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I also want to let you know before we get started today that this Friday, in honor of

National Gun Violence Awareness Day and the start of a wear orange weekend, people around

the country are coming together with a simple message.

There's more we can do to end gun violence.

Each year, every town for gun safety and a broad coalition of partners call on Americans

to wear orange and recognize the more than 90 lives cut short and hundreds wounded by

gun violence every day and to demand action toward a future free from gun violence.

Join the movement by wearing orange this Friday, June 1 and post your pictures online using

the hashtag WearOrange to show your committed to ending gun violence.

And now welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left Podcasts in which we shall learn

about the legacy of the Confederacy including the monuments and white supremacy it left behind

and the racial terror institutionalized in America based on upholding its values.

Plus, a couple of bonus clips at the end that I think really give some insight into how

modern-day defenders of Confederate soldiers make their moral case.

It's worth hearing.

Now please be aware that today's episode contains explicit descriptions of the lynching of

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