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For information about our Upcoming Events and information on a reading group, ferguson rates and ferguson reads and much more, please visit our website, grab one of our news letters in the back and get signed up toward email, mailing list. Im proud to introduce Carol Anderson for left bank and books. As ferguson arrested in 2014 and media commentators across the spectrum referred to the angry response of africanamericans as a black rage, anderson wrote a remarkable oped in the Washington Post showing this was instead, wet white rage at work. Linking historical flashpoints when black americans was countered by deliberating opposition. White rage pulled back the veil that they have made in the name of protecting democracy. Author of the substance of hope says, few historians right with the grace, clarity, an, and intellectual verb that Carol Anderson summons in this book. There are a sample of writers whose work i consider indispensable. Professor anderson is high on that list. The editor of white rage also says this is one of the most important books he has worked on. Carol anderson is a professor of africanamerican studies at emory university. She is the author of many books, including the naacp, and the struggle for colonial liberation, 1941 1960 and numerous articles. Andersons opinion article will appear in the fire, this time a new generation speaks about race. Edited by National Book award winner, justman word which comes out in august and i highly recommend that because well. That article shaped and helped define this book and a movement. White rage is inspiring, and inspiring. It is time to diffuse the power of white rage. It is time to finally, truly move into the future. Tonight, carol will will be discussing white rage, the unspoken truth of our racial divide answering your questions. Would you please please help me in welcoming Carol Anderson. [applause]. Thank you. Thank you for for coming out on a, what days this . [laughter] i truly appreciate it. I appreciate what Ferguson Public Library has done and is for this community. Thank you. I appreciate Left Bank Books as well. Thank you. I wanted to spend some time First Talking about how i got to white rage, what white rage is, and then move into several excerpts from the book and then open it up for q a. When i first began to wrestle with the concept of white rage, it was not ferguson. It was was in fact in february 1999. When a black man in new york city stepped out on his doorstep after a long, hard days work to go get something to eat. He was greeted with 41 bullets. Nineteen of which hit him. His name was nonoaud. He was was gunned down by the nypd. He was on arms. That was bad enough, but as we know from these killings, it is the response that begins to tell you what is happening in society. And so, im sitting, im sitting there and i am listening to mayor rudy juliano in a interview with ted koppel on nightline. Ted koppel was talking about the nypd, the killing, he is talking about 41 bullets, he is talking about stop and frisk. Hes talking about Police Brutality and Rudy Giuliani says, i have the most recent and best behave please force you can imagine. Okay, yeah i had one of those scooby doo moments. What . And then he began to talk about how his policies were working. That what he has put in place in new york city has brought down crime. New york city is a safer place because of his policies and he has flowcharts graphs bars, everything. What you do not hear is that an unarmed black man stepped out on his porch and was gunned down. Im sitting there going, something is fundamentally wrong. Structurally wrong. I did not know what to call it. I didnt know to label it. What i knew something was going on. I continued working, thinking and working, and thinking. And then august 2014, the television is on and i am watching. I see ferguson in flames. And then i hear the pundit talking and what they were talking about was a black rage. Wire black people burning up where they live . What is wrong with black people, how can they burn up with a live . Will there some wrong with black people, and why are they burning up, and it didnt matter what ideological stripe, it was all centered, the baseline, baseline, the starting point was a black rage. And i found myself in this moment shaking my head. That moment when youre shaking your head something is going on and you dont even realize. Youre going no thats not right. Thats not right. And that is when it hit me. Know what we what we are really seen is white rage. What we are really seen is that we have been so focused in on the flames that we have missed the kindling. We have missed what has stoked the spire. We have missed for instance, the the disenchantment of the black community in ferguson. That through all kinds of shenanigans and rigmarole, have have created where in the 2013 municipal election, in a population that is 67 of fergusons population, you population, you had a 6 black voter turnout. You have to work really hard to make that happen. We missed in ferguson schools that have been on probation for 15 years. Fifteen years where a state has an account a system of ugly accreditation of 140 points. Ferguson 40 points. Ferguson Public