Black Lives Matter (The End of Policing by Alex Vitale) ft. Rique, an amazing human
The End of Policing explores the racist history of the police, the major problems of modern police, and the grave consequences of having a too-powerful, racially motivated police force in America.
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Show notes:
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White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo
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Prince of the City: The True Story of a Cop Who Knew Too Much by Robery Daley
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The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade by Alfred W. McCoy
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Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrew Ritchie
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Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers by Doug J. Swanson
The episode
01:00: BLM protesters add “Defund the Police” to DC mural
01:45: Defund the police
05:00: Michael Che on Black Lives Matter
06:30: Do not focus on the rioters or looters
09:18: White people can just listen to black people
12:05: Protesters met with City Council in Colorado Springs
15:30: Police kill unarmed black men
15:40: US police are trained to think every situation could turn deadly, but police in Britain are unarmed
17:35: Police shot a journalist in the eye and blinded her during BLM protests
18:10: Statistics show that more police do not prevent crime
19:10: Police have to deal with mental health patients but aren’t trained properly
21:45: Prisoners treated like violent criminals
23:15: New wave of slavery is mass incarceration
24:30: 1 in 3 black men will be arrested in their lives
25:30: US justice system is not restorative
25:40: The War on Drugs and Nixon’s advisor:
We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both, heavily, we could disrupt those communities.
26:46: Black people in America: slavery, slavery again during Reconstruction, then the Jim Crow era, then Civil Rights movement, then new Jim Crow
28:15: Longer prison sentences
29:00: Mandatory minimum sentences, “3 strikes you’re out” laws, and Clinton crime bill
29:55: Police sue the government for quota systems
32:00: US history taught in schools is flawed
37:20: Trump supporters are racist
40:50: Trump rally on Juneteeth
42:04: States that prevent Juneteenth from being national holiday
42:20: Trump’s photo op in front of the church, disavowed by church leadership
43:40: Georgia voting systems
44:35: Trump fact-checked on Twitter over voter fraud lies
45:45: Police are relatively new invention; not around for the ratification of the US Constitution
46:15: Police were racist towards italian/irish and other immigrants
46:40: Texas Rangers created to exterminate Native Americans and Mexicans
48:00: Birth of a Nation super racist
48:50: Rape and race
49:30: First police in the South were poor whites rounding up slaves
50:40: We only know about police brutality because of cell phone cameras
51:25: Civil rights concerns of body cameras
51:15: Groups under government surveillance
55:20: Police in riot gear encourages violence
57:15: Gezi Park protests in Istanbul, Tiananmen Square, Hong Kong protesters
59:00: Cops trained in how to interact with media
1:00:10: Diverse political representation good for policy, but diverse police forces are not less racist
1:01:00: Black people are 13% of the population
1:02:00: Plea agreements; 97% of cases don’t see a trial
1:02:55: Punishment in the US
1:04:00: White people do just as much drugs as blacks
1:05:25: Black females are most targeted for prostitution
1:06:30: Criminalizing prostitution; police corruption
1:07:25: Lecrae on the War on Drugs
1:08:48: School-to-prison pipeline
1:10:15: Teachers need to be taught to be guidance counselors
1:15:55: Racist history of the police
1:16:15: Black people less likely to be approved for loans
1:18:20: The US should give black people reparations
1:18:30: White people are part of the problem if they are not part of the solution; silent racism