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The Context of White Supremacy hosts the weekly summit on Neutralizing Workplace Racism 07/05/24 Many non-white people in the area of the world known as the US were given time away from the plantation in honor of Independence Day. Hopefully, non-white people consumed lots of water while remaining constructive and safe. Much of the US is currently sweltering under extreme heat waves - jeopardizing...

The Katherine Massey Book Club @ The C.O.W.S. hosts the 4th study session on Kenneth Wooden's The Children of Jonestown. Wooden was a journalist at the time of the Guyana genocide and wrote extensively about the mass murder during 1978 and 1979. Like Meiers, Wooden is classified as a White Man. Having immersed ourselves into the life and times of the Rev. Jim Jones, we'll seek better answers about...

The Context of White Supremacy hosts the weekly Compensatory Call-In 06/29/24. We encourage non-white listeners to dial in with their codified concepts, new terms, observations, research findings, workplace problems or triumphs, and/or suggestions on how best to Replace White Supremacy With Justice ASAP. This weekly broadcast examines current events from across the globe to learn what's happening...

The C.O.W.S. Neutralizing Workplace Racism 06/28/24. The first presidential debate of 2024 included spirited discussion about black workers and which administration is most responsive to their needs. Former Pres. Donald J. Trump accused Pres. Joe Biden of allowing "illegal immigrants" to invade the borders and swipe jobs from black citizens specifically. Gus T. wondered why the so-called border ho...

The Katherine Massey Book Club @ The C.O.W.S. hosts the third study session on Kenneth Wooden's The Children of Jonestown. Wooden was a journalist at the time of the Guyana genocide and wrote extensively about the mass murder during 1978 and 1979. Like Meiers, Wooden is classified as a White Man. Having immersed ourselves into the life and times of the Rev. Jim Jones, we'll seek better answers abo...

The Context of White Supremacy hosts the weekly Compensatory Call-In 06/22/24. We encourage non-white listeners to dial in with their codified concepts, new terms, observations, research findings, workplace problems or triumphs, and/or suggestions on how best to Replace White Supremacy With Justice ASAP. This weekly broadcast examines current events from across the globe to learn what's happening...

The C.O.W.S. Neutralizing Workplace Racism 06/21/24. A C.O.W.S. investor informed Gus about a Florida teacher who might lose her teaching license as a result of wearing a face mask with a "black lives matter" slogan. For years, Gus T. has vigorously discouraged wearing any sort of paraphernalia or clothing branded with political messaging. It's a presidential election year, so expect an abundance...

The Katherine Massey Book Club @ The C.O.W.S. hosts the second study session on Kenneth Wooden's The Children of Jonestown. Wooden was a journalist at the time of the Guyana genocide and wrote extensively about the mass murder during 1978 and 1979. Like Meiers, Wooden is classified as a White Man. Having immersed ourselves into the life and times of the Rev. Jim Jones, we'll seek better answers ab...

The Context of White Supremacy hosts the weekly Compensatory Call-In 06/15/24. We encourage non-white listeners to dial in with their codified concepts, new terms, observations, research findings, workplace problems or triumphs, and/or suggestions on how best to Replace White Supremacy With Justice ASAP. This weekly broadcast examines current events from across the globe to learn what's happening...

The C.O.W.S. Neutralizing Workplace Racism 06/14/24. In Canada, Reuters reports the "United Nations human rights body had launched a 'Special Review' of the accreditation of the Canadian Human Rights Commission." Black employees of Canada's human rights commission allege that they are Victims of Racism by their allegedly humanitarian employees. The charges jeopardize "the commission's ability to p...

The Katherine Massey Book Club @ The C.O.W.S. hosts the debut study session on Kenneth Wooden's The Children of Jonestown. Wooden was a journalist at the time of the Guyana genocide, and wrote extensively about the mass murder during 1978 and 1979. Like Meiers, Wooden is classified as a White Man. Having immersed ourselves into the life and times of the Rev. Jim Jones, we'll seek better answers ab...

The Context of White Supremacy hosts the weekly Compensatory Call-In 06/08/24. We encourage non-white listeners to dial in with their codified concepts, new terms, observations, research findings, workplace problems or triumphs, and/or suggestions on how best to Replace White Supremacy With Justice ASAP. This weekly broadcast examines current events from across the globe to learn what's happening...

