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Podcast: The C.O.W.S.
Episode: The C.O.W.S. Essie Mae Washington-Williams' Dear Senator Part 1 #ZachariahWalker
Description: The Context of White Supremacy hosts the debut study session on Essie Mae Washington-Williams' Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond. Gus was really excited to read a different book, but then Dr. J. Russell Hawkins made some likely Racist commentary about not knowing that Senator Thurmond raped a black child and omitting this sexual deviance from his book. Dr. Hawkins mentions Sen. Thurmond throughout his book, documenting the countless letters White parents mailed the lawmaker to voice their fears that their daughters would be ravaged by black school boys. Dr. Hawkins' conduct is repeated by Whites...