3. Jan 6th: An American Story - America In Black and White

Our Body Politic

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News Commentary, Documentary, Society & Culture, Government, News

4.8 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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PART 3: The investigators take us deep inside to reveal how race touched every piece of the January 6th investigation. Their perspective is necessary to show how ethnic identities still define so much of how this nation operates. Stephanie Jones, who was an editor on the January 6th report and daughter of one of the leads on the Kerner Commission of the 1960s, provides historical context on how the government does – and doesn’t – address structural racism

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0:00.0	It is the summer.
0:03.6	White White White House Kennedy.
0:05.4	What's my goodness?
0:07.2	It is the summer of 2020.
0:12.4	The nation is roiling.
0:15.3	A few months earlier,
0:17.5	George Floyd's last words,
0:19.5	I can't breathe, were caught on camera.
0:22.8	As white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin crushed the life out of a man,
0:28.2	in front of a crowd of horrified onlookers, Floyd's name joined a growing list of black people
0:34.3	killed by the police. In city after city, Americans voiced their anger and said enough, no matter that COVID was
0:43.4	omnipresent. People took to the streets to march.
0:49.9	Marcus Childress was no exception.
0:52.8	I didn't just watch it. I participated in it.
0:54.7	My wife and I were active participants in the Black Lives Matter protests.
0:58.2	We threw a protest in Richmond myself, where we led and organized it.
1:02.0	Marcus, a lawyer and former military prosecutor who has often been the face and voice of the law,
1:08.0	was also afraid of it in those days because of the color of his skin.
1:12.9	And look, I can tell you,
1:15.0	the fact that we were scared, more scared of the police
1:17.7	throughout the entire time that we were protesting.
1:20.6	In Washington, D.C., a stones throw away from the White House,
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