Revisionist History Presents: The Limits of Power

Revisionist History

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 2 June 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Malcolm has been writing about race and policing for a very long time, going back to the killing of Amadou Diallo in 1999. Sometimes, it is useful to take a step back and consider policing in a broader context. Here we present a chapter from Malcolm's book David and Goliath, which includes an analysis of a riot in Northern Ireland in 1970. Many miles and many years away. About divisions of religion and class and not divisions of race. But the core questions to be asked in 1970 and 1999 and today are the same: if you have power, what does it mean to use it, and use it wisely? And what are the consequences if you don't?

David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants was published in 2013 by Little, Brown and Company. Audiobook production by Hachette Audio.

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:11.3	Hello there, Malcolm Gladwell here.
0:13.8	Many people have spoken up over the last few days,
0:16.3	very eloquently, about the tragic death of George Floyd
0:19.7	at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis.
0:22.6	It says something about the country we live in,
0:25.3	that the most powerful things I've heard have come from mayors
0:27.9	and preachers and rappers and talk show hosts
0:30.3	and countless ordinary people on Twitter,
0:33.2	while the White House turned off its lights
0:35.7	and the President hid in an underground bunker.
0:39.0	Sometimes words fail me.
0:42.1	As those of you who have followed my career now,
0:44.0	I've been writing and thinking about race and policing
0:46.5	for a very long time.
0:47.9	The final chapter of my second book, Blink,
0:50.3	was about the 41 shots fired at a young African immigrant
0:53.8	named Amidu Diallo by New York City police officers
0:57.1	in 1999, as he stood on his front porch
1:01.4	and reached for his wallet to show them his ID.
1:04.8	My latest book, Talking to Strangers,
1:06.8	starts and ends with a tragic encounter
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