The Human Climate: with Guest Tony Gaskew

Tony Gaskew is Professor of Criminal Justice and Africana Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, Bradford. He is a Critical Race theorist and teaches Critical Race Theory at the U. of Pittsburgh as well. He is currently a full Professor of Criminal Justice and Africana Studies, Director of the Criminal Justice Program, and Founding Director of the Prison Education Program at the University of Pittsburgh, Bradford.Tony has worked in and written of policing, of prison re-entry and education while in prison. His is a strikingly articulate and profound voice, and his experience covers work in the Middle East as well. His most recent title is: Stop Trying to Fix Policing: Lessons Learned from the Front Lines of Black Liberation. (2021)       Tony is a teacher of Black incarcerated students, and he sees education as one way to move from humiliation to humility. He is about claiming the right and experience of resistance of Black people in a systemically racist society in which white people, liberals included, benefit from white privilege.Tony manages to be fierce while not being full of hatred; he apologizes for nothing but humility and love are also his remarkable attributes.Tony does not flinch in his vision which can be controversial to white people, and no doubt to some Black people as well.