The idea that it only happens to young black men is simply a matter of media distortion, says Van Jones. The cops don't have very good training and how to grapple with somebody and d escolate them physically, so the gun comes out. And i've never really grappled with somebody, you know, in a fight like that since i was, you know, maybe in middle school or something. I got three messages about this tony timpaish person on my cell phone one day: 'I'm not trying to sound self aggrandizing but i was talking to glenlowry' But then again, if we're supposed to think that george floyd's knee on
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.