The Rebirth of White Rage

On today’s episode of Justice Matters, co-host Mathias Risse speaks with Heather Ann Thompson- Pulitzer Prize winning author and Professor of History at the University of Michigan - about her new book “Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage”. In their conversation they discuss: the 1984 subway shooting of four black boys - Barry Allen, Darrell Cabey, Troy Canty, and James Ramseur - by a white gunman, Bernie Goetz, what the media narratives and public perception of the event tell us about that time in the country, Ruport Murdoch’s role and motivations in influencing the public narrative, how the politics of the Reagan era speak to today’s political landscape, and the legacy of the Goetz trial. Heather Ann Thompson is a historian and the author of “Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy”, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize. Thompson has written about the criminal justice system ...