(2013/06/18) The creation of whiteness and its consequences (Racism)
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🗓️ 18 June 2013
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The creation of whiteness and its consequences
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Who's Saying 1 In 1000 Is Successful - CounterSpin - Air Date 3-1-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: 10 Frisk Commandments (Remix) [feat. Jasiri X, Elon James White & Willie Evans Jr.] - This Week in Blackness
Ch. 4: Act 2: Stop-And-Frisks Designed to 'Strike Fear' in Minorities? - Young Turks - Air Date: 04-03-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Protect and Serve - Stiff Little Fingers
Ch. 6: Act 3: Stopping Stop and Frisk - UnFuck it Up Project
Ch. 7: Song 3: I Didn't Fuck It Up - Katie Goodman
Ch. 8: Act 4: Being Racist And Not Knowing It - Citizen Radio - Air Date 3-11-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: A post-racial America - Wade Waters
Ch. 10: Act 5: How racism went to Harvard...and then to Heritage - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 05-24-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Indefensible - My Dad Is Dead
Ch. 12: Act 6: White Privilege, Black Privilege - This Week in Blackness - Air Date 4-29-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Suspicious - Ivy
Ch. 14: Act 7: The Failed--and Racist--War on Pot - The Progressive - Air Date: 6-5-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: War - Edwin Starr
Ch. 16: Act 8: The Creation of Whiteness - Tim Wise
Voicemails:
Ch. 17: Addressing the religious and business sides of saving agriculture - Chris from Colorado Springs
Ch. 18: Edited voicemail made called sound jack-assy - Steve from Richmond VA
Ch. 19: That race thing was awesome - Chris from Colorado Springs
Ch. 20: Rejecting the 1% doctrine - Nathan from Vancouver, WA
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 21: Final comments on white shame, David Pakman's fundraising campaign, taking an episode off for Netroots and a reminder about the new member's-only bonus content
Link to song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdn3O6aaMNc
Facebook page, UnFuck It Up: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Unfuck-It-Up/196389490396988
KatieG’s website: http://katiegoodman.com
KatieK’s website: http://katiespeak.com
Justice Dept: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/13/us-usa-newyork-stopandfrisk-idUSBRE95C15X20130613
iPhone app: http://www.nyclu.org/news/nyclu-unveils-stop-and-frisk-watch-app-iphones
Petitions:
http://www.change.org/petitions/nypd-stop-stop-and-frisk
http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/stop-stop-and-frisk-2
http://www.colorofchange.org/campaign/end-stop-and-frisk-nyc/
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:05.9 | For details, visit the membership tab at BestofalF.com. |
| 0:08.9 | Now, welcome to the award-winning BestofalF podcast with clips today from Counterspin, The |
| 0:12.7 | Young Turks, Activism from the Unfucked Up Project, Citizen Radio, The Tom Arden Program, |
| 0:17.3 | This Week in Blackness, The Progressive, and A Speed by Tim Wise. |
| 0:21.0 | And my apologies in advance for those who will be responsible for reprinting all the |
| 0:24.1 | census forms, their wrongly list white is one of the selections under race and ethnicity. |
| 0:30.1 | On ABC's this week, conservative main-stage George Will argued that the way to stop gun |
| 0:34.9 | violence was to adopt controversial stop and frisk policing policies. |
| 0:40.0 | The relative prevalence of stop and frisk in New York City said Will, was why New York |
| 0:45.1 | had a far lower rate of gun violence than Chicago. |
| 0:48.3 | When President went to Chicago this week, Chicago has more gun homicides than New York |
| 0:54.9 | although New York has three times the population of what's the difference? |
| 0:57.8 | The difference is different police measures and New York with a lot of controversies had |
| 1:03.6 | stop and frisk and it's had a measurable effect on gun violence. |
| 1:08.2 | Not sexy, it's not a federal program, it's at the local level and it works. |
| 1:12.8 | Stop and frisk is definitely not sexy. |
| 1:15.6 | The practice of stopping people, mostly young men of color in searching them without probable |
| 1:19.8 | cause, is a lot of things, racist for one, unconstitutional for another, but does it actually |
| 1:26.0 | work to reduce gun violence? |
| 1:28.3 | No, was this short answer suggested by an investigation last July by New York Public |
| 1:33.3 | Radio Station WNYC? |
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