Monumental Problems: Part III
Sounds Like Hate
Southern Poverty Law Center
4.6 • 688 Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Stone Mountain, Georgia, sometimes called the “Mount Rushmore of the Confederacy,” is home to one of the largest stone carvings in the world: An image of Confederate leaders Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson is etched into the side of the mountain. “Monumental Problems,” Part III, focuses on Stone Mountain and the “Lost Cause” narratives still widely spread by powerful families and corporations, and how these falsehoods fan the fires of white nationalism.
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| 0:00.0 | We're all for hands and thanks. |
| 0:04.0 | Thank you, God, for giving us to eat. |
| 0:09.0 | Thank you, God. |
| 0:12.0 | We're old school, so they have to wait until everybody is served, |
| 0:18.0 | and then they can sing, and then they can eat. |
| 0:21.2 | So they were like, I just got, I've been waiting all this time. |
| 0:24.6 | Like, and now I've got to do it again. |
| 0:26.1 | Attitude. |
| 0:27.1 | Attitude, attitude. |
| 0:28.6 | Thank you, a lot. |
| 0:30.6 | Forget us. |
| 0:31.6 | This is season two of sounds like hate. This is season two of Sounds Like Hate, a podcast series from the Southern Poverty Law Center. |
| 0:44.1 | I'm Geraldine Moriba. |
| 0:46.0 | And I'm Jamila Paxima. |
| 0:48.5 | We're examining where we come from, the history we accept as truth and how sometimes our views influence the people |
| 0:56.2 | we love towards violent extremist beliefs. This time, we're looking at how parts of American history |
| 1:02.8 | continue to be systematically erased for generations and how black resistance to this erasure |
| 1:09.3 | continues yesterday and today. |
| 1:12.6 | This story is also about America and the way some people tell the history of the Civil War through a pro-Confederate lens. |
| 1:21.6 | We're reporting on the push to remove monuments and symbols of hate on public and government properties in Georgia, Texas, and Alabama. |
| 1:34.3 | There are three classrooms here, and the ages range from birth to three years old. So this is what you call early head start |
| 1:46.9 | or early infant care. And on a normal day, how many kids are in each room or all together? |
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