Psychopathy, Truth and the Slave Trade: Liverpool, Caribbean and America W/Laurence Westgaph

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1:07 - 4:44 group shame is not necessary or valid
5:23 - 6:33 open and honest conversation is the way forward
6:33 - 7:24 who decides what history we learn
7:24 - 10:30 Liverpool is not “bad” because of slavery
10:30 - 12:30 who’s history are we getting?
12:30 - 16:14 American identity and Black America
16:14 - 18:30 African immigration was stopped by law
18:30 - 20:00 “Race” is in the DNA of America
20:00 - 22:00 “Jim Crow” is a blackface minstrel act
22:00 - 23:00 the “one drop” rule
23:00 - 24:45 the Jamaican Colony Race Designation System
24:45 - 27:50 “White Passing”
27:50 - 30:00 pseudoscience and use of “mulatto”
30:00 - 31:30 emotional attachment to “race”/culture
31:30 - 33:00 Hendrix, Jazz, and “black authenticity”
33:00 - 34:34 “Blackness” in the diaspora is multicultural
34:34 - 36:57 “cultural appropriation” and Black tone deafness
36:57 - 39:14 was “Black Panther” cringe? Laurences top comic heroes
39:14 - 40:46 More Comprehensive African History
40:46 - 44.43 the Jamaican “Maroons” former rebel slave survivalists
44:43 - 46:00 Takys Rebellion
46:00 - 48:44 Thomas Thistlewood Sadistic Psychopath
48:44 - 50:02 “Derby’s Dose”
50:02 - 51:50 “12 Years A Slave” Violent Depravity
51:50 - 54:10 Violence breeds Psychopathy
54:10 - 56:08 Emancipation Proclamation
56:08 - 58:00 1865 to 1965 is only 100 years
58:00 - 1:02:00 Reconstruction
1:02:00 - 1:04:11 were black slaves “American Citizens”?
1:04:11 - 1:07:00 Dominican Republic and it’s complex history
1:07:00 - 1:09:15 Sugar and Haitian Slavery , Hispaniola Split
1:09:15 - 1:11:11 Trujillo and white make up
1:11:11 - 1:13:50 the dark, dark history of the Caribbean
1:13:50 - 1:16:00 when were the whites out of Jamaica?
1:16:00 - 1:18:00 Race and power status in Caribbean
1:18:00 - 1:20:00 Haitians status in the Dominican
1:20:00 - 1:24:00 Black Solidarity as Myth/Fictive Kinship
1:24:00 - 1:25:50 “Black” within a power structure
1:25:50 - 1:27:07 Joining a race gang in prison
1:27:07 - 1:31:55 Race and appearance in Liverpool
1:31:55 - 1:32:19 a wide and varied gene pool
1:32:19 - 1:36:25 Detroit and Liverpool share decline
1:36:25 - 1:37:45 Liverpool’s Crime Reputation
1:37:45 - 1:40:40 Crack, Gun Crime - Laurence in Inglewood
1:40:40- 1:42:10 Laurence in LA, “colours”
1:42:10 - 1:44:33 Individual responsibility vs Environment
1:44:33 - 1:46:25 opportunities, mechanisation and dystopian futures
1:46:25 - 1:48:15 spontaneous revolution, turn tv off
1:48:15 - 1:51:50 the cost of lost tribal contact
1:51:50 - 1:53:10 Parents are more fearful now
1:53:10 - 1:56:35 Historical Naïveté and the human condition
1:56:35 - 1:59:36 Britain, psychopathy, entrepreneurialism
1:59:36 - Israel/ Palestine and the British