Our country is in the midst of a social revolution. People everywhere are standing up and fighting for racial equity and part of the protesting has included taking down statues of people who have had a hand in the oppression of marginalized communities. In this episode we discuss the founding of our country, the violence that accompanied that founding, and why we have to take that violence seriously. Listen to hear a perspective you may not have considered about what these statues represent and how we can change them to better reflect our community as a whole.

How Slavery Affected African-American Families

Genetic Consequences of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Americas

Slave Nation: How Slavery United the Colonies and Sparked the Ameican Revolution

How the Constitution was Indeed Pro-Slavery

GOP Senator Under Fire For Comment that Slavery was 'Necessary Evil'

1619 Project

Whose Heritage? 153 Years of Confederate Iconography

Princeton & Slavery: James Madison

The Founding Fathers and Slavery

Why Thomas Jefferson's Anti-Slavery Passage was Removed from the Declaration of Independence

George Washington, Slavery, 'The Only Unavoidable Subject of Regret'

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Song Credit: "Away" by Geographer and "Beach Disco" by Dougie Wood