Heather Ann Thompson
speaker
670 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 26 Jun
Heather Ann Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It explains why cities are falling apart.
It explains why, whether you're a white person or a black person in a city of New York, you're fearful.
You feel like everything is coming apart at the seams.
And some people see that for what it is, but most people are being fed a steady diet through things like the New York Post and, you know, the daily news of, well, what's going on here?
Again, it's not that rich people are getting richer and richer and richer.
It's that you've got these poor welfare queen, underclass criminal thugs who don't want to work.
And that messaging, while completely inaccurate, was real.
really powerful.
And we've inherited that times 10.
Deliberate policy.
So you're talking about, for example, in the South Bronx where the four teenagers that I write about come from,
You're talking about a public housing complex that when white folks lived there after World War II, it is supported.
There's funding.
The playgrounds are kept up.
People have jobs in the public sector.
You know, you get to work for the city, you get to work for the state.
You get to send your kids for free to the community college system in New York, to the city college system of New York.
You have a leg up and you have a leg forward.
And then we get to 1981 with the first Reagan tax cuts, and then we just double down on it ever since.
And it's literally stripped.
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