This is the Unregistered Podcast, and I'm Thaddeus Russell.

This is a show about ideas, people, and behaviors that are considered inappropriate, out of bounds, or beyond the pale.

The things you're not supposed to talk about if you're a school teacher, a college professor, a businessman, a

politician, a parent, a neighbor, or even a podcast host. These are the things you're not

supposed to say or even think if you're a good liberal, a good conservative, or a good citizen.

Each week, I'll interview a person who has something bad to say. They might be a journalist or a good citizen. Each week, I'll interview a person who has something bad to say.

They might be a journalist or a professor.

They might be a porn star or a drug dealer.

They might just be an ordinary person with an ordinary job

who doesn't care about the rules of polite society.

I'm not interested in breaking the rules just to be a troublemaker. I'm interested in people who break the rules of polite society. I'm not interested in breaking the rules just to be a troublemaker.

I'm interested in people who break the rules of conventional thought and to expand the scope of

what is possible to say in our society. I'm interested in people who make me think.

After the Civil War, during Reconstruction, the federal government established about 2,000 schools all across the South that were used to teach the ex-slave, things like reading, writing, and arithmetic, but also how to adopt the norms of the dominant white culture. Ex-slaves were told, in fact, to eliminate all the vestiges of their distinctive culture

and become just like white people to achieve real citizenship. Martin Luther King in the 1950s said pretty much the

same thing. King and a series of lectures and sermons he gave across the country told black people

that they should give up their habits of fornication and smoking and drinking and laziness and adopt the culture of the dominant white majority.

And just recently, the Democratic candidate for president of the United States said,

you ain't black if you don't vote for me.

My guest this week has been resisting pretty much his entire life,

attempts like these to tell him and black people who and what they are.

This is my interview with Hoteb Jesus.

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