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Heather McTeer Toney

lines on the record: 55
first: 2021-05-27
most recent: 2021-05-27
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“Dedicated to understanding why we needed to help poor people across this country, black people across this country, having access to voting rights, but also how we learn the importance of creating equity at the most base level. So even while in college, my dad, you know, went and worked on farms in Puerto Rico during the summer. worked in the coal mines of western Virginia as a summer intern. Those were his practices. But it also made him and my mother both committed to raising children who had the same practices. So I think of growing up in a social justice household because that's all I knew. That's what my parents were committed. To from their life experience, and that's what they passed on to us.”
2021-05-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 445 — Heather McTeer Toney · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, I remember my dad telling me about when the moment he heard that Dr. King had been killed and assassinated. And the anger he felt because The members of his team did not. Feel or have the same significance. It was a joke. And to be the only person, the only black man to feel that in that space in that time was profound and deep, but also I think a part of what urged him to be a part of solution and change. My father Very, very”
2021-05-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 445 — Heather McTeer Toney · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Fortunately, my dad had another person with him, Joe Smothers, who I know as my uncle Joe's mothers, because he married my mother's sister. So the two of them were the first two at Western Maryland College. My dad on a football scholarship, my Uncle Joe on a basketball scholarship. And he certainly at the young age of 16 entered into an environment and at a time that was not only fraught with racism, but took a significant amount of boldness and bravery from not only him, but my great great aunt who raised him as her child. So I think”
2021-05-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 445 — Heather McTeer Toney · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I tell you, I mean, just from the perspective of not just the former mayor, but of someone who grew up in the churches in Greenville and went to public school and can think about all of the times that I not only enjoyed summertime as a levee, but got in trouble for running up and down to the streets going back and forth to corner stores in the middle of Sunday school. So it's just a lot of good memories of that space. My parents actually came to Mississippi from Baltimore, Maryland as a part of the voters' rights movement. My dad, my mom and dad are retired, but at the time my dad was a civil rights attorney and my mom a public school teacher and they made a decision to come to Mississippi originally mapped by you, Mississippi. To work for two years. And here we are 40 plus years later, and they have let me stop.”
2021-05-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 445 — Heather McTeer Toney · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Thanks so much for having me. I'm a huge fan first. And so I'm thrilled to be here and to be on the show. And even more so to have this conversation, and climate is truly one of the top, has not only garnered a lot of attention, but is playing catch up, quite frankly. And so I think it's important for us to talk about this continually.”
2021-05-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 445 — Heather McTeer Toney · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source