Air Date: 07-19-2016
Today we take a listen to a few of the reactions from people of color to the shooting deaths of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile and the police officers in Dallas
Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 3: Song 1: Sur Le Fil - Yann Tiersen
Ch. 4: Act 2: Video of and reaction to Philando Castile - Code Switch - Air Date 7-9-16
Ch. 5: Song 2: End of the World - Dan Romer & Benh Zeitlin
Ch. 6: Act 3: You can't reignite a fire that never stops burning - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date 7-8-16
Ch. 7: Song 3: Turtle (Bonobo Remix) - Pilote
Ch. 8: Act 4: Tired of being strong, it's time to fix the system - The Benjamin Dixon Show (@TheBpDShow) - Air Date 7-6-16
Ch. 9: Song 4: North bank upper - Plusplus
Ch. 10: Act 5: The fatal shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile - The Daily Show - Air Date 7-7-16
Ch. 11: Song 5: Rain Begins To Fall (instrumental) - Silence Is Sexy
Ch. 12: Act 6: ‘Black Lives Matter’ Protesters Respond To Dallas Shooting - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 07-09-16
Ch. 13: Song 6: Silhouette - David Ari Leon
Ch. 14: Act 7: Dallas shooter was banned from black activist groups - @CitizenRadio - Air Date 7-12-16
Ch. 15: Song 7: Untitled - Zoe Keating
Ch. 16: Act 8: Black Surgeon Who Treated Dallas Officers On Race Relations with Law Enforcement - Majority Report (@MajorityFM) - Air Date: 07-13-16
Ch. 17: Song 8: A Faraway Home (instrumental) - Silence Is Sexy
Ch. 18: Act 9: Scoop Jackson on the unnecessary, yet understood, killings of people and police - @EdgeofSports - w: Dave Zirin - Air Date 7-13-16
Ch. 19: Song 9: Whatchuwando - Krayzie Bone
Ch. 18: Act 10: Pastor Michael McBride on what white people can do - Politically Re-Active - Air Date 7-13-16
Ch. 19: Song 10: Adventure, Darling - Gillicuddy
Ch. 18: Act 11: People with privilege need to get up and stand shoulder to shoulder - The Read - Air Date 7-13-16
Voicemails
Ch. 19: Response to police killing person during standoff - Colin from Cleveland, OH
Ch. 20: Examining the police with an analogy with healthcare - Charlie from Cleveland
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 21: Final comments on what white people can do to get involved in the movement for black lives
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
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This is What White People Can Do to Support Black Lives Matter (Washington Post)
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Only White People Can Save Themselves From Racism and White Supremacism (Washington Post)
Written by BOTL social media/activism director Amanda Hoffman
Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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For future reference, it’s no one’s job to educate you but your own. Asking me to write you a summary of a book for you is the single most petulantly entitled request I’ve ever received. Do some reading and imagine the possibility that scholars who have studied this issue for decades might know more than you.
I appreciate the apology for wasting my time though.
I’ve also seen the aspect of becoming an exception to a person’s prejudice. At least when their arguments aren’t immediately dismissed right off the bat simply for being a part of the outgroup. I’ve also seen people within a prejudiced person’s own group advocating for the outgroup being dismissed as not being a “true” member of their group, such as a woman advocating for men’s rights not being the “right” kind of woman. This may be anecdotal, but I wouldn’t doubt there’s more to this, seeing how deep tribalism runs within human instinct.
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If nothing else, I would hope it would be common sense not to do anything to startle or frighten a person armed with a lethal weapon, whose job gives them reasonable cause to believe their life could be in danger at any moment on the beat.
And despite the fact that blacks are statistically hundreds of times more likely to be killed by other blacks than by police (and never mind the fact that many of the victims of cop killings had been uncooperative, and police are trained to respond as if lives are in danger when that happens; if you don’t want to be shot by a cop, just comply with their orders), we still make a big deal out of the few times it does happen, because it paints a convenient narrative of oppression. Oppression that is either greatly exaggerated or doesn’t exist in the first place.
Nobody alive today ever said that black lives didn’t matter to begin with. It would seem that the BLM movement are a group of rebels without a cause or a clue, trying to follow in their parents’ footsteps in fighting for a civil rights movement despite already having one. Stop living in the past, you have all the same rights as everyone else, as far as I know, and if you can show me otherwise, I would love to know about it, and abolish all the laws that favor one race or another for the sake of fairness. The only thing that BLM has ever accomplished thus far is the encouragement of more violence and cop killers. I don’t know what their goal is, but they can only be said to be doing well if they were aiming to start a race war.