American Fairy Tales - The Laughing Hippopotamus

TW: Racism

'The Laughing Hippopotamus' is a story that I struggled with bringing to the podcast because of the casual racism in the description of the Congolese tribesmen. But in the end I think it's important to see how this racism embedded itself in our culture through stories like it.

Host Dan Scholz

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