Speaker 1: And now moving my mic back, you're like that you
Speaker 1: can strike.
Speaker 2: Headquarters behind him.
Speaker 1: And well, if you're just turning in a civic cipher,
Speaker 1: I am your host. Ramsay's job. He is Ramses, I
Speaker 1: am q Ward. This is a civic cipher. Shout out
Speaker 1: to our producer and is Maggie aka Maggie knowing g
Speaker 1: you do this. Indeed, we have a new intern in studio.
Speaker 1: His name is Keon, so shout out to Key as well.
Speaker 1: Stick around. We're going to talk about some more teens.
Speaker 1: Let's make sure that we touch on a very heavy issue.
Speaker 1: There's a video that went viral of police chasing a
Speaker 1: twelve year old boy who was riding on an a
Speaker 1: t V. So we're gonna spend some time discussing how
Speaker 1: the police beat and kicked him. We're it's gonna take
Speaker 1: some time to talk about the Chicago race riot. That
Speaker 1: will be for our Way Black Street. Fact. That one's
Speaker 1: a tough one too, but hey, we need to know
Speaker 1: about it. And if you weren't around in nineteen nineteen,
Speaker 1: then you know I had to learn it, so so
Speaker 1: do you. But first we're going to talk about how
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Speaker 1: it all makes a difference and allows you to be
Speaker 1: a BA, become a better ally BA BA. So that
Speaker 1: is a wonderful example of people championing black businesses and
Speaker 1: creating opportunities that will create a more equitable environment for
Speaker 1: all of us. Now onto the big business. I guess
Speaker 1: I should paint this picture. You want to paint it,
Speaker 1: you can, But I do want to say that this
Speaker 1: time we both watched the video. Yeah, we try not
Speaker 1: to do that. We try to, you know, share the
Speaker 1: load and we try to not we both have to
Speaker 1: bear the trauma of the type of things that we
Speaker 1: have to consume in order for this show to be
Speaker 1: done properly. But we both saw this one and many
Speaker 1: of you listening maybe have seen it as well. And
Speaker 1: you'll begin as you listen to the description of this
Speaker 1: story to maybe be a little sick to your stomach,
Speaker 1: because there might be some truths in this one that
Speaker 1: I wouldn't seem or appear to be obvious to you.
Speaker 1: If you didn't see it, if it was just described
Speaker 1: as police and minor, you might draw a conclusion that
Speaker 1: in this case is not true. Yeah, thanks for saying that, Q,
Speaker 1: because you know, not all these stories end in death.
Speaker 1: The ones that do, unfortunately get sensationalized, and we have
Speaker 1: to talk about those more because death is obviously a
Speaker 1: much bigger issue than the beating of black people and
Speaker 1: trauma against black bodies. But when you are a father
Speaker 1: the way Q is a father, the way I am
Speaker 1: a father, and when you are a mother the way
Speaker 1: Maggie is a mother, and when we have to put
Speaker 1: these show together, the show together for you, and we
Speaker 1: look at it and we have to think, Okay, this
Speaker 1: is the world that we live in and we're raising
Speaker 1: our children, and it hits different. It's enough to make
Speaker 1: you cry. I don't have this child's name because he's
Speaker 1: a child. I don't know what he looks like except
Speaker 1: that he has brown skin. Because his face is blurred
Speaker 1: out in the press. Conference that we were able to watch,
Speaker 1: But basically he was with his friends. They were riding ATVs.
Speaker 1: This took place in Placamin's Parish in New Orleans, Louisiana,
Speaker 1: and they're riding their ATVs. As you know, ATVs are loud.
Speaker 1: They're not subject to like muffler laws and that sort
Speaker 1: of stuff. So I would guess that the noise and
Speaker 1: the ruckus and the fun in the air caused some
Speaker 1: folks to call the police or otherwise attracted the attention
Speaker 1: of the police. And there's a lot of states you're not
Speaker 1: allowed to ride ATVs in normal traffic, So just being
Speaker 1: on the road on an ATV, would you know, Garner
Speaker 1: the attention of sure law enforcement. Absolutely, You're absolutely right.
