Why Are They So Angry?

Show Notes

Project 2025 is like systemic racism on steroids, and it’s the playbook developed by the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation that the ultra right wants to implement within days of a GOP candidate winning the American presidency. Like systemic racism, it’s a plan that addresses every American institution—the judicial system, education, health care, law enforcement—you name it and Project 2025 aims to change the country. Listen as Dr. Carol François and her niece Kourtney Square explain how the plan is intended to upend every aspect of American life and take away rights not only of Black people, but of every American citizen.

Citations

Agenda 47, https://www.donaldjtrump.com/agenda47

Critiquing Project 2025: Medicaid, https://pnhp.org/news/critiquing-project-2025-medicaid/

“I read the entire Project 2025. Here are the top 10 ways it would harm Black America,” Michael Harriot, July 15, 2024, https://www.yahoo.com/news/read-entire-project-2025-top-141224225.html

Leader of the pro-Trump Project 2025 suggests there will be a new American Revolution - POLITICO

“Project 2025: The Myths and the Facts,” Vox, https://www.vox.com/politics/360318/project-2025-trump-policies-abortion-divorce

Project 2025: The Radical Conservative Plan to Reshape America Under Trump, Wall Street Journal, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y16SZhZJHkI

Project 2025: Presidential Transition Project, https://www.project2025.org/, The Heritage Foundation

Project 2025 Seeks to Dismantle Agencies, Terminate Up To 1 Million Federal Workers

“Rebroadcast: Trump's 2025 authoritarian playbook and what it means for democracy,” https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510053/on-point?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0qiIlAkmTmkqInCALlcR7MkSDWOZJHQy-wr2XNjMDYz32rYTV9d55b4Eo_aem_Mewa7wMCOHONbOS-phtpQg, NPR

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Voters of Tomorrow, https://votersoftomorrow.org/issue/project-2025-racial-equity/

Join Dr. Carol François and Kourtney Square as they reminisce about their three years recording Why Are They So Angry? episodes and creating the WATSA? ecosphere. They’ll stroll down memory lane to tell which episodes were favorites then spill the tea on what’s next for them and the WATSA? project. Want more like this?  Check us out at www.whyaretheysoangry.com

The carnival dunking booths used to be a midway staple, but that seemingly innocent amusement has a sinister and racist history. Join Dr. Carol François and Kourtney Square as they expose the horrific side of carnivals and why a baseball thrown at 100 miles per hour had deadly consequences. Want more history of systemic racism,  check us out at https://www.podpage.com/why-are-they-so-angry/

The landmark Supreme Court decision making it illegal to use race as a factor in college and university admissions is sending shockwaves through America. Listen as Dr. Carol François and Kourtney Square dissect how the ruling could possibly have a negative impact on elementary and secondary education, businesses, industry, and employment practices and how the decision is unraveling decades of work to level the playing field for Blacks and minorities.  Want more history like this, check us out at https://www.podpage.com/why-are-they-so-angry/

Are new technologies exacerbating societal inequities and even reinforcing systemic racism? What role is facial recognition playing in government oversight and policing of citizens? How is reliance on algorithms undermining our basic freedoms? Dr. Carol François and Kourtney Square explore these and other questions about artificial intelligence and its impact on racial, social, and economic justice. Want more hidden history, check out our website at www.whyaretheysoangry.com.

Resistance to the American form of chattel slavery took many forms. Listen as Dr. Carol François and Kourtney Square illuminate the history of antebellum midwifery and its role in resisting forced breeding of enslaved women then trace this resistance to its modern day role in supporting positive, alternative birthing methods for Black women. Want more hidden history, check out our website at www.whyaretheysoangry.com.

Nearly 179 years ago, Rev. Henry Highland Garnett declared to Black enslaved people, “Let your motto be resistance! resistance! RESISTANCE!” Black people have resisted historic and ongoing oppression in all forms, especially the racial terrorism of lynching, racial pogroms, and police killings, since their arrival upon American shores. Listen as Dr. Carol François and Kourtney Square tell the story of  the bloody Christiana Resistance and other heroic and mostly unsung and unknown acts of resistance from the past up to the present that Blacks have enacted in their struggle for freedom and equality. Want more hidden history, check out our website at www.whyaretheysoangry.com.

Did you know Mississippi’s first ever labor union was formed in 1866 by a group of Black washerwomen? Join Dr. Carol François and Kourtney Square as they tell about the impact these women and their strike had on labor movements in the South and around America both then and now. Want more? Learn unadulterated history at https://learn-whyaretheysoangry.thinkific.com/

We’re delighted to share with you our entry into the American Black Film Festival (ABFF) Podcast Competition. Listen here and wish us luck!

Shortly after the Civil War and as recently as 1954, whites exercised systemic racism against Blacks through violent expulsions, land grabs, and terrorism robbing them of land, property, and businesses. Many times these terroristic incidents resulted in Blacks being murdered while being driven from their homes and off their land. Listen as Dr. Carol François and Kourtney Square describe the hidden history behind one such incident and how modern day land grabs are depriving Blacks of wealth. Want more, check us out at www.whyaretheysoangry.com