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February 28, 2022 26 mins

This podcast episode, “Rumors of a Race War,” briefly examines the idea of a race war in the American mind. Two disparate yet related events highlighted in the long history of American race relations is the Helter Skelter race war motive used in the 1970 Charles Manson trial; and the government’s recent prosecution of three men—Cook, Frost, and Sawall—for attempting to foment a race war in the United States. 

Key words: Racism, Race War, War, Content Warning, Racial Stereotypes, The Birth of a Nation (1915), Ku Klux Klan (KKK), Charles Manson, the Manson family, Tate-LaBianca murders, Helter Skelter, Black Panthers, the Nation of Islam, The Power Grid Terrorists, Christopher Brenner Cook, Jonathan Allen Frost, Jackson Matthew Sawall, Suicide Necklaces, The Turner Diaries, William Luther Pierce (Andrew MacDonald), March On Washington (2020), Mayor Muriel Bowser, “FBI-Designated Significant Domestic Terrorism Incidents in the United States from 2015 through 2019,” Racially or Ethnically Motivated Extremism (RMVE), Samuel Yette, The Choice: The Issue of Black Survival in America, Post Script: Russian invasion of Ukraine. 

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