As the protests in
Ferguson, Missouri, erupted back in August 2014, media commentators across
country referred to the response of African Americans to the killing of unarmed
black people by police as “black rage,” and in response to the
characterization, historian Carol Anderson wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post suggesting that this was, instead, "white rage at work” noting
that “With so much attention on the flames, everyone had ignored the
kindling." This op-ed would lead
Carol Anderson to write a full length book on the subject called White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Nation's Divide, which is now out in paperback, and in it she details
how since 1865 and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, every time African
Americans have made advances towards full participation in our democracy, white
reaction has fueled a deliberate and relentless rollback of their gains. Carol
is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies at Emory University and she joins me on the show today to talk all about the book and
how every time social progress for African Americans was made it was countered
by deliberate and cleverly crafted opposition.
This sure has been another
crazy week in politics what with Pres. Trump making deals with Democrats and
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont announcing his Medicare For All plan. Joining me today to help us wrap up the week
in politics is Eleanor Clift the
Washington correspondent for The Daily Beast, where she covers the White House and writes about politics and
culture.
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