17. Under the Blacklight: Virus, Voting & Vigilantism in Georgia

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4.7 • 814 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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On Pt 8 of “Under The Blacklight,” LaTosha Brown, Anoa Changa, Crystal Feimster, Talitha LeFlouria and Emery Wright join together to discuss vote suppression, state violence, vigilantism, and fatal public health experiments in the state of Georgia. With:  LATOSHA BROWN — Award-winning organizer, political strategist, jazz singer; Co-Founder of the Black Voters Matters Fund ANOA CHANGA - Electoral justice reporter for Prism; Organizer; Lawyer; Host of “The Way with Anoa” CRYSTAL FEIMSTER — Professor, Yale; Author of Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching  TALITHA LEFLOURIA — Professor, UVA; Author of Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South  EMERY WRIGHT — Political Organizer; Educator; Co-Director, Project South (Read full bios here: aapf.org/under-the-blacklight-covid19) Hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks)  Produced by Julia Sharpe-Levine  Edited by Julia Sharpe-Levine and Raffi Marhaba   Additional support provided by Awoye Timpo, Emmett O’Malley, Michael Kramer, Gregory Bernstein Alanna Kane   Music by Blue Dot Sessions   Follow us at @intersectionalitymatters, @IMKC_podcast

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0:00.0	COVID-19 has changed everything, halting life as we know it in its tracks.
0:08.0	To respond to this global pandemic and to adapt to this new way of life,
0:13.0	we're doing things a bit more DIY than usual.
0:17.0	We're not in the studio and we're dispersed all over the country, but we did want to respond to the urgent need for information,
0:24.6	bringing to you the voices of some of the leading experts to help us grapple with the new and not so new dimensions of this crisis.
0:32.6	It's in this vein that we're calling the series Under the Black Light to uncover the conditions
0:39.1	that pre-existed the virus and the cracks in our social structure that the virus can now exploit
0:45.5	to wreak maximum havoc. In the coming weeks, we'll be producing live conversations that
0:52.2	bring together artists, activists, thought
0:54.7	leaders, scholars, service providers, and others on the front lines of the fight against COVID-19.
1:01.5	Each Wednesday will bring you a virtual conversation over Zoom, which will then be released
1:06.2	as an episode of intersectionalitys in the following week.
1:17.6	Over the past two weeks, the everyday conditions of Black death have been as pronounced as ever,
1:23.6	especially with new revelations in the respective cases of Ahmed Arbery and Brianna Taylor.
1:28.7	And while the hunting and killing of Ahmed Arbery has become a well-known tragedy,
1:33.6	there are still many who've yet to hear the story of Brianna Taylor, a black woman who was killed when plain-closed policemen raided her home by mistake and shot her eight times.
1:40.6	Taylor was a certified EMT who spent the last week of her life in high-risk service to others.
1:48.6	It turned out that the risk that she could not survive was the one for which there was no protection.
1:55.7	These two deaths, one in broad daylight at the hands of despicable vigilantes, the other in the dead of night
2:04.1	at the hyped up hands of cops. Together represent that pre-COVID or post-COVID, we have been
2:11.3	and remain subject to death by fiat. These deaths are modern embodiments of racial terror from a time we'd like to think
2:20.7	as long ago when there were no rules, no laws, no expectations that white people were bound to
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