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Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad observes in his book The Condemnation of Blackness that “to think and talk about African Americans as criminal is encoded deeply in our DNA.” In this 2012 Moyers Moment from Moyers & Company,
Muhammad tells Bill how, during Reconstruction, former slaves were
perceived to have a moral failing that made them different from white
European immigrants. As a result, he explained, “immigrant communities
got police reform. And black people got police repression.”
Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad observes in his book The Condemnation of Blackness that “to think and talk about African Americans as criminal is encoded deeply in our DNA.” In this 2012 Moyers Moment from Moyers & Company,
Muhammad tells Bill how, during Reconstruction, former slaves were
perceived to have a moral failing that made them different from white
European immigrants. As a result, he explained, “immigrant communities
got police reform. And black people got police repression.”
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