The way america is trained to think about cops and race is based on a myth. The whole idea that black people get killed in these disproportionate numbers because of races bias on the part of the cops is based on a really distorted sense that the media gives us of what the cops do. You hear about the black tean ager who gets in the back on the news, but you're not hearing about the exact same things happening to white tean ages and white 20 somethings all over the country every year. And so i think the b l m omen saying that is the kind thing that has to stop, that kind of procedures that unfairly target blacks more than whites.
Dr. Shermer speaks with John McWhorter about his new online book on how the antiracism movement poses a threat to progressive America. Shermer and McWhorter discuss: antiracism as a religion; the 3 waves of antiracism; the antiracism trinity: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Robin DiAngelo, Ibram X. Kendi; white fragility; Black Lives Matter; systemic racism (incarceration rates, housing, jobs, income, etc.); reparations; George Floyd, Tony Timpa and police violence; the N-word and language as violence; and Third Wave Antiracism catechism.