonates with someone else, you realize that, OK. I&#8217;m not uncomfortable by myself. People ARE talking about this. And&#8230;one story DOES make a difference. The stories are never the same but the themes are always recurring. It&#8217;s human nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRANSCRIPT: CHANDRA: One of the best parts about the post-show conversations is when people feel compelled to share their own stories. 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