but the high and solemn motive of defending and protecting the rights we inherited which it is our duty to transmit unshorn to our children. and what the rights mean here are they were the right to us right now as taught in school that we were not defaming slavery we were just a fan the same hours they are from the northern aggression the rest why. next we visit the statue of our common ancestor through every painful to remember the legacy evidence right where the great man made it was 2nd cousin or property with some restraint for its painful gennaro cham is not perfect right now a queen i would i would take him day on the defense of slavery was not. something to be honored. gary flowers is a local radio host and custodian of black history in richmond he wants to show me

a statue that he fought to get a wrecked in in 2017 so this is mrs maggie cleaned out walker. born to an insulated mother maggie walker was the 1st black woman to charter a bank in the united states the st luke penny savings bank. statues say to the community and say to the world this is someone whose fault to put on a on a literal pedestal that is a woman to be honored and that is a woman to be memorialized so that's what is so disheartening and despicable about the confederate statue because they fought for slavery. sedition secession and racial segregation and so those are not honorable virtues for which to fight nor are they are american there is no other country on the planet that honors and

statuary the losers of a civil war itself and my ancestors who were burned beat and brutalized raped by a confederate and confederate thinkers that is a constant symbol to me the confederate statue that we have now honoring a dishonorable man and a dishonorable cause and a dishonorable confederacy. statues mean so. there are others in richmond who are adamant the statue should remain the organization sons of confederate veterans has spent tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees to prevent the removal of statues in charlottesville and elsewhere. now mr morehead just again and andrew morehead thank you to meet you yes or welcome to richmond and hollywood cemetery i'm at a told you i'm a relative of robert e. lee absolutely and with the beard with the reddish beard you look more like you

have stuart but that's excellent. let's take a look at a few things and write. these are the dead from gettysburg. we visit the confederate section of the cemetery with the graves of around 2000 soldiers who died in gettysburg a battle lost by robert e. lee in 1963 it was arguably the turning point in the war. heavy casualties. around 50000 soldiers from both sides died in that battle there are a lot of people that feel that those statues need to come down when you look at these monuments just on a pure abstract view they're beautiful works of art. beautiful works of art and then you've got the military brilliance of robert e. lee which is still studied by military theorists today the passion for this issue we is the sins of confederate ancestors they're our family

we review the fact that we feel in our opinion they fought for a noble cause. to overthrow it overbearing federal government would you want anybody to talk badly about your family just the notion of family you know brings up a lot of emotions in me but at the same time if there is a member of one's family that is doing something that you don't agree with you have a responsibility for them sure and we're responsible for the legacy of our ancestors as far as telling the truth as we see it robert e. lee didn't say i'm going to fight for slavery no what he said is i cannot term us a word against virginia so that tells you that the war was not about slavery there are some things we're not going to agree on your i appreciate your time and giving

us your point of view absolutely. andrew's view that the civil war wasn't primarily fought to preserve slavery has been debunked by the vast majority of scholars. i'm curious to find out why so many millions of virginians still believe that all of this to an end it's pleasure to. have a christie coleman is an expert on the american civil war and heads the museum in richmond specially devoted to the subject so christie here we are 150 years after the civil war it seems like a lot of the history and perspectives are still unsettled why is it still such a hot button to day. i think. part of the reason is that we've spent 150 years lying to each other about what this war was about. we spent 150 years lying and trying to reinforce the law and the truth is and it daughters of

the confederacy and their historian of the organization a woman by the name of mildred rutherford makes it her business to frame the narrative that must be in every school or textbook and if it's not there she tells the new. you must reject it from your home and you must reject it from your school . and that's exactly what they do so if you wonder why america has such a diverse view about this as it was crafted that way the way i see it is that robert e. lee fought for slavery and that's what the civil war was about but. along the way in our i've heard an alternate opinion the reality is men women and children were bought and sold from their families by lee ok at arlington. and in many other properties that he owned he comes from a family that for generations has bought and sold human beings this way. but i'm

convinced that the weight of his choices. the death tolls and the casualties being so high i think weighed on his soul and i think that that is why he was so in his last years was so adamant. to tell others don't put up statues don't relive this let's just. let's just be you have the intensity that i see in his images with in your eyes i really like ike i think that might be a family trait it's probably just beard maybe it's very. good. to see what people think i look like he's got. my own view is that the statue should be removed because it glorifies

a shameful cause the fight to preserve slavery. over 700000 soldiers died in the american civil war the equivalent of 7000000 today. i guess it gives me some small comfort to know that my ancestor also didn't want any monuments to this dark period in our history. it's time for me to face up to the sins of my ancestors. this church in peter's ville maryland was built by black people my ancestors and slaves. my grandmother used to bring me here as a child. i've come to see 2 of her friends i've known them since i was young lord have mercy or where she may almighty god have mercy on us to get us out but we're going to everlasting life. clarice in a stellar both descendants of the people my family and slaves i want to know how they feel about that it's not something my family ever discussed.

