S3 E6: Dante King on Anti-Blackness and The 400-Year Holocaust

S3 E6: Dante King on Anti-Blackness and The 400-Year Holocaust

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Content warning: racism, genocide, violence

Dante King, author of The 400-year Holocaust: White America’s Legal, Psychopathic, and Sociopathic Black Genocide – and the Revolt Against Critical Race Theory, sits down with guest host Duran Rutledge (capacity building and technical assistance trainer at CAPTC) to reflect on what it means to be a Black person in a country where the colonial legacy of anti-Blackness and conceptions of whiteness and white supremacy have engrained racism into our legal structures, healthcare system, and more.

King offers concrete examples of how these intergenerational and ongoing traumas show up, and examines the roles of empathy, re-education, and narrative in promoting transformation. This conversation illuminates the structures that reinforce America’s blatant anti-Blackness that need to be seen, but so often are not. Download the transcript of this episode.

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About Dante:

Dante King is the author of the new book The 400-Year Holocaust: White America’s Legal, Psychopathic, and Sociopathic Black Genocide and the Revolt Against Critical Race Theory; winner of the Bookfest Award. Dante also teaches a course at the UCSF School of Medicine called Understanding the Roots of Racism and Bias: Anti-blackness and Its Links to Whiteness, White Racism, Privilege, and Power. Dante was the previous Deputy Director for the San Francisco California Department of Public Health Office of Health Equity, where he led the development and implementation of workforce and health equity policies and programs. You can find out more about Dante by going to www.danteking.com and connecting via Twitter @danteking2020.

S2 Ep5 Speaking Frankly: Confronting structural racism in healthcare with Dante King

S2 Ep5 Speaking Frankly: Confronting structural racism in healthcare with Dante King

We talk with anti-racist activist, Dante King. He’s worked with organizations like the San Francisco Metropolitan transportation agency and the San Francisco Department of Public Health to cultivate environments that are anti-racist and inclusive.

He discusses how capitalism reinforces racism, the creation of anti-blackness through policy, and the systems and structures that have led to white supremacist ideology.

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S2 Ep3 Speaking Frankly: Examining structural racism in healthcare with Ana Delgado, CNM

S2 Ep3 Speaking Frankly: Examining structural racism in healthcare with Ana Delgado, CNM

Ana Delgado, CNM, is a Clinical Professor in the UC San Francisco Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, San Francisco General Hospital Division. Ana acts as the Assistant Director of Inpatient Obstetrics and Co-Director for Anti-Racism, Equity, Inclusion and Structural Change. Ana talks with us about racial inequities in healthcare, how structural racism permeates every facet of life, and why “race is always an issue for folks who are racialized.”

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