Mar 17, 2017
This week's episode of The
Chauncey DeVega Show features three great guests.
Political scientist and
statistician Andrew Gelman is the first guest. He is a
professor at Columbia University and the author of several books
including Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State: Why
Americans Vote the Way They Do. He recently wrote a great piece for
Slate called "19
Lessons for Political Scientists from the 2016 Election".
During this week's episode, Dr. Gelman does some great teaching and
sharing about the 2016 presidential election and what the so-called
"smart people" got right and wrong.
Civil rights activist and educator
Jane Elliott chimed in
for the second segment of this week's podcast. She is most famous
for her much discussed and documented Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes teaching
and learning exercise from the 1960s. In the five decades
since, Sister Elliot has not stopped speaking speak truth to power
about the color line, prejudice, and bigotry in America and around
the world. This is a preview of next week's full episode with Jane
Elliott.
Mama DeVega also makes her return to
The Chauncy DeVega Show. She gives thanks for the kind
birthday gifts that the friends of the podcast and Chauncey DeVega
sent her way. Mama DeVega and Chauncey also debate the merits of
attending one's own funeral while still alive and how best to fake
a death. Mama DeVega also shares a story about her encounter--or so
she believes--with one of the 9-11 hijackers.
During this week's podcast, Chauncey
talks about Sean Spicer's press conference where he defended Donald
Trump's lies about wiretapping, the evil Trump 2018 budget and its
plans to kill the "useless eaters", and gives out a "you big dummy
award" to Rachel Maddow.