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The Exhaustion of Fighting for Justice
1:10:52 - 1:19:10 (08:18)
The speaker discusses the emotional exhaustion that comes with fighting for justice and how difficult it is to maintain the energy to continue the fight. They give an example of a high profile case that took five years to gain traction, despite being presented in 2015.
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After the Civil War, white people in the former Confederate States transformed the institutions of the slave patrols into police departments to maintain white supremacy.
1:10:52 - 1:11:46 (00:54)
Summary
After the Civil War, white people in the former Confederate States transformed the institutions of the slave patrols into police departments to maintain white supremacy. The editor of the Lynchburg Virginian called for stringent police regulations in order to prevent freedmen from overburdening towns and depleting agricultural regions of labor.
ChapterThe Exhaustion of Fighting for Justice
EpisodeSlavery, Mass Murder and the Birth of American Policing
PodcastBehind the Bastards
Comedian Dave Chappelle's skit on the day slaves were freed is one of his greatest.
1:11:46 - 1:12:32 (00:46)
Summary
Comedian Dave Chappelle's skit on the day slaves were freed is one of his greatest. He explores the emotions slaves might have felt on discovering they were free after years of oppression.
ChapterThe Exhaustion of Fighting for Justice
EpisodeSlavery, Mass Murder and the Birth of American Policing
PodcastBehind the Bastards
Police officers in Southern towns carried out aspects of urban slave patrolling that appeared race neutral but were selectively applied.
1:12:32 - 1:14:44 (02:11)
Summary
Police officers in Southern towns carried out aspects of urban slave patrolling that appeared race neutral but were selectively applied. In the post-Civil War period, police became the primary means of maintaining a system of "liberty for the white man, slavery for the inward," according to a Virginia clergyman.
ChapterThe Exhaustion of Fighting for Justice
EpisodeSlavery, Mass Murder and the Birth of American Policing
PodcastBehind the Bastards
A report finds that the Ferguson Police Department used dogs to bite low-level offenders and even children, even when facts didn't justify the use of force.
1:14:44 - 1:16:43 (01:58)
Summary
A report finds that the Ferguson Police Department used dogs to bite low-level offenders and even children, even when facts didn't justify the use of force. The report concludes that such permissiveness combined with the absence of meaningful supervisory review and overstating the threat based on race has led to avoidable dog bites to low-level offenders.
ChapterThe Exhaustion of Fighting for Justice
EpisodeSlavery, Mass Murder and the Birth of American Policing
PodcastBehind the Bastards
The speaker decries the amount of effort they had to put in to pursue justice after being ignored by those who should have taken care of a matter of societal importance, adding that the issue at hand has been dragging for years, causing a lot of stress and anxiety.
1:16:43 - 1:19:10 (02:27)
Summary
The speaker decries the amount of effort they had to put in to pursue justice after being ignored by those who should have taken care of a matter of societal importance, adding that the issue at hand has been dragging for years, causing a lot of stress and anxiety.