The Effect of Watching So Many Videos

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"I just couldn't when I, when I saw that there was that video," he says. "It's clear that what we have is a society in which if a police officer says they were afraid and I guess I don't have any reason to doubt them." He adds: "If the person's black at least and you say you're afraid, then we believe you and, and it's all good"

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.