"It's a beautiful sunny peaceful autumn day It's all good. I've got a pleasant stroll ahead of me." "I stick out in this neighborhood ... Hope it'll be okay," he says. The two kids are black teenage boys, but 'I'm not a racist,' the man writes. They're young you know barely at the end of the teenage years and they seem to be looking in my direction Maybe just curious about the strange white guy in the neighborhood'
For hundreds of years, the white-dominated American culture has raised the specter of the dangerous, violent black man. Host John Biewen tells the story of a confrontation with an African American teenager. Then he and recurring guest Chenjerai Kumanyika discuss that longstanding image – and its neglected flipside: white-on-black violence.