You’ve almost made it halfway through 2020, which means that so far, you’ve witnessed and survived a global pandemic, a worldwide economic crash, riots, looting, the strike on Qasem Soleimani, and murder hornets. Oh, and the impeachment of the president, but that feels like so long ago I had to check to make sure it was this year.
On the menu today, some of the most powerful people in America have identified the root cause of the country’s inequities and discrimination, and it’s not them, it’s you.
The Convenience of Anti-Racism as a Corporate Brand Identity
New York Times columnist Charles Blow, discussing George Washington and all of the Founding Fathers who owned slaves: “I say that we need to reconsider public monuments in public spaces. No person’s honorifics can erase the horror he or she has inflicted on others. Slave owners should not be honored with monuments in public spaces. We have museums for that, which also provide better context. This is not an erasure of history, but rather a ...
Episode 138: The Persians by...
