White on black violence. Are you talking about the weaponized whiteness, white on black violence? Only about 5% of that total came to North America. Most of the black people who lived as slaves here in the US over the centuries were born here. The process of breaking someone down and acclimating them was another term for slavery after stealing them across the sea.
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.