With Friends Like These

The Moment You Realize You’re White

<p>Former mayor of Minneapolis Betsy Hodges comes on to talk about how the Rodney King uprisings started her journey to anti-racist activism — and what happened when, in 2015, her anti-racist ideals ran up against the realities of governing a city rocked by the shooting of a black man by white police officers. Her piece on the King uprisings is <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/29/opinions/white-fragility-rodney-king-acquittal-betsy-hodges/index.html">here</a>. Her op-ed in the New York Times about how white liberals stand in the way of progress on police violence is <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/opinion/minneapolis-hodges-racism.html">here</a>.</p><p> </p>

On this season of With Friends Like These, Forgiveness and Reconciliation, host Ana Marie Cox looks at post-Trump America and tries to find models for how we forgive people, and if we should.