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Michael Novick has been fighting against racism since the 60s. A living legend, he's the owner of Antiracist.org and has been all over the board when it comes to the pursuit of equality.As Michael joins Ron & Stephen, his wealth of knowledge and history provide and incredible view into where we are today, and how we can move forward as a society. Even further, Michael shows that it's not enough to be anti-racist, we have to be for things. And being for something is what Positive Identity is all about."Positive Identity: It's another week where we tell you inspiring and positive stories of people of different races doing good things for each other and the world. Then from there, we become better people and learn more how to make the world better for everyone."

Ever feel like you're trapped in your career, your life and you look at the world and want to make a change?Ever feel like you're not good enough, the world has been filled with too much dysfunction and that you're too small to do it.Jonaral Martin once felt like that. But he decided to make a change. To make a change to do something truly good for society.  In this episode we follow Jonaral's journey from unknown actor to running Hope, Healing and Love to learn how we can make a change in the world. No matter who we are, or what we do."Positive Identity: It's another week where we tell you inspiring and positive stories of people of different races doing good things for each other and the world. Then from there, we become better people and learn more how to make the world better for everyone."

Positive Identity's mission is to see the good in everyone when it comes to race. Asian, Black, Hispanic/Latin, Native, Mixed and White. We believe in the value you have and what you bring to America.Yet Asian hate has skyrocketed recently statistically, and with the Atlanta shootings and the constant videos of Asian-Americans being attacked, at Positive Identity Ron & Stephen want to address it. For many of the Asian community, they feel alone and isolated by a society that has let anti-asian violence and bigotry fester and finally society is doing something about it. For Ron & Stephen, they do what they do best. By talking about the good the Asian community has done, how Asian-Americans have inspired and helped them, and how we can be of service and help our friends in the Asian community.These monsters won't define us. We won't let them. Instead we'll see the best of each other and take action to make us greater."Positive Identity: It's another week where we tell you inspiring and positive stories of people of different races doing good things for each other and the world. Then from there, we become better people and learn more how to make the world better for everyone."

Ron's long time friend Charlton Barton has lived an eclectic life, but what he's doing these days is what's really special. Teaching kids to karate chop people.Ok, it's not exactly that but the Positive Identity PR Team says if clickbaity headlines work, then we're sellin out!But seriously, Charlton Barton is a Black Belt at a karate studio where he teaches kids of all races and backgrounds the world of karate. In his work with them, he uses these martial arts to teach discipline, focus, teamwork and the ability to use your energy positively.  Charlton's inspiring story helps to teach us how team sports can bring together multi-racial individuals and serve as a way to bond, grow and be legally allowed to hit other people. (Obligatory clickbait Comment™)Give it a listen, it will make you feel better."Positive Identity: It's another week where we tell you inspiring and positive stories of people of different races doing good things for each other and the world. Then from there, we become better people and learn more how to make the world better for everyone."

It's Ron's Birthday, it's St. Patty's Day, Ron is hosting the biggest LA comedy show since the Pandemic began and eight Asian-Americans were murdered in Atlanta less than 24 hours before.As America starts to return to society Ron & Stephen tackle the question of how we deal with this pain while being optimistic about the future. As Ron looks back on the past because of his birthday, he talks about the discovery of how comedy came to him as a way to tackle pain and suffering. How comedy can help discover a truth even when the truth is horrifying to face.With many Americans optimistic about the future with the vaccine spreading and society beginning the process of returning to normal, Americans must face that balance of hope and happiness with the demons we still face. But as always, Ron & Stephen will find a solution or a pathway forward in going down that path."Positive Identity: It's another week where we tell you inspiring and positive stories of people of different races doing good things for each other and the world. Then from there, we become better people and learn more how to make the world better for everyone."

Less then 48 hours after Joe Biden's Inauguration, in the shadow of a Capital Hill assault, barbed wires and the feelings of an America going in a different direction, Stephen and Ron are joined by Accidental Gangster Ori Spado in talking about what all this means.As Biden calls for Unity and Coming Together, the Positive Identity team reflects on how this reflects their mission and talks with optimism on how this can impact our multi-racial country. Ori though, feels like it's still time to fire the politicians. And for the people who don't support Biden, they strongly agree.But the hope for unity, even among a sharply divided country remains. Ron & Stephen believe in it, and believe this can offer opportunity to help improve race relations. Either way, they'll come to terms with the truth."Positive Identity: It's another week where we tell you inspiring and positive stories of people of different races doing good things for each other and the world. Then from there, we become better people and learn more how to make the world better for everyone."

