Reconciliation Chapter 2
How does a nation reconcile a heinous history of colonialism, slavery, murder, rape, and thievery to itself, let alone the generations that have sprung forth from those it harmed? There are fair arguments for reparations. There are equally persuasive challenges to make the past just that and to come together as a global community of differently colored, shaped, and sized Homo sapiens stumbling through existence with good intentions, but a particular aptitude for making trouble. Humanity has, after all, a rather unadulterated history of exploration and colonization, regardless of origin, ethnicity, and religion; this isn’t American-made.
On the contrary, there are a host of social, political, ethnologic, economic, and sexist structures and constructs in place to ensure that this manor of degradation, exploitation, and annihilation of the “other” continues. How does humanity take down what was, address what is, and build anew?
In this podcast, Interchange Founder Tate Chamberlin and a panel of esteemed guests including, business owner Billy McWilliams, indigenous political activist Terry Bradley, indigenous documentary filmmaker Ivy MacDonald, and libertarian entrepreneur Kyle Mack discuss America’s legacy of oppression and genocide, globalization versus tribalism, reconciliation, perspective, and the work needed to ensure a collective future that does not repeat the past.
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