America is facing an immigration crisis—but how did we get here?

This episode opens with Emma Lazarus’s iconic welcome, etched beneath the Statue of Liberty. But Beth has a hard truth to unpack: that light beside the golden door only shined because our ancestors made themselves at home in someone else’s house.

To understand the longest-running crime in U.S. history—committed against Native Americans—we go back to 1492, when Christopher Columbus set sail on a misguided voyage to “India.” And if you didn’t know those crimes continued until 1978... you’re not alone.

We are a nation of immigrants.

And every one of us stands on stolen land.

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The history you think you know wasn't just written in books--it was curated, shaped, and edited by people with their own self interests. But before that, it was lived. And the people whose lives we study weren't usually the ones who got to tell their own stories. Some voices were amplified, while others were diminished--or erased altogether.

In this episode, Sojourner Truth's famous speech at the 1851 Akron Women's Rights Convention is the starting point for unraveling hundreds of years of lost and manipulated history, reminding us why the truth must never be allowed to be forgotten.

To read the speeches for yourself, find both versions here, as well as a video demonstrating the accent Sojourner would have had:

Compare the Speeches — The Sojourner Truth Project

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This bonus episode reflects on Frederick Douglass’s fiery 1852 speech and Susan B. Anthony’s words from the U.S. Centennial in 1876—reminders that the rights many of us hold today were not freely given.

Civil rights for non-white men and women of all races were won only after generations of resistance, sacrifice, and struggle.

Let today be a day of radical remembrance. And action.

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