Speaker 1: And I don't know that because I don't know the
Speaker 1: story before it. But I have to tell myself a
Speaker 1: version of the story that I have to tell myself
Speaker 1: something that led up to it. What was the worst
Speaker 1: case scenario and what was the likely that led to
Speaker 1: this outcome? You know, I have these thought experiments I run,
Speaker 1: but you know, I don't imagine anybody would have as
Speaker 1: much fun riding an ATV on the street as they
Speaker 1: would riding it off road where there's jumps and bumps
Speaker 1: and dips, you know, stuff to like kind of engage
Speaker 1: you in the writing process a bit more. But to
Speaker 1: your point, they were riding on the road at a
Speaker 1: point when we saw the videos. Now, these guys were
Speaker 1: riding the ATVs. Police show up and they try to
Speaker 1: apprehend them, and you know, everybody kind of scatters goes
Speaker 1: their way. I believe there was four rider or something
Speaker 1: like that. The youngest is the twelve year old that
Speaker 1: we're going to be talking about today. And you know,
Speaker 1: he said that he didn't even know at first that
Speaker 1: they were there for him. He was just trying to
Speaker 1: get out of their way or whatever, because he didn't
Speaker 1: know that he was doing anything wrong. You know, it's
Speaker 1: just often the case when you're twelve and you haven't
Speaker 1: been made privy to like you haven't been made aware
Speaker 1: of all the laws that exists, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: there are about ten thousand laws. You should never talk
Speaker 1: to the police be cuzone criminature on something. Anyway, I'll read.
Speaker 1: This comes from the Thompson Justice Institute, as comes from
Speaker 1: a press release. The family of a minor child would
Speaker 1: demand the immediate termination of the Placamin's Parish Sheriff's officers
Speaker 1: who violated the constitutional rights of their minor son in
Speaker 1: New Orleans, Louisiana, August twenty four. Human and civil rights
Speaker 1: attorney Ryan K. Thompson and Jessica Hawkins have been retained
Speaker 1: by the family of the twelve year old who can
Speaker 1: be seen being beaten by two Placuamin's Parish Sheriff's deputies.
Speaker 1: Family of a twelve year old juvenile, representative doctor A
Speaker 1: shan To Wyatt and their attorneys are calling for the
Speaker 1: immediate termination of the officers and dash camera footage from
Speaker 1: February nineteenth, Sergeant Dougas can be seen using excessive force
Speaker 1: against a non resisting twelve year old when he snatches
Speaker 1: the juvenile off his stop dirt bike and violently slams
Speaker 1: him to the ground. Subsequently, Sergeant Francis is seen violently
Speaker 1: kicking and stomping on the minor, while Sergeant Dougus is
Speaker 1: seen seen kneeling atop the twelve year old. Now, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna stop right here for a second because you're hearing
Speaker 1: us read this, but we want to share with you
Speaker 1: what the actual child said in the way that he
Speaker 1: recalled the event, So Maggie, can you find that out
Speaker 1: for us?
Speaker 3: I've dancey Niclebe's also does turn around and I'm looking back.
Speaker 3: I'm like, is the area chafing bodil? I'm trying to
Speaker 3: out is he to me? But then once I figured
Speaker 3: out that in the nation are trying to pursue me,
Speaker 3: that's when the regular life actually does it. That's when
Speaker 3: the cop came in front of me and cut me off.
Speaker 3: So that's why we're doing it to the left side,
Speaker 3: the right side of the train. I turned the bikeo
Speaker 3: and then he can. He jumped out of the car
Speaker 3: and ran up to me and pulled me off the bike.
Speaker 3: I was on the ground with the bike on me
Speaker 3: with a very hot bike.
