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STAY WOKE: Vital Lessons From Black Musical History (w/ Samuel James)

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The War on History

In Portland, Maine, there was a vote whether or not we were going to switch it to just a regular mayoral system. There was a huge effort to push against it and to retain the city manager. In 1923, 7,000 clansmen filled the streets to push this forward. And every time that comes up, this gets said, well, that was a long time ago. Well, well, well, statistically, you could see like in the city, like Black people are more impoverished than the rest of the state. The war on history is very real. We got sent by Don Trump when he commissioned the 1776 Commission to remember that counter the 1619 project. It's literally

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