On this week’s episode, Otieno, Jon, Regina, and Ryan continue last week’s discussion. Jon shares a listener e-mail, Ryan discusses Tina Fey’s recent skit, and Otieno opens a discussion on the ratio of monuments celebrating figures from the confederacy verses monuments celebrating emancipation, and whether tearing down monuments which celebrate the confederacy erases history.
References:
- Texas Bathroom Bill dies
- Texan women will be forced to buy “abortion insurance”
- African American Civil War Memorial
- 4 emancipation monuments: here, here, here, and here
- A memorial to slave rebellions
- A plague in Wall St.Â
- The John Hope Franklin Memorial commemorating the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
- A planned Equality and Injustice Initiative Commemorative Lynching Memorial
- This article from the SPLC which discusses public symbols of the confederacy
This week’s featured song is “International News” by National Wake
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On this week’s episode, Ryan, Regina, Otieno and Jon discuss the aftermath of the violent protest which took place in Charlottesville, Virginia. Topics include whether or not attendees should be outed as Nazis, how Steve Bannon weaponized online trolls, a comparison to how the media portrays the Black Lives Matter movement and members of the Alt-Right, and what we can do to confront the growing number of hate groups.
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This week’s featured song is “Highest Mountain” by 
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