Speaker 1: At that point in the video, you can see the
Speaker 1: officer pull them off of the ATV and slam them
Speaker 1: onto the ground, you know. And then you see another
Speaker 1: officer run toward this dash cam video that we saw
Speaker 1: and he like winds his leg back and then he
Speaker 1: kicks this child. And then the next move maneuver he
Speaker 1: does is like kind of a stamp, like a stomp
Speaker 1: onto the child. Right, And so this is why these
Speaker 1: people are talking about excessive force. This is a video
Speaker 1: that you don't have to watch. It's a little bit
Speaker 1: more mild because you don't actually see you see the officer,
Speaker 1: you don't see the child, you don't see the harm.
Speaker 1: But you don't have to watch this video because if
Speaker 1: you have children, you're going to feel this one. And
Speaker 1: there's something that we need to let you know about,
Speaker 1: and that is that the officer that runs up and
Speaker 1: kicks the child is himself black. The reason that's important
Speaker 1: is because you know, there are people that listen to
Speaker 1: our show and they think that we are unfair to
Speaker 1: police because police are often white, and in their minds
Speaker 1: the criminals are often black, right, And that is not
Speaker 1: the case, And we make that point very often on
Speaker 1: the show. Police as it is done in this country
Speaker 1: is extreme. Almost invariably, these people have been these officers
Speaker 1: have been sort of empowered, and we the people have
Speaker 1: been indoctrinated to allow them to be judge, jury and executioner.
Speaker 1: They're blameless, they do nothing wrong and anything that happened
Speaker 1: is the result of the person who is being apprehended,
Speaker 1: even if in fact they're innocent. You know, Q and
Speaker 1: you know Maggie that the amount of people on the right,
Speaker 1: that tried to blame Breonna Taylor for her own death
Speaker 1: while she was asleep. That's one side in her own house. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know this, that they will figure out a way
Speaker 1: to blame you for dying, for being killed being killed,
Speaker 1: Thank you. That's important to say it that way. And
Speaker 1: no one on that side really stops and says, you
Speaker 1: know what, maybe they should have taken a moment or
Speaker 1: maybe that force wasn't Listen if I pull over on
Speaker 1: an ATV and I turn it off and I'm sitting there, Okay,
Speaker 1: do I need to be tackled, yanked off of my motorcycle, kicked,
Speaker 1: you know whatever. And one of the things that we
Speaker 1: talk about a lot on the show is how officers
Speaker 1: often yell stop resisting to insinuate that the person that
Speaker 1: they're apprehending is somehow resisting so that they can inflict
Speaker 1: further damage on that human. And you know, if it ever,
Speaker 1: if there's ever anything that's like an investigation launched into it,
Speaker 1: they will be on record on video, et cetera, having
Speaker 1: yelled out stop resisting, and then all is right with
Speaker 1: the world. Well, the jury of the judge, whoever has
Speaker 1: an opinion on it, will say well, clearly he wouldn't
Speaker 1: yell out stop resisting if the individual wasn't resisting, and
Speaker 1: they'll completely ignore the person screaming I'm not resisting. That's
Speaker 1: why I pulled over it. That's why I'm sitting here
Speaker 1: and the video of the person not resisting right now.
Speaker 1: Black officers can also be a part of a white
Speaker 1: supremacist system. Black people can be a part of that.
Speaker 1: White supremacist doesn't mean perpetuated only by white people. It
Speaker 1: means it is a system designed to benefit white people.
Speaker 1: And we know that historically there have been lots of
Speaker 1: non white folks that have benefited from white supremacist systems
Speaker 1: that ultimately benefit a richer, more powerful, oftentimes white male.
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, that's if you follow
Speaker 1: the money, it stops there. That's where the buck stops, right,
Speaker 1: So I forgive the language.
Speaker 3: I like this.
Speaker 1: Video showing a black officer doing this because it suggests
Speaker 1: that this is a much bigger problem than black and white.
