Recorded April 11, 2021. Real Sankara Hours hosts Adam Hudson and Peter MGunn talk to Boston University professor Takeo Rivera about the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes and their roots in white supremacy and U.S. imperialism and colonialism. 

Links: NPR segment with numbers on anti-Asian hate crime perpetrators (5% are Black): https://www.npr.org/transcripts/980437156; white supremacy is the root of race-related violence in the U.S.: https://theconversation.com/white-supremacy-is-the-root-of-all-race-related-violence-in-the-us-157566 ; Capitol Hill rioters were mostly white people from areas with declining white populations: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/06/capitol-insurrection-arrests-cpost-analysis/ , https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/06/us/politics/capitol-riot-study.html ; 

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Adam Hudson -- drums

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