#2 What side are you on?

Shelton Thurman joins Meg and Bill for an in-depth conversation about racial inequalities in the country. The episode is organized around a direct question about where people stand in relation to oppression. Its title reflects that emphasis, asking listeners to consider sides rather than treating inequality as a subject detached from individual and collective choices. Shelton is the named guest for a discussion focused on that public and moral question.

The notes draw a contrast between solidarity aimed at ending oppression and solidarity with the forces that sustain it. That distinction supplies the central framework for the conversation. Rather than identifying a particular policy, event, or institution as its sole focus, the episode’s description emphasizes the broader state of racial inequality and the positions people take toward it. Meg, Bill, and Shelton’s discussion brings those themes together in an extended exchange about inequality, oppression, and solidarity. The question in the title remains the organizing idea: how people position themselves in relation to the conditions being discussed.