Black journalists and journalists of color, like, we are tired. We are exhausted.

Covering the story while living the story. From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm

Brooke Gladstone. In rethinking the role of the police, consider what motivated the founding

of the force from the very start. From the colonial period and the founding of this country, the impulse of policing has been

to protect property and to enforce social control among immigrants, communities of color,

and laboring communities.

Also, how to comprehend the ruptures in our society?

One very old theory suggests that civilization is just a thin veneer, and in tough times

we revert to our brutish selves.

Veneer theory is simply wrong.

Deep down, most people are pretty decent, with maybe one thing I should add there, which

is that power corrupt.

There's more coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

Bob Garfield is out. I'm Brooke Gladstone. We've really been confronting ourselves this week,

seeing ourselves in mostly unflattering high-deaf,

like it or not, in the people who represent us, in photo ops clutching bibles and fancy handbags,

in uniform firing flash bombs to maintain the established order,

and in the streets with banners and outstretched arms

trying to overturn that order.

So who are we, really?

Manus released a statement today that reads in part,

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