This week, we discuss the idea of white privilege. What is it? Is it real? And who benefits from it? Also, do low income white people experience a similar level of discrimination to that African Americans? We touch on everything from police brutality to generational wealth. Alex Weinstein joins Seth and Mary Ann once more for another controversial discussion.

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Is White Privilege Real?

There are many economists warning of a coming recession in the next couple of years. The best advice for people to prepare for a recession is to pay off credit card bills and build a cushion of savings. The sad truth is many Americans aren't in a position to pay off their high interest debts and build up their savings. Jeffrey Epstein's death has a lot of people believing conspiracy theories. How exactly was the man at the center of one of the most prominent cases of sex slavery involving the rich and powerful men able to commit the first successful suicide at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in 21 years? Are the guards really to blame? Is it a cover-up?Finally, MAC tells us a personal story about racism in cheerleading, and we dig into the history of racism in school sports.

Recession Fears and Epstein Conspiracies

MAC is back, and, despite her being blackballed by the West Virginia Democratic Party for standing up to Joe Manchin, she's announcing her candidacy for WV House of Delegates. We also talk about Paula Swearengin throwing her hat into the ring against Shelley Moore Capito, the 2020 Democratic Presidential primary, and WV approving a $12,000,000 corporate giveaway to prop up a dying power plant.

Return of the MAC

Benjamin Madley joins the show to tell us about his award winning book, American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 about the genocide of California’s Indian/Native population. Madley is associate professor of history, University of California, Los Angeles, where he focuses on Native America, the United States, and genocide in world history. He starts off giving a broad overview of some of the evens in California and why he believes what happened should be considered genocide. We talk about what’s at stake if we acknowledge that what happened in the New World was in fact a genocide. Would we owe reparations? Should we return public lands where massacres happened to tribes? We talk about placing the American Genocide alongside atrocities like The Holocaust and The Armenian Genocide. He tells us why genocide matters and breaks down the historical media portrayal of the savage Indian. And we started the episode discussing the passage of the WV Road Bond and the potential for new taxes. Professor Madley’s has won the following awards: 016 Indian Country Today Hot ListWinner, Los Angeles Times Book Awards in category of HistoryTrue West Best New Western Author 2016Winner, Gold Medal, 2016 California Book Award in category of CalifornianaWinner, Inaugural Heyday History Award from Heyday BooksWinner of the 2016 Institute for the Study of Genocide’s Ralph Lemkin Book AwardLink to book: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300181364/american-genocide

Throwback: Benjamin Madley and the American Genocide

West Virginia lawmakers keep making national headlines for racist, bigoted, and homophobic behavior. West Virginia is already viewed in a negative light. The way some legislators are acting is embarrassing, and it doesn't represent the views of a lot of us living here. We also talk about the campaign finance laws Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) may or may not have broken.

Shame on West Virginia Lawmakers

Sergeant-at-arms for the WV House of Delegates, Anne Lieberman offered her resignation last week after a spat with Democratic delegate Michael Angelucci over an apparent Islamophobic remark made by Ms. Lieberman. Now, she disputes the story as reported. Was she falsely accused? Does her own history cast doubt on her version of events? We also talk about Trump at CPAC calling the Mueller investigation Bullsh** and Mary Ann's love of couponing. There's a little bit of everything in this episode.

Ilhad Omar Anti-Muslim Propaganda

Federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson has ordered Roger Stone to no longer speak publicly about his case after he posted an image on his Instagram account of Judge Jackson with crosshairs drawn behind her head. So, we do it for him. Also, North Carolina's ninth congressional district will have a chance to flip one more seat in the house for the Democrats after it came to light that a consulting firm hired by Republican Mark Harris had hired a convicted felon who appears to have tampered with absentee ballots. A special election has been called for there. Empire actor Jussie Smollett has been charged after apparently fabricating a violent hate crime, and we also discuss the Sandman family at the center of the Covington Catholic story suing the Washington Post for $250 million.

Roger Stone, NC voter fraud, and Jussie Smollett

In a special bonus episode we debate whether arming teachers is the best way to protect students at school. Research suggests having a weapon around makes people more aggressive. How will this affect life in the classroom, and would having police in the school have the same implications?

School Safety: Arming Teachers?

Elizabeth Warren is officially running for President. Who is really more disrespectful to Native Americans? Elizabeth Warren or Donald Trump? We also talk about the series of scandals that have rocked the Virginia political world over the past week. And we talk about the open bigotry of WV Delegate Eric Porterfield who went on an anti-LGBTQ rant comparing the gay community to Nazis. We also talk about: media bias against progressives, winning back white male voters to the Democratic party, the power of protests, acting EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler's plan to poison our water supply and the politicians allowing him to do so, the anti-vax movement, and Brett Kavanaugh being bad for women's rights.

Virginia Scandals and Porterfield LGBTQ rant

We start the show talking about Nancy Pelosi standing up to Trump, and the deal to end the longest shutdown in U.S. history. We talk about retaliatory bills targeting teachers across the U.S. For example, teachers who stand up for their rights risk losing their licenses under a new Oklahoma law. We talk about the new push by the Koch Brothers and friends for charter schools in WV and across the country. Then we get around to talking about the arrest of longtime Trump political adviser Roger Stone.

Charter Schools: Attack on Teachers

Richard Ojeda suspended his presidential campaign. We thought that we would replay an interview we had with him in August 2017. This is from our first podcast: "We are joined by West Virginia State Senator and candidate for West Virginia’s 3rd Congressional District, Richard Ojeda. Ojeda is here to tell us more about his run for the vacant seat in West Virginia’s 3rd Congressional District, as well as the hurdles he faces from within the Democratic Party. Plus, Richard discusses the future of the West Virginia Medical Cannabis Act and the political motivations for the physical attack he endured during just two days before the 2016 primary."

Richard Ojeda Interview from August 2017

The rebel liberal, Alex Weinstein, comes on the show to debate the Covington Catholic scandal where a group of Catholic high school students created an uproar after disrespecting a Native American veteran at the Indigenous Peoples March. What happened? What should we take away from this incident? Was the media coverage unfair to the students? Later in the episode, we discuss Louis C.K.'s attempted comeback after his #MeToo moment tanked his comedy career.

Covington Catholic Debate with Alex Weinstein

Mary Ann and Seth start the show discussing Trump's temper tantrum causing government shutdown. Then, they talk about rumors that Joe Manchin is considering a run for WV governor again. They also discuss the attacks on progressives like Bernie Sanders and Rep. Rashida Tlaib calling Trump an expletive. WARNING: This episode contains adult language.

Government Shutdown

We start the show talking about the Trump Administration's decision to pull troops from Syria. Then, we talk about the groundbreaking bi-partisan prison reform that passed the senate. We also talk about the horrible actions of the Assistant Principal of Liberty High School, Lee Livengood, against a transgender student.

Prison Reform and Transgender Rights

We start the show talking about the latest revelations from the Mueller investigation including Trump directing Michael Cohen to commit a felony and whether Don Jr. is hiding in Canada. Then we talk about the undemocratic action taken by the West Virginia Federation of Democratic Women to remove Mary Ann Claytor as PR Secretary for criticizing Joe Manchin.

Mueller Probe and WVFDW

Our country has become more divided than at any time since before the Civil War. What's worse is that it seems our current political climate enocurages division. We have to fundamentally change our political system if we are going to see a great reconciliation in America. Time is not on our side. So, it's time to look past all of the Left v. Right, Democrat v. Republican, Black v. White nonsense, and it's time to work hand-in-hand together to bring about a New Revolution!

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