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ever. will it happen? >> plus y, the supreme court is being asked to weigh in on a fight over a congressional map. >> it's between louisiana voters, black voters, and a group of self-described non-black voters who argue that another majority black district impacts their personal dignity. will explain that one as well. and of course, we remember the racial reckoning in after the murder of george floyd four years ago this month, back in 2021, school board in virginia, remove the names of confederate leaders from two schools, including stonewall jackson high school. but do you know this week they voted to put those confederate generals names back on the school's so we'll talk about that with the descendant of the confederate general stonewall jackson is great, great grandson will be with us for reaction. and you might be surprised by where he stands on all this super interesting have a great show that they're thank you very much. let's do it right now
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first of all, imagine for a moment someone tells you that they're giving you a gift worth $237 million. >> i mean, that's enough money to make you want to shout. >> write this, start making plans, telling everybody you know but then you find out that the actual value of that gift could be zero well, that's what happened this week on an historically black college, black university campus in tallahassee, florida this would have been the largest donation ever to an hbcu and we know how these schools have been so underfunded, right? this one has had some very public financial challenges, especially but to understand this massive collapse, let's go back one week, to may 4 that's the de of florida a&m
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university's commencement gregory two rami is introduced as the ceo of better sun farms corporation. he gave a speech that ended with the surprise announcement along with a huge ceremonial check hundred and $37 million and bad away the money is in the bank all the cheering there. did you hear the background, the o'jays for the love of money playing and also you heard the promise there that the money is in the bank on stage with him there the school's president called the gift transformative for the institution. dr. les robertson said it was more than $100 larger than fam use current endowment i really at a story, gifts from a 30-year-old whom they'd never heard of within
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hours the announcement alumni, i started to ask some serious questions online whether the story was just too good to believe they and others started researching jeremy and they found some concerning details. one day after commencement after the announcement. fam you said in a statement as expected, some individuals in the public gar and will continue researching mr. jeremy, please know that fam you has done its due diligence when it comes to this matter well, we researched mr. jeremy and the donation. here's what we found. first, we obtained a copy of the gift agreement through an open records request. it shows that you're rami donated 14 million shares of stock valued at $239 million i was plus another 61 million worth of stock over the next ten years. the university says it was of his small texas company that is not publicly traded. >> the agreement is between the isaac bateson family seven trust and the family
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foundation. >> a details or even existence of this trust are not public record. but a man who controls that much wealth a man who could give away nearly a quarter billion dollars, you would expect the lives a certain lifestyle that would match that well, records show that his company's mailing address is an 1,100 square foot house in san antonio valued at 177 grant. he didn't even own that house we went to the website for his company batters and farms corporation it explains that it's a hydroponic farming and hemp plastic company founded in 2021. we looked for employees. there's one other person listed. her name is kim abbott, lists her as the co-ceo, so we called her up she says she is not the co-ceo of this company, despite with a website, says, and we asked her whether she believed that gregory jeremy could make good on a nine-figure donation? she told us that she didn't know if he could support a donation of any
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size. members of the family foundation's board of directors say they did not know anything about this donation to the foundation until the o'jays songs started playing a commencement well, that's a red flag because the purpose of the board is to oversee major gifts at an emergency meeting thursday night. foundation board members were skeptical of der the money is in the bank lie this could be, you know, $500 million or it could be zero, right so it's all speculation if some point, hopefully it's educated speculation family was president and head of advancement. >> they say that this transaction was in the works since the fall so about six months, everything we just told you, we found out in two days less than a week after the announcement of this transformative gift, families president made this announcement regards to the
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approximately himself in terms of in future process we've already decided how best interests to put that on put it on hold. >> i spoke to the so-called donor thursday and after telling me that i needed to contact fam you to set up an interview. he then equal to speak with me on friday afternoon, but when i called back on friday, i was sent to voicemail he did, however, address early skepticism back on tuesday. and listen to this. he told the tallahassee democrat pratt newspaper that he does well, a quote, keeping things off the web and keeping things under radar. he added this. i will say everything is out there. the only thing you cannot find is the money that's really the only thing you can't find online next week, the fame you board of trustees will be holding their own public meeting on this. the vice chair of the board was among the first to raise questions about the donation