Schools were getting ten points per year. We have allowed that to happen for 15 years. We have allowed an entire generation of students to go through from kindergarten through graduation and a School System that we know does not work. Kindling. We have a police force that did not see its role was to protect and serve but saw africanamericans as a Revenue Generating source. That could provide 25 of the citys budget. Kindling. And what all of this kindling does, and as i started wrestling wrestling with white rage, i began to understand that what we are really looking at is the policies, as a nation we are so drawn to the spectacular. We are so drawn to what we can see that we miss the teutonic plates that are actually moving. White rage move suddenly. Almost imperceptibly, corrosive lee. Through the courts, the legislatures, government yurok receipts, and the white house through congress and it wreaks havoc subtly. And perceptively so that it is hard to discern what is the source of what you are seeing so i set out to make white rage visible. Because the first thing you have to do is be able to see this thing. The trigger for white rage is black advancement. It is not the mere presence of black people that is the catalyst for white rage but it is blackness with ambition. Blackness with drive. With purpose, with aspirations, with demands for full and equal citizenship. It is blackness that refuses to accept subjugation. Blackness that refuses to give up. And through a formidable array of policy assaults and legal maneuverings, white rage consistently punishes black resilience and black resolve. How else can we reasonably explain why government after government fought so hard to keep black children from getting an education. We saw it after the civil war, we sought sought all the way through the brown decision, we see it now. Why is it so difficult to educate black children . Why do we have this, even when at least since 1957 and sputnik when that u. S. Said we have a National Security crisis. We must educate as many of our citizens as we can to be able to effectively wage the cold war. But brown was not going to get implemented. Even in the face of a National Security crisis, even in the face of we say this is what our nation needs, white rage says, i dont think so. Why . Would this nation design a war on drugs, that incarcerates most those who sell and do drugs the least. Why . And why particularly after the trial and the successes of the Civil Rights Movement with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and four and the Voting Rights act of 1965 why do we incarcerate communities . Why would we overwhelm state budgets . Why would we destabilize families . Why would we do the to those who are not the primary users . Why would do that for those that are not the primary users and sellers of narcotics . Why . Why would state after state develop rules after rules to keep american citizens from being able to vote . And to have a say in their own democracy, why . When we say we value democracy, when we say this is why we fight, then why would we have such mass Voter Suppression . Understand that none of this was done with the mere plan. There were not any cross burning such is made all of this happen. All of this was done coolly, methodically, systematically. And so my new book, white rage i trace this pattern with signposts. The great migration, the brown decision, the silver Rights Movement and the election of barack obama. I also trace it through three key sectors, education, the criminal Justice System, and the, and the right to vote. So now i want to read some excerpts. As you know in 1954 the u. S. Supreme court ruled that separate but equal was unconstitutional. Overturn the policy decision and said that we must integrate. Jim crow was no longer the law of the land. The staff rose up and said with massive just on trent resistant said no. They use the theories that in fact dragged this process out for a long, long time. Well, in 1973 the Court Battles are still going on. In 1973 there was an area in san antonio called the edgewood district. In the edgewood neighborhood it was 96 mexicanamerican and africanamerican. It. It was the poorest neighborhood in san antonio. It had the lowest medium income and the lost Property Values. They tax themselves at the highest rate. In order to try to fund their childrens education. By taxing themselves at the highest rate they garnered 21 per capital. Meanwhile, out in the heights which was a predominantly white neighborhood in san antonio, tax themselves at a lower rate. They garnered over 300 per student. Lower rate, 1500 more in funding. What we know is that Property Values have a lot to do with public policy. Where governments choose to put the landfill, where they choose to put the highway, where they choose to zone certain types of businesses and not others has a lot to do with property value. So the parents and the edgewood district took texas to court. And they said this violates our childrens 14th amendment rights to have equal protection under the law. It violates brown. The u. S. Supreme court ruled in a 5 for decision, for the justices were appointed by Richard Nixon and one was a pointed bite white eisenhower. That quote, there is no fundamental right to education in the constitution. They said that the state funding scheme did not systematically discriminate against all were people in texas and that districts in the United States use property taxes, that this method was not so irrational as to be discriminatory. Thurgood marshall, his dissent, and this is what im going to read. Fully recognizing the implication implication of rodriguez, the name of the case. Justice thurgood r scholl was applicable at dick. More than 40 of black children, 14 and under lived with families below the poverty line. Thats compared with 10 of white children. Under those circumstances africanamerican children would not stand a chance. The decision he wrote could only be seen as a retreat from a commitment to equality to Educational Opportunity as well as an unsupportable capitulation to a system which deprived children of the chance to reach their full potential as citizens. He was simply dumbfounded. That the majority majority would acknowledge the existence of widely disparate funding for schools across texas but then, instead instead of focusing on the cause of the disparity they would. What to all of the states supposed to efforts to close the gap. The issue, marshall explained, is not whether texas is doing its best to ameliorate the worst features of a discriminatory scheme. But rather, whether whether the scheme itself is unconstitutionally discriminatory. Moreover, he founded the height of absurdity that texas could actually argued that there was no correlation between funding and school quality. You cant make this up. Then from that faulty premise, there was note discriminatory processes of the children of the district. He was equally unimpressed with texas tendency to pray before the justice despite living in under resourced district as some sort of proof that funding was irrelevant. That a child could excel even one forced to attend an underfunded school with poor facilities, less experienced teachers, larger, larger classes, and a number of other deficits compared to a school with more funds. It was to the credit of the child, not the state. But they put that on the backs of the most vulnerable while walling off access to the resources of quality education. It played beautifully into the colorblind, post civil rights language of substituting economics for race yet achieving a similar result. The simple truth was that by virtue of this year demographics of poverty, rodrigues would have not only a disparate impact on africanamerican children, but also a disastrous one. I know, sobering. I then move into the war on drugs. It has so warped American Society in ways that were so profound. So i walk us through how the war on drugs emerge. I then walk us through the court cases, the Supreme Court decision that Michelle Alexander and jim crow so beautifully laid out. I laid out some of the consequences. So as i go through the court cases i then say, taken together those rulings allowed, indeed encouraged the criminal Justice System to run racially a monk. And that is exactly what happened, on july 23, 1999, in texas. In the dead of night local police launched a massive raid and busted a major cocaine trafficking ring. At least that is how it was built by the local media which after being tipped off, lined up to get the best, most humiliating photograph of 46 of the towns 5000 residents, handcuffed in pajamas, underwear, and on combed bed hair. Paraded into into the jail for booking. The local news paper ran the headline, the streets are cleared of garbage. The editorial praised Law Enforcement for ridding the town of drug dealing scumbags. The raid was the results of an 18 month investigation by a man would be named by Texas Attorney general as outstanding law man of the year. Attached to the federally funded and handled the Regional Narcotics Task force based in amarillo, about 50 miles away, tom Coleman Coleman did not lead a team of investigators. Instead, he singlehandedly identified each member of the massive cocaine operation. He made more than 100 undercover drug purchases. He was hailed as a hero. His testimony testimony immediately led to 36, 38 of the 46 being being convicted. What other cases just waiting to get into the court system, joe moore, pig farmer was sentenced to 99 years for selling 200 worth of cocaine. To the white, received 25 years while her husband, william kash love landed 434 years for possessing 1 ounce of cocaine. While the case began to unravel when the sister tonya went to trial. They swear that she sold him drugs, tonya however have video proof that she was at a bank in oklahoma city, 300 miles away cashing a check at the very moment he claimed to have bought cocaine from her. Then another defendant, billy don wafer had timesheets and his bosses eyewitness testimony that wafer was at work and not out selling drugs to coleman. When the when the outstanding lawman of the year swore under oath that he purchased cocaine from bryant, a tall, bushy haired man, only to have bryant, bald and 5 feet 6 inches appear in court. It finally became very clear that something was awry. Coleman in fact had no proof whatsoever that any of the alleged drug deals had taken place. There there were no audiotapes, no photographs, no witnesses, no ot