i feel uncomfortable about bringing up the subject of enslavement i don't want to upset them. clearly some i'm wondering if you could tell me about the picture on this book here this is my mom. madeline. and i'm claire. and she was the nurse of this little girl and mom's mother used to work for the least so your mom's mother was born in slave belief and yes. ochoa how'd say he was a slave my great grandfather of the leap property i feel kind of strange about that someone earned how how you feel about that i just live in the present time and i know that i can go anywhere i want to go and do anything i want to do

and i don't have to bow down to nobody see that that's me in this present time and that's. what i wanted to do was go on you know a journey that where i figure out what i can do to make sure that you know we don't start slipping backwards you should just try to make sure that you treat people right don't don't harbor thinking about what your great great grandfather did so i don't have no hard feelings with you but i'm proud that you want to do something. but make sure you do something i don't know what you're going to do. if. if

you win the lottery you can give me a couple adult ok i could do that. but other than that. i hope we've done something. to get to help you and in your endeavors if you really have it i hope i have because i think you've got a wonderful family. i feel humbled that a sterling priest don't hold any grudge against my ancestors for what there is and are but i want to honor their call to action. i need to know how much closer we are to racial equality even in my great grandfather's day. baltimore the largest city in maryland is just one hour away. it has a population of 3000000 with a high proportion for black. 2015 there were

street protests in baltimore. triggered by the death of a 25 year old black man. freddie gray spine was severed while in police custody no officer was ever convicted. i meet up with kwame rose a young political activists who hit the headlines during the protest. kwame was filmed in a well known t.v. host for failing to report the underlying race related issues fueling the honor asked i want you and fox news to get out of baltimore city because you're not here warning about the boarded up exterior black right where you. think things are are better are they getting better we have a white supremacist in office now may be just as bad as robert e. lee was and donald trump promotes and preys on the races ideologies that exist inside of american society you know we black people built this country from on our hands our blood sweat tears and we haven't got one ounce of compensation reparation

or even acknowledgement of the contribution we did what is it that i should know about baltimore what people should know about baltimore is that we are majority black population. 63 percent black most of our elected officials are black. but yet the disparity between income between white families and black families is still one of the highest in america this is fells point it's a very white neighborhood. kwame wants to show me that even after racial segregation officially ended baltimore is still divided into rich white and poor black areas. 8 here. you know drink here. actually that restaurant right there during opening day of the baseball season. i was actually called a nigger there. i come here knowing that me being here is. kind of a disruption to like the everyday whiteness i love doing and i love making people

uncomfortable with my presence. you see the way the police patrol certain blocks of this neighborhood as a way to protect and you go up a couple blocks up the street the police are there to enforce yeah you can you tell the difference you can tell the difference because the police here this is a space where drunken why people are allowed to have a good tom be drunk and it's written off up the street standing on a corner the police are there you know come out and disperse a crowd. it's kong right and there's nothing wrong with that the fact that this city is 63 percent black and the amount of people represented in certain communities like this aren't right here. i'll take you to a part of baltimore. pretty great grew up. being once across the slightest sense that you'll be able to tell the difference from where we just came from. you notice all the vacant businesses vacant homes. there are over 30000 vacant homes in

baltimore the majority concentrated in black neighborhoods. the inequality in wealthier stock 3 times more black people than white live below the poverty line and blacks are 4 times more likely to be unemployed. this is america. richest nation in the world right. now this is going more homes this is where freddie great lived. so this is a neighborhood. flooded with poverty and adequate public housing lack of opportunity and jobs for pretty much of your born in this community you're stuck here. most kids that grow up in poverty in baltimore city don't have the chance to leave within 5 blocks of their. where they were born to really. what's the situation with the police and you can be someone like philander castille who had a weapon that was legally purchased and still killed even though he followed all

the rules you can be afraid a great who ran away as so many examples of black people who did nothing wrong but just were killed because they like ice cube said their skin was the same in the united states black people are 3 times more likely than whites to be killed by the police. how do we make sure these people in your homes have the same access to quality a life that the people. would seems to me like before we can fix anything we have to acknowledge the truth of the situation what an acknowledgement there has to be some type of compensation is of which surely the greatest nation on earth when the people who made the greatest contribution should have access to a quality of life for those who are oppressed and slave those. i've never really taken the idea of reparations seriously before that meeting with kwame has made me reconsider. i need to learn more about the inequalities that black people continue to experience i'm ready to face more uncomfortable truths.