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and never run gibbons joins me now, mr. gibbons, thank you for your time today. i look at this and the nearly quarter billion dollars donation and we'll get into who knew and who did not. but from your perspective did they just want it too badly that they do wanted to believe that this 30-year-old out of nowhere had a quarter billion dollars to give good morning yeah. i think that the fam you folks it's unfortunate that they did. i don't think that they did their due diligence, but also this is the reason that a board of trustees exist. >> i'm currently on the board of collagen to universities and florida and red flags went up. >> i happened to be with my mother. i didn't have an opportunity to go to the graduation. i had to take her to take tariffs with the business out of town. i got the text messages and when i read it, i immediately said there's some things wrong after being in the financial services
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sector for over 20 years this just didn't seem right so the university president and the vice president of advancement, they signed non-disclosure agreements, which is one of the really interesting elements here. >> and they couldn't even talk to the chairman of the board of trustees they couldn't tell the members of the foundation which are board which is separate entities here how is that possible that you could have a nine-figure donation come in and they can't tell the people who are charged with a accepting gifts like that this is one of the problems that a lot of hbcus, especially here, a fam, you this that is not accurate the president's authority comes from the board of trustees. >> he acts as an agent of the board. there's no nda that he or she or anybody else could have stood behind that would
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not have allowed for the board of trustees to understand and know what this gift is? i'm also a trusted as school called st. petersburg college. we have a gift and a donor clause in our bylaws and we follow that accurately until the rule and any gift you're supposed to bring it to the board because we are on the board, because we have large networks. we know a lot of people and we understand a lot of these issues. and so it would allow the president and other phone to me administration to get someone to bounce as alpha, have we done are proper background? have we done a bidding? do we hire a tax attorney who did the evaluation? who transfer the stock? i mean, there's so many questions that come up with this particular type of donation. that is why the board trustees in place. we are the fiduciary body of university. and really it should have come to us to have proper vetting. and so that we can make sure that we weren't putting a situation the pause was absolutely correct. by the
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president. but the posh should have happened before we give this gentleman of mike. >> yeah. i mean, they worked on this for six months and it was six days between the announcement and the pause that was the came from the president. do you think you'll ever see any money from gregory jeremy or from this this so-called trust? >> i can tell you i don't know that for sure. i doubt it. i hope that i'm on this is not about dev ron gibbons, the vice chairman, trying to upshot or you know, kind between the money and the university. it is about transparency, integrity and most important most importantly, about having a good rapport with all donors and making sure that donors come to hbcus and don't run into these types of situations.
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hbcus, you said it earlier are very much underfunded have been underfunded, a gift like this would be transformed it, but we've got to remember, we have to keep transparency and integrity around these particular processes in these donors to make sure that these such situations don't come up what's the reputational damage here, if any it is huge. >> fam you has a great brand lift. we're coming off a national hbcu championship. and our football team we have so many other great things going on. we're providing great leaders up tomorrow. if you look around, we have leaders like will pack or ben crump and so many others that, or that rattlers. and i mean, those are just two of the people that have gone through these handle halls. >> and so i reputation is high. we give a quality education and we make sure that we are providing in quality leaders of tomorrow. but this damage is the brand definitely victim so
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i have with me this is the agreement i was reading from. and in addition to jeremy signature there are two other signatures from the president, larry robinson and from the vice president of units diversity advancement dr. shawn tay, friday stroud you're a member of the board of trustees. should they resign i don't. >> want to go that far today. i will tell you that this meeting on next week, i've got i've got a lot of questions. right? and i think any we should do a full investigation. you can't say that dr. robinson and dr. friday stroud sure. resigned today but all people involved all parties who signed that agreement should have to choose have to go through this investigation and we need to get to the bottom of it and move this agenda forward and move the university forward the brand has been damaged or
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rapidly, and we need to make sure that family was protected and move forward in a positive good man. of life from this particular junction bev around gibbons, vice chair of the fam you board of trustees. thank you so much for your time today. >> thank you. thank you so much right now in louisiana, there is a big fight that could have an impact on the 2024 election. >> the republican governor gop led legislature, the end of lacp the same side of this fight. and now they're asking the supreme court to weigh in four years after dropping the names of confederate generals from to public schools, a school board of virginia has voted to bring them back the restoration of this beam is going to set us back 70 years and my heart breaks for the children that are going to have to walk into schools named after people that wanted them and their families. >> it's slave by the white man
