Hello, Gorilla History listeners. This is Henry Huckamacki, one of the co-hosts of Gorilla History.

What you're about to hear now is the final portion of an intelligence briefing that my co-hosts,

Professor Adnan Hussein and Brett O'Shea alongside myself, put together about an absolutely

fabulous James Baldwin essay titled Down at the Cross.

We talked for about an hour and 45 minutes about this essay, both looking at specific extracts

from it, analyzing it, and talking about how some of the things paralleled what we see in America

today as well as in other Western developed countries. Absolutely fabulous

work. This intelligence briefing is scheduled to be a Patreon exclusive intelligence briefing.

So it will be on Patreon only for about a year, until which time it'll come out from the archives

onto the general feed.

We are unlocking this final portion of the recording for two reasons.

One, as a bit of a teaser, because we think that the wrap-up segment of this was really

entertaining, and we do want as many people to hear it as we can, frankly.

But two, because also we want to give you an idea of the sort of things

that we do on our Patreon. We don't run any advertisements on the show. We don't have any sponsors.

The only thing that keeps the show alive and running is your support on Patreon. About once a

month, we have Patreon exclusive episodes, just like this one, this hour and 45 minute long episode on the

Baldwin essay, but we also have periodic things in addition to that. For example, Adnan Hussein

did an excellent reading of the entire essay. It's dozens and dozens of pages long, and he did it

in three parts with the reading

and analysis side by side.

These are really useful resources for people.

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