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 289: The Truth Report -- Greg Palast Warns That The Georgia Democratic Primary Was a Preview of How Donald Trump Will Steal The 2020 Presidential Election
Ep. 288: "Implicit Bias" Didn't Murder George Floyd, "Old Fashioned Racism" Did
Ep. 287: The Truth Report -- Fintan O'Toole Explains How the United States in the Age of Trump's Pandemic is a Pathetic and Pitiable Nation
Ep. 286: The Pandemic is the First of Many Disasters That Will Change the World As We Know It
Ep. 285: From Donald Trump's Fake Pandemic "Protests" to a Second American Civil War
Ep. 284: Ben Fountain Reflects on the Surreal Reality That is Life in the Age of Trump's Pandemic
Ep. 283: Hundreds of Ku Klux Klan Members Have Surrendered Their Robes and Hoods to Daryl Davis
Ep. 282: Don Winslow Explains How Donald Trump is Everything Wrong with American Masculinity
Ep. 281: Tim Wise Explains How White Privilege is Making the Coronavirus Plague Much Worse
Ep. 280: The Truth Report -- Navigating the Coronavirus Pandemic and Then Making a Better America and World
Ep. 279: How Donald Trump and the Other Plutocrats Will Use the Coronavirus to Make Life Even Worse for Working Class and Poor Americans
Ep. 278: The Coronavirus and Social Inequality in America
Ep. 277: Rachel Bitecofer Explains Why Bernie Sanders Has a Better Chance Than Joe Biden of Beating Donald Trump
Ep. 276: Greg Palast Explains How Donald Trump and His Republican Party Will Steal the 2020 Presidential Election at the Ballot Box
Ep. 275: The Truth Report -- "Star Trek's" Walter Koenig Reflects on Humanity's Future, Hope, and Despair in the Age of Trump
Ep. 274: Tochi Onyebuchi on His New Book "Riot Baby", Black Revenge Fantasies, and Freeing Himself From the White Gaze
Ep. 273: The Truth Report -- After Impeachment Donald Trump is the Jim Jones of American Presidents
Ep. 272: Vince Houghton on Nuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Left on the Drawing Board
Ep. 271: How "Revolutionary Love" and "Radical Empathy" Can Help Stop America From Destroying Itself
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