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personal dignity was injured because the map quote, racially stigmatizes us racially stereotypes, and racially maligns us as citizens who will supposedly make vital decisions as voters based on our race, even though our races and unchangeable physical characteristic that does not compel our beliefs, our character, our judgment, or our votes all now, louisiana has only one majority-black district, only one black representative to congress but black people make up almost a third of the state's population. a state officials argue they need to know what the map will be, what there'll be working with by may 15 to prepare for november elections their emergency appeal on friday. the officials told the court that louisiana's impossible situation in this redistricting cycle would be comical if it were not so serious. marina jenkins has been involved in this louisiana case. she's executive director of the national democratic
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redistricting committee. marina. good morning to you the issue with gerrymandering and redistricting stories is that getting people who don't live in these districts who are not going to be represented by the people elected to care. so make this relevant to my viewer in new york, illinois, anybody outside of louisiana? >> good morning, victor. thank you so much for having me this is an incredibly important issue for folks across the country. the attack what we're seeing here, there was a two-year process of litigation to enforce section two of the voting rights act, which led to the creation of this new map that has two districts in louisiana instead of one, as you say, that would provide black voters the opportunity to elect the candidate of their choice. but you get at the 11th hour this attack coming in and saying, actually compliance with an enforcement of section two for black voters, for protections for black voters,
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under the voting rights act somehow is discriminatory against non-african american voters and i think this is part of a trend across the country. we've been seeing this for years since the supreme court's disastrous shelby county decision this relentless attack against the voting rights act frankly, as part of a broader attack against rights and protections under the law for people of color across the country typically when we have these conversations about redistricting, you have republican leaders, republican governors, legislatures on one side, and groups like the double acp and people of color on the other side, that is not the case here how did we arrive here? >> because it's not where it started, right? this was not always a two district proposal that's right. >> and, you know, part of the
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story goes back to last summer when we got an incredible decision out of the supreme court in a case out of alabama called allenby milligan, where the supreme court said section two is still alive and well and what we saw was the state of alabama tried to fight that process. they tried to fight enforcement as section two, and ultimately, the court said no, no, you have to provide this new map. and so in alabama, we now have two districts. were black voters have the opportunity to elect their candidate choice in louisiana, louisiana state government saw that happen, got to the same situation and decided, you know what, we're going to comply with the law we're going to do the right thing. and so now you have the state saying, hey, we just did what a court told us to do the electron season is coming. we just need this to stay in place and this sort of 11th hour attacks shouldn't be allowed to disrupt what has been sort of in-process for two years with the elections coming up around the corner so the members of the judge panel who threw this out, they called
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this an impermissible racial gerrymander you oppose the first proposal as you talked about, that had just one majority-black district and then there was the creation of the second one. in response to the opposition to a single district why is that, judge wrong this case is about and ultimately enforcement of rights under the voting rights act. >> and separate court, district court in louisiana. and the fifth circuit agreed that black voters, louisiana, ought to have two districts where they have the opportunity to elect their candidate. >> and this court came in and said, well, you know, that means that race has predominating in a way that violates the us constitution sort of without realizing that acknowledging that inherently in enforcement is section two. >> yes. you have to think think about race. you have to take this into consideration. this is an important state interest
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and so i think it was just a disregard for the importance and the impact and the interest of the state to have this federal law enforces federal law. that's part of the crown jewel of the civil rights movement. and so this sort of strange logic of, well, in order to enforce the civil rights statute that's discrimination because you're offering protections to a protected class that's just the nature and the very definition of the enforcement of that bill. >> well, we'll see what the supreme court does with this. if they take this up. marina jenkins. thank you so much for your time this morning a black airman shot and killed in his own apartment and the family says, the florida deputy that killed him had the wrong address what new video and audio reveals let's try this again. >> what do you see? >> my first step? bishop in houston. second championship sall's not winning a championship getty.