The Press Release contract is hours away from being signed, the deal has been made with PR Newswire and Stephen and Ron wait with baited breath to see what will happen when the press release gets sent out.Positive Identity's mission is simple, love people of all races, identities and backgrounds and find joy and laughter in how ridiculous we are but be inspired by our good. We hope America wants this. We hope for a 2021 America, invigorated by vaccine news that shows the pandemic is on the outs and that society can begin the return to normal, that this can be a part of that new normal. For Ron & Stephen, they banter as friends, the way true friends can only banter with the excitement of a dream that could be and the hope of a world for that dream."Positive Identity: It's another week where we tell you inspiring and positive stories of people of different races doing good things for each other and the world. Then from there, we become better people and learn more how to make the world better for everyone."

What brings together a Gen X gay Black guy who believes in energy guiding our world, and a Gen Z White guy just entering adulthood?That is the question that Stephen finds out about when Ron talks about Lucas, a kid he knew as a baby who has grown up to become a man but even more... a son to him. This episode wan't expected or planned, but after Ron helped Lucas prepare to move out of the house and into adulthood during Thanksgiving weekend Ron couldn't help himself to talk about what this meant to him. It became something that even started to bring tears to our eyes as Ron talked about the intensity of what Lucas meant to him. Even though Ron and Lucas are very different, the power of love becomes something that transcends even our very nature."Positive Identity: It's another week where we tell you inspiring and positive stories of people of different races doing good things for each other and the world. Then from there, we become better people and learn more how to make the world better for everyone."

We all know and love the movies of the Mafia. From The Godfather, to Goodfellas, those Italian guys and the ways they fought the system, took out their rivals as they rose to the top and came together as family struck a cord for Americans everywhere.But many of these guys came together for nefarious reasons and what tied them together was the ways they had affinity not just in their ethnic identity, but in the dark moral decisions that forced them to remain as a family.In this episode The Accidental Gangster, Ori Spado, comes in to talk about his time first hand in the world of crime as he did work in Hollywood for some of the most powerful families in America. It's through Ori's history we come to understand the many ways that we're drawn together and pulled apart and most importantly, how we get out of life of evil to find your humanity again."Positive Identity: It's another week where we tell you inspiring and positive stories of people of different races doing good things for each other and the world. Then from there, we become better people and learn more how to make the world better for everyone."

Thanksgiving is the time of year where people come together with their families to  enjoy the companionship and love they have for each other. Turkey to pass out too, family members to argue politics with, football games to watch because your uncle has taken over the TV. You love it!Yet America 2020 doesn't make thing easy. A pandemic rages which has forced us apart, politics have turned families against each other in warring fashion, and even the holiday itself is challenged as having a fraught racial history itself.Ron though... loves Thanksgiving and won't hesitate to laugh at all of this. Stephen won't hesitate to find the good in Thanksgiving and how there is nothing better then eating your face off and falling asleep in the middle of a room of people. How will they pull this feat of optimism off when darkness has fallen on America's Turkey Day... we'll find out."Positive Identity: It's another week where we tell you inspiring and positive stories of people of different races doing good things for each other and the world. Then from there, we become better people and learn more how to make the world better for everyone."

Black History Month has been a mainstay in many parts of American culture for decades. But America has become a much different country since then. Incredible progress has been made to help the Black community. Yet America 2021 has started off to incredible disruption, a disruption that has been going on for a long while now.What does this month mean for 2021 America? In one sense there is an emerging energy to help the Black community from all aspects of society that is driving new inspiration and hope for Black Americans. On the other hand America is in turmoil and our focus is spread into dealing with a raging pandemic, political division, economic distress and so forth. So how do we balance this?In this podcast, we talk about where Black History Month came from, and how it can serve a a template for every racial group to positively think about themselves and guide them through the turmoil that we have today."Positive Identity: It's another week where we tell you inspiring and positive stories of people of different races doing good things for each other and the world. Then from there, we become better people and learn more how to make the world better for everyone."

Recording Date: 01/17/21We need unity more than ever. As many people across the country see America tearing itself apart at the seams, Martin Luther King day appropriately meets us in the thick of it. In a country that is intensely divided, MLK sits at a 90% approval rating, loved on both sides of the political spectrum and seen as a guiding light and vision for how society should be.But while he may be loved we must ask, we following Dr. King's vision in 2021 America? What have we missed in his message that we must look deeply at to navigate these troubled waters.  As Ron and Stephen discover, Martin Luther King had messages that we don't hear about that provide the key to how we should find peace, love and unity in time of incredible division."Positive Identity: It's another week where we tell you inspiring and positive stories of people of different races doing good things for each other and the world. Then from there, we become better people and learn more how to make the world better for everyone."

