The History of Police Work in the South

Historian Sally Hayden writes in her book slave patrols quote, the history of police work in the south grows out of this early fascination by white patrollers with what African American slaves were doing. Most law enforcement was by definition white patrolmen watching catching or beating black slaves. And I do find that really interesting because that's a through line right up to today. That's how they felt. Yeah. Have you heard of the phrase like, it's in like feminism also, but the phrase the male gaze? Yes. So like in the same thing, like black activism spaces, where it's like the white gaze, yeah, just like, what are you looking at all the damn time?