Confederacy Inc.: Donald Trump, Racist Police, and the Whitewashing of History
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🗓️ 1 July 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
As cases of Covid-19 skyrocket across the U.S., Trump passionately focuses on defending the legacy of the Confederacy and white supremacist monuments. Native American historian Nick Estes explains the crimes against Indigenous people committed by the four presidents whose faces are carved into Mount Rushmore.
Black Lives Matter demonstrations against police brutality and systemic racism continue across the U.S. as calls to defund the police intensify. University of Iowa historian Simon Balto, author of the new book “Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power,” lays out the origins of the Chicago Police Department as a moralistic enforcement agency in the late 1800s and its transformation into a militarized terror force deployed to control Black people in Chicago while simultaneously crushing movements for workers rights, tenant rights, and basic human rights.
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| 0:00.0 | This is intercepted. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm Jeremy Skayhill coming to you from my basement in New York City and this is episode |
| 0:37.5 | 136 of Intercepted. |
| 0:40.8 | So we have more cases because we do the greatest testing. |
| 0:44.0 | If we didn't do testing, we'd have no cases. |
| 0:46.3 | Other countries they don't test millions. |
| 0:48.3 | So up to almost 30 million tests. |
| 0:50.9 | So when you do 30 million, you're going to have a kid with the sniffles and they'll say |
| 0:53.7 | it's coronavirus, whatever you want to call it. |
| 0:56.7 | I said the other night. |
| 0:57.7 | There are so many names to this I could name 19 names like Corona 19. |
| 1:04.3 | In the United States right now, we are witnessing the blowback caused by stupidity, ignorance, |
| 1:10.8 | and anti-science policy making from the highest office in the land. |
| 1:16.2 | Coronavirus infections are skyrocketing across the country, notably in states whose governors |
| 1:21.9 | joined Donald Trump in minimizing the grave danger posed by not taking COVID-19 seriously. |
| 1:29.2 | Both Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have overwhelmingly refused to take the most basic |
| 1:34.8 | steps to project a message of responsibility or to encourage people to just wear masks. |
| 1:42.2 | They have celebrated and spoken in front of mask gatherings of people who have equated |
| 1:47.1 | wearing protective masks with the loss of their liberty. |
| 1:51.3 | And now the virus is spreading like wildfire through the states of some of Trump's most |
| 1:56.7 | loyal followers and supporters. |
| 2:00.1 | This morning, the coronavirus surge continues in Texas, infection statewide, now topping |
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