Doc Apoc Has a Beef

Full Episode description

This episode is the fifth in our series Imagine Equity: Six New Stories About Race, Identity, and Making Things Right. This episode starts to address the big topics of discrimination, injustice, and activism, so it might be a good idea for you to listen together with your child (or your grown-up).

This week, a new restaurant called Big Bot Burger is coming to The Imagine Neighborhood™. Doc and Scotty are super excited to try it . . . until they find out that Big Bot won’t take Doc’s order. It turns out that Big Bot Burger has a company rule to not serve people from the Wasteland.

Being a Wastelander is part of Doc’s identity—and not letting someone do something because of their identity is a super-wrong type of unfairness called discrimination. When rules discriminate against someone, or against a whole group of people, that’s called injustice. And those kinds of rules need to change.

Doc and Scotty set out to make things right and get some justice. Doc uses her music and her voice to get people’s attention and start a peaceful protest. When the neighborhood learns that Big Bot discriminates against Wastelanders, they decide to leave and patronize Justice Burgers instead. But that doesn’t put an end to the injustice. Big Bot has locations everywhere, and it’s up to our heroes to stop them!

To be continued next week!

This week, Doctor Apocalypso used her voice and her music to speak up against injustice. There’s a long history of musicians who have used songs to talk about injustices they see in the world—just like Doc. We’ve put together a list of some of those songs. Grown-ups, you could choose a few songs that would work for your family to listen to together, and then talk about the injustices those musicians wrote about.

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This show is supported by a generous grant from The Allstate Foundation. The Allstate Foundation works to empower youth to reach their full potential and build the just, equitable, and healthy world we all deserve. To learn more, visit AllstateFoundation.org.