The C. O. W. S. w/ Dr. Emily Bingham: My Old Kentucky Home #FingerLickinGood

The Context of White Supremacy welcomes Dr. Emily Bingham. A prizewinning author of three books who lives and teaches in Louisville, Kentucky, Dr. Bingham is a historian by trade and profession. She also classifies herself as a "privileged White Woman." During our current book study of Brazil, Gus was struck by references to the KKK, lynching, and the 19th century minstrel song "My Old Kentucky Home." The global appeal of this White Supremacist hymn led Gus to Dr. Bingham's 2022 publication, My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song. The book details how Stephen Foster's minstrel jam spawned a tax-payer-funded public monument, became the Kentucky State anthem, and theme song of Churchill Down's Kentucky Derby. Even after Breonna Taylor was gunned down in her own Kentucky Home in March of 2020, Whites remained dedicated to their sacrosanct tune about gay darkies being sold down the river. We'll ask Dr. Bingham about her use of the terms: "spadework," "militant," and "progressive." The term "White Supremacy" is in her book 20 times. Meanwhile, the term "progress" is in the book 47 times! We also chatted about Bingham's own White Terrorist relatives who are still revered at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Gus made a primary point of two major omissions from Dr. Bingham's work: the University of Kentucky's dedicated White Supremacist Adolph Rupp & the 1919 White Terrorist purge of black residents from Corbin, Kentucky - home of Kentucky Fried Chicken. These "erasures" are common, deliberate acts of Racism. #LouisvilleLip #OldBlackJoe #TheCOWS14Years INVEST in The COWS – http://paypal.me/TheCOWS Cash App: https://cash.app/$TheCOWS CALL IN NUMBER: 605.313.5164 CODE: 564943#