Tim Wise is an author, activist and leading expert on white privilege and racism. He is the author of many books, including his most recent "Dispatches From the Race War."
He explains how the recent Supreme Court decision against affirmative action, Ron DeSantis’ fascist-authoritarian war on Black America’s real history (slavery was a “job skills “program) and real struggles and real triumphs, and Donald Trump and the MAGA movement’s enduring power are all connected as part of a much larger project to protect white privilege and white power across all of American society by ending multiracial democracy.
Tim Wise also reflects on how his decades of experience as an antiracist activist and battling white racists has helped him to understand the Age of Trump and why so many good white liberals and mainstream Democrats and centrists are fundamentally unprepared for the challenge(s) of protecting multiracial democracy and the long struggle ahead.
Chauncey and Tim also dialogue about the effectiveness of the right-wing media machine, how liberals and “the left” are using the wrong strategies and tactics, and the temptations of going over to the other side because of money – and why they would never do such a thing.
And Chauncey goes to the archives and shares what white slavers in the South actually wrote and thought about how the enslavement of Black Americans was a type of “job skills” program -- and how their claims are not too different from what Ron DeSantis and the other neofascists and members of the white right are saying more than one hundred years later.
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Ep. 132: Sheldon Solomon Explains How Death Anxieties and Existential Angst Helped to Elect Donald Trump
Ep. 131: Philip Zimbardo Explains What the Stanford Prison Experiment Can Tell Us About America and Donald Trump Today
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Ep. 129: Jane Elliott Explains the Blue-Eyed/Brown-Eyed Teaching Exercise, Racism, and the Rise of Donald Trump
Ep. 128: Andrew Gelman Clarifies Some Misconceptions About the 2016 Election, Mama DeVega Returns, and Jane Elliott Chimes In
Ep. 127: Malcolm Nance Explains How Russia Hacked the 2016 Election and Manipulated the Traitor Donald Trump
Ep. 126: Colin Dickey Discusses Ghosts, Trauma and American Cultural Memory
Ep. 125: Cornel Belcher Explains Trump's Victory and the Racist Backlash Against Barack Obama
Ep. 124: John Kinder on World War One, Disabled Veterans, and Technological Fetishism
Ep. 123: Monkey Madness with Anthropologist Agustin Fuentes
Ep. 122: William Smith Explains Racial Battle Fatigue
Ep. 121: A Special Donald Trump Inauguration Day Episode
Ep. 120: Kelly Baker on "The Good White People" Problem
Ep. 119: Lester Spence on Neoliberalism and Black Politics
Ep. 118: A Special New Year's Eve 2017 Episode
Ep. 117: Ben Winters talks "Underground Airlines"
Ep. 116: 1968 Olympic Legend Tommie Smith
Ep. 115: Van Jones Explains "The Messy Truth" About Trumplandia
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