We Hate Our Tribe; Why This Country is So Divided (and What We Can Do About It) The United States of America is deeply divided. Since the election of Donald Trump, the racial animus and class division of our society have been inflamed. From Baltimore to Ferguson to our foreign entanglements, race and class seem to be America’s Achilles’ heel. With so much at stake, we have to know how to understand these fractures and stop letting them define us. We need a new vision of race and class. We need to see ourselves as one united people with the ability to be strong together. We’ve got to believe in the American dream, but we can’t believe in it if we are keeping score. In Hate Our Tribe, historian Heather Cox Richardson, co-director of the Center for Oral History at UCLA, tells us about the stories of three real people who fought through war, poverty, disease, class warfare, and prejudice to make a home, love, and care for their family. 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Download this MP3 Trigger Points: Hate Your Tribe (Ep. 2) We’re continuing to roll out our new Trigger Points series, Hate Our Tribe: The Untold History of Anti-Black Racism in the United States, by Heather Cox Richardson. Her previous book, All Deliberate Speed, won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, and she’s also the author of The Long Shadow of the Civil Rights Movement and This Land is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation. In this episode, she discusses the history of Jim Crow laws, African Americans today, white supremacists, and more. Download this MP3 Trigger Points: How You (And Your Media) Make Us Mad (Ep. 2) Do you think journalists are being paid by the hour to bring you the news? Think again. Your own media are largely government-controlled corporations with massive budgets and even bigger media networks that are really all in the same conspiracy together to screw you. This is what we cover in this week’s show. 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Download this MP3 Trigger Points: A Toxic Culture of Government Propaganda (Ep. 2) In this episode, Trigger Points examines the government’s use of psychological warfare, disinformation, and disenfranchisement on the American people. In this episode, Trigger Points takes you deep inside its history, its techniques, and its current use in America. Download this MP3 Trigger Points: The New York Times (Ep. 1) This is a special first episode covering the history of mass media manipulation in the United States, and the book The News about the News: American Journalism in Peril. We don’t know if there is another story out there like this one in America today. There may be, and there might not be. But at this point, there isn’t another story like it that can