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welcome to stay tuned. I'm Priparara. It's this moment that is not just about

police brutality, I don't think, and it's not just about the pandemic and the feeling

that the government has, you know, kind of said, our economy is more important than your

life. But really, the culmination of, hey, wait a minute. This is supposed to be a government

of the people, by the people and for the people. Why is all the money moving upward?

Why is it the people at the top who are getting all the protection? You know, why is our

president getting away with whatever it seems he wants to do? Why is the secretary of state

doing the same? Why is the attorney general doing the same? This moment is giving voice

to that anger.

That's Heather Cox Richardson. She's an American history professor at Boston College and the

author of many books about race, power, and labor from the Civil War to the present.

Her latest is called, How the South won the Civil War, Alagaraki Democracy, and the continuing

fight for the soul of America. Professor Richardson is also the writer of a popular daily newsletter,

Letters from an American, would seek to contextualize today's political events in the long arc

of American history. Today she joins me to discuss the history of racism in America, the

danger of false political images, and why we're at a critical inflection point in our country's

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