Air Date: 06-03-2016
Today we take a look at the structures of racism in the US, who put them there, the problems they cause and what we might do to dismantle them
Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: Blinded by the White: The Myth of Meritocracy - Majority Report (@MajorityFM) - Air Date: 04-22-15
Ch. 3: Song 1: Work Horse - Infantree
Ch. 4: Act 2: Gateway to Freedom: Historian Eric Foner on the Hidden History of the Underground Railroad - @DemocracyNow - Air Date: 3-11-15
Ch. 5: Song 2: Underground Railroad - The Deedle Deedle Dees
Ch. 6: Act 3: Study On The Impact Of Nazi Propaganda - @TheYoungTurks - Air Date: 06-19-15
Ch. 7: Song 3: Discrimination - Ancel
Ch. 8: Act 4: Bryan Stevenson: Slavery never ended, it just evolved - Here and Now - Air Date 6-30-15
Ch. 9: Song 4: The Confrontation - Dan Romer & Benh Zeitlin
Ch. 10: Act 5: Heidi Beirich on White Supremacy and the Trump campaign - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date 3-4-16
Ch. 11: Song 5: Racism - MYSTAFYA
Ch. 12: Act 6: Historian Eric Foner on the Elections, Reconstruction, and Racism Today - @theLFshow w @GRITlaura Flanders - Air Date 4-19-16
Voicemails
Ch. 13: Living with little and giving away - Eric from Alabama
Ch. 14: Thoughts on the NV Democratic Convention - Kirk in Los Vegas
Kirk's Nevada Convention video
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 15: Final comments on what's more important than taking offense
Article: "I find this offensive": How "offense" discourse traps us into inaction
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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