The Morris Perspective Podcast

Episode 15 of The Morris Perspective finds Connie Morris revisiting the Kerner Commission’s 1968 warnings and showing how segregation, economic inequality, over-policing, and mass incarceration still echo in 2025.

She urges that reflection without action is useless and lays out clear demands: reparations, investment in housing, education, health care and jobs, justice reform and police accountability, truthful media, and moral and ...

Host Connie Morris examines the Kerner Commission's 1968 warnings and shows how America ignored its recommendations, resulting in persistent segregation, economic inequality, and militarized policing that continue to harm Black communities in 2025.

Drawing on scripture and a call for restitution, Morris argues reparations and courageous policy choices are needed to finish the work the commission began and turn unfinished business i...

Host Connie Morris lays out evidence from the Kerner Commission showing how housing segregation, job discrimination, underfunded schools, and policing created systemic theft of Black wealth and opportunity. She argues reparations are a debt—rooted in justice and biblical principles—rather than charity.

The episode outlines possible forms of repair, including direct payments, targeted investments in housing, education, healthcare, a...

In episode 12, Connie Morris explores how America responded to the Kerner Commission with punishment instead of investment, tracing the rise of mass incarceration, its racial disparities, and the policies that fueled it—from the War on Drugs to mandatory minimums and private prisons.

She highlights the human cost on families and communities, the challenges of re-entry, and frames mass incarceration as a form of modern bondage, whil...

In this episode, Connie Morris traces how the Kerner Commission’s call for investment and justice was rejected in favor of a “law and order” political agenda that led to Nixon’s war on drugs, bipartisan harsh sentencing, and mass incarceration. She explains how protests were reframed as crime, how funding shifted from social programs to policing and prisons, and how these choices tore apart communities.

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Host Connie Morris examines the Kerner Commission's bold 1968 recommendations—housing, jobs, education, and healthcare—and how those proposals were ignored in favor of war and punitive domestic policies.

This episode traces the consequences across 57 years, showing how the nation's choices led to deepened divides, mass incarceration, and the road not taken toward racial justice.

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Episode 9 examines the Kerner Commission's 1968 warning that America was splitting into two societies — wealthy suburbs and impoverished, predominantly Black inner cities. Connie Morris reviews how missed investments in housing, education, and jobs, along with redlining and white flight, turned that prediction into reality.

The episode connects the commission's recommendations to today’s crises in cities like Flint and Detroit and ...

Connie Morris examines the Kerner Commission's findings on how 1967 media coverage distorted Black uprisings by focusing on violence and fear while ignoring causes like racism, poverty, and housing discrimination.

She explores television's amplifying effect, the lack of Black reporters, the commission's call for media accountability, and parallels to modern incidents like Ferguson and Baltimore.

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In episode 7, Connie Morris examines the Kerner Commission's findings on the 1967 uprisings, detailing mass arrests, emergency courts, and how the legal system punished Black communities while excusing white violence.

She explores the long-term impacts of these practices, links them to modern inequalities in justice, and previews the next episode on media coverage and narrative control.

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Connie Morris revisits the Kerner Commission’s 1968 findings on policing in Black neighborhoods: police encounters that sparked unrest, abusive tactics that symbolized white authority, and the escalation of force that deepened mistrust. She connects those historical truths to modern cases and calls out the persistent denial of justice.

Episode six explores the spark of uprisings, the symbolism of oppression, and previews the next e...

Episode 5 of The Morris Perspective explores the Kerner Commission's on-the-ground findings about life inside Black ghettos: widespread unemployment, strained families, overcrowded and unsafe housing, and chronically underfunded schools—conditions the report frames as systemic oppression, not cultural failure.

Host Connie Morris connects those 1967 realities to today, reflects on the human cost, and previews the next episode examin...

Host Connie Morris examines how federal policies, redlining, restrictive covenants, white flight, and urban renewal deliberately created and maintained the ghetto, trapping Black families in poverty and blocking access to wealth.

Using the 1968 commission's findings and personal perspective, this episode traces the systemic roots of segregation and previews the next episode’s look at daily life inside these neighborhoods.

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Host Connie Morris explores the Kerner Commission's findings on the 1967 uprisings, revealing how systemic racism, redlining, segregation, unemployment, failing schools, and police brutality created modern ghettos and fueled unrest.

This episode connects those conclusions to contemporary events and asks whether America can confront these structural problems to prevent future violence.

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Connie Morris examines how mass incarceration became America’s answer to the Kerner Commission—tracing the explosive growth of prisons, the policies that fueled racial disparities, and the human cost to families and communities.

She connects the rise of the prison-industrial complex to the war on drugs, harsh sentencing laws, and systemic racism, highlights re-entry challenges for those finally released, and frames mass incarcerati...

Host Connie Morris examines the Kerner Commission's investigations into the 1967 uprisings in Detroit, Newark, Tampa, Cincinnati, and Atlanta, revealing a clear pattern behind the unrest.

The episode details police-triggered incidents, community responses, heavy-handed crackdowns, and the commission's conclusion that racism, poverty, segregation, unemployment, and hostile policing created predictable disorder.

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Host Connie Morris introduces a season-long deep dive into the 1968 Kerner Commission Report, exploring the 1967 uprisings, the commission's finding that America was becoming "two societies, one black, one white, separate and unequal," and the report's ignored recommendations on housing, policing, schools, media, and reparations. Each episode examines history, accountability, and the unfinished fight for justice.

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In this closing episode of the "Fire Still Burning" series, Connie Morris summarizes Elizabeth Hinton's American on Fire, tracing the continuous pattern of rebellion from the 1960s to 2020 and showing how structural injustice—not spontaneous disorder—fuels unrest.

She frames the fire as both judgment and purification, urging listeners to speak truth, build equitable systems, and carry the flame of justice beyond hollow reforms.

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In Episode 11 of The Morris Perspective, host Connie Morris examines chapter 10 of Elizabeth Hinton’s America on Fire to reveal how "reform" became a tool for preserving, not fixing, systems of oppression. Through historical examples like the 1994 Crime Bill and critiques of common police reforms—community policing, body cameras, and bias training—Morris argues that most changes were performative gestures that left underlying power...

In episode 10, host Connie Morris examines Chapter 9 of Elizabeth Hinton's American on Fire, revealing how 1970s federal proposals for youth programs, housing, and community-centered safety were rejected and replaced with punitive policies that fueled mass criminalization.

Morris connects those historical decisions to today's criminal justice failures and urges listeners to revive community-led solutions, challenge profit-driven po...