LZ Granderson: There's never been a real attempt to account for this and acknowledge the scale of violence against black people. LZ: We don't get presented with it in a way that even begins, I think, to get across the scale of the crime against humanity. "I could imagine that there are people who would hear this conversation and say, Oh, my God, there they go again," he says.
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.