Jayme Hightower and Steve LaPorta
Recorded
June 3, 2023
Archived
June 3, 2023
53:17 minutes
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Id:
ddv002505
Description
One Small Step partners Jayme Hightower (41) and Steve LaPorta (60) discuss missionary work, systemic racism, and how to improve schools in our country.Subject Log / Time Code
Jayme Hightower and Steve LaPorta share why they wanted to participate in One Small Step.
Both partners describe their jobs.
Steve describes his views on immigration.
Both partners discuss missionary trips.
Steve describes losing his parent's flower shop to a flood when he was 13 years old.
Both partners describe their lives growing up.
Jayme describes some of her parent's experiences being Black leaders in the Air Force, and recalls seeing a Ku Klux Klan rally in her neighborhood as a child in Louisiana.
Steve describes his children as "color blind" and shares why he sees systemic racism as "media-driven outrage." Jayme shares examples of microaggressions and other experiences of racism when she lived in Dallas, Texas.
Both partners discuss Catholicism and other Christian denominations.
Both partners share their views about "school choice" and funding the public school system.
Both partners share what they will take with them from this experience.
Participants
- Jayme Hightower
- Steve LaPorta