Shannon Carter

(Far) Left in Texas Podcast

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A far-left Texan in far-right Texas on the stories we tell about who we are here in the "Lone Star State." shannon316m6.substack.com

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Shannon Carter

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Weaponizing (My) Abortion Stories 20.01.2025 29:41

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Draft: My Abortion Story 17.01.2025 34:27

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Police Arrest Children at a Texas Birthday Party held at a Neighborhood Pool in 2015 07.01.2025 31:56

“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...

1836: The Texas White Guy History Project 05.01.2025 30:11

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...

Bonus: DW Griffith Interview/commentary 03.01.2025 15:48

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

Patriotism is Funny: How White Supremacy Hijacked Patriotism and How African American Satire Takes it Right the Hell Back 14.01.2023 48:31

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...

Book Review: Texas Trounces the Left's War on History (2021), Episode 3 (1/11/23) 12.01.2023 56:43

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...

Film Review: The Most Racist Movies in Cinematic History (1915), Episode 2 12.01.2023 1:03:44

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

(Far)Left in Texas: History as Propaganda 10.01.2023 48:39

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