To Trade or Not to Trade | Episode 33

We got a short story, with a long dialogue. We discuss “The Space Traders” by Civil Rights activist Derrick Bell. This small tale is more prescient now than its first publication in 1992. Tune in for a discussion of unhealthy patriotism, unwritten traditions and unfit congressmen in the sunken place.

Georgia Voting Law

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/georgia-voting-rights-fiasco/618537/

Dark Matter ed. by Sheree Renee Thomas

Obama and Bell

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/03/the-sci-fi-story-that-offends-oversensitive-white-conservatives/254232/

Nisi Shawl’s Article

Old and Cold: “The Space Traders” by Derrick Bell