Topic: Docility

A historical analysis explains that the lack of mass revolts in the Jim Crow South was not due to a lack of awareness of oppression, but rather the "terrible risks" involved in challenging the system. The hosts discuss the "mutually assured destruction" that existed in Southern communities, where a fragile peace was maintained through an understanding of boundaries and the potential for violent response if those boundaries were crossed.

Chris Wallace uses the "MLK trigger" to contrast Martin Luther King Jr.'s peaceful methods with Malcolm X's "by any means necessary" philosophy. Hawk Newsome argues that black elders have been "bought off" by the Democratic establishment. The hosts contend that the sanitized image of MLK is used as a control mechanism to keep black Americans docile and voting for Democrats.