In this episode Scott muses on the roots of white defensive responses when the topic of race comes up, especially around DEI, reparations, or affirmative action. In seeking to start a conversation, Scott explores the white cultural value of fairness and the way that it seems to be inconsistently applied, or the challenges to how it is defined depending upon one's point of view. Scott would love to have you express your own thougths and perspectives on the white people work facebook group (just search for it!) or to share with him througth the whitepeoplework.org page. Thanks for listening!

In this episode, Scott takes his first stab at one of the themes of this season: how do we lean more into the humanity we share with all people? Starting with the third tenet of whiteness--that it urges us to attempt to transcend our humanity--Scott works his way from there to his direct experiences of some of the assumptions and worldview embedded into whiteness that have kept him from living and working in the full range of his humanness. With stories of his kids, Dr. Randy Woodley, and one of his best work experiences of his life, Scott invites us to consider the ways we've been conditioned with assumptions that quietly hurt us by cutting us off from community.

In this episode, Scott shares some of his favorite stories of his own journey of growing in empathy, particularly as a result of displacing himself as the only white family on a block of African-American and Central American residents in South Central Los Angeles. Additionally, Scott references the very recent Senate interview of Jeremy Carl of Montana, part of which can be viewed here on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcKQcZrWhwk.

You can always reach Scott and explore leadership he offers at whitepeoplework.org or at scottchesterhall@gmail.com.

Scott's back! This is the launch of season five, where Scott will dive into three key steps of growth to better understanding ourselves and find our part to play in opposing racial injustice: gaining perspective on ourselves, growing in empathy, and experiencing our shared humanity with others outside of whiteness. If you're just starting here, welcome! If you're back for more, thank you! Scott continues to build on the foundation stated in the first season, and looks for relevant aspects of taking responsibility for whiteness right now in the 2026 US context.

In this final episode of season four, Scott ties together the threads of the fourth season, looking back at some of the uncanny conversations that have played themselves out in real-time in the US. Scott wraps up this season of examining the US political landscape through the tenets of whiteness by offering one last idea, one invitation for personal reflection, and one last proposal to motivate us to move forward in taking steps of action for racial justice.

Scott is also offering a live zoom Monday, April 7, 2025 at 7 pm pacific/10 pm eastern at https://intervarsity.zoom.us/j/3238398976

Scott can be reached at scottchesterhall@gmail.com and all that he offers is available at www.whitepeoplework.org

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In this episode, Scott steps away from the historical journey to put his feet on the ground and find sustainable hope. He shares about his steps of active engagement, lessons he learns along the way, and encouragement that he is finding to balance out some of the challenging realities of the daily news cycle.

See the youtube video of how small steps of resistance can change the world through the lens of dominoes and physics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JCm5FY-dEY

Learn about a SURJ chapter near you: https://surj.org/

Read more about the Freedom Riders: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Freedom_Riders/ftHQCwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover

In this episode Scott completes the three-week tour through the history of the turn of the century, and brings together how the threads of science, immigration, and economics parallel the current state of the US. Scott tracks the way that mounting tension and disparity between labor and employers came to a head during and after World War One, and makes the case for this season as the starting point of colorblind racism.

For any interested in reading along with Scott's primary source material, get a copy of The History of White People by retired Princeton history professor Dr. Nell Irvin Painter.

For any interested in a live zoom discussion about how to operate as white folks in in the US today, and share best practices, email Scott at scottchesterhall@gmail.com.

In this episode Scott continues his look at the turn of the century, and how it parallels today. This is the second installation of this comparison, and traces the theme of immigration from the late 1800's through the early 1920's. Scott builds upon how the scientific ideas of eugenics and determinative heredity informed assessments and social views of the newer wave of Eastern and Southern European immigrants--the same who were entering the US when Emma Lazarus's poem was placed beneath the Statue of Liberty inviting the world to "give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"--and gave established white US Americans justification for the demonizing and mistreatment of this newest wave of immigrants. Scott ends the episode drawing comparisons to today's US political climate, in which immigration and deportation are hot-button issues.

Join Scott in looking at history to gain perspective on ourselves by reading along with his primary source text: The History of White People by Princeton Historian Dr. Nell Irvin Painter. https://www.amazon.com/History-White-People-Irvin-Painter/dp/0393339742/ref=sr_1_1?crid=116NYJ5X2AQBH&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.KKx9LSZAtPM8GJZuKcbSmHgk_pbzuSwNprvCa6oQlMZ6EFCqHHJKdnOTMSXYdHdnYiPO28UVlYg-Fa2ctDRGeu33xz71lT1bd8kgIP0pqn6rjZJdG-H_r8waHhM12Ari_efDWdulRq3xycPV6iwcoBDiJ-kmkQwOjshtFfd9F-sh3RQFkJnjl9S2nnhWtHNFYc0-jV4foSX92QfFU0CtybwTELNvxo7MLOwVgfJgh5A.x4KCNRgzv-sL6QE1ozMLi6NNTWVZO32-z3qncHRL2qo&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+history+of+white+people&qid=1741476012&sprefix=the+history+of+white+peopl%2Caps%2C219&sr=8-1