The Collapse of Radical Reconstruction

History is US

Audacy Podcasts | Shining City Audio

Education, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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With the passage of the 15th amendment, some Americans believed the battle had finally been won: the former slave now had the right to vote. But what followed, was a systematic retreat on the promises of Radical Reconstruction and the ascendance of a new regime of American racial rule. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you like radically honest stories, you'll love the podcast risk.
0:16.2	Risks where people tell true stories, they never thought they'd dare to share, like the
0:21.3	one about the guy who cooked and served his own leg to his friends as tacos.
0:26.5	The woman who found out the person she was sharing kinky fantasies with online was her dad.
0:31.7	If you think you've heard it all, just wait till you hear risk.
0:36.1	Available now on the Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcast.
0:48.3	Just like El Paso, Pittsburgh, Charlottesville, Buffalo happened.
0:57.4	13 people, ages 20 to 86 were shot.
1:02.2	10 were killed.
1:04.7	This monstrous act was committed by someone who believes that white people are under siege,
1:10.5	that immigrants and black people aim to replace white Americans in this country.
1:16.5	Panic and terror, it is an old paranoia.
1:20.5	I'm Dr. Eddie Esklaude Jr., a professor of African-American studies at Princeton University.
1:29.2	I've come to believe that we don't really know who we are as Americans.
1:33.6	Our myths and legends have blinded us to the reality close to the ground,
1:38.1	that we are truly a diverse nation, not a white one.
1:42.1	The historical evasion of that fact in policy and indeed has corrupted the soul of this nation.
1:49.9	Our demand for innocence and safety has kept us stuck in a kind of national adolescence.
1:57.0	We refuse to grow up and we continue to leave bodies in the wake.
2:03.0	The moral crisis we face today has everything to do with who we take ourselves to be as a nation
2:09.7	and who we will become on the other side of this terrible store.
2:14.7	The answers to these questions I believe require that we grapple with the history that has brought us to now.
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