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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

Bryan Stevenson Talks to David Remnick About the Legacy of Racial Terror

The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The New Yorker

Politics, Washington, News, Obama, Wnyc, President, Lizza, Barack, Wickenden

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2016

⏱️ 17 minutes

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There are fifty-nine monuments to the Confederacy in Montgomery, Alabama, where the lawyer and civil-rights activist Bryan Stevenson lives and runs the Equal Justice Initiative. His organization is dedicated to tackling racism in our institutions and documenting it in the past. Stevenson would like to erect historical markers on the sites of lynchings, much as Germany has tried to mark Nazi crimes against Jews. Yes, Americans have civil rights, Stevenson tells David Remnick. What we lack is a sense of shame.

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I'm Dorothy Wickend. On today's Politics and More podcast, New Yorker editor David Remnick talks with Brian

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Stevenson, a civil rights activist and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative.

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Last year, the group released lynching in America, the result of a multi-year

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study on the legacy of racial terror in American culture. Over the past few years, as we've

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become increasingly aware of police killings of African Americans and many other tragic

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injustices, one thing has become supremely clear. If you're white,

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the era of lynching, of Jim Crow, official racism, all of it seems like it happened a long time

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ago in the bad old pre-civil rights days. But if you're black, those events seem somehow as if they

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took place much more recently, maybe well within your own lifetime.

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Brian Stevenson is a lawyer and civil rights activist who would like to close the gap between white and black memory.

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