being investigated as a hate crime. in fact one of the most recent ones was a predominantly white church in tallahassee. that was a lightning strike. there are dozens of churches being struck. anybody committing arson should be prosecuted and punished for it. anybody with racist motivation should be investigated for using that motivation to go out and burn down churches. but for media to have all of this the ones that you were mentioning all of these black churches getting burned down is hyperbole. since june 20th new hope lutheran church in florida. that was arson. right. not a black church. one in new york. right. caused by lightning. so it wasn t arson. there s another one accidental these are all nonblack churches one in ohio one in california one in new york. nonblack churches that have burned that they ignore in coming up with their stats.
that i just wrote that i just read. he said, you know, we re all more the same than we are different. and we should stop the separation and pointing it out and that would make us a better we re a melting pot. well, if you read my article closely, you see that i say things very similar to that near the bottom of the piece. that although we are not the same, we are equal and that is not an attempt of mine at all to say that you cannot enjoy music that was created by black people. that s not to say that you can t enjoy the things that you like. and there is a very thick line between appropriation and appreciation of the things that maybe some people perceive. okay. h. allen. she does make a very good point. and i thought the crux of her article when she said, but here s the shade. she said the nonblack people who get to enjoy the fun things about blackness will never have to experience the ugliness of the black experience, systemic racism and the dangers of simply living while bla
2014 motor trend car of the year. ain t garages great? jonathan chait landed his new york magazine on race during the obama presidency on what happens in 2017. quote, obama is attempting to navigate the fraught everywhere that surrounds him. it s a weird moment, but also a temporary one. the passing from the scene of the the nation s first black president in three years, and the near certain election of the nonblack one will likely ease the mutual suspicion. the new republic picked that up and ran with it, publishing a piece entitled the obama-era race wars are ending. get ready for the clinton era gender wars. perhaps. while jonathan chait s article has been a source of great controversy and we obviously talked about it here, it s really obscured a larger debate about the facts that exist today on the ground, and i hope we can
as i noted in the opening, there are some similarities and some important differences in this case. you do have an unarmed teenager who was shot. you had the invoking of stand your ground, although now it s really the self-defense laws that are being, i think, more closely scrutinized. talk to us about the premise of this case and why people are making these comparisons. sure. i think the biggest comparison here, obviously you have two black unarmed teenagers and two nonblack, white shooters who shoot these young teenagers. this case is a little different, however, because michael dunn left the scene. michael dunn, unlike george zimmerman, did not call the police. michael dunn did not turn himself in. he lefted scene, went to his hotel, ordered a pizza, had a rum and coke, walked his dog. the next morning when he woke up, he saw on the news jordan davis had been killed and got in his car and drove three hours back to his house and still never called the police. in this case, you also
business that might control what otherwise becomes lethal behavior. absolutely right. and it s exacerbated by the fact that, again, suspicions about black behavior, which are much broader in the culture, seep into our unconscious. so when you put that along with the factor of being startled in the middle of the night, it can lead to disastrous consequences. here s the point. the woman is on the porch. there is no indication that the gunshot was at close range, which means that this man, standing behind his door, did not feel or need not have felt in imminent threat of his life. but again, the trigger-happy culture, which believes that black life is a threat to white life or nonblack life, leads this person to believe that he s within his right, legally, as well as morally, to respond with lethal al force. and even, sir, finally, if stand your ground is used in this case, this is a 5 4 young