Leonce Gaiter’s nonfiction writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Times, LA Weekly, Slate, and The Washington Post.
Gaiter is also the author of the historical novel, “I Dreamt I Was in Heaven - The Rampage of the Rufus Buck Gang”.
Leonce explains why white privilege and white racial innocence will not save (white) Americans from Trump’s plans to be a dictator and the hell world that the American neofascist movement is trying to impose on the country.
He also reflects on why black and brown “conservatives” like Clarence Thomas and Tim Scott have chosen to surrender to white supremacy and a pathological pursuit of honorary Whiteness as their way of finding “success” and “happiness”.
In this wide-ranging conversation, Leonce and Chauncey dialogue about how they both escaped the trap of being black conservatives, masculinity and violence, the Democratic Party’s failed messaging, and the much-heralded “Battle for Montgomery” where black folks fought back against white thugs on a pier.
It is Chauncey DeVega’s birthday week and as is his habit he reflects on his life journey this past year, successes and failures, and plans for the year ahead.
And because it is his birthday week, Chauncey indulges himself with a story about being a hero in his neighborhood, fighting back against a local pervert, and an encounter with a toilet freak.
Chauncey also reads one of his favorite parts of Cormac McCarthy’s book “Child of God” and shares why he has already seen Denzel Washington’s new film “The Equalizer 3” three times at the movie theater.
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Ep. 137: Naveed Jamali Explains How Russia Could Have Infiltrated Trump's White House
Ep. 136: Rachel Dolezal Explains "Transracial" Identity and Her Journey From "Black" to "White"
Ep. 135: Scott Snyder Shares His Thoughts on Writing Batman, Politics, and "Diversity" in Comic Books
Ep. 134: Timothy Snyder Explains How to Fight Back Against Donald Trump
Ep. 133: Henry Giroux Explains How the Culture of Cruelty Helped to Elect Donald Trump
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
Ep. 130: Peter Bebergal Explains How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll/Jared Yates Sexton Previews Wrestlemania 33
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
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