2 chapters across the catalog
The hosts discuss white supremacy as a systemic structure rather than a collection of personal feelings. They reference Abraham Lincoln's historical proposal to ship freed slaves to Panama or Africa to maintain a specific national identity. The conversation links this systemic "othering" to modern demonization of groups like the unvaccinated or Russian citizens during the Ukraine conflict.
Three-Fifths Compromise, Lincoln's Deportation and Colonization Plans
Author LaRon Bennett Jr. discusses Abraham Lincoln's desire to create an all-white nation through the deportation and colonization of Black people to places like Panama or Africa. The discussion also touches on the Three-Fifths Compromise, noting the irony of the South wanting to count enslaved people as full humans for political representation while maintaining their status as property.
