The author of ‘White Rage’ on the persistent pattern of punishing blacks for their resilience
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The Washington Post
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🗓️ 16 June 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Jonathan Cape Heart and this is Cape Up. If the book White Fragility pushes |
| 0:08.1 | white Americans to see their witting and unwitting role in perpetuating white |
| 0:11.8 | supremacy, then Carol Anderson's book, White Rage, |
| 0:15.7 | the unspoken truth of our racial divide, shows that fragility in action. |
| 0:20.4 | What Anderson lays out in white rage is a troubling yet persistent pattern in American history. |
| 0:25.0 | Every advancement for African Americans is meant with an unequal and opposite reaction. |
| 0:31.0 | This incredible resilience and resolve cost that we supposedly embrace in the United States. |
| 0:38.1 | We actually punish black people for being resilient. |
| 0:42.0 | We punish them for aspire prey. We punish them for |
| 0:46.8 | believing that they are American citizens. |
| 0:50.3 | From slavery to Jim Crow, from civil rights to retrenchment, from President Obama to President |
| 0:57.0 | Trump. |
| 0:58.0 | Here Anderson explain how they are all related and learn how this history buttresses the emotions behind the protests in the wake of the killings of Ahmad Arbury, |
| 1:07.0 | Brianna Taylor, and George Floyd right now. |
| 1:10.0 | Professor Carol Anderson now. |
| 1:13.0 | Professor Carol Anderson, thank you so much for coming on the podcast. |
| 1:17.0 | Thank you so much for coming on the podcast. Thank you so much for having me, Jonathan. |
| 1:20.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:21.0 | Okay, so your book, White Rage, The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, came out of an |
| 1:29.7 | op-ed that you wrote for the Washington Post in August of 2014 and it was trying to explain |
| 1:36.8 | to to people but white people in particular why the why Ferguson and the protests in Ferguson were about a whole lot more |
| 1:48.4 | than the killing of Michael Brown. |
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