Topic: 1919

3 chapters across the catalog

75: What U Gonna Do Cuzz
40:06 - 44:07

75: What U Gonna Do Cuzz

The Great Reset, Financial Systems and Summer Unrest

Adam Curry posits that current societal pressures are part of an intentional "Great Reset" aimed at breaking existing systems to implement a new financial order. Mo Facts expresses concern that as savings run out and temperatures rise, major cities may see a repeat of the 1919 racial riots. They discuss the collusion between the government and corporations regarding OSHA mandates as a betrayal of the public trust.

74: Silly Mode
2:12:27 - 2:18:12

74: Silly Mode

Red Summer of 1919, Bolshevik Scare

The "Red Summer" of 1919 is analyzed as a period where racial riots and the "Red Scare" intersected. In Chicago, the Black population doubled due to the Great Migration, leading to housing and job competition with European immigrants. The government feared that "serious" Black people were being radicalized by Bolsheviks, leading to the monitoring of Black newspapers by J. Edgar Hoover and the labeling of civil rights groups as communist fronts.

74: Silly Mode
2:18:12 - 2:21:58

74: Silly Mode

Eugene Williams, The North's Suppressed Lynching

The story of 14-year-old Eugene Williams, who was stoned to death in Chicago in 1919 after his raft drifted into a "white" beach area, is presented as a suppressed lynching. The hosts argue that Black publications at the time downplayed the event to maintain the propaganda that the North was a safe haven compared to the South. This migration is framed as a strategic redistribution of Black people that diluted their concentrated voting power in the South.