Recording Date: 01/12/212021 has been the year from hell. Which was said in the last podcast at the end of 2020. We tried.But when it comes to creating positive race relations, inspiring people, helping the Asian, Black, Hispanic, Native and White Communities have belief in each other and themselves, Ron & Stephen are not giving up on America.After the storming of the Capital Hill on Jan 6th and a country on edge, a tinderbox ready to explode... we ask how we we come back from a situation where someone has hurt you. How do we have empathy for people that many will see as bad. How do we find a way forward when humanity is at its darkest. For multi-racial America where everyone feels pain, that is a question for our time.We'll answer it."Positive Identity: It's another week where we tell you inspiring and positive stories of people of different races doing good things for each other and the world. Then from there, we become better people and learn more how to make the world better for everyone."

Recording Date: 12/15/202020 has been the year from hell. But this Christmas, Stephen & Ron and here to bring you joy and happiness in the absurdity of it all in race relations. The story today? Dutch Santa Clause and Zwarte Piet. That sounds happy and light hearted! What? It's a bunch of elves in blackface are serving a White Santa Claus? NOOOOOOOOOO.Will Ron and Stephen take something that is causing people to fight each other, find a way to laugh at it, get deep into it, and then some out with a SOLUTION in this crazy situation? Of course. Because in multi-racial and eclectic America, we're gonna find a way and everyone right now is holding out for a hero."Positive Identity: It's another week where we tell you inspiring and positive stories of people of different races doing good things for each other and the world. Then from there, we become better people and learn more how to make the world better for everyone."

Recording Date: 08/26/20Christianity and religious movements have been at the key point in racial inflection points in American history with the Abolitionist Movement in the Civil War era and Martin Luther King and Black and White pastors in the Civil Rights era. As America goes through seismic racial changes, Morgan Lee speaks with Ron and Stephen about if Christianity and religion may again play a role in these turbulent times.Stephen Grey @OneStephenGreyRon Bush @RonBushComedyMorgan Lee @mepaynl---Positive Identity is a media generator, aggregator, and movement dedicated to celebrating positive race relations and identity.  With Time/NBC/WSJ polls showing record racial division, Positive Identity was created to push back against this by serving as a platform where people can share media that shows the good of each other and ourselves. We hope you support us in loving people who are Asian, Black, Hispanic, White and anyone else to bring positive unity to America.Our social media networks are below are the key piece of building positive perception of others and of yourself. Choose one you like of many! Let's aim to change how we see the world, and then take action to create that positive unity. Join The Movement! Find us at:ThePositiveIdentity.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThePositiveIdentity/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThePositiveIDYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbGjZ2A9W3MvA_-TsSKWV-AReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/thepositiveidentityInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepositiveidentity/We're also crowdfunding as we want our mission to not be funded by the powerful, but by the people. In addition to GoFundMe and Patreon, Positive Identity has a number of ways for financial giving. Check us out at our Contribute Page! https://www.thepositiveidentity.com/contribute/#tpi #thepositiveidentity #positiveidentity #race #asian #white #black #latino #hispanic #latinx #native

Recording Date: 11/17/20Stephen & Ron continue on their mission to bring multi-racial America together. In this week they talk about Black-America Orion Jean and his impossible dream, fundraise food for 100,000 families for Thanksgiving. For Ron, it serves as a way to analyze what this kid had to go through and why he does this anyways. For Stephen it allows him to talk about ways we can take action and get involved.It's another week where we tell you inspiring and positive stories of people of different races doing good things for each other and the world. Then from there, we become better people and learn more how to make the world better for everyone.

Recording Date: 06/19/20Tia Thomas was a high school senior, excited to do all the traditions and events that came with her place in high school. That is until a global one in a generation Pandemic struck, crashing all those dreams and forcing her and all her classmates back home, isolated and afraid. But Tia... would not be denied. In this podcast, she details how a 17 year old kid ended up becoming a national news story by organizing a virtual prom and making her school's senior year one to remember. Through her story, we learn the power of organizing, clear vision, and determination.---Positive Identity is a media generator, aggregator, and movement dedicated to celebrating positive race relations and identity.  With Time/NBC/WSJ polls showing record racial division, Positive Identity was created to push back against this by serving as a platform where people can share media that shows the good of each other and ourselves. We hope you support us in loving people who are Asian, Black, Hispanic, White and anyone else to bring positive unity to America.Our social media networks are below are the key piece of building positive perception of others and of yourself. Choose one you like of many! Let's aim to change how we see the world, and then take action to create that positive unity. Join The Movement! Find us at:ThePositiveIdentity.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThePositiveIdentity/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThePositiveIDYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbGjZ2A9W3MvA_-TsSKWV-AReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/thepositiveidentityInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepositiveidentity/We're also crowdfunding as we want our mission to not be funded by the powerful, but by the people. In addition to GoFundMe and Patreon, Positive Identity has a number of ways for financial giving. Check us out at our Contribute Page! https://www.thepositiveidentity.com/contribute/#tpi #thepositiveidentity #positiveidentity #race #asian #white #black #latino #hispanic #latinx #native

