It Wasn’t Roaring, it was Weeping | Lisa-Jo Baker

Lisa-Jo is the Author of “It Wasn’t Roaring, it was Weeping: Interpreting the Language of Our Fathers Without Repeating Their Stories” and Co-Host “Out of the Ordinary” Podcast. Born White in the heart of Zululand during the racial apartheid, Lisa-Jo Baker longed to write a new future for her children—a longing that set her on a journey to understand where she fit into a story of violence and faith, history and race. Before marriage and motherhood, she came to the United States to study to become a human rights advocate. When she naïvely walked right into America’s own turbulent racial landscape, Baker experienced the kind of painful awakening that is both individual and universal, personal and social. Yet years would go by before she traced this American trauma back to her own South African past.