Whitewashed Alabama History

<p>David and Josh (<a href='https://www.twitter.com/josh_moon'>@Josh_Moon</a>) open with the latest on COVID and the criminal inaction by Republican leadership to mitigate the spread.</p> <p>Camille Bennett of Project Say Something stops by to discuss her group's progress in North Alabama and problems with Secretary of State John Merrill.</p> <p>We close this week with a lengthy discussion with the Montgomery Advertiser's Brian Lyman about their Confederate Reckoning project and the whitewashing of Alabama textbooks, and there's a Rightwing Nut of the Week in there too. </p> <p>Guests:</p> <ul><li>Camille Bennet, <a href='https://projectsaysomething.org'>Project Say Something</a> (<a href='https://www.twitter.com/staywokesouth'>@</a><a href='https://www.twitter.com/staywokesouth'>staywokesouth</a>) </li> <li><a href='https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/staff/4395849002/brian-lyman/'>Brian Lyman</a>, Montgomery Advertiser (<a href='https://twitter.com/lyman_brian'>@lyman_brian</a>)</li> </ul> <p>Reading list and resources:</p> <ul><li>"<a href='https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/education/2020/12/03/southern-history-textbooks-long-history-deception/6327359002/'>Southern schools' history textbooks: A long history of deception, and what the future holds</a>" — Brian Lyman, Montgomery Advertiser </li> <li>"<a href='https://www.amazon.com/Reconstruction-American-Nation-Eric-Foner/dp/006091453X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr='>Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution</a>" — Eric Foner</li> <li><a href='https://www.amazon.com/Ira-Berlin/e/B000AQ2JFI%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share'>Books by the slavery scholar Ira Berlin</a></li> <li>"<a href='https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/about-this-collection/'>Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives</a>" — Library of Congress</li> <li><a href='https://archives.alabama.gov/searchcoll.html'>Alabama Department of Archives and History</a></li> <li>"<a href='https://www.amazon.com/Great