(Far) Left in Texas Podcast

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“McKinney Pool Party” (video), available in full at Washington Post . W. Kamau Bell, “How Do You Know It’s Racism?” Comedy Album, A Semi-Prominent Negro , 2017. Jessica Williams, “McKinney Bikini,” The Daily Show with John Stewart , 2025. “McKinney Pool Party,” Viral Video, June 2015. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes...

TLDR: Texas House Bill 2497, better known as the 1836 Project, was a bill created in June 2021 by the Texas House of Representatives and was signed into law by Greg Abbott, the Governor of Texas. The flagship project: a 15-page pamphlet designed to tell “the story of Texas” to be distributed at the DMV w/your driver’s license. This is the story whiteness tells to itself about itself. My goal: to i...

Interview, D.W. Griffith (1935) “ The Most Racist Movies in Cinematic History ,” Left in Texas. Podcast. December 2023. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shannon316m6.substack.com

You know where black comedy began, don’t you? It began on the slave ships (Richard Pryor, Bicentennial N-, 1976) Slavery . . . is not funny. Like, its not funny, you know what I mean? But if you can make it funny? Like, you gotta make it real funny. (Keegan-Michael Key, 2015) Episode includes the following: Dick Gregory, University of Iowa, Darwin Turner Lecture Series on Black Studies (1970); Ric...

Ames, Bill. Texas Trounces the Left’s War on History (Taylor Publishing, 2021) On Sandra Cisneros . . . I talk a lot about some undue and infuriating hate thrown at the beloved and brilliant Sandra Cisneros, from one of the “Moms” in the group Ames gleefully calls the “Mom’s Project” . . . she says Cisneros is being included in the third grade curriculum and “she writes erotic poetry!”). I talk ab...

The Birth of Texas: Martyrs at the Alamo (1915) The Birth of a Nation (1915) Interview, DW Griffith (1930) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shannon316m6.substack.com

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