Pulitzer-winning reporter John Archibald grew up in Alabama and has spent his career as a journalist immersed in the state’s tangled and troubled past and present. In an illuminating conversation, he talks about the persistent problem of “white silence” in the face of the state’s injustices — and the responsibility of journalists to face up to them, as we have so often failed to do.
Also: The blowback against racist comments by Texas Republican candidate Bo French, and what it illuminates — or fails to — about the rising wave of explicit white and Christian nationalism among modern conservatives. Plus: The Decatur Book Festival returns to Georgia this weekend.
Show Notes:
John Archibald AL.com
“Dispatches From the Deep South” John Archibald
“Meet the Far-Right Nepo Baby Vying to Deregulate Texas’s Fossil Fuels” The New Republic
“Bo French doubles down on racist post made after UT win against Ohio State” The Texas Tribune
“Top Texas Republicans knew Bo French’s history of racist comments. They supported him anyway.” Houston Public Media
“The Trump Administration Is Publishing a Stream of Nazi Propaganda” The Atlantic
“How the Internet Fringe Infiltrated Republican Politics” The New Yorker
Decatur Book Festival
“What happened to the Decatur Book Festival?” Atlanta Magazine