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Podcast: The C.O.W.S.
Episode: The C. O. W. S. Essie Mae Washington-Williams’ Dear Senator Part 9 #PresidentBidenGaveStromsEulogy
Description: The Context of White Supremacy hosts the 9th study session on Essie Mae Washington-Williams' Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of J. Strom Thurmond. This is our concluding session on this book, and it absolutely qualifies as the saddest book Gus has read. Essie Mae's confusion and father hunger for a child raping White Supremacist is... a sorrow-filled existence. Additionally, the lynchings and gender-specific targeting of black males are such traumatic, constant events in Essie Mae's life, readers can mark time by tracking black male corpses. Last week, Essie Mae described moving out to the "racial paradise" of California...