SILENT MARCHES AGAINST LYNCHINGS, STALKING AND FRISKING
NIAZ KASRAVI, Criminal Justice Director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), discusses the Silent Marches of 2012 and 1917, the cross-cultural nature of civil rights, and the NAACPâs new national anti-profiling campaign;
RANDY CREDICO, former director of the William Moses Kunstler Fund for Racial Justice, discusses his October arrest protesting âstop and frisk,â and assesses the prospects for reversal and temptation for compromise regarding racial profiling;
NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly defending selective âstop and friskâ statistics;
Rebel Diaz â âStop Stop and Friskâ;
ORIGIN OF THE 1917 âSILENT MARCHâ
The first NYC âsilent march,â organized on 28 July 1917 by the NAACP, was a response to an epidemic of lynchings and the slaughter of scores of blacks in East Saint Louis, Missouri, while the police and national guard stood by as whites fired upon and burned their neighborhoods. Documentary details excerpted from a âLiving St. Louisâ documentary, courtesy of St. Louis public station KETC;
TEXAS ORIGIN OF âJUNETEENTHâ
âJuneteenthâ is now a national commemoration based on a colloquialism first celebrated by Texas slaves when, on 19 Jun 1865, federal troops finally formally announced in Galveston that they had been âemancipatedâ -- two years after President Lincolnâs Proclamation had taken effect elsewhere throughout the Confederate states. DAVID DORAL of Pacifica station KPFT in Houston provides reviews the history of Juneteenth.
RECENT RACIAL PROFILING IN TEXAS
Racial profiling against blacks remained a tool of Texas authorities nearly a century and a half after the Civil War, most vividly in the panhandle town of Tulia, where one third of the black male population was falsely arrested on fabricated drug charges pursued by a racist sheriff and drug-abusing undercover agent. ROBERT KNIGHT was there as a multiracial community held a midnight march for justice.
Anchor: Robert Knight Producer: Thiago Barrozo Engineer: Michael G. Haskins Origin: WBAI/Pacifica
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