Season 3, Ep. 12 - Democracy in Color

Although race and identity have always shaped U.S. politics, they became all the more pronounced in the past eight years in what was supposed to be Obama's post-racial America, manifesting as an unapologetic driver of Donald Trump's unexpected victory. But the re-energized racial animus that propelled Trump to the White House did not spring out of a vacuum. The crowd-pleasing candidate merely marshaled spirits unleashed half a century ago in what was a culmination of the so-called "Southern strategy," the Republicans' effort to push race and identity to the political forefront.

In this show, a panel of nationally known voices from across the political and racial spectrums examines the role of race in American politics and how antisemitism and islamophobia are driving waves of ethnic and religious-based strife in politics as well as in our everyday lives.