Episode 05: Purging Socialists of Color From History
Citations Needed
Citations Needed
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2017
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
On Episode 5, we explore the history of the media erasing socialists of color from the history books and present day discourse––a tactic that serves to both commodity and water-down black radicalism and pawn off leftwing politics as a uniquely white or middle class enterprise.
Our guests: Robert Greene II and Roqayah Chamseddine.
Show notes: goo.gl/QPYT7C
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| 0:00.0 | This is Citations Needed with Nemeshirazi and Adam Johnson. |
| 0:08.8 | Welcome to Citations Needed. |
| 0:10.3 | This is Nemeshirazi with my co-host Adam Johnson. |
| 0:12.8 | Adam Johnson, that's me. |
| 0:13.9 | On this show, we will be talking about media, PR, and the history of bullshit. |
| 0:19.2 | And yeah, this is episode 5. |
| 0:22.0 | It's gonna be a doozy, I'm sure. |
| 0:23.5 | It is gonna be a doozy. |
| 0:24.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:25.5 | Indeed. |
| 0:26.5 | Last week, we actually didn't have a guest. |
| 0:28.5 | It was just me and Adam talking shit. |
| 0:31.2 | And so this week, we've decided to actually double up on the guest to make up for that. |
| 0:36.1 | And the topic of the show today is the purging of socialist of color from the media and how |
| 0:41.2 | the media both ignores socialist of color, tries to paint socialism as a uniquely white |
| 0:45.6 | enterprise, which is a historic, but is becoming increasingly popular. |
| 0:49.7 | So we thought we'd do a whole show on it. |
| 0:51.2 | It's like taking the Bernie Bro argument to like the completely far left level of, you |
| 0:57.6 | know, saying. |
| 0:58.4 | We thought the history indeed. |
| 0:59.8 | So our first guest today will be Robert Green the second, who's a PhD candidate at the |
| 1:03.6 | University of South Carolina and a contributor to Jacobin. |
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