#881 Processing Ferguson, Eric Garner and Beyond (#BlackLivesMatter)
Today listen and learn from those most deeply effected by the pattern of deaths of black men and women as they talk through their grief and anger
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#860 Understanding how we got here (Racism)
Today we take a look at some of the historical contexts of racism and how those structures are still functioning today.
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#856 Racism as a paradigm (Media)
Today we take a look at how the media reinforces all of the existing, societal assumptions about race and we use a new analogy to describe the paradigm of racial privilege
Read more#855 Just the most recent spotlight on militarized racism (#Ferguson)
Today we take a look at the short and long-term effects of the combined forces of decades of systemic racism and the military-industrial complex as seem through the lens of the murder of Mike Brown in Ferguson, MO and the resulting anti-police protests
Read more#851 To selectively protect and serve (Injustice System)
Today we look at a variety of ways in which the justice system utterly fails to deliver anything resembling justice
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#850 The P Word (Racism)
Today we hammer home the details about white privilege once and for all so that there will never be any further confusion about it ever
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#836 The case for reparations (Racism)
Today we explain once again what white privilege is and isn't and then take a look at the case for reparations for slavery
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#788 Harassment in place of police work (Racism)
Today we look at the structural oppression of 'Stop & Frisk', not to mention how counterproductive it is to alienate people in their own neighborhoods. Plus, thoughts on the absence of poverty in the discussion of black crime and a special discussion of the definition of racism.
Read more#784 Christmas in black and white (War on Christmas)
You didn't think the War on Christmas™ could get any more exciting but then someone decided to bring race into the mix and the whole thing blew sky high. We'll report back as casualty numbers are confirmed.
Read more#781 Nelson Mandela: Free at last
Lots of white Americans weigh in on the enormous impact Nelson Mandela had on their lives, South Africa and the world. Also, Oprah and Barack Obama make appearances.
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