Speaker 1: With that in mind, we have to move on. It's
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Speaker 1: a video recording from doctor William Derrity, who's speaking to
Speaker 1: a crowd member at the University of Massachusetts. Q. I
Speaker 1: think you got this one.
Speaker 2: All right, thanks for coming today. Are there any trends
Speaker 2: with within the black community, such as higher crime rates
Speaker 2: or high illegitimacy illegitimacy race that could explain their position
Speaker 2: vast of East Whites and Kansas are explained by some
Speaker 2: dominant social group. No, no to the first one or
Speaker 2: no to both.
Speaker 3: I mean it's it's there's a propagandi stick mechanism that's
Speaker 3: afloat about, you know, black illegitimacy and black criminality. I
Speaker 3: guess it depends on what kind of crime you have
Speaker 3: in mind. If we think about which community in the
Speaker 3: United States has the highest degree of history of violence,
Speaker 3: that's unquestionably White Americans, unquestionably. I mean, I'm not sure
Speaker 3: if you're aware of the hundred massacres that were conducted
Speaker 3: between the end of the Civil War and World War
Speaker 3: Two that were directed against black communities throughout the United
Speaker 3: States in which thousands of blacks were killed and the
Speaker 3: white terrorist appropriated black owned property. So there's no segment
Speaker 3: of the population that has a greater history of violence
Speaker 3: than white Americans. So when you talk about these kinds
Speaker 3: of matters, to me, you're actually mouthing a set of
Speaker 3: propagandistic claims that are made on the right in the
Speaker 3: United States, and they do not have a foundation in fact.
Speaker 1: Wow, all right, why don't you start us off.
Speaker 4: You once upon a time, our fellow Americans cared about
Speaker 4: the last thing that he said. They do not have
Speaker 4: a foundation in fact. And this wasn't a very long
Speaker 4: time ago where conversations had to start on there being
Speaker 4: a shared version of what facts are, but information like
Speaker 4: what the person in the audience asked with regards to
Speaker 4: black illegitimacy and higher crime rates amongst black people, and
Speaker 4: several other other you know, propagandistic tropes and lies, let's
Speaker 4: just call it flat on his face. Lies can be
Speaker 4: perpetuated now with little to no pushback, because well, our
Speaker 4: guy said it, so it must be true, even though
Speaker 4: we're looking at facts that says it's not. We're going
Speaker 4: to go with our guy.
Speaker 1: I'm going to add to that, because you're absolutely right,
Speaker 1: these things are not based in a shared reality whatsoever.
Speaker 1: But allow me to make a connection between the things
Speaker 1: that folks are alleging is true, because some of what
Speaker 1: we say is true, and it does shape the outcomes
Speaker 1: and perceptions, not to the degree that the right would
Speaker 1: have folks believe like all black people are criminals, blah blah,
Speaker 1: all that sort of stuff, because that's obviously false.
Speaker 4: But let me connect this for you.
Speaker 1: So he mentioned the one hundred massacres over the years
Speaker 1: between the Civil War and World War Two, and then
Speaker 1: the appropriated black owned property. Let's add to that redlining.
Speaker 1: Now you're talking about black wealth or the lack thereof,
Speaker 1: and then you're talking about black illegitimacy, which that only
Speaker 1: started taking place so that black people could get more
Speaker 1: assistance from the state. So without the land and the wealth,
Speaker 1: and then obviously poverty is breeding ground for criminality.