In this deeply introspective episode, DeWayne R. Stallworth explores the silent, ancestral tension that stirs within the collective Black soul when witnessing a Black woman with a White man. This is not a conversation about judgment or ownership (i.e., it is about memory, spirit, and the echoes of history that live in the body).

DeWayne unpacks what he calls the soul conflict. This visceral, almost spiritual reaction transcends thought and logic, revealing how the legacies of slavery, sexual exploitation, and racialized power still reverberate through our emotional and genetic memory.

Drawing from history, epigenetics, and the lived Black experience, he asks:

What does the body remember that the mind tries to forget?

What does the soul carry that history books cannot hold?

Through stories of women like Celia and Harriet Jacobs, and reflections on inherited trauma and ancestral communion, DeWayne lends language to a feeling that has long gone unnamed, a quiet rage intertwined with reverence, grief folded into love.

This episode is both a meditation and a reckoning; a call to feel, to witness, and to honor the complexity of Black spiritual heritage in the modern world.

If you’ve ever felt something ancient stirring in your chest at a moment you couldn’t explain, this episode is for you.