Leonce Gaiter’s nonfiction writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Times, LA Weekly, Slate, and The Washington Post.
Gaiter is also the author of the historical novel, “I Dreamt I Was in Heaven - The Rampage of the Rufus Buck Gang”.
Leonce explains why white privilege and white racial innocence will not save (white) Americans from Trump’s plans to be a dictator and the hell world that the American neofascist movement is trying to impose on the country.
He also reflects on why black and brown “conservatives” like Clarence Thomas and Tim Scott have chosen to surrender to white supremacy and a pathological pursuit of honorary Whiteness as their way of finding “success” and “happiness”.
In this wide-ranging conversation, Leonce and Chauncey dialogue about how they both escaped the trap of being black conservatives, masculinity and violence, the Democratic Party’s failed messaging, and the much-heralded “Battle for Montgomery” where black folks fought back against white thugs on a pier.
It is Chauncey DeVega’s birthday week and as is his habit he reflects on his life journey this past year, successes and failures, and plans for the year ahead.
And because it is his birthday week, Chauncey indulges himself with a story about being a hero in his neighborhood, fighting back against a local pervert, and an encounter with a toilet freak.
Chauncey also reads one of his favorite parts of Cormac McCarthy’s book “Child of God” and shares why he has already seen Denzel Washington’s new film “The Equalizer 3” three times at the movie theater.
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Ep. 348: Are Terrible People Attracted to Power? Or Does Power Make Them Terrible?
Ep. 347: The Truth Report -- Tim Wise Explains How The Jim Crow Republicans "Critical Race Theory" Bogeyman is Powered by White Rage
Ep. 346: Denis Villeneuve’s New Film "Dune" and the White Savior Problem
Ep. 345: How the Jim Crow Republicans are Going to Steal the 2022 Midterm and 2024 Presidential Elections
Ep. 344: Remembering Sociologist James Loewen
Ep. 343: How Do You Decide the Financial Value of a Human Life?
Ep. 342: Donald Trump is Not Going Away -- No Matter How Much You Wish He Would
Ep. 341: Deconstructing The "New" Candyman Film -- Is it a Masterpiece or Something Else Entirely?
Ep. 340: "War Made Easy" and the Pitfalls and Lies of American Empire and its Forever Wars
Ep. 339: S.A. Cosby on Life Lessons, Masculinity, Writing, and the Road to "Blacktop Wasteland"
Ep. 338: Anthea Butler Explains That White Christianity Cannot be Properly Separated From The Realities of White Supremacy
Ep. 337: Dr. Aruna Khilanani Dared to Tell Dangerous Truths About Race, Whiteness, and Psychopathology
Ep. 336: On This July 4th Independence Day, America's Democracy is on Life Support
Ep. 335: Hakeem Oluseyi Reflects on His Quantum Life and Journey from the Streets to the Stars
Ep. 334: On UFOs, Trump's Coup, QAnon, Ancient Aliens, and Tucker Carlson
Ep. 333: Chris Matthews is Worried About the Future of American Democracy
Ep. 332: The Truth Report Sneak Preview -- What Will Happen When the United States and China Finally Go to War
Ep. 331: The Cyberweapons Arms Race and How the World Ends
Ep. 330: Jesus and John Wayne -- Guns, God, Masculinity and the Christian Fascist Assault on American Democracy
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