From 1619 to the Year 3020, and Every Podcast in Between
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March 2, 2021
On a recent sunny winter day, I drove 40 miles from New Orleans to a plantation on the southern banks of the Mississippi. The Whitney Plantation, first opened to the public in 2014, is the only plantation museum in Louisiana exclusively focused on the history of enslaved people. While walking its grounds I listened to an hourlong audio tour, which seemed to conjure ghosts and whispers. I recognized these as the same echoes that had been with me the week prior, in the audiobook I had been listening to:
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This is not the first time Pompeo has decried multiculturalism. In 2015, he cited a sermon before the Kansas Legislature that said: America had worshipped other Gods and called it multiculturalism. We d endorsed perversion and called it an alternative lifestyle.
Pompeo, who is thought to have ambitions of running for president in 2024, has been a controversial secretary of state.
In November, Pompeo became the first US diplomat to visit an Israeli settlement, shattering decades of American policy. His hawkish stance toward Iran helped fuel fears that the Trump administration might provoke a new conflict in the Middle East. The departing secretary of state also garnered a reputation as an antagonist of the media, once berating a veteran reporter for questioning him about Ukraine and asking her to point it out on a map.