Speaker 1: This is a maybe not bigger problem, but the nature
Speaker 1: of the problem is is not just black and white.
Speaker 1: The nature of the problem is the way black people
Speaker 1: are regarded in this country. And you know, we keep
Speaker 1: saying it over and over again. We're talking about policing,
Speaker 1: we're talking about the criminal justice system. Now I do
Speaker 1: need to read a little bit more, but first I
Speaker 1: want to kind of paint a little bit of picture here.
Speaker 1: So I'll ask you a couple of questions to you.
Speaker 1: Is it the case that sometimes children get involved in
Speaker 1: mischief almost constantly?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: Cool? All right? Twelve years old?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 1: I wish when I was twelve I had an ATV
Speaker 1: man out of Revenant, because that would have been cool
Speaker 1: and riding it everywhere and kicking up mud and all
Speaker 1: that sort of stuff. That doesn't mean that I deserve
Speaker 1: to get my head kicked, you know, by a police
Speaker 1: officer and arrested and all this sort of stuff. You
Speaker 1: could just tell me not to do that anymore at
Speaker 1: twelve years old, Yeah, and be a police officer, and
Speaker 1: guess what I'm not going to do. It's not like
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, I'm you know what I mean
Speaker 1: that I'm not going to let go against the police
Speaker 1: or any authority, you know, figure in my life at twelve.
Speaker 1: My teacher could say that, my neighbor could say it,
Speaker 1: and I would just stop, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: But I just wanted to establish that mischief. Right, It's
Speaker 1: not the worst thing in the world. That's a part
Speaker 1: of growing up.
Speaker 3: We know that.
Speaker 1: But police oftentimes are interactions with people. It's like this
Speaker 1: person that has caused some sort of infraction is a
Speaker 1: hardened criminal worthy of the worst prison sentence ever, and
Speaker 1: we need to approach them accordingly because if we don't,
Speaker 1: they're going to kill everybody else, including me. I wish
Speaker 1: it was that though. Go ahead, you I know what
Speaker 1: you're going to say, so say it right. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: wish it was that.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: We've seen officers arrive on the scene where the person
Speaker 1: was a hardened criminal that had just murdered people. Say it,
Speaker 1: but they were white. So they were respectfully apprehended in
Speaker 1: some cases even taken and fed Burger king. That's the
Speaker 1: biggest slap in the face to be just when they
Speaker 1: arrived and the suspect looks like us. Then they have
Speaker 1: to be taught some extra lesson. Yeah, they have to
Speaker 1: be humiliated in some way beyond just being apprehended and
Speaker 1: arrest is sure real quick. I want to make sure
Speaker 1: that we say this the right way. There was a
Speaker 1: young man. We won't say his name this time. But
Speaker 1: I do know his name. Went into a church some
Speaker 1: years back, shot nine black church, shot nine people as
Speaker 1: they were praying and cultivating their relationship with the Lord.
Speaker 1: Nine people died in the church, and the police arrested
Speaker 1: the young man and then took him to Burger King.
Speaker 1: And that's what I meant when I said, that's the
Speaker 1: biggest slap in the face to black people, because that
Speaker 1: man is alive and well somewhere. He had his day
Speaker 1: in court. He's able to still breathe, and you know,
Speaker 1: went in unharmed and was shot, wasn't stomped out, wasn't concussed,
Speaker 1: wasn't punched in the face. That that's hurtful, all right.
Speaker 1: I also want to say that as the police were
Speaker 1: chasing this young man, uh, this boy, I can call
Speaker 1: him a boy. You can't. I can call him a boy.
Speaker 1: Now you can call him boy. Q. I meant you,
Speaker 1: the listener, don't please do not refer to any black
Speaker 1: person male as boy. It is. There's there's some roots there,
Speaker 1: there's some history there that you may not know about.
