This is the Unregistered Podcast, and I'm Thaddeus Russell.

This is a show about ideas, people, and behaviors that are considered inappropriate, out of bounds, or beyond the pale.

The things you're not supposed to talk about if you're a school teacher, a college professor,

a businessman, a politician, a parent, a neighbor, or even a podcast host. These are the things

you're not supposed to say or even think if you're a good liberal, a good conservative, or a good

citizen. Each week, I'll interview a person who has something bad to say.

They might be a journalist or a professor.

They might be a porn star or a drug dealer.

They might just be an ordinary person with an ordinary job

who doesn't care about the rules of polite society.

I'm not interested in breaking the rules just to be a troublemaker.

I'm interested in people who break the rules of conventional thought

and to expand the scope of what is possible to say in our society.

I'm interested in people who make me think.

In this country, we are often told that racism has been the cause of many things.

It was the cause of slavery, it was the cause of segregation, and now it's the cause of

police brutality and mass incarceration.

Now my guest this week, were among the first people to teach me many, many years

ago that this way of thinking not only betrays a terrible ignorance of history, it also prevents

the kind of coalition politics that's necessary to end things like slavery,

to stop things like segregation,

and to put an end to police violence and mass incarceration.

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