The Miseducation of the American Mind

Let’s Talk About Race (LTAR)

Let’s Talk About Race (LTAR), is a national and international award-winning progressive, intergenerational roundtable discussion of independent journalists from around the country. LTAR features rigorous analysis of news coverage, and the role race plays in politics, life, and society. LTAR is available on Audioport and PRX, and currently airs twice monthly on KBOO Community Radio in Portland, OR.
The roundtable line-up features: LaNita Duke, award-winning multimedia producer for Grassroots News NW . Dianne Johnson is a professor and journalist from Texas. Althea Billings, a journalist and radio producer in Portland, OR. Rev. Cecil Prescod is a talk-show host in Portland, OR. Nia Gray is the host of The Faith Report in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. And Mary Li, a proud bureaucrat reporting from Portland, OR.
On this edition of LTAR: The Miseducation of the American Mind

QAnon and false fact are sending American down a rabbit hole of misinformation. Some of this misinformation is deadly as the antivaxxer information preventing people from getting the Covid-19 vaccination -and then many end up dying on the mountain of personal freedom.

Our panel deconstruct this misinformation and finds it may reenforce racial prejudice .

QAnon believers falsely claim the cabal is abducting children to kill them and harvest their blood for a chemical known as adrenochrome, which is used to extend their lives. This belief is a centuries-old antisemitic trope based on the falsehood of Blood Libel, in which a cabal of Jews kidnaps and murders Christian children. QAnon’s claims of pedophilia and one of its latest campaigns, #SaveTheChildren/#SaveOurChildren, relies on a slogan that has been used for decades as an anti-LGBTQ dog whistle to paint LGBTQ people as a danger to children, usually through pedophilia.