roy moore to me, when he brought in steve bannon, should have been disqualified. i don t understand. how can you have a guy who is running with a white separatist, running for a political office? it has nothing to do with being democrat, republican. he has a guy running with him who is a white separatist, that s immoral and wrong. what s your reaction, james? outside of basketball i don t always agree with charles barclay, but he has a really important point here. when you think about the long, powerful, complicated history of alabama, the idea that someone who is a white nationalist who historically has shown some racialized thinking, some racist thinking, could even be at this point. someone who could be endorsedpy a white nationalist in steve bannon and that be the sort of positive piece of what his campaign was. the idea that that can happen in the 21st century, in a state with as complex a history around race as alabama, is very, very
a hair-trigger response when they see a black man and they misinterpret every move that he s making as a threat. so you didn t when they were sort of coming clean and really baring their souls, you also in the course of this didn t necessarily believe that these officers as individuals were necessarily racist, did you? well, when you say racist did i think that they were klansmen in a police officer s uniform? no. i think that what we have to do in the united states is understand. everybody has inside of them racialized thinking, racial fears. we all have those fears. i mean, keep in mind that black cops also make negative associations and threat associations when they re presented with black images. so it s across the board.
explanation channelled the grandfather of the drug war and a racist named harry anslinger who as founding commissioner of the federal bureau of narcotics spear headed the prohibition of cannabis. that was him being polite because he also cautioned that reefers make darkies think they re as good as white men. i could get into a long isn t that correcty takedown of this logic but i have more important things left in the hour that we have to do and frankly, i don t want to. but i will say one thing, mr. alfred. while you have issued a public apology, your position illustrates just how pervasive racialized thinking has been in the evolution of the drug war. a war that has put thousands of