Welcome back to Don’t Fear the Feed with Josh Abrams, the show that challenges the assumptions and misinformation that tends to bombard us in our news and social media feeds.

On this episode, Josh welcomes former NFL defensive tackle, Warren Sapp to argue that “the feed” has always shaped Americans’ beliefs (especially through selective history and propaganda) and challenge listeners to question who teaches the past and why.

Their engaging - and enraging- conversation centers on slavery, Jim Crow, sharecropping, disenfranchisement, the Three-Fifths Compromise, and how “We the People” originally excluded Black people, women, and non–land-owning men. They discuss Indigenous people aiding early settlers before being slaughtered, critiques of the sanitized Pilgrim narrative and Christopher Columbus, and how racist messaging—from KKK pamphlets and radio to modern microaggressions—was weaponized to create new generations of racism.

Abrams recounts investigating the 1960s Mississippi murders of civil-rights activists and the role of police and the KKK, while Sapp cites Florida book bans, Jackie Robinson’s autobiography being removed, and Mein Kampf remaining accessible, asking why Black history is treated as separate from American history.

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