Chenarei: Why was I so blase about going into that high crime neighborhood in the first place? Chenarei: Thinking I could walk safely out of it pushing a valuable object in plain sight. He says he expected to get credit for displaying his lack of fear my non-racist non-profiling swellness. "I'm the one in danger Right the kid is the threat. I'm his potential victim"
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.