Why Are They So Angry?

Carol Francois
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Why Are They So Angry? Podcast

Dr. Carol François and Kourtney Square take you into unexplored territory to unlearn what you thought you knew about American history and being Black/African American in the United States. Episodes examine how systemic racism is steeped into every institution of American life from education, business/labor, healthcare, housing, religion, criminal justice, pop culture, and politics. The end goal is to arm listeners to see, say, and confront systemic racism. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carol-francois/support

  1. 7 AUG

    Project 2025: America's Dystopian Future

    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 redwine.blue/project 2025 Voters of Tomorrow, https://votersoftomorrow.org/issue/project-2025-racial-equity/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carol-francois/support

    39 min

  2. 23/10/2023

    Not A Goodbye

    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 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carol-francois/support

    23 min

  3. 07/08/2023

    Menace of the Midway

    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/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carol-francois/support

    32 min

  4. 13/07/2023

    Gutting Affirmative Action

    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/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carol-francois/support

    23 min

  5. 19/06/2023

    Artificial Interference

    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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carol-francois/support

    36 min

  6. 05/06/2023

    Birthing Pains

    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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carol-francois/support

    37 min

  7. 03/04/2023

    Resistance! Resistance! Resistance!

    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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carol-francois/support

    48 min

  8. 27/02/2023

    Washerwomen Uprisings

    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/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carol-francois/support

    34 min
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Dr. Carol François and Kourtney Square take you into unexplored territory to unlearn what you thought you knew about American history and being Black/African American in the United States. Episodes examine how systemic racism is steeped into every institution of American life from education, business/labor, healthcare, housing, religion, criminal justice, pop culture, and politics. The end goal is to arm listeners to see, say, and confront systemic racism. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carol-francois/support

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  • Creator
    Carol Francois
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2024
  • Episodes
    94
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Carol Francois

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