#1458 White Supremacy on Trial (Rittenhouse in Kenosha, Arbery Murder, Charlottesville Nazis)
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🗓️ 3 December 2021
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 12/2/2021
Today we take a look at the state of White Supremacy in the US through the lens of three recent trials; Kyle Rittenhouse's acquittal for his role in the deaths of two and injury of one in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the conviction of the three men who murdered Ahmaud Arbery during what they claimed was a citizen's arrest, and a civil suit filed against White Supremacists for their role in the death and injuries during the Charlottesville Unite the Right rally and counter-protest.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: White Violence on Steroids - In The Thick - Air Date 11-16-21
Julio is joined by Elie Mystal, justice correspondent at The Nation, and Michael Harriot, senior writer at The Root, to talk about white supremacy and anti-Black racism in the criminal justice system.
Ch. 2: Kyle Rittenhouse and the “self-defense” defense - Today, Explained - Air Date 11-22-21
Legal scholar Eric Ruben explains how “self-defense” can apply to shooting unarmed people in public.
We discuss the details of these two cases, how they differ, and the questions they raise about the normalization of violence in the U.S.
Ch. 4: “Why Are Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers So Scared?” - Democracy Now! - Air Date 11-24-21
We speak with Nicole Lewis, Senior editor of Jurisprudence at Slate. She says claims of self-defense from armed white people serve as a “racist dog whistle”
Tonight's guest is Gwen Keyes Fleming, former DeKalb County, Georgia district attorney.
A civil trial seeks to hold white supremacists accountable for organizing the deadly “Unite the Right” rally there in 2017 and conspiring to commit racially motivated violence
Ch. 8: Can You Bankrupt White Supremacy? - Democracy Now! - Air Date 11-24-21
A federal jury has ordered a group of white supremacists to pay over $26 million in damages for their role in organizing the deadly 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S)
Kyle Rittenhouse is being welcomed by a society that was partly created using racialized terrorism.
Human rights advocates are calling for charges to be dropped in the case of Chrystul Kizer, who faces homicide and other charges for killing her white sex trafficker in 2018
VOICEMAILS
Ch. 11: Surviving to turn the tide - Eric from Portland
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 12: Final comments on the status of our government responsiveness to public sentiment
MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left podcast, in which we shall |
| 0:07.0 | take a look at the state of white supremacy in the United States through the lens of three |
| 0:11.9 | recent trials. Kyle Rittenhouse is a quiddle for his role in the deaths of two and injury |
| 0:17.5 | of one in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the conviction of the three men who murdered Ahmad Abri during |
| 0:22.6 | what they claimed was a citizen's arrest, and a civil suit filed against white supremacists |
| 0:27.6 | for their role in the death and injuries during the Charlottesville Unite the Right Rally |
| 0:32.1 | and Counter-Protests. Clips today are from In the Thick, Today Explained, Intercepted, |
| 0:39.1 | Democracy Now, The Rachel Maddo Show, and with additional members only clips from the |
| 0:44.2 | majority report and Democracy Now. |
| 0:53.2 | Tell me how this trial has exposed the obvious, meaning the racism and white supremacy in our |
| 0:59.0 | justice system. How is it clear in your eyes? |
| 1:01.5 | One way, and since we're among friends here, I'd like to address the thing that's kind |
| 1:05.4 | of bubbling up underneath the service, which is like a couple of people, white criminal |
| 1:10.1 | defense attorneys, some even people of color criminal defense attorneys kind of bubbling |
| 1:14.6 | up with like, well, you know, the judge is really harsh on the prosecution and overall, |
| 1:18.8 | you would like judges to be more harsh on the pro, yes, that's true. It would actually |
| 1:23.0 | be great if judges were harsh on the prosecution as Bruce Schrader has been harsh on the prosecution |
| 1:30.0 | throughout this trial. Do you think that happens if the defendant is black in that chair |
| 1:35.2 | as opposed to white? Because I don't, and that then becomes to me like the heart of this |
| 1:40.7 | problem. Everybody in good faith and honesty knows that if Kyle Rittenhouse was black, |
| 1:47.7 | this would not be happening, right? If his name was Kyrie Ritter as opposed to Kyle Rittenhouse |
| 1:53.6 | and Kyrie Ritter videotaped himself two weeks before the shooting, talking about how we |
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