Let's Talk About It: Can Protest Marches Stop Racial Hate?

When an act of violence occur involving a white person, usually a police officer, and a black person, usually a civilian, community activists will instantly mobilize a protest march. Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, everywhere a seemingly race based killing has occurred, crowds have gathered to march and protest. What is the point? To call attention to hatred - and then what? Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. used direct action confrontation strategies to expose race based violence with the intention of passing Civil Rights laws, encouraging those who stood for rightness to speak up and shaming those who sympathized with racists by graphically showing the ugliness of it, through the use of the mass media, in the hopes of changing their hearts. What is the intention of today's activists? Today we'll discuss the act of protest marching with some of those who participated in the resent protests in the Mount Greenwood community of Chicago after the shooting death of a 25 year old black man by two white off-duty policemen.