They Want to Erase Us: A "Season of Destruction" -- Eddie Glaude Jr & Imani Perry

Podcast: Baldwin & Co. Author Talks · DJ Johnson

Opublikowano: 2026-01-24

We are living through what Dr. Imani Perry calls a "season of destruction," a deliberate era where the legacy of the freedom movement is being erased. In this riveting dialogue, Glaude and Dr. Imani Perry do not just lament the state of the nation; they dissect the very soul of American democracy. The conversation centers on a powerful dialectic: "freedom snatching" versus "freedom seeking". Dr. Imani Perry argues that we must look beyond the mid-20th-century Civil Rights movement—which we often view as the norm—and instead study the "plague years" following Reconstruction to understand our curr...