A continuation of last week’s episode, The American Social Epidemic of Violence and Racism: Economic and Health Inequities and the Weaponizing of Authority. This Part II further examines this topic to further advance our understanding of systemic maladies which include structural racism. We will continue to ponder: How did we get here and what is the way forward? What are specific health impacts on individual, family and communities from both physical and mental perspectives? What are effective pathways to breakthroughs in enforcement and judicial policies and civic engagement? How do we begin to transform our social contract to include those who have been dehumanized, commoditized and underrepresented?

Today's panelists are Pastor Melvin Russell, Adar Ayira, Major Neill Franklin, Justin Hodge, DeBorah Ahmed, Dr. Charles Lewis, and the host is Linda Howard.

Show Topics and Highlights

When there's no consequences, when people break the rules within a system, it breeds corruption and it promotes lawlessness in that order. 

• What is happening now is 400 years of policies which privilege some people and disadvantage others, which have an impact on every single aspect of life in this country.
• The Black Lives Matter Matter Movement is now a positive movement being embraced by so many people . . others were trying to make this seem as as a hate group. Not anymore, folks. It's painted on the streets of Washington, DC leading up to the White House.
• Even in the wake of that visual murder of George Floyd by a police officer, the police still had the audacity to use violence in a peaceful protest. And so people are seeing with their own eyes with video after video after video that even with this horrific murder, the police are still out there pushing and shoving people and using tear gas and rubber bullets close up in peaceful protest.
• “I think we might need to do a little bit of an education lesson. And because if I look at some of the comments that I've gotten from people is, I've had people ask me exactly what is institutionalized racism? What is systemic racism?”
• “And what most agencies have done and most people have heard me say this, all they want to do is protect all they want to do is fight bad guys get the guns off the street, but nobody wants to serve anymore. Nobody wants to serve their community that the sworn to protect and serve. . . We don't listen anymore to our community. We are occupiers.”
• You need strong leadership, at least somebody that will stand up for the cops, because the leader not only got to take care of his cops, he's got to take care of his community. While he's taking care of the community, he takes care of his cops, and that's a rare breed.
• Let me just say that the police policing history in this country, it's never been for the benefit of black people. All right, we the policing model that we currently have came out of slave patrols in the south. It came out of protecting the property of the wealthy and the North. It was never been a benefit for the black people.

Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level. MLPN.life

The Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com

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