Speaker 1: And that's that'll be a topic on the show soon. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we have to talk about that. The boy is adjacent
Speaker 1: to the N word. You have to just I'm just
Speaker 1: a fun fact titbit.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: It's the most respectful way that you can be. They
Speaker 1: used to not they used to not call us men
Speaker 1: because we weren't equal to white men. And so the
Speaker 1: word boy is particularly offensive to black people. A lot
Speaker 1: of folks don't know that. So anyway, as they were
Speaker 1: chasing this boy on his ATV, it was almost like
Speaker 1: the police officers are like in a video game or
Speaker 1: like it was like they were rustling cattle or something like.
Speaker 1: It was crazy because it's like, wooh, smoke him. Smoke
Speaker 1: And the child heard them say that, and he's like, oh,
Speaker 1: as as you can imagine, you know, smoke him.
Speaker 2: What did I do?
Speaker 1: Smoke him?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 1: So I need to make sure that that's established as well.
Speaker 1: And then I want to read this real quick, and
Speaker 1: then I'm going to toss to you for your thoughts.
Speaker 1: You so. Additionally, the family seeks a full investigation into
Speaker 1: Sergeant Francis, Sergeant Dougas, and the other parish Sheriff's officers
Speaker 1: who responded to the February nineteen, twenty twenty two event.
Speaker 1: The dangerous maneuvers deployed by those Sheriff's officers that evening
Speaker 1: endangered the life of the minor child and ultimately left
Speaker 1: him with the concussion and a fractured left tibia. Further,
Speaker 1: the tactics deployed in the video are extremely similar to
Speaker 1: those being used by the officers in the reckless pursuit
Speaker 1: of teens Reginald Hamilton and Cody Blanchard, which took place
Speaker 1: three months later on May thirtieth, twenty twenty two. Same
Speaker 1: Sheriff's department. So what it says? Yep, wow, same department.
Speaker 1: So que you have a black son, Yes, I do,
Speaker 1: a beautiful, kind, brilliant black son. He might think one
Speaker 1: of these things is cool. Huh oh, he's absolutely gonna
Speaker 1: think the ATVs are cool, Like, yeah, absolutely, Or he
Speaker 1: might want to just go play outside and breathe in
Speaker 1: fresh air and run and experience the world as children do.
Speaker 1: You're familiar with the name Tamiya Rice I am Unfortunately
Speaker 1: you know. If you don't know that name, make sure
Speaker 1: you're in the right head space before you look that
Speaker 1: one up, because that's a heavy one. Yeah. My kid
Speaker 1: has a water blaster, he calls it, So imagine that, right, No, son,
Speaker 1: I need you to play with that in the in
Speaker 1: the back because who knows, even though it's blue and
Speaker 1: orange and green, who knows?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: The thing is is that? And this is another thing.
Speaker 1: Just to bear in mind, things happen, Tragedies happen, mistakes happen.
Speaker 1: I think that on some level we all collectively are
Speaker 1: comfortable with the logic of that. Collectively, not individually. If
Speaker 1: you lose your baby, you might that logic might not
Speaker 1: hold up in your life, okay, and I will see
Speaker 1: that entirely. But collectively, as a society we can say
Speaker 1: mistakes happen. Typically, when accidents happen, mistakes happen, there's some
Speaker 1: degree of accountability, and oftentimes we do not see accountability
Speaker 1: when the person is black. We were talking about environmental
Speaker 1: racism and how did I describe the response was a
Speaker 1: low effort or mediocre or some sort of respect. I
Speaker 1: forgot the word. I use black lackluster. Thank you, blackluster
Speaker 1: response as if black life has no worth and again
Speaker 1: best less worth at best less worth, thank you. And
Speaker 1: so now you start to understand why the Black Panthers existed.
