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>> this is jared steven leone. he is 18 and in city hall in beaverton, oregon. according to him, he's high on mushrooms and he starts a fight with cops and they wrestle and jared grabs a cop's gun and shoots it. more cops jump in. it ends up taking seven cops two full minutes to restrain jared and he makes it out alive! this is white privilege. if that idea bothers you, let's call it benefit of the doubt. those cops give him the benefit of the doubt that his life matters. that his life is worth saving. even when he takes one of their guns and shoots it. when you're black, we rarely get
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that benefit of the doubt. the cops murdered mcdonald in less than 30 seconds. they kill wright in two seconds. jared got probation and a fine and a bump on the forehead. in this episode, we are talking about the difference between two minutes and a few seconds. >> you want to call the police on him for having a barbecue at the lake? >> i'm white and i'm hot. >> sweeping the nation like a new beyonce album, they drop
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without warning and they are all anybody can talk about for days after. >> she is the self appointed barbecue police. >> around the park. >> white lady calls the tops for black dudes for barbecuing in the park or won't let black person into the pool. >> get out! >> white lady won't let the black person into the pool. >> you are going to take my key? >> sounds like i'm repeating myself, but i'm not. my personal favorite is -- >> illegally selling water without a permit. >> white lady calls the cops on a little girl for selling water on a hot day. that's the opposite of white privilege. all these videos have a few things in common. all the white people get nicknames and the white people end up being properly ridiculous and none of the black people end
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up dead. that's so different than the video peach with eric garner and philando castile and so many more. people like me thought roaring cell phone footage of cops and people acting like cops doing unjust things would lead to justice. we found thut it doesn't. cops and people acting like cops get away with murdering people all the time. people are not just recording and waiting for the cops to show up, they are getting involved fewer bystanders and more up standers. if they do, sometimes it's just to comfort the snow flakes. it will be okay, becky. while the stuff may be new for some of you white folks, my people have been talking about these stories forever. white folks, i'm inviting you to the conversation. welcome to the black people meeting.
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don't bring your potato salad with the raisins in it. we can do this in any city, but one place is the most segregated city in the country. before you guess a bunch of cities, it's milwaukee, wisconsin. they have the most amount of neighborhoods that are defined by race. the home of happy days and harley davidson is a home to a lot of racism. structural and hold up. another viral video just dropped in our laps. >> today is supposed to be the party. we pull up to start setting up and this lady walks up to me and said you need a permit and i need you to take this down. >> white people calling the police again. why do they all call the police and they stand there and wait on it. >> this one has a twist. >> they just rolled up. cnn. funny how the cell phones work.
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>> we can use these fancy cameras. >> i got a call and you can put in your name and stuff. >> i never heard of such a thing. they are passing out candy. >> i will talk to my supervisor and appreciate your cooperation. >> we are doing an epicode about living while black. what happened? >> you mind talking to us? >> yeah, we have been working this park since 2016 for whatever reason. this late shows up and tries to me i don't have a permit. >> see right there, halloween helen. >> black folks, we are all defeated. you have a name. halloween helen. it's already started. are you surprised? >> absolutely not. growing up in mississippi i can count on one hand, maybe two or
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three at the most that were racial. here, i was here not even a year and had my first racial run in at 14 or 15. if you don't know, you are going to know right away where you are not wanted or welcome at. >> wow, you rolled up. now we can get back to why we came to the park in the first place. not that one or that one. this one. an historian who don't play games. >> we walked into that. >> we joke about it, but it's not funny. especially in milwaukee. between the police department and the black people. there is always a bