For today’s show, Thursday host Allen Ruff discusses the Kyle Rittenhouse case, the rising trend of white vigilantism, and what this all means in the struggle for racial justice with anti-racist activist and commentator Jamala Rogers.

They have an insightful and incisive conversation about how Rittenhouse became the poster child for right-wing vigilantes, the ways white anarchist protesters use Black Lives Matter to carry out their own agenda, the role of firearms and violence in society, why all of this is about race and not self-defense, as Rittenhouse has claimed, and more.

Jamala Rogers is an author, activist, and co-founder of the St. Louis-based Organization for Black Struggle. Her books are The Best of “The Way I See It” and Other Political Writings, 1989–2010 (2011) and Ferguson Is America: Roots of Rebellion (2015).

Cover photo: March for Justice in Kenosha, Wisconsin, January 4, 2021 by Derek Johnson, licensed under CC BY 2.0

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