Fireside Chats, Episode 82: One Man's Experience With Racism (Patreon)

Every week, CLS gets messages from could-be guests of the show, and when I received one such inquiry, I knew I had to make this conversation happen. Meet Tyler Bello. Tyler is an everyday kinda guy from South Dakota, but what makes Mr. Bello notable for the purposes of our chat is that he's black. He's pretty much the only black guy in his community, in fact. And what makes his particular story so interesting is that, according to him, he's never experienced a lick of racism in his entire life. Raised (and still living) in a rural America often maligned as being racist (sometimes deeply so), here's one story that's... well... off the beaten path, as it were. Mr. Bello's experience doesn't discount the racism people in America withstand each and every day, of course. His story merely adds texture to an already every complicated social tale.