Recording Date: 11/11/20In our General Pod, Stephen & Ron talk about the incredible story of Hispanic pre-college wrestler Diego Aguilera as he saves a man from a heart attack while working his summer job. Then after we tease the story of Black-America Orion Jean, the kid who plans to fundraise food for 100,000 families for Thanksgiving.It's another week where we tell you inspiring and positive stories of people of different races doing good things for each other and the world. Then from there, we become better people and learn more how to make the world better for everyone.---Positive Identity is a media generator, aggregator, and movement dedicated to celebrating positive race relations and identity.  With Time/NBC/WSJ polls showing record racial division, Positive Identity was created to push back against this by serving as a platform where people can share media that shows the good of each other and ourselves. We hope you support us in loving people who are Asian, Black, Hispanic, White and anyone else to bring positive unity to America.Our social media networks are below are the key piece of building positive perception of others and of yourself. Choose one you like of many! Let's aim to change how we see the world, and then take action to create that positive unity. Join The Movement! Find us at:ThePositiveIdentity.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThePositiveIdentity/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThePositiveIDYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbGjZ2A9W3MvA_-TsSKWV-AReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/thepositiveidentityInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepositiveidentity/We're also crowdfunding as we want our mission to not be funded by the powerful, but by the people. In addition to GoFundMe and Patreon, Positive Identity has a number of ways for financial giving. Check us out at our Contribute Page! https://www.thepositiveidentity.com/contribute/#tpi #thepositiveidentity #positiveidentity #race #asian #white #black #latino #hispanic

Recording Date: 06/05/20Dr. Debra Warner has spoken about male trauma all her life. For Ron and Stephen, the study of masculinity ties very much into their discussion and work for race and creating racial harmony. Does the male nature, or the pain men have and how they deal with that pain, cause a flash point that colors racial identity and race relations? By speaking with Dr. Warner, they will discover that male pain very much influences how we see our identities and they discover how we work through this.---Positive Identity is a media generator, aggregator, and movement dedicated to celebrating positive race relations and identity.  With Time/NBC/WSJ polls showing record racial division, Positive Identity was created to push back against this by serving as a platform where people can share media that shows the good of each other and ourselves. We hope you support us in loving people who are Asian, Black, Hispanic, White and anyone else to bring positive unity to America.Our social media networks are below are the key piece of building positive perception of others and of yourself. Choose one you like of many! Let's aim to change how we see the world, and then take action to create that positive unity. Join The Movement! Find us at:ThePositiveIdentity.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThePositiveIdentity/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThePositiveIDYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbGjZ2A9W3MvA_-TsSKWV-AReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/thepositiveidentityInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepositiveidentity/We're also crowdfunding as we want our mission to not be funded by the powerful, but by the people. In addition to GoFundMe and Patreon, Positive Identity has a number of ways for financial giving. Check us out at our Contribute Page! https://www.thepositiveidentity.com/contribute/#tpi #thepositiveidentity #positiveidentity #race #asian #white #black #latino #hispanic #latinx #native

Recording Date: 05/29/20Days after the shooting death of George Floyd and in the middle of the malaise of peaceful protests and riots tearing across America and The World, Stephen and Ron decide to record their inaugural episode of The Positive Identity Podcast. Years in the making, their goal is this. Can we create a movement around positive race relations, where we celebrate the good people of all racial identities have done for each other and the world. As racial division reaches unthinkable levels in the modern era, Ron and Stephen look to find out if there is a way, that we can bring it back together.---Positive Identity is a media generator, aggregator, and movement dedicated to celebrating positive race relations and identity.  With Time/NBC/WSJ polls showing record racial division, Positive Identity was created to push back against this by serving as a platform where people can share media that shows the good of each other and ourselves. We hope you support us in loving people who are Asian, Black, Hispanic, White and anyone else to bring positive unity to America.Our social media networks are below are the key piece of building positive perception of others and of yourself. Choose one you like of many! Let's aim to change how we see the world, and then take action to create that positive unity. Join The Movement! Find us at:ThePositiveIdentity.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThePositiveIdentity/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThePositiveIDYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbGjZ2A9W3MvA_-TsSKWV-AReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/thepositiveidentityInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepositiveidentity/We're also crowdfunding as we want our mission to not be funded by the powerful, but by the people. In addition to GoFundMe and Patreon, Positive Identity has a number of ways for financial giving. Check us out at our Contribute Page! https://www.thepositiveidentity.com/contribute/#tpi #thepositiveidentity #positiveidentity #race #asian #white #black #latino #hispanic #latinx #native