The Importance of Being on the Other Side of the Divide

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"It's basically the law at this point because it's been reproduced to so much precedent," he says. "I just feel very humbled about my ability to, to imagine what it must be like to be on the other side of that divide" He adds: "No cop of any color would do that to my son."

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.