#1435 A History of White Violence in Policy and Practice
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🗓️ 19 August 2021
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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.
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,"
MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S)
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
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- Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent
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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.
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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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of a Left Podcast in which we shall |
| 0:07.3 | take a look at the history of white people deciding to get their way through violence |
| 0:12.3 | and the tradition of having the government look the other way. |
| 0:15.4 | Clips today are from the Professor Buzzkill History Podcast, Reveal, Cape Up with John |
| 0:21.6 | of the Cape Art, on the media Newsbeat, Democracy Now, the Medihison Show and the Holy Post. |
| 0:34.7 | From early 1866 until the end of June 1867, just 18 months, Clansman in the Carolina's |
| 0:42.3 | killed 197 people and assaulted nearly 500. Between 1866 and 1868, one county in Florida |
| 0:54.1 | reported that the KKK killed more than 150 African Americans and other Florida counties |
| 1:00.7 | reported similar numbers, but they also included reports of the killings of dozens of white |
| 1:06.0 | allies in quotations of freed blacks. The KKK's campaign of murder and intimidation was |
| 1:13.2 | particularly bad in Louisiana. Over 2,000 people were killed in the run-up to the election, |
| 1:20.7 | the presidential election of November 1868. They were killed both as punishment and as |
| 1:26.5 | warnings. And we can measure the impact that the threat of KKK violence and violence |
| 1:33.0 | from other groups had on potential voters, especially registered Republicans if we compare |
| 1:39.6 | registrations, for instance, before and after elections. The Republican Party in St. |
| 1:46.6 | Landry Parish in Louisiana had a registered majority of 1,000 over 1,000 over the Democrats. |
| 1:53.8 | They had more than 1,000 than the Democrats did and other parties in that county in 1868, |
| 1:58.6 | early 1868. Now, after the murders in October and early November of that year, not a single |
| 2:07.0 | Republican voted in that county on Election Day. Columbia County in Georgia also shows |
| 2:15.9 | the effect that the Klan had in 1868 very, very clearly. The election for governor of |
| 2:22.0 | Georgia was held in April of that year. 1,222 votes were cast for Rufus Bullock, the Republican |
| 2:29.6 | candidate. By the time the presidential election rolled around in November, however, Klan |
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