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Podcast: The C.O.W.S.
Episode: The C.O.W.S. Essie Mae Washington-Williams’ Dear Senator Part 6 #GrandAmericanCoonHunt
Description: The Context of White Supremacy hosts the sixth study session on Essie Mae Washington-Williams' Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of J. Strom Thurmond. We're beyond the halfway point of the book, and Gus must admit this is likely the saddest book he's ever 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 corpses. Last week, Ms. Essie Mae matriculated to South Carolina State College. She...