Sally Kohn: Black folks commit a disproportionate share of violent crimes in the United States today. She says there's nothing remotely comparable to mass killing and violence that has been done by white people against black people. But she adds, "that doesn't mean that white people are justified in being scared when they walk past a black person"
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.