On this week’s episode, Otieno, Jon, Regina, and Ryan continue last week’s discussion. Jon shares a listener e-mail, Ryan discusses Tina Fey’s recent skit, and Otieno opens a discussion on the ratio of monuments celebrating figures from the confederacy verses monuments celebrating emancipation, and whether tearing down monuments which celebrate the confederacy erases history.

References:

• Texas Bathroom Bill dies
• Texan women will be forced to buy “abortion insurance”
• African American Civil War Memorial
• 4 emancipation monuments: here, here, here, and here
• A memorial to slave rebellions
• A plague in Wall St. 
• The John Hope Franklin Memorial commemorating the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
• A planned Equality and Injustice Initiative Commemorative Lynching Memorial
• This article from the SPLC which discusses public symbols of the confederacy

This week’s featured song is “International News” by National Wake

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