Speaker 1: Now you understand why we have to affirm the black
Speaker 1: lives matter. Now you understand why show like Civic Sipher
Speaker 1: exists to educate you, our allies, our friends, the people
Speaker 1: that love us, and we love you too, and hopefully
Speaker 1: we can help change the culture and change the narrative
Speaker 1: a bit. So yeah, moving on, It's time for the
Speaker 1: Way Black History Fact. So this week's Way Black History
Speaker 1: Fact is sponsored by Hip Hop Wepy magazine and it
Speaker 1: comes via Chicago Race Riot dot Org, the Chicago Race
Speaker 1: Riot of nineteen nineteen Commemoration Project and I'll read. On Sunday,
Speaker 1: July twenty seventh, nineteen nineteen, an unusually hot summer day,
Speaker 1: black seventeen year old Eugene Williams and four of his
Speaker 1: friends took a homemade wooden wrapped out onto Lake Michigan
Speaker 1: on the South Side. They pushed off from twenty sixth
Speaker 1: Street Beach, the only beach in the city reserve for
Speaker 1: black beach govers and swimmers. Although there was no legal
Speaker 1: segregation in Chicago, de facto segregation was common, including a
Speaker 1: long lake front. While in the water, the boys unintentionally
Speaker 1: floated across an invisible boundary line demarking a whites only
Speaker 1: part of the lake, as well as the beach at
Speaker 1: twenty ninth Street at twenty nine Street. George Stoberr, a
Speaker 1: twenty four year old white man, hurled stones at the
Speaker 1: five black boys until Williams ultimately drowned. White police officer
Speaker 1: at the scene, Daniel Callaghan, refused to take Stabbur into custody,
Speaker 1: nor would Callahan let a black police officer do so. Subsequently,
Speaker 1: a crowd of black and white Chicagoans gathered in protest
Speaker 1: near the beach. Police reinforcements masked at the scene, but
Speaker 1: confronted the black crowd rather than investigating William's murder. As
Speaker 1: police acted more aggressively toward the crowd, a black man
Speaker 1: named James Crawford fired a gun at the officers. Police
Speaker 1: returned fire and killed Crawford. As word and rumors spread,
Speaker 1: the city erupted in racial violence. Much of the rioting
Speaker 1: took place on the South Side Sorry about That, and
Speaker 1: in nearbly nearby white ethnic neighborhoods like Back of the
Speaker 1: Yards and Bridgeport. The violence also spread northward to the
Speaker 1: downtown Loop area as well as near West Side. White males,
Speaker 1: especially members of youth gangs and so called athletic clubs,
Speaker 1: loaded into automobiles and sped through black neighborhoods firing indiscriminately
Speaker 1: at African Americans and their homes. Some of these gangs
Speaker 1: also set fire to tenement buildings inhabited by Eastern European immigrants.
Speaker 1: In order to stoke further tensions between working class white
Speaker 1: communities and black Chicagoans, white mobs pulled African Americans from
Speaker 1: street cars and attacked individuals walking to and from work,
Speaker 1: severely beating and on several occasions, killing their victims. As
Speaker 1: whites attacked, however, black people and in particular World War
Speaker 1: One veterans, fought back in unprecedented numbers by returning fire
Speaker 1: or otherwise engaging in self defense. Street level expression of
Speaker 1: the growing race consciousness catching fire across the county sorry
Speaker 1: country that summer. In Chicago, the National Guard was finally
Speaker 1: called in to call the violence and to bring much
Speaker 1: needed provisions into the besieged Black Belt, but eventually a
Speaker 1: steady rain proved most effective and restoring peace. Over the
Speaker 1: course of one week, thirty eight people were killed, twenty
Speaker 1: three black and fifteen white, and some five hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty seven Chicagoans were injured. Two thirds of those injured
Speaker 1: were black, and yet African Americans also made up two
Speaker 1: thirds of the one hundred and thirty eight persons indicted
Speaker 1: for riot related crimes by the State's Attorney Attorney's Office. Ultimately,
Speaker 1: the Chicago Police Department and the State's Attorney's Office overwhelmingly
Speaker 1: blamed black resistance for the violence and largely ignored or
Speaker 1: defended white perpetrators. The devastation wrought by the nineteen nineteen
Speaker 1: Chicago race riot was terrible, and so was the aftermath,
Speaker 1: along with the riot's subsequent expulsion from official memory. Not
Speaker 1: only they had hundreds been killed and injured, large swaths
Speaker 1: of property and working class black and white neighborhoods on
Speaker 1: Chicago's South Side had been destroyed. One thousand black families
Speaker 1: were left homeless. Some major employers, like the stockyards, temporarily
Speaker 1: closed during the riot, leaving many workers without work or
Speaker 1: access to backpay. When the meatpacking plants reopened, some plant
Speaker 1: owners banned African Americans from returning to their jobs for
Speaker 1: fear of further clashes with white workers, which exacerbated the
Speaker 1: unemployment crisis. Civic leaders also lacked the funds and the
Speaker 1: will to prosecute most rioters. Only a handful whatever tried
Speaker 1: or saw any prison time. Most of those prosecuted were black.
