Topic: Handbills

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43: Black Inc.
1:01:16 - 1:05:17

43: Black Inc.

1935 Harlem Riot, Social Media, and Identity Politics

Leonard Patterson recounts his personal participation in inciting a 1935 race riot in New York following the reported death of a black youth. He compares the use of handbills in the 1930s to modern social media posts used to mobilize masses. The hosts argue that identity politics is a contemporary code for Marxism, designed to splinter society into competing factions.