LZ Granderson: It's dangerous to over-narrativeize a group of people. He says popular culture put all black people into one of three categories for 100 years. LZ: Police narratives are doing an injustice to our understanding of the police. "They've made us sloppy, and it really hard for us to understand the nature of the problem we're facing," he says.
Today, another episode from the Revisionist History Live universe. It's an old fashioned lecture, recorded at the New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University. Malcolm talks about a totally real thing he made up—a taxonomy of the modern mystery story—with a focus on murder mysteries and police procedurals. From Dragnet, to John Grisham, to Sherlock Holmes, it's all in there...and all connected to how we view real policing.
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