Police violence, gentrification, and racial capitalism w/Robin D. G. Kelley
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- Опубліковано 9 тра 2023
- In 2001, Cincinnati police killed a 19-year-old Black man named Timothy Thomas, sparking an uprising that shook the city for four days. 19 years later, in the city of Minneapolis, local police officers killed George Floyd over an alleged counterfeit bill, catalyzing a nationwide rebellion. Much of the discourse surrounding racist police killings have focused on perceived flaws within the institution of policing itself, but explanations for the consistency and pervasiveness of police violence cannot be found within police departments alone. Police operate within a system of race and class-based segregation, wherein Black, Indigenous, and migrant poor people are rendered surplus populations marked for the extraction of revenues by the state in the form of fines and fees. The lives of George Floyd and Timothy Thomas themselves exemplify this in cruel relief. TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez interviews historian Robin D. G. Kelley on the links between police killings and the system of racial capitalism. This interview took place shortly before Kelley's delivery of the 2023 George Floyd Memorial Lecture at the University of Houston.
Production: Nelly Cardoso, Michael Ma
Post-Production: Michael Ma
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Omg! This man is so right! He has nailed this issue to its very core. Now we need to keep talking about this until we see complete resolution. Ty TRNN & Prof Kelley! Solidarity! ✊
Brilliant discussion. Love this conversation.
Pure gold on the summation at the end. Thank you for the conversation.
The Real News is simply the best source for news on the internet right now.
Everyone can understand what this man just broke down. No excuses for being ignorant after this.
Thank you.
17:34 "Why is it in the interest..." Next you'll be asking why the food pyramid is upside down.
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Capital - head or top, I am, talley. Richard Wolf describes capital best. He says, “your brain, your muscles, what you produce”. Because you are using the word capital incorrectly, you are giving these people permission to treat people badly. Correct the language. Republicans are not conservative. Democrats are not liberal. Correct the language.
Perhaps not bearing multiple babies with multiple baby daddies would help end the cycle of poverty. Obeying lawful police directives could help too.
What?
@@sharmarkehosh what are you confused about? Can I help?
@@vitodanelli you obviously haven't noticed that the middle class has been shrinking for decades along with the mass immigration that's willing to work cheap, are the biggest groups finding their way into poverty.
Yikes, you know I worked in an ICU and a new nurse started his shift. We were talking about homeless in Hawaii this was 20 years ago, he said I don’t judge people anymore after working in the ED and hearing people stories and what they’ve been through. I always remember that and catch myself. Don’t punch down
@@lesliestenta3084 ha ha ha!! You obviously didn't comprehend what I posted. Just how am I punching down? You're just another pious virtue-signaler.
I wish Mr. Alvarez would take an opportunity to interrogate Racial tension and antipathy between the Latinx and Black communities in the US. What's going on here and why...? How / Why are Latinx communities being mobilized and pitted against Afro American communities of LA and Chicago. How do we account for the George Zimmerman, Enrique Tarrio and Mauricio Garcia vigilantes...?
I agree with the OP and the first reply
"Latinx" is an insulting, stupid name. Please stop using it.
- Sincerely, a Spanish speaking Latino
If you want the answer to that question, first of all, you need to differentiate the different cultures you are actually referring to. For example, anti blackness in the Dominican Republic has different origins to anti blackness in Mexican Culture, Chilean culture, Salvadoran culture, Brazilian culture, etcetera. The oversimplified answer is European colonialism creating racial caste systems that often put black people on the absolute bottom. White latinos are literally white people. Descendants of the Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Greek, French, Germans and Dutch mainly. It stems from resentment of fighting back and breaking slavery (especially the rampant hatred of Haitians), and generally upholding economic exploitation by retaining the traditional divides. American meddling also had a huge part in the issue. American trained dictators and militants in South and Central America, alongside committing mass atrocities all over the place, also put special emphasis on demonizing indigenous and black populations. Just like in America, being white is considered the ideal while being darker is seen as uglier and conflated with criminality and poverty. It's also seen as the most ideal because of wealth and asset hoarding from light skinned upper castes. That's why a lot of celebrities and politicians in South and Central American are light skinned mixed people or white people. Also, to make things more complicated, black latinos are a thing in most South and Central American countries. So, don't just create an oversimplified divide between latino and black.
@@letoiiatryda and what do you prefer to call yourselves...? "White"...? Cause that is what Hispanic - Latino peoples seem to prefer in casting their identity and social politics. This ethnic group likes to walk in and out of identity politics whenever it chooses---to claim White privilege benefits over here and then in a pinch claim "oppressed group" status and affirmation action. My point is that there is a lot of tension between the two groups, and I wish that Mr. Alvarez would one day take time to interrogate these pervading conflicts, rather than pretending there is a shared alliance and "solidarity" between Blacks and Latin peoples. It is so disingenuous.
Latinx= Pseudo racial/ethnic term
The courts sistem needs to be investigated for the not guilty. Racist courts.
You meant to write "court's system"
@@goldenvulture6818 the right judge.
Nice to see you went to U of M. GO BLUE!!
George Floyd lecture? This is BS.