Topic: Great Depression

The discussion returns to the Canadian trucker protests as a potential turning point against state pressure. Mo Facts reflects on his childhood living with grandparents in rent-controlled apartments, a move necessitated by his parents' return to college. He draws parallels to the Great Depression when families were forced to send children away due to economic hardship, noting the lasting shame his father felt over the decision.

Professor Robin Kelly discusses his book "Hammer and Hoe," which documents the activities of the Communist Party in Alabama during the Great Depression. He describes a vibrant movement of 12,000 black sharecroppers who joined the party, seeing the white communists as "Yankees" returning to finish the work of Reconstruction. The hosts argue that this history has been intentionally suppressed by media and academia.