Who has the right to violence in America?
"If violence is a political language, white Americans are native speakers. But black people are also fluent in the act of resistance."
The Boston Tea Party is seen as a seminal event in the birth of our nation, but last week the president condemned property destruction at Target as un-American.
What’s the difference? The identity of the rioters.
Kellie Carter Jackson's latest piece for The Atlantic is called “The Double Standard of the American Riot.” She says that violence always compels a response - and that's where its power lies.
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Bill hosts Week In Review and Words in Review. After starting with KUOW as a University of Washington student in 1985, Bill was KUOW's morning host in the '90s and the creator of past show, Rewind, a news-satire show heard on KUOW and nationwide on NPR. Bill moved away to Southern California to host American Public Media's Weekend America and Marketplace Morning Report and returned to KUOW in 2012.
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