What Next - The Roots of Latino White Supremacy
What Next | Daily News and Analysis
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The shooter who killed 8 people at an Allen, Texas mall had Nazi tattoos and left behind an online diary filled with white supremacist beliefs. He also was Latino.
Guest: Tanya Katerí Hernández, professor of law at Fordham University School of Law and author of Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality
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| 0:00.0 | Ah, the sound of spring cleaning. |
| 0:03.6 | Steam clean your way to brighter bathrooms and sparkling kitchens with the carcass deem cleaner. |
| 0:09.6 | You'll be done before you know it, with more time to pitch your feet up. |
| 0:14.0 | Find your carcass deem cleaner at carcature.co.uk or a carcass retailer. |
| 0:25.6 | Just for a moment, consider this fact. |
| 0:29.4 | There have been more mass shootings this year than there have been days. |
| 0:33.4 | Over 200 so far, according to the gun violence archive. |
| 0:41.0 | There have been shootings at an affordable housing complex in Chicago, |
| 0:44.6 | in the waiting room of a doctor's office in Atlanta, |
| 0:47.4 | and at a mall, just north of Dallas. |
| 0:50.6 | Not mall shooting. |
| 0:52.0 | It felt particularly grim because of how quickly gruesome pictures of the victims |
| 0:57.4 | and the gunmen made rounds on social media. |
| 1:00.2 | Eight people were killed. |
| 1:01.8 | Their bodies left in a pile outside an H&M. |
| 1:05.4 | There's never a sensical motive for a crime like this. |
| 1:10.2 | But that didn't stop digital scavengers from looking. |
| 1:13.8 | The shooter it turned out had left behind a diary online. |
| 1:17.4 | In it, he was frank about his white supremacist beliefs. |
| 1:21.0 | He had a swastikat tattoo on his chest. |
| 1:23.8 | He was also Latino. |
| 1:26.2 | Or as he put it online, Hispanic, whether I like it or not. |
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