Oct 18, 2019
Kevin Levin is an award-winning historian and educator whose work has been featured by The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, C-SPAN and NPR. His new book is Searching For Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth.
Levin explains how the Internet has allowed lies and disinformation about American history and the Civil War to spread so easily and the harm that is doing to the country’s politics.
Levin details why more than 150 years after the end of the Civil War so many people are still not able to accept that white supremacy and slavery were the root causes of why the traitorous Confederacy seceded from the Union.
Levin also explains the origins of the myth of Black Confederate Soldiers and what it reveals about historical memory and questions of racial justice and democracy in post-civil rights America.
Chauncey DeVega offers some advice about how to stay calm and focused during these tumultuous and chaotic weeks as almost every day it seems there is some “revelation” about the Trump regime’s war on democracy and the rule of law. A hint: accept what Donald Trump is and then everything all makes sense – and you don’t go crazy.
Chauncey also shares some overlooked and very important news items that show how the Trump regime’s evil is hurting real people all across America.
SELECTED LINKS OF INTEREST FOR THIS EPISODE OF THE CHAUNCEY DEVEGA SHOW
- Firings Of Disabled Federal Workers Have Increased 24% Under Trump
- US billionaires pay lower tax rate than working class for first time in history
- Half a million students would lose free school lunches under food stamp rule changes, USDA says
- The Fantastically Profitable Mystery of the Trump Chaos Trades
- The Other Twitterverse: Squirrels Eavesdrop On Birds, Researchers Say
- Democrats say Trump had a 'meltdown' at White House meeting
- Our Republic Is Under Attack From the President
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Music at the end of this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show is by JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound. You can listen to some of their great music on Spotify.