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Podcast: The C.O.W.S.
Episode: The C.O.W.S. w/ Joel Whitney: FINKS, FLIGHTS & Non-White People Fleeing White Supremacy #COINTELPRO #DRAPETOMANIA (Racists Cape Hard For Ibram X. Kendi)
Description: The Context of White Supremacy welcomes Racist Suspect Joel Whitney. Classified as a White Man, Whitney is a Brooklyn, NY writer whose work has been featured in The New York Times, The Daily Beast, The Baffler, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and Boston Review to name a few. He’s "a former features editor at Al Jazeera America and a founder and former editor-in-chief at Guernica." Gus originally hoped to speak with Whitney about his 2016 publication, Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World's Best Writers. I’m not quite sure what my original motivation was for exploring this text - coul...