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🗓️ 2 June 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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In “Monumental Problems,” Part II, Sounds Like Hate producer Jordan Gass-Poore tells a personal story about her Texas Hill Country family. Gass-Poore is the descendant of Confederate veterans, and the choices made by her ancestors generations ago continue to impact the family today. We follow Gass-Poore home to Texas as her family embarks on a painful reckoning with the past.
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0:00.0 | Oh, this one was interesting. |
0:06.1 | This is one I want to touch on. |
0:08.2 | And it says, if you decide to riot in my neighborhood, just remember, sticks and stones may break my windows, but hollow points expand inside you. |
0:19.3 | This is the new way to burn crosses on your yard. |
0:22.5 | This is the modern day cross burning. |
0:24.4 | Absolutely, absolutely. |
0:26.8 | And with even less opportunity for accountability because it's on mine. |
0:33.3 | All right. |
0:33.8 | So it says, it's a picture Charles Manson and like a developing story. |
0:39.1 | And it says if CNN existed in 1967, police kidnap peaceful protesters. |
0:48.0 | So in some sick, twisted way, they're comparing us to Charles Manson. |
0:55.5 | That makes no sense. |
0:57.8 | Only validating that they are completely unhinged and out of touch with reality and violent. |
1:05.2 | What is always interesting to me is how they immediately go to violence in some way. |
1:12.9 | And this one, they can only compare us to, like, a murderer. Camille Bennett is reading violent messages on social media |
1:19.6 | directed against her and other civil rights organizers. You see the world the way you are. |
1:31.3 | If that's what you see, then that indicates some of what is inside of you. Violence. |
1:37.3 | This is season two of Sounds Like Hate, a podcast series from the Southern Poverty Law Center. |
1:47.0 | I'm Geraldine Moriba. |
1:50.0 | And I'm Jamila Paxima. We're examining where we come from, the history we accept as truth, and how sometimes our views influence the people we love towards violent extremist beliefs. |
2:03.6 | This time we're looking at how parts of American history continue to be systematically erased for generations, |
2:10.6 | and how black resistance to this erasure continues yesterday and today. |
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