Carol Anderson: White Supremacy & the Second Amendment

Sam Goldman interviews Dr. Carol Anderson, the Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of African American Studies at Emory University and the author of White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy, and her latest book The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America which was the focus of this conversation. Follow Dr. Anderson at professorcarolanderson.org and @ProfCAnderson.

Topics covered in this episode: the shameful Rittenhouse acquittal, the complicity of local police in the lynching of Ahmaud Arbery, and the defeat of the federal charges against the Unite the Right rally organizers… where does this all come from and how does this relate to a fascist offensive that involves a whole fascist movement that attempted a violent coup on January 6 to overturn an election? How does it relate to the GOP which has since purged itself of anyone disagrees, and the deepened and hardened belief of millions in their fascist base that this violence was righteous and may be necessary in the future? How does all this fit together? Where is all this going? Where does it come from? And where do we go from here? 

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On Wednesday December 1, the Supreme Court will hear Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, where the state of Mississippi had specifically asked the Court to overrule Roe v. Wade.

What needs to be heard outside SCOTUS & nationwide: Abortion on Demand & Without Apology!  In the Name of Humanity We Refuse To Accept a Fascist America! The future of abortion access hangs in the balance! For more background on this case, what is at stake, and it’s connection the whole fascist onslaught go back and check out two episodes from earlier this fall: Episode 82 When Is It Time to Break the Law? and Episode 78 on the Abortion Rights Emergency.

Wednesday Dec 1 Abortion Rights Actions (see StrikeforChoice.org for more):

• Chicago: Rally at Federal Plaza, 5pm to 6:30pm
• Seattle: Rally at West Lake Ave N and Denny Way, 12 noon
• D.C.: Rally with the Center for Reproductive Rights outside SCOTUS at 8am
• Rally with the NYC Revolution Club outside SCOTUS at 11am
• Rally with Women’s March at Columbus Circle at 1pm then marching over to SCOTUS

Visit RefuseFascism.org to get signs, banners, and flyers to bring into these actions. Donate $15 this Giving Tuesday and we’ll send you 100 Abortion on Demand Without Apology stickers.

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Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown