"I wanted to talk about the flip side. Look at this and look at the white supremacist political and economic history that created that neighborhood in Philly," he says. "Given that kind of condition of disparity and exploitation Should we really expect to be be safe any of us? I guess given that kind of conditions, you know, why this guy that we're going to call Michael might have made some of his choices?"
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.