John Bewin: Seeing white is that it changes how you see so many things history politics good Lord I am the law and order candidate You can't watch movies the same way the sky people have sent us a message. There's a racially loaded slice of American life But really is there a corner of American life that's not racially loaded ice cream maybe Everybody just loves ice cream plain and simple even if you're vegan and not actually eating it anymore It doesn't matter if you're black-brown red-yellow or plain vanilla like me Right so much for ice cream No doubt this is why a lot of folks especially white folks would rather not see white complicates things.
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.