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Before We Were White - Podcast @beforewewerewhite.com · 26/08/2026

Well that’s a damn shame. "Dolly" Rebecca Parton singer/songwriter, actress, philanthropist, and country girl from Sevier County, Tennessee 1946-2026 A lot of Americans perform an American identity. Dolly, for all her glam get-up, was real, and a good American, in the best meaning of the word.

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Before We Were White - Podcast @beforewewerewhite.com · 23/04/2026

History doesn’t repeat itself. Greed and evil just tend to look the same, whenever and wherever. #genocide #EthnicCleansing

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Before We Were White - Podcast @beforewewerewhite.com · 25/02/2026

I've always been a glass-half-full kind of person, but when news outlets characterize Trump's approval rating of 37% as "unprecedentedly bad" for a US president after 1 year in office, my reaction is: "You mean if I walk into any random public space, 1 in 3 Americans, minimum, are still fascists?"

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Before We Were White - Podcast @beforewewerewhite.com · 27/12/2025

3 of 3 Thank you, every one of you, for supporting voices who refuse to accept a world of “alternative facts”, hate, and corporate media propaganda. We’re going to take a breather for a couple of days, and come out swinging again.

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Before We Were White - Podcast @beforewewerewhite.com · 06/10/2025

No nation on earth fetishizes its military in the way the USA does. Do the lofty words of praise from US politicians match how veterans are treated? And if not, why not? In our new episode of BWWW, we explore who actually fights America’s wars, and on whose behalf. beforewewerewhite.com/episodes

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Before We Were White - Podcast @beforewewerewhite.com · 02/08/2025

I made this for those who believe that the current conflict in Gaza was started by Hamas on 7 October 2023.

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Before We Were White - Podcast @beforewewerewhite.com · 30/07/2025

American history and analysis served up raw, without garnish. A big welcome to all our new subscribers! After disengaging completely from the toxic META and X ecosystems, Bluesky and Substack seem to have been the right move. Now for a viable alternative to YouTube...

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Before We Were White - Podcast @beforewewerewhite.com · 01/07/2025

After a 5 month hiatus (as we moved from META to Bluesky and Substack), Before We Were White-Podcast is back with a new episode. Why have "poor white folks" - aka Hillbillies - always been seen as fair targets for vicious ridicule by "mainstream" American society? beforewewerewhite.com/episodes/

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Before We Were White - Podcast @beforewewerewhite.com · 11/06/2025

A brief appreciation upon news of the death of Brian Wilson. substack.com/@beforewewer...

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Before We Were White - Podcast @beforewewerewhite.com · 05/06/2025

I made this map as an aid for showing how much of the population of post-Revolutionary War Virginia was seen as “non-white”. These percentages DO NOT include people enslaved at the time. Millions of "white" Americans descend from free people of color. More at link: substack.com/@beforewewer...

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Before We Were White - Podcast @beforewewerewhite.com · 18/04/2025

The great Spanish poet and playwright Lorca was enrolled at Columbia University in 1929. If he were there today, he would have his student visa revoked, or be snatched and sent to a gulag in El Salvador. With the full connivance of the university. What have we become?

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Before We Were White - Podcast @beforewewerewhite.com · 14/04/2025

Hilarious how the witless MAGA cult wants to travel back to a "Golden Age" which never existed. Nearly 150 years ago, this is how people on the western frontier felt about the carrying of firearms in public spaces.

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Before We Were White - Podcast @beforewewerewhite.com · 09/04/2025

I would be very much obliged & grateful if someone with far more knowledge of economics than myself would explain why Trump’s tariff announcements and subsequent partial “backdown” is not simple and naked market manipulation faciltitating insider short-selling on world stock markets. Seriously.

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Before We Were White - Podcast @beforewewerewhite.com · 02/04/2025

What if this tariff thing has less to do with USA manufacturing, and more to do with trying to cause EU division? Will some EU members begin to negotiate individual trade agreements in order to mitigate the effect of tariffs? Germany/Slovakia/Hungary hardest hit. Latter 2 already in Putin's orbit.

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Before We Were White - Podcast @beforewewerewhite.com · 28/03/2025

A picture says a thousand words. Why Palestinians will never live to see a two-state solution.

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Before We Were White - Podcast @beforewewerewhite.com · 19/03/2025

No indictments. No due process. Capitalism has always known the value of offshoring. Now they will offshore their gulags. Venezuelans today, pro-Palestine demonstrators tomorrow. One day they will come for you.

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Before We Were White - Podcast @beforewewerewhite.com · 13/02/2025

As a student of history, I've been amused by the many videos and memes in which women are surprised to learn how much time the men around them spend thinking about the Roman Empire. I wondered if this could really be true, as I found myself pondering the fall of Rome over breakfast this morning...

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Before We Were White - Podcast @beforewewerewhite.com · 10/02/2025

The Super Bowl is about something, and it ain't sports.

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Before We Were White - Podcast @beforewewerewhite.com · 06/02/2025

And you see that your Fruit Loop family were right. The end times WERE coming. The anti-Christ WAS coming. And they absolutely love him. No, they absolutely WORSHIP him.

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Before We Were White - Podcast @beforewewerewhite.com · 04/02/2025

Nature is cruel. We evolved to seek the company of our own kind. Then over half of our "own kind" turns out to be a noisy mess of greedy, selfish, ego-driven, acquisitive, navel-gazing, sociopathic, incurious, bigoted, hate-filled, violent ignoramuses. Looks like it's dogs from here on out...

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Before We Were White - Podcast @beforewewerewhite.com · 02/02/2025

After a 5 month hiatus due to storms both metaphorical and literal, Before We Were White - Podcast is back with a new episode. I hope you enjoy it! beforewewerewhite.podbean.com/e/before-we-...

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Before We Were White - Podcast @beforewewerewhite.com · 07/01/2025

In light of the noises emanating from the man in the wings...

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Before We Were White - Podcast @beforewewerewhite.com · 23/12/2024

Happy holiday season to everyone! Here is a podcast episode from last year. Follow us as we explore the origins of Christmas as celebrated in America, while attempting to discover what connects Hollywood, Abraham Lincoln, and, um, Lebanon? beforewewerewhite.podbean.com/e/episode-9-...

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Before We Were White - Podcast @beforewewerewhite.com · 20/12/2024

Wrote an article 4 years ago about a newly-elected senator named J. D. Vance. After his pick as Trump's running mate this year, I updated and re-published it. Placing link here, as it remains my most shared piece to date. He is not who he claims to be. beforewewerewhite.com/2020/09/24/m...

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Before We Were White - Podcast @beforewewerewhite.com · 19/12/2024

A hearty welcome and thanks to everyone giving this new platform a try after my rant over at "the other place". Wishing every one of you a peaceful and happy holiday season!

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Before We Were White - Podcast @beforewewerewhite.com · 17/12/2024

I love this new platform, away from the "broligarchs". But my "thing" is mini- to medium length essays shedding light on the nature of various US mythologies. I hope to find a community here, but will need to share links to my actual writing. beforewewerewhite.com/2024/12/17/a...

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Before We Were White - Podcast @beforewewerewhite.com · 27/11/2024

Stone Mountain, GA vs The Stono Rebellion (football field to show scale) #confederacy #rebellion #slavery

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