Dr. Chenjerai Kumanyika

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You know, he wasn't alive in the age of Instagram where we all have moving images of my father, and I wanted one.

But I saw...

Recently, as I was starting this project, an image of my father, a moving video of him.

He was alive.

It was back in 1964.

And you know how it is when you see a video of a family member.

I wanted to reach through the TV and hug him.

Turns out it was surveillance footage shot by the NYPD.

My father was the leader of the Bronx chapter of Congress of Racial Equality.

And he and other core activists entered a police station and handcuffed themselves peacefully inside the station.

And the NYPD was surveilling him.

And that's the first moving video I saw was surveillance footage by the NYPD.

I think that Giuliani sort of became more of what he was, but I think that there is that story that somehow Giuliani made New York safer.

But you know what is funny?

One time I really, I was actually talking to someone about this for my show, and I asked him, what did Giuliani do that was do so great?

You know what he said?

He cracked down on the squeegee guys.

That was the big, you know, success that Giuliani had to make the city safer.

The squeegee guys who try to come and wipe your windshield for a dollar.

And I think that that goes to show you that, you know, this is not really about making people safer.

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