For more of Rod’s work: https://roderickgraham.com/

Rod’s YouTube channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7yofOWy-IrERYjfkONF3Tw

Write to Rod at Letter: https://letter.wiki/RoderickGraham/

Follow Rod on Twitter @roderickgraham

For more on John R. Wood’s work:https://braverangels.org/author/johnbetter-angels-org/

John’s philosophy of virtue ethics:https://areomagazine.com/2018/08/14/virtue-ethics-for-the-modern-age/

My previous podcast with John: https://soundcloud.com/user-761174326/19-john-wood

Follow John on Twitter: @JohnRWoodJr

Further References

Glenn Loury’s interview with Sam Harris on Making Sense, which I allude to, is now paywalled: https://samharris.org/podcasts/racism-and-violence-in-america/.

You can find a more recent discussion, with John H McWhorter, here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RMEiclpA7E

Follow Nicholas Christakis, who has been tracking police brutality since 2014 @NAChristakis on Twitter

Roland G. Fryer’s work can be found here:https://scholar.harvard.edu/fryer/publications/reconciling-results-racial-differences-police-shootingsJill Leovy, Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America (2015)

Timestamps

3:03 Is the problem systemic racism or is it general police brutality?9:26 Policing in different communities24:40 The police as an institution: militarisation on both sides; feedback loops and the importance of context31:27 Racial unification: what this moment might lead to42:00 The role of leftists47:43 Ways forward