Gus T. rose at 7am Pacific Daylight Time this Friday morning to catch Cornell University's "Heroes and Hoteliers" presentation with black male scholars Calvin Stovall and Victor Younger. They discussed the fascinating history of black hotel owners and innovators - which even included black female entrepreneur Rebecca Howard right in here in Gus's Washington state. During the dialog, the black scho...

The Katherine Massey Book Club @ The C.O.W.S. hosts the 15th & final study session on Michael Meiers' Was Jonestown a CIA Medical Experiment. This genocide has countless parallels to our recent literary selections - Columbine, Michael Swango, and The Hart murder-suicide. The Rev. Jim Jones, a White man born in a Racially Restricted Region of Indiana, took a thousand people from California to Guyan...

The University of Washington celebrated sociologist and Associate Professor Dr. LaShawnDa L. Pittman 2023 publication, Grandmothering While Black: A Twenty-First-Century Story of Love, Coercion, and Survival. A listener alerted Gus about this book when it was first published. Gus reminded them of The C.O.W.S.'s #WhiteGuestOnly policy. However, we did hear from Dr. Pittman earlier this year during...

The Context of White Supremacy welcomes Dr. David Hinds Live from Guyana. "An associate professor of African and African American studies with a concentration on Caribbean and African Diaspora Studies in the School of Social Transformation [at Arizona State University], Dr. Hinds' research interests include governance and politics in the Caribbean; race, ethnicity and politics in the African diasp...

The Context of White Supremacy hosts the weekly Compensatory Call-In 06/01/24. We encourage non-white listeners to dial in with their codified concepts, new terms, observations, research findings, workplace problems or triumphs, and/or suggestions on how best to Replace White Supremacy With Justice ASAP. This weekly broadcast examines current events from across the globe to learn what's happening...

The C.O.W.S. Neutralizing Workplace Racism 05/31/24. Gus finally sits his hindparts down from two weeks of sprinting to the Seattle International Film Festival and the Travessias Brazilian Film Festival 2024. All the festivities caused minor adjustments to our most recent broadcasts of Neutralizing Workplace Racism - which included a black male underwater welder. He encouraged more black people to...

The Katherine Massey Book Club @ The C.O.W.S. hosts the 14th study session on Michael Meiers' Was Jonestown a CIA Medical Experiment. This infamous mass murder has countless parallels to our recent literary selections - Columbine, Michael Swango, and The Hart murder-suicide. The Rev. Jim Jones, a White man born in a Racially Restricted Region of Indiana, took a thousand people from California to G...

Professor Marc Arsell Robinson, author of Washington State Rising: Black Power on Campus in the Pacific Northwest, was the featured speaker at Seattle's Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI). The University of Washington's Simpson Center for the Humanities sponsored and promoted the event under the title: "Black Power and Solidarity on Campus and Beyond, the Denny Lecture." Most of the people in...

Gus T. finally caught his breath after attending the 50th annual Seattle International Film Festival. Gus has lived in the Seattle region for well over a decade and is embarrassed to say this is the first time I've attended the event in any capacity. Making up for lost time, Gus T. applied for and received journalist credentials for the event and set about some serious TV-watching. There were over...

The Context of White Supremacy hosts the weekly Compensatory Call-In 05/25/24. We encourage non-white listeners to dial in with their codified concepts, new terms, observations, research findings, workplace problems or triumphs, and/or suggestions on how best to Replace White Supremacy With Justice ASAP. This weekly broadcast examines current events from across the globe to learn what's happening...

Gus T. Renegade nearly lost his pecan-sized negro brain when he saw NPR did an entire segment on black male caregivers and their experience in the workplace. It was particularly important that black males are often in worse physical health than their black female and non-black health counter-parts. We also discuss debates regarding the allowance of cigarette smoking in New Jersey casinos. We're on...

The University of Washington hosts Linh Thủy Nguyễn, non-white female, to discuss her brand new book, Displacing Kinship: The Intimacies of Intergenerational Trauma in Vietnamese American Cultural Production. Gus T. caught a flier for this event, but was more intrigued after investigating Professor Nguyễn's earlier report: “Loving Couples and Families:” Assimilation as Honorary Whiteness and the M...

The Katherine Massey Book Club @ The C.O.W.S. hosts the 13th study session on Michael Meiers' Was Jonestown a CIA Medical Experiment. This infamous mass murder has countless parallels to our recent literary selections - Columbine, Michael Swango, and The Hart murder-suicide. The Rev. Jim Jones, a White man born in a Racially Restricted Region of Indiana, took a thousand people from California to G...