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four minute police body camera video begins with an okaloosa county, florida sheriff's deputy arriving on the scene okay like a woman at the complex tells the deputy she heard yells and a slap coming from the apartment two weeks ago, but wasn't sure exactly where it came from eventually, she directs the deputy to fourth floor apartment 1401, the home of 23-year-old senior airman, roger fortson, saying the girl who made the call about the physical disturbance sounded scared at 4:31 p.m. the deputy knocks once without introducing himself roughly 30 seconds later, he knocks again twice a warning. what you're about to see over the next 20 seconds is graphic fortson, who
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appears in the body camera video to have a lowered firearm in his right hand was shot six times to the chest. he survived the initial shooting. >> three, 12 get you must model patient, but was later pronounced dead at the hospital. my baby was my everything was or wasn't my third sign well, we come from you don't end up with roger and up adding to their pain. fortson's family believes deputies went to the wrong address, a claim that the sheriff disputed while defending his deputies action since ben crump, natalie jackson and brian bar represent the family they say the initial police statement was misleading and left-out key details of the shooting. >> it makes you think this happened outside? that this kid was in the middle of a disturbance and he did something. he instigated this
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and lost his life. that's what it makes it sound like. it sounded like justified. >> we are aware of a press release and other comments that falsely state our deputy entered the wrong apartment and imply that they burst through the door into mr. fortson's residents during the shooting, the ehrmann was on a facetime call with his girlfriend, who crump's says told him there was never a disturbance at fortson's home crump says fortson had been home alone just 30 minutes before the deputy arrived he heard two knocks at the door, and when he couldn't see anyone through the peephole, crump said citing the girlfriend, then forts and grabbed his gun. with crump said he legally owned in the girlfriend's facetime video, we hear forts and struggled to breathe after the shooting. >> as he lies on the floor bleeding out the deputy is now on paid administrative leave
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while the florida department of law enforcement investigated the state attorney's office and okaloosa county tells me that they are going to wait for the fda to finish their investigation before they decide whether to pursue charges. >> i did get in touch with the chief acidic this tense state attorney there in the county who tells me that he did see the video, but he refused to comment, adding that it's too early for them to do anything with the case he also said that there's no expected timeline as to when the fda will wrap their investigation. nick valencia, cnn, atlanta nick, thank you for that report. you remember that racial reckoning that happened in 2020 or school board of virginia decided that for years was long enough to go without stonewall jackson's name on a high school so they are bringing it that. i descendant of the confederate general is here to react next he was trump's former lawyer and fixer.
