What we need to do to bring down Confederate monuments
Release Date: 10/17/2019
Texas Secession - What are its prospects. Impact financially
newtknight's podcast
Recently the magazine Texas Monthly dismissed the chances of a real Texas secession movement. At this time the Texas secession movement is moribund, but that is largely due to the election of Trump. If Trump is not elected in 2020 this movement could take off. Secession, nationalism, and Texas is discussed.
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Landscape reparations
newtknight's podcast
It is time for landscape reparations to put an end to the white racialized landscape. This podcasts discusses what landscape reparations involves and asks listeners to share their ideas. It is also a call for action and organizing to end the landscapes of white supremacy. Listeners are directed to the Facebook group Deracialize the landscape.
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The idea of the Civil War as a Theological War and Pro-Slavery Theology promoted in the Confederate Veteran magazine of the Sons of Confederate Veterans
newtknight's podcast
This is a reading with commentary of a paper which is online at http://templeofdemocracy.com/pro-slavery-theology-and-the-civil-war-as-a-holy-war.html which discusses the advocacy in the Confederate Veteran magazine, the official publication of the Sons of Confederate Veterans that the Civil War was a holy war continuing to the present and that true Christianity believes in the Biblical justification of slavery. Further that the anti-Christ is being the movement against Confederate monuments.
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Stigmatized Property and getting rid of Confederate Streets
newtknight's podcast
Explains the concept of stigmatized property and ask the questions why streets with Confederate names aren't considered stigmatizing. Asks whether in 5 or 10 or 20 years whether they might be stigmatizing. Proposes that at open houses on Confederate named streets that flyers should be handed out with information about the street.
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Thomas Nelson Page and his book, "The Negro, The Southerner's Problem."
newtknight's podcast
This was a notoriously racist book published in 1904. This book was sold by the Sons of Confederate Veterans in their merchandise catalog starting at least in 2004. The last catalog to offer for sale the book was the 2015-2016 merchandise catalog. The SCV catalog recommends the book stating that it is "a thoughtful examination of the history of the Negro in the South..." This podcast reads the Introduction of the book and Chapter 4 where African Americans are characterized as rapists.
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Stephen Dill Lee, a hero of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, and his writings on lynching
newtknight's podcast
Stephen Dill Lee is a hero to the Sons of Confederate Veterans and the author of what is called "The Charge" which is held to be the reason for the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Lee wrote on lynching of African Americans in the South which he asserts is the fault of African American men being rapistd caused by ideas of social equality and the misguided policies of giving African Americans civil rights and the vote during Reconstruction. You can read the full text online at website templeofdemocracy.
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What is neo-Confederacy?
newtknight's podcast
What is neo-Confederacy? How is it different than the Lost Cause and what is the Lost Cause anyways.
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Newscast 20191017 Analyzing and refuting arguments in defense of Confederate memorialization by Republican African Americans
newtknight's podcast
Defenders of Confederate memorialization nowdays will not defend the Confederacy or slavery, but instead will try to defend it on other grounds such as they are defending history. They will frequently agree with those who want to take down a Confederate monument in their assessement of the historical past but only to argue against removing a Confederate monument. We need to understand it is not just a debate over history, but also a debate on what monuments do.
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What we need to do to bring down Confederate monuments
newtknight's podcast
Though Confederate monuments are coming down, it is largely outside the former Confederate states where there are the most Confederate monuments. Many former Confederate states have passed laws to prevent Confederate monuments from being removed. This podcast discusses what we need to do to remove Confederate monuments. We need to organize, we need to develop tactics, we need to self-educate and educate others. We have the Facebook page Deracialize the Landscape to connect activists together.
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Ed Sebesta, fighter against neo-Confederacy, curriculum vitae. His credentials of expertise regarding the neo-Confederates
newtknight's podcast
Ed Sebesta has fought the neo-Confederate movement for over 20 years. This is a short pod cast about the award given to him by the African American Civil War Museum in DC; the university press books he has co-edited; the peer-reviewed academic articles published in universities such as Cambridge University. Also, a description of some resources he has set up to provide information about neo-Confederates. If you want to help bring Confederate monuments down this podcast will help.
info_outlineThough Confederate monuments are coming down, it is largely outside the former Confederate states where there are the most Confederate monuments. Many former Confederate states have passed laws to prevent Confederate monuments from being removed. This podcast discusses what we need to do to remove Confederate monuments. We need to organize, we need to develop tactics, we need to self-educate and educate others. We have the Facebook page Deracialize the Landscape to connect activists together.