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negotiate with the military unless certain conditions are met that has rejected any preconditions. well. i hope that our brothers in the other parties will respond without preconditions we appreciate the efforts of our friends and brothers who care for sudan we want to reach a solution but if we don't reach a solution our alternative is clear we will form a caretaker government venezuela's president nicolas maduro has reopened the border with colombia after a closure of 4 months thousands of people queued at the crossing to buy food and medicine in colombia because of shortages and high costs at home misdemeanor of shut the border to stop his political opponents bringing in u.s. backed tape which he said infringed venezuela's sovereignty. the police in albania have used tear gas to disperse antigovernment protesters in the capital city to rana they're demanding that the prime minister resigned demonstrators accuse that

of electoral fraud and wants an early general election the president's council of local elections shuttle to be held at the end of the month citing the need to reduce political tensions in the country. the russian investigative journalist has been put under house arrest after being charged with dealing drugs even. well enough says the drugs were planted on him and that he was beaten whilst in police custody the journalist has repeatedly exposed corruption among moscow's political elite. mexico's president is attending a rally just a day after his government struck a migration deal with the us that suspended a looming trade tariff. had called for the unity rally well as government was still in talks with washington sri lanka's president has fired the intelligence chief mr parlow said. mendis after he appeared before a parliamentary committee investigating the easter sunday attacks in april however mendus says he resigned on thursday he told the committee the attacks could have

been prevented those of the top stories back now to al-jazeera correspondent i'm back with the news see them public. in baltimore maryland black people are 3 times more likely than white to be living in poverty. i want to know what that means for the people living. brick fontayne works for the city he grew up in a public housing project and has been helping disadvantaged youths in baltimore for over 10 years. housing projects is primarily black ok out of you know thousands of people maybe like 10 white people that live in the projects. it's no resources you have a city you have a saw story it. someone you know they call it you know.

i saw. this jane i've missed. one of mr rich toughest soldiers. some like his squeegee and they earn money that way but a lot of kids on they sell bottled waters and bottled drinks for a dollar i mean on the bottom yes thank you thank you. he with the legal hassles all right and you know lieberman sometimes i just pull kids off corners i mentor them i help them get. rick takes me to the parking lot where de'monte howard a youth he mentored was shot dead just 2 months before. a lot of the drugs and activity happens right here and it's this parking lot and this is where unfortunately a lot of the homicides are robberies to please the c.r.p. diesel baby that was the a monster his nickname his mother was struggling as a single mom 3 children by herself and he did the fastest thing to help her and that was get involved in drugs or here he was just good enough to help his mom and

some guys from another neighborhood came here to rob them and ended up killing a really good kid old man always is trying to do better we got. i'm in wilberforce college and the day we were supposed to present him with his certificate to go to college he was he was murdered right here really start here he says as the president. was a bush we've been to and i miss my homeboy and i. just. what would you like for this community all these kids to take them out trips and sprays more stuff that's all you know right here so. it was all of. the good data for each. of those. were. a lot of problems in maadi these kids feel like they're forced to do that to survive they're not doing it to be driving

a mercedes in bentleys and things like that they're doing it because if i don't do this i won't eat tonight people in these neighborhoods are not asking for anything but opportunity the same equal playing field that the rest of america gets i don't . this is mine. but you need to come and see how you've done so this is this is james to lose a child and. you know i always see how you know you know the little thing that we doing and how you know they've everybody feel so safe a passerby is their babies especially to the streets and then now here i am i one of them. i'm so sorry for your loss thank you so much thank you thank you appreciate. there were 343 homicides in baltimore and 2017 more than 90 percent of these people black. chan wallace is

a baltimore photographer who uses her craft to combat racial stereotyping so i use photography as a form of activism my black lives matter and this what we are this is what we are outside of the gates of whiteness. this guy right here i see black men all the time but i see how the world continues to perpetuate that these moments moments like this don't happen sometimes i photograph a black man and by the time i have the photograph printed and ready to give it to them they block that you have the sound i went back to go give them a copy but you don't. weave and doors so much pain and have these moments where we didn't have anybody to tell you no but a lot of people tell me about those moments when i take their photograph and talk about our trauma and talk about the injustice. what can i do what can white people do to kind of shift the way that they think and i think that for white people it starts with just simply caring about black people and envisioning more

