2 chapters across the catalog
The hosts analyze the use of the song "We Shall Overcome" in news segments from the New York Times and Newsie. They describe it as a "mind control trigger" used by media organizations to elicit emotional rather than educated responses from voters. The discussion covers the 1965 March from Selma to Montgomery and the subsequent signing of the Voting Rights Act by Lyndon Johnson.
Shelby Steele views the 1964 Civil Rights Bill and 1965 Voting Rights Act as America's greatest moral moments. However, the discussion posits that this national reflection was driven by the television screen. Seeing images of racial violence broadcast into living rooms created a sense of national shame, which eventually transformed into the phenomenon of white guilt.
