With that in mind, we have to move on. It's time for the Way Black History Fact. Today's Way Black History Fact is sponsored by Underground Beach Club From the Streets to the Beach. For the latest in beachwhere, visit Underground Beach Club dot com. Today we're gonna listen to a video recording from doctor William Derrity, who's speaking to a crowd member at the University of Massachusetts. Q. I think you got this one.
All right, thanks for coming today. Are there any trends with within the black community, such as higher crime rates or high illegitimacy illegitimacy race that could explain their position vast of East Whites and Kansas are explained by some dominant social group. No, no to the first one or no to both.
I mean it's it's there's a propagandi stick mechanism that's afloat about, you know, black illegitimacy and black criminality. I guess it depends on what kind of crime you have in mind. If we think about which community in the United States has the highest degree of history of violence,
that's unquestionably White Americans, unquestionably. I mean, I'm not sure if you're aware of the hundred massacres that were conducted between the end of the Civil War and World War Two that were directed against black communities throughout the United States in which thousands of blacks were killed and the white terrorist appropriated black owned property. So there's no segment of the population that has a greater history of violence
than white Americans. So when you talk about these kinds of matters, to me, you're actually mouthing a set of propagandistic claims that are made on the right in the United States, and they do not have a foundation in fact.
Wow, all right, why don't you start us off.
You once upon a time, our fellow Americans cared about the last thing that he said. They do not have a foundation in fact. And this wasn't a very long time ago where conversations had to start on there being a shared version of what facts are, but information like what the person in the audience asked with regards to black illegitimacy and higher crime rates amongst black people, and several other other you know, propagandistic tropes and lies, let's
just call it flat on his face. Lies can be perpetuated now with little to no pushback, because well, our guy said it, so it must be true, even though we're looking at facts that says it's not. We're going to go with our guy.
I'm going to add to that, because you're absolutely right, these things are not based in a shared reality whatsoever. But allow me to make a connection between the things that folks are alleging is true, because some of what we say is true, and it does shape the outcomes and perceptions, not to the degree that the right would have folks believe like all black people are criminals, blah blah, all that sort of stuff, because that's obviously false.
But let me connect this for you.
So he mentioned the one hundred massacres over the years between the Civil War and World War Two, and then the appropriated black owned property. Let's add to that redlining. Now you're talking about black wealth or the lack thereof, and then you're talking about black illegitimacy, which that only started taking place so that black people could get more assistance from the state. So without the land and the wealth, and then obviously poverty is breeding ground for criminality.