S E1316: In Class with Carr, Ep. 316: "Six/Seven"

About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of White nationalism in America and the historical context of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, highlighting recent calls for reparations and recognition of past injustices.

In the Thursday, March 26, 2026 edition of the New York Times, Lydia Polgreen observes that “America does not know how to exist in a world it does not control.” Through vacillations between seizing temporary control of state and federal government, White nationalist politicians in the US continue to fight desperately to impose their narrow ideology on the country’s fragile amalgam of genocidal European settler colonies, built on stolen African labor and sustained by a narrative of self-creation that projects inevitability and dominance. The illusion they seek to impose afresh at its semi-quincentennial is that the US is something founded as anything other than that as part of Europe’s global rise. As the country’s population continues to move toward reflecting the world’s overwhelming non-white majority, this illusion is unraveling as excesses of nativism, Eurocentrism, and racial capitalism produce global fracture, desperate attempts to prop up and seize control of the old system and demands for renegotiation by those who suffer under it. Against this backdrop, the 19th annual United Nations International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave…

People in this episode

Host: Carr

Topics covered

• White nationalism
• Racial capitalism
• Transatlantic Slave Trade
• Historical reckoning
• Nativism
• Global fracture

Keywords

• White nationalism
• reparations
• Transatlantic Slave Trade
• historical context
• racial capitalism
• nativism
• global issues

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: New York Times, United Nations

Places: America, Ghana

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