Jun 4, 2018
Ted Thornhill is the guest on this week's episode
of The Chauncey DeVega Show. He is a Professor of
Sociology
at Florida Gulf Coast University who
received national attention because he dared to teach a
course in January 2018 called "White Racism". Like many other
educators in the Age of Trump, Professor Thornhill was targeted by
a coordinated campaign of harassment--including death threats that
necessitated his needing armed guards outside of his classroom--by
the right-wing mob including Fox
News.
During this episode of The Chauncey DeVega
Show, Professor Thornhill and Chauncey discuss how the
classroom is a political space, the right-wing campaign against
him, and how he did not yield or surrender to the threats of
the Fox News-driven thuggery and harassment.
Professor Thornhill and Chauncey also highlight common
misconceptions about racism in "colorblind America", the myth
that is "reverse racism", and of course how Donald Trump was able
to win the White House.
In this week's episode, Chauncey DeVega again sounds the alarm
about the American fascist Donald Trump. This week's warning:
Donald Trump's attorneys recently told special counsel Robert
Mueller that Trump is above the law and is a de facto king or
emperor. And to make matters even worse, Rudy Giuliani actually
told the Huffington Post that Donald Trump could
kill James Comey and there would be no immediate consequences
because Trump is president.
During this week's podcast Chauncey DeVega also makes a realization: Donald Trump is a pimp and American democracy is his prostitute.