do we? and is that the correct term for it? chris, thanks for the opportunity to share on these difficult, seemingly intractable issues. i was at a meeting at the brookings institution earlier in the week. and they are asking similar questions. i think that we in america journalistically and historically pick up on this story in the middle. if you pick up on the story in the middle, what it appears is that black people are on theo logically, intellectually deficient, and some people say even prone to violence. in order to really deal with this, we have to deal with the policies and political and economic realities that cause what it is that we see in washington, what we see in the united states, what we see, really, globally. i believe that this begins with the violence of bringing people to this nation against their will, with a violence over a period of time that you see in jim crow. the violence that you see in the federal housing policies that created ghettos, the viole
center. from 1998 to 2001 she was a lead attorney of the juvenile unit for thedistrict of columbia . awards she has received include the leadership price from the juvenile law center and 2013 robert e shepard junior award for excellence in juvenile defense from the national juvenile offender center. her latest book the rage of innocence: how america criminalizes black youth was described by georgetown paul butler as a lucid analysis from a brilliant scholar at the top of her game. and by the washington post as comprehensive, meticulously researched, written language accessible to lawyers and laypeople alike and most importantly articulated realistically with forms that are in reach right now. kristen s advice on how to honor the black children who are so oftenempowered by our justice hesystem is simple . tell her story. in the wake of worldwide outrage and high-profile examples of f racial injustice and inequality the rage of innocence sheds light on many lesser-known but e
now not so young americans, less young americans that you have written about. i think i would be helpful place to begin. guest: yes. the term, first of all the dumbest generation i o steal frm philip roth. it s in one of his novels and he s referring to young people and so i took that in 2008 to apply to the millennials. millennials i i roughly early 80s, born in the early 80s up until the late 90s, to 2000. they were, back in those heady years of web 2.0, the first decade of the third millennium, web 2.0 was giving people more activity online. they would just be passive consumers. they could kind of talk back to social media group, youtubers original model was broadcast yourself. you could write customer reviews it was a more interactive medium and the millennials were said to lead the way. these 1 15-year-olds in their bedrooms in 2005, they were the early adopters. they were the digital natives. they had grown up with the tools and they were ready to innovate and impr
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