Topic: Brown Vote

The Equal Justice Initiative documents thousands of racial terror lynchings, such as the 1916 murder of Jeff Brown in Mississippi for accidentally bumping into a white woman. A researcher from The Economist links historical lynching rates to lower modern voter registration among Black citizens. The segment critiques how politicians like Joe Biden use this "ghost" of historical terror to suggest that failing to vote for the Democratic Party is equivalent to returning to "chains."

The hosts argue that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) intended to phase out the Black vote in favor of a "Brown vote" secured through promises of amnesty. They claim the Obama presidency made many Black voters callous toward the party after eight years of perceived inaction on their specific needs.