Mobs, Insurrections, & the Radicalized (Deconstructing Dominant Cultures Series)

In the United States, we’ve been radicalized to assume ourselves as great, at the detriment of ourselves, our country, and the world. Our collective arrogance, self-absorption, and superiority complex will be our downfall if we do not course-correct immediately. A turbulent future is here and on the horizon. The intensity of that turbulence will depend on how we prepare and act today. 

On today’s episode, I share an editorial I wrote following the January 6th insurrection at the US Capitol entitled, “The Right Wing May Have Lit the Fire, but the Left Wing May Dig the Grave.” 

Thereafter, I play for you a 19-minute experimental audio story that takes you through the different turbulences, nightmares, countermovements, hopes, and warnings of the 20th century with the intent to disrupt us from a false sense of security and the challenge to disengage ourselves from our complicity and neutrality and comfort and privilege during turbulent times because, as Audre Lorde so aptly put it, “Your silence will not protect you.”

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Original music for The Nasiona Podcast was produced by the Grammy Award-winning team of Joe Sparkman and Marcus Allen, aka The Heavyweights. Joe Sparkman: Twitter + Instagram. Marcus Allen: Twitter + Instagram.

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