Friend,
Episode 169 uploaded September 3: Sam Goldman talks with Dr. Marvin Dunn, historian and activist with The Miami
Center for Racial Justice about their educational tours of Florida
covering sites of lynchings and massacres (prime example:
Rosewood) — the knowledge of which is being suppressed by the DeSantis
fascist offensive against public education.
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Dr. Marvin Dunn:
There are two things that we are very upset about. One is obviously the notion that there are personal benefits to slaves as a result of being enslaved. And then second is that teachers are now required to teach that there was black on white violence in Florida, in Ocoee, and Rosewood. And those are absolute lies, there was no such thing as black violence in Florida against whites in the history of the state of Florida. Yet in this attempt to equivocate evil, teachers to being required to teach that blacks committed racial violence against whites in Ocoee and in Rosewood.
Sam Goldman:
We need to acknowledge the road that we're on this road to atrocity is paved with 'it could never happen here,' that people aren't or couldn't become that bad. We are confronted by the most dangerous myth in world history, that pernicious American exceptionalism that deludes itself into thinking we can't, we wouldn't, we aren't, even though this is the same country that did and is and only exists because of all that. This is a nation birthed from genocide of native people, a country that gained its wealth from chattel slavery, and its standing in the world through constant wars for empire. We know the outcome when good people choose to ignore these fascist movements, hoping they will go away or hoping they will be exempt from the violence or that someone else will stop them. And those outcomes are uniformly horrendous.
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Sharing an announcement for those in the Chicago area:
The Revolution Club Chicago has called for a protest, a call Refuse Fascism Chicago fully supports. Days after a Nazi racist mass shooter murdered three Black people in Jacksonville, FL, and a week after the assassination of shop owner Lauri Carlton for flying a gay pride flag in a California “small town,” Jason Aldean is coming to spew his Klan-loving poison in Chicagoland, out at Tinley Park. NO!
Aldean's mega hit, “Try That in a Small Town,” is a fascist celebration of America's lynch mob tradition that topped the country music charts for weeks this summer. It gives expression to a whole move by fascists, led by but not limited to Trump and the Republicans, to bring back the “good ol' days” of undisguised white supremacist, anti-woman, anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-immigrant violence and repression
PROTEST 6:00 pm Saturday Sept 9
191st & Oak Park Blvd, Tinley Park
We call on EVERYONE who is sick and tired of the growing racist,
anti-woman, anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-immigrant hatred and violence to join
us in protest demanding:
No More Lynch Mobs in and out of Uniform!
No More Standing by while “Good Ol' Boys" Prepare for Civil War!
In the Name of Humanity, We Refuse to Accept a Fascist America!
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