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The Dershow

Smith College Racism Debacle

The Dershow

Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media

News, Politics

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

We tackle the Smith College racism debacle, the Anti-Israel SNL joke and the inability of NYC prosecutors to convict wrongful police shootings.

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0:00.0

Today on the Dershow, we jump feet first into sensitive issues regarding race and gender.

0:08.9

We're going to talk about an event that happened in Smith College where a black woman was

0:13.5

told to leave a dormitory area.

0:16.7

She cried racism.

0:18.7

It turned out she was the one who was wrong and the people who told her to leave was 100 percent

0:24.2

right.

0:25.2

And then we're also going to talk about what it means that a 43 investigations of shooting

0:29.9

of black people in the New York area, none of them has been successfully convicted.

0:36.9

You'll hear about this issue and other issues regarding race on today's Dershow.

0:41.6

Today, we're going to talk about a subject that's very difficult to talk about race, racial

0:50.7

discrimination, identity politics, but it's very, very important to have honest discussions

0:58.6

about race.

0:59.6

And there are two issues that arose in yesterday and the day before his New York times that

1:06.1

bring the issue of race and identity politics to the forefront.

1:10.6

One was a very disturbing article entitled Inside a Battle over Race, Class, and Power at

1:16.7

Smith College.

1:18.9

And it tells a story, a story that one can imagine a film being made of.

1:25.6

It tells a story of a young black woman having lunch in an isolated area of a dormitory.

1:34.3

And she's approached by a janitor and a campus unarmed police officer and simply asked

1:45.4

what she's doing in that part of the dormitory because it was not supposed to be a place

1:52.6

where people were having lunch.

1:55.8

That should have been the end of it.

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