equal society allies i don't think that an ally job is to go in and dig and tell people what to do and give directions this is listen and to take notes. she has arranged a photo shoot in the area of baltimore where she grew up. she photographs her brother does many cousin quoting in front of. 2 generations punish them we still live on the street. there's many quoted who have served time in prison one in 3 black men in the u.s. it's a felony conviction. just over 7. dollars going to. what i was forced to come out of this is trying to. provide a way from our. 0 sammo brothers that by we we forced into this we don't have.

the right to tell you what you really mean is. the forces of history. nobody ever heard of fear from our kids is there a pedophile with i'm not even a prison. it was dark a bring my son out this community my family my whole family stuck in this community when you look back across the generations the advantages that white people have put in position for themselves and all black people the n. the disadvantaged as i might be was small and just as the white you should never bet up turned to me. i don't think so but that's just like him and then thank a ball is fall down his father it always was this event so for a black person pieces us was very. true i do something about it but i try not to think about it we just want to force more some are the put the spotlight on us and give us a little bit of help and then but i was determined what we will do with the help we

don't wait out that soon come over so scar we've askey to speak out because a surprise we portrayed him is as if we who would but we're not we so scarred that we only want to speak out because we're afraid of the next person who'll look at. you guys are going to take this with me you know trying trying to spread the message. i mean i came here to listen and to learn you know and it seems like such a small thing. just to hear these stories. is so it's not small because quality he got emotional and even my brother got emotional because now i have people listening to him you know people really fight it down matter we don't really talk about it because it happens so much is not news is not new. quality i know he didn't want to say that stuff over a long time he got kids he got

a family you know and they all live in poverty it is the as still living in poverty these this is not the dream for us. i later discovered that the continuing existence of the rich white neighborhoods and poor black neighborhoods in baltimore is not accidental but a legacy of decades of deliberate racial discrimination. in the mid 1930 s. the u.s. government was encouraging people to buy their own homes by offering federal loans however most black people were systematically refused mortgages. in addition government and financial institutions to up maps disqualifying some areas for subsidies readline zones usually defined as neighborhoods where black people live. this deliberate denial of equal opportunities for black people to buy real estate is a major reason for the wealth gap between blacks and whites that exist today. my

efforts to educate myself in america's hidden history lead me to 2 academics who have spent years researching the racial wealth gap in america and the reasons for it hello i am james i do it was i would say have a good nature person what does that inequality look like in the aftermath of the civil war blacks may have on less than one percent of the american wealth. what's particularly striking and disturbing about that figure is that if we look at the comparable measure to the it's about 2 percent so we have a wealth position for black americans today that in a relative is not very different from what it was at the end of slavery is there an unpaid debt that is to to black people in america yes the estimates can run as high as 17 trillion dollars there was an opportunity to reverse the consequences of slavery instead for really enslaved folks never received the 40

acres and a mule that they were promised if that type of land reform it actually taken place it would have completely altered the trajectory of wealth inequality by race in the united states we got the destruction of black communities that had developed some measure of prosperity through white massacres that took place from the period of about 880 through about 1940. the midwestern community of greenwood in tulsa oklahoma was the most affluent black community in america with over 300 black owned businesses known as black wall street. in main 1921 the whole 35 block neighborhood was obliterated by a white mob triggered by a false rumor that a black man had raped a white girl homes businesses schools and churches were burned and by and over 100 people died. while a massacre after another in

a sort of rolled across the country all of these riots where thousands of black people were killed if you study history you see that this is been a continuous. a continuous assault on black people yeah we we think there is a giant. and we think it needs to be met because i think it is a just response to america's history my family's. you know status and wealth has as has been has benefited from from their choice to enslave people the total number is staggering of whites who owned at least one black body you know it would have them at least half but at least half the states well probably white population i actually met recently the descent descendants of one of the people my family enslaved and found out that i had actually known this this woman

a stellar who's 90 years old now and most of my life was her full name. her name is. sorry i'm blanking on her last name stella. telling you know that she's many years your senior and yet you refer to her by her 1st name right. there it is right there i mean i don't mean any disrespect. to check. well apparently no one else in your family has referred to her by any other. correct the rope yeah yeah no you're absolutely right i think it probably made both of us uncomfortable you know for you for you to call me out there. maybe you haven't.