Do You Have Amnesia? Jose Torres-Tama speaks on what the United States of America doesn’t remember.

International performance artist Jose Torres-Tama speaks about how the United States of America has purposely forgotten its history when it comes to Black and Brown people. “It’s the United States of Amnesia,” he says, which is also the title of his latest show to be performed September 23-24 at the Ashe Powerhouse Theater in New Orleans. You learn more about Torres-Tama and his work on his website.
In this discussion of The Offshoot podcast and aggregate, Torres-Tama begins by talking about how upon his arrival to the USA there was an to take away his name – his identity. He goes on to provide the brief history lesson that links to today’s social discords. At the end of the discussion he entertains with a snippet from his show. But in-between all that is a lively talk about what is “American” and who has “Amnesia.”