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york. >> black boxes posted on social media. but there were also calls to reconsider the parts of history we celebrate. a big part of that conversation was about how to handle relics of the confederacy in some places that meant debate over statues or monuments. in others, like shenandoah county, virginia. the debate was over school names in 2020, the school board there voted to read name the stonewall jackson high school, rename ashby lee elementary school, both named after confederate leaders well, since 2021, the schools were instead called mountain view high school, honey run elementary before years have passed the school board leadership has changed. and this week, the current board voted five to one to change the names back. listen to some of the local people at the board meeting where it happened first experience we have confederate
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sympathizers was in the year of 1958 i was seven years old they poison the family dog shack through our home mutilated. >> that last stop can let bloody sheets on the mailbox is this the type of legacy that you want to put in shenandoah county's public school buildings? the item was value and design black. this board decides to restore the names. >> i would not be like that is valued and respected thank you and of course, there were and there was a vote to find the one. there were some people who supported the change back to honor stonewall jackson if we're talking about racism, my name is paul jackson, my racist you know, somebody named stonewall jackson. look at what the man done he fought for his country. he good luck at that
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time. what was that part of the current that's what it's called on him. >> i ask that when you cast your vote you remember that stonewall jackson and others fighting on the side of the confederacy in this area were intent on protecting your, preserving the land. the buildings, and the lives those under attack preservation is the focus of those wishing to restore the name of stonewall jackson high school and ashby lee elementary school so my next, guest has a unique perspective on this warren christian is a descendant of stonewall jackson. he is the confederate generals, great, great grandson warren. thank you for being with me. so on the question of should these names have been restored? they've now made the decision. what's your message to the board there and shenandoah county well, my message is i mean, i'm saddened. >> i'm disappointed but as a firm believer in democracy, public schooling, and local
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control of schools, i respect their right to rename the re school and i respect their right to do what is morally wrong and victor, i really appreciate you having me on and giving me the opportunity to speak about this. but honestly, i don't think it should matter so much. what i have to say about it. >> the school board shouldn't particularly care what i have to say. >> i can't imagine they do, but i think who they should listen to as their own students and that night before they thursday night before they changed the name there was another speaker who i don't think you mentioned a courageous eighth grader, aliyah, who stood up in front of the school board and she said i'm a black student. and if the names are restored, i would have to represent a man who fought for my ancestors to be slaves that makes me feel like i'm disrespecting my ancestors and going against what my family and i believe she's exactly right. no students should have to go to a school named after someone who fought for the continued
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enslavement of their ancestors and even for those who liked the name or wish it hadn't been changed. i don't know how you can vote for that name change to rename it. again after my great great grandfather after that, brave students and others. so clearly and cogently explain how this would harm them and it costs you nothing to just leave it how it is. so i think it's it's just wrong and it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to change it back. you got to think about letterhead and signage and websites and school uniforms and all the things that think about what your high school name was printed on that have already been changed over the last four years. we have this kind conversation about confederate monuments. often it's framed it as a reckoning with decisions of another time of the mood of another era. but when a school board too de, says, we are going to honor stonewall jackson we have to consider what they are telling us today
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that they think about the people who live in this community i want to read for you what the coalition for better schools that pushed for this locally, what they said, they said that we believed that revisiting this decision is essential to honore our community's heritage and respect the wishes of the majority. the heritage, not hate justification to that. you say what i think it's important to remember our heritage to honore our heritage, to honor our history, remember our history. >> in most importantly to learn from our history and to me the most important lesson from the civil war was really simple slavery was wrong and slavery that was justified by a strong belief and white supremacy that white people at the top of a racial hierarchy, and black people on the bottom. so strong that it made it seem okay for
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one person to enslave another is also just very clearly wrong and unfortunately still with us today when slavery ended, this idea of white supremacy didn't magically go away. when segregation ended. it didn't go away. and with us doing things now, like demonizing accurate and historically accurate and critical understanding of our history, calling it crt and saying we're not going to teach it. it's certainly not going to go away by doing things like that. so i think i mean, i think it's a bad sign i know there are probably plenty of people watching and thinking the great, great grandson of as i told you during the break of stonewall, jackson is a young man, which reminds us that this is not that long ago. >> warren christian. thank you so much for being with me for a few minutes this morning. >> so there are bit of a turn
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with tenants to put projections on walls at night, and it's their stories of how displacement is affecting them. and so people in chinatown actually see the immediate connection between what's happening here in chinatown in the locally and what's happening in gaza? and also the solidarity around displacement and what global displacement looks like. and so they're the ones actually who want to participate in the marches sometimes it's just the process of bringing people together to make a banner, to paint a banner together, to make signs our culture and media has the power to really change hearts and minds and for us the human sort of putting a lens on the human story ore, the human impact story is really, really important the chinatown art brigade will be hosting films and discussions on may 19 and june 2 for more information, visit chinatown art brigade.org thank you so much foroi

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