We've talked about SMU's past and present through a racial justice lens. Today, we focus on a liberated, antiracist future. What are we organizing towards? When we imagine Dr. King's Good Society, is SMU even there?
Reform versus abolition. In the system change, out of the system change, we're always in the system, make it so there's no system at all. Maladjusted has always served as a forum to discuss different social change theories. As abolition is a conversation largely taking place in the criminal legal system, Shara talks to Jim Walters, the Chief of SMU Police Department. She conducts a parallel interview with R. Gerald Turner, President of SMU. As we compare and contrast, Shara asks listeners to consider the applicability of abolition to Predominantly White Institutions of higher education. Hear additional comments from Angela Davis, a founding mother of the modern abolition movement.
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