The Four Cornered Room

Music to the Week of August 23th, 2021

Thank you everyone for tuning in to The Four Cornered Room. This is our season 3 finale. We would like to thank all of our guests and fans for interacting with our medium.  If you want to contact us, make sure to email us at thefourcorneredroom@gmail.com As always, thank you to our musical guests for giving us permission to play your songs.  If you enjoyed what we played today, here are their song links. Internal Bleeding [https://open.spotify.com/track/5CuFcLz0HzmC6noaM9Vw4P?si=f44731fa94114867] Minority Threat [https://open.spotify.com/track/5yAmtLVCgTDdh3DzOuWMtp?si=10cf960ac09742d1] Intonate [https://open.spotify.com/track/2M7y0K3cO696vF6o8IYtqd?si=b8aaaa8905864bf5] Amenra [https://open.spotify.com/track/1kLqlPGGxhh56PqtpxZuNx?si=8d1ada4ef2964d8a]

S.3 Ep.15 Land Back & Residential Schools w/ Alex Reid

On the last History Episode of Season Three, we pivot to discuss a topic we've seen quite a lot in the News lately, Residential Schools.  We've seen much coverage of the Canadian Residential School System, so Moxy will be breaking down the history of the United States' Residential School program. Mox will also be joined by friend and activist Alex Reid to discuss the Canadian Residential School tragedy, the LandBack Manifesto, and the often overlooked issues of today's Native People.   Thank you all so much for tuning in every Monday this season, it has been a pleasure and an honor. Here are our sources for today's topics https://boardingschoolhealing.org/education/us-indian-boarding-school-history/ [https://l.messenger.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fboardingschoolhealing.org%2Feducation%2Fus-indian-boarding-school-history%2F&h=AT13BNaOQp4QFF_8xOcUVWhwOWeKP3s2R-Yp6d-s-xySjCrqBTHBtreGdmPSbDhtmVt8Em7OzkGjJxQHdSQAsX9CnC3ZDjQicUt2hxDopcB9aDJ1vMVoaBu-3JsdSUNhq3dsqA]  https://www.reuters.com/world/us/native-americans-decry-unmarked-graves-untold-history-boarding-schools-2021-06-22/ [https://www.reuters.com/world/us/native-americans-decry-unmarked-graves-untold-history-boarding-schools-2021-06-22/]  https://landback.org/manifesto/ [https://landback.org/manifesto/]

Music to the Week of August 16th, 2021

Content Warning: Misogyny, Sexual Coercion, and Assault are mentioned. As well as Violence, Murder and Drug Abuse. Today's episode we have some discussions about Punk Rock, The Disaster that is Woodstock '99 and have some musical birthdays to sweeten the conversation, except for Dimebag. As always, if you like what you hear share it with our show with a friend, or if you would like to contact us please email us at thefourcorneredroom@gmail.com Thank you to the Bands that gave us permission to enjoy and share their music!  Make sure to follow them and give them your support!  The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die  Zulu Blindfolded and Led to the Woods

S.3 Ep.13 The Case For Reparations

On today's episode, Moxy gives the gang the run down on how the continuation of  racist policy undoes the little progress made for the enslaved populations  shortly after the Civil War of America and how without addressing the shortcomings that were manifested by the Government of that era and societal opinion, the oppressive nature simply changed to more cryptic ideology and their silent agreements that lead to curation of Sundown Towns. If a slave were to become a freed man, the tyranny they faced was that of bureaucratic exclusion, and negligence from a system and a people that purely relied on their exploitable existence up to this point. Our Sources for today are as follows; Sundown Towns Emancipation https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/special-field-orders-no-15/ https://newrepublic.com/article/161496/slavery-reparations-joe-biden-bruce-bartlett https://thecounter.org/usda-black-farmers-discrimination-tom-vilsack-reparations-civil-rights/ Independent- How the U.S. Gov. Destroyed Black Neighborhoods  Slavery by Another Name is Sharecropping  Sanford Food History- Sharecropping  The Atlantic Article on The Freedman's Bureau  Freedman's Bureau USDA Reports

S.3 Ep.12 The Myth of Meritocracy pt. 2: HOAs and Modern Segregation

Today, we discuss how housing associations and redlining contribute to the modern racial wealth disparity in the US, and how these actions taken throughout history prove that America is not a country where "hard work" means success. Thank you for Listening to The Four Cornered Room, stay Hydrated and stay Hep.  Today's Sources: A Republic of Equals - Jonathan Rothwell   The Case for Reparations - Ta-Nehisi Coates Examining The Black-white wealth gap Systematic Inequality - Center for American Progress  Disparities in Wealth by Race and Ethnicity in the 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances