The Realignment

532 | Juan Williams: The Rise & Fall of the 2nd Civil Rights Movement

Episode Summary

Juan Williams, Fox News Policy Analyst and author of New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America's Second Civil Rights Movement, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Juan discuss how a second civil rights movement centered on policing, incarceration, and inequality rose during the Obama 2010s, demographic change in America since the 1960s, why the second movement didn't produce leadership on the level of Martin Luther King, Jr., where movements succeeded and where it failed, BLM's struggles, the cost of overreaching slogans like "defund the police," and what the Trump backlash means for racial issues in America.

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Juan Williams, Fox News Policy Analyst and author of New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America's Second Civil Rights Movement, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Juan discuss how a second civil rights movement centered on policing, incarceration, and inequality rose during the Obama 2010s, demographic change in America since the 1960s, why the second movement didn't produce leadership on the level of Martin Luther King, Jr., where movements succeeded and where it failed, BLM's struggles, the cost of overreaching slogans like "defund the police," and what the Trump backlash means for racial issues in America.