Holy Post - Race in America
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended as a concise, broad-strokes history of racial injustice, including the lasting effects of redlining.
What it is
Phil Vischer of VeggieTales and Holy Post gives an 18-minute history of racial injustice in America, covering why anger persists despite civil rights laws. It is told from an evangelical Christian perspective and adapted from a class he co-taught.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2020 to 2025.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec filoeleven · 2020-09 · on “Police across Canada are using predictive policing algorithms, report finds”
There’s a great 18-minute video from Bob the Tomato, AKA Phil Vischer, which lays out the sordid history in broad detail. I like this in particular because he’s coming from an evangelical Christian background—a demographic that has 60% racial resentment, the highest in the country. [this video] [LINK]
Recommends 395112342 · 2025-01 · on “Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs”
Older injustice still has ramifications today. Take redlining for instance. That happened a long time ago. Redlining systematically and intentionally deprived non-white families of home ownership, while helping white families to own homes. But wealth begets wealth, so owning a home lets someone borrow money against it to start a business. When these people die, their children will inherit their wealth. As a result, the (grand)children of a family are still denied opportunities that they would've gotten, if not for redlining. The creator of VeggieTales has a great video on this! [this video] P.S. Yes, a family who was able to get a home loan (redlining didn't affect them) might have squandered thi
Cites joshuamorton · 2020-06 · on “Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. first”
You're making a lot of (intentional or not) dogwhistles. So let's dive in to a few of them: > Blacks kill more blacks than any other race or ethinicity.[1] Blacks also kill more whites, than whites kill blacks in pure numbers. Indeed, let's rephrase this: races in the US continue to be relatively segregated[0]. And crimes, even violent ones, are usually committed within-community. So the meme around "black on black violence" is a bit of a distraction unless you also are concerned about "white on white" violence. And if you are, organizations like stop the violence[1] do exist to address specifically violence within the black community. So you start by stating true, but ultimately misleading