Throughout American history to the twenty-first century, regardless of the laws, court decisions, and changing political environment, the Second has consistently meant this: That the second a Black person exercises this right, the second they pick up a gun to protect themselves (or the second that they don't), their life may be snatched away in that single, fatal second.
"When I wrote that," says Carol Anderson — author of THE SECOND: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America — "I wrote it from the heart."
This week on the show, author and historian, Dr. Carol Anderson — Professor and Chair of African American Studies at Emory University — on her latest book, THE SECOND, and her New York Times bestsellers, ONE PERSON, NO VOTE and WHITE RAGE.
