Original Air Date 8/18/2021
Today we take a look at history of white people deciding to get their way through violence and the tradition of having the government look the other way
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: The KKK: History and Myth - Professor Buzzkill History Podcast - Air Date 8-24-17
Practically nothing in the history of the United States has suffered from myth-making and misunderstanding as much as the history of race relations and racist violence. The history Ku Klux Klan is no exception. This is ironic.
Ch. 2: Remembering a White Supremacist Coup - Reveal - Air Date 10-23-20
On the eve of a contentious election, Reveal looks back to the nearly forgotten election of 1898 in Wilmington, North Carolina. A coup d’etat gave birth to much of the structural racism that still plagues our nation today.
Ch. 3: Voices: Children ‘stripped of innocence’ - Cape Up - Air Date 4-11-19
A member of the Little Rock Nine and a survivor of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing both lost the illusion of safety in their young lives.
Ch. 4: Armed and Dangerous - On the Media - Air Date 9-24-20
Armed right-wingers are stoking violence in cities across the country. On this week’s On the Media, a look at the origins of the American militia movement. Plus, as things heat up, Facebook is fanning the flames.
Ch. 5: The Evolution of All-American Terrorism - Reveal - Air Date 6-27-20
The Trump years have seen an increase in domestic terrorist attacks linked by hateful ideologies that thrive online. Reveal teams up with Type Investigations to track each case and determine what the government has done to fight them.
Ch. 6: Radical Caucasian Extremism - News Beat - Air Date 1-9-21
This hugely important episode highlighted the threat posed by such extremists, even as many in the media and government engaged in Islamophobic rhetoric about Muslim Americans.
Ch. 7: "Nobody actually accounts for this violence": How the FBI fails to track white supremacist terrorism - Democracy Now! - Air Date 8-5-19
Former FBI agent Mike German says "Unfortunately their policies have actually masked how they use their domestic terrorism resources to make it harder for the Congress to understand how many of those resources are going toward white supremacist violence,"
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Ch. 8: Tucker Carlson Doubles Down on White Supremacist 'Great Replacement' Theory - The Mehdi Hasan Show - Air Date 4-13-21
The Atlantic's Adam Serwer and Mehdi discuss Carlson's history of promulgating racist rhetoric on prime time television and its real-life consequences.
Ch. 9: Southern Shame Culture & How to Fight Racism w/Jemar Tisby - The Holy Post - Air Date 1-20-21
Jemar Tisby (The Color of Compromise) rejoins Phil to discuss his new book, How to Fight Racism. Actual, real steps to be part of the solution, not part of the problem!
VOICEMAILS
Ch. 10: Response on remix climate episode - Alan from Connecticut
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 11: Final comments on the arguments against individual climate action
MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions)
SHOW IMAGE:
Description: Black and white photo taken during "Bloody Sunday" in Selma, AL on March 7th 1965. A young John Lewis has fallen on the grass, lifting one hand, while a police officer stands over him wielding a billy club. More chaos fills the background.
Credit: "12 - Civil Rights Movement" (low resolution). Original from the Library of Congress (via U.S. Embassy The Hague on Flickr) | License | Changes: Cropped
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