September 26, 2019
Ep. 253: Ibram X. Kendi Explains How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi is one of America’s foremost historians and leading antiracist voices. He is the author of Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive Idea of Racist Ideas in America which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction. His new book is the New York Times bestselling, How to Be an Antiracist.
Kendi explains how racism is violence and death. He also highlights how America’s moral crisis along the color line is inseparable from capitalism.
Kendi warns how Donald Trump is one of America’s most dangerous white supremacist presidents, perhaps second only to Andrew Jackson. Professor Kendi also explains that to have a true democracy in America will require a rethinking of basic notions of “racism” and how individuals and institutions do the work of social inequality (and hopefully justice).
Chauncey DeVega returns from his 2-week hiatus and shares a story about the bizarre and strange happenings and people he encountered during his travels. Chauncey also reflects on Trump’s criminal corruption and mafia boss dealings with the president of Ukraine and issues a warning: to fully and properly understand Trumpism one must accept the fact that Donald Trump is evil.
And Chauncey shares a very important story about the Trump regime’s cruelty and evil that many people may have missed. Donald Trump and his regime have declared that homeless people are human garbage to be disposed of by being disappeared into his prisons.