Folge 66: Fatally Unequal - Race and Guns in America

On May 14, a young white man opened fire at a grocery store in a black Buffalo neighborhood, leaving ten people dead and three more injured. The shooting was one of the deadliest in recent American history, and the suspect clearly targeted a minority group, just like the gunman who killed nine Black worshipers at a church in Charleston in 2015; the perpetrator who murdered 11 Jewish worshipers at a synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018; and the gunman who killed 23 people, many of them Latino, in El Paso in 2019. Once more, the HCA podcast looks at gun violence in the United States and particularly at how minority groups become the deadly targets of white supremacists. Anja Schüler talks to historian Carol Anderson, the Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies at Emory University and the author of The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America.