Invisible Blackness – My Great-Great Grandfather Is Not An American Hero, An Interview with Caroline Randall Williams

 

'Caroline Randall Williams is an esteemed author, poet, and professor at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. She is best known for her cookbook Soul Food Love which she co-wrote with her mother Alice Randall. Caroline has been a featured guest on MSNBC and has penned revealing articles for New York Times opinion column "A Loving Chastisement for America" and "You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Confederate Monument" in which she tells her story as the great-great granddaughter of the nefarious confederate hero and KKK leader Edmund Pettus who had an affair with an enslaved woman who was working for him. On this episode on Invisible Blackness, host Adrian Younge and Caroline discuss the romanticism of the South and its leaders, American patriotism, and how she uses her white privilege to denounce the evils of her white ancestors.'