Speaker 1: They were just twenty one total indictments white men. Oh sorry,
Speaker 1: seventeen black and four white, and five total convictions three
Speaker 1: black and two white. Law enforcement and local elected officials
Speaker 1: shielded white men who committed most of the riot's violence.
Speaker 1: Many South Side white powles politicians sponsored local athletic clubs
Speaker 1: or youth gangs that ultimately were found to have instigated
Speaker 1: much of the violence. Future Mayor Richard Gaily later became
Speaker 1: president of Bridge Force Hamburg Athletic Club, one of the
Speaker 1: clubs implicated in the riot, though he never confirmed or
Speaker 1: denied personal participation in the violence. Ultimately, some of Chicago's
Speaker 1: white political and economic elites dismissed the riot as the
Speaker 1: work of the city's lower class elements, both white and black,
Speaker 1: who they claimed lacked education and morality. Almost done, it
Speaker 1: was in the best interest of decent people, they argued,
Speaker 1: to separate these whites and blacks to avoid future trouble.
Speaker 1: Such conclusions paid the way for racist policies like the
Speaker 1: implementation of racially restrictive covenants and redlining, which prevented black
Speaker 1: Chicagoans from buying homes in certain neighborhoods. In August of
Speaker 1: nineteen nineteen, Illinois Governor Frank Loden called for an investigation
Speaker 1: of black life and race relations in the city of Chicago.
Speaker 1: The resulting twelve person Chicago Commission on Race Relations was
Speaker 1: made up of prominent black and whit chicag buglins and
Speaker 1: represented an extraordinary effort at interracial collaboration, research, and resolution.
Speaker 1: African American sociologist Charles Charles S. Johnson carried out most
Speaker 1: of the research and last but not least, the resultant
Speaker 1: six hundred plus page report published in nineteen twenty two,
Speaker 1: entitled The Negro in Chicago, A Study of Race Relations
Speaker 1: and a Race Riot, remains a landmark of sociology that
Speaker 1: covered the great migration, housing, employment, and social life for
Speaker 1: African Americans in Chicago, the causes in the aftermath of
Speaker 1: the riot, and surveys on public opinion regarding the city's
Speaker 1: poke race problem. The report extensively detailed the Commission's findings
Speaker 1: of systemic racism in housing and employment policy, and the
Speaker 1: commissioners ultimately provided recommendations to remedy these problems. Many of
Speaker 1: their prescriptions would have been required active support and participation
Speaker 1: from the Chicago Police Department, state's attorney and local politicians,
Speaker 1: all of whom the commissioners charged with exacerbating the violence
Speaker 1: of the riot or failing to apprehend white perpetrators. The
Speaker 1: report's reasonable recommendations went unheare a century later, many of
Speaker 1: them appear shockingly relevant and still needed. Who So, yeah, America,
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