Drawing Powerful Parallels: PW Talks with David Walker
What parallels did you want to bring out between the struggles of the 1960s and society today? When you look at the history of racial injustice and race-related violence in this country, especially within the 20th century, almost all of it was related to incidents of police brutality, or police killing somebody. I remember the night that Minneapolis started burning after George Floyd’s death. I wondered how this was different from when the cops in Northern California killed Denzil Dowell in 1967, which was one of the inciting incidents in the formation of the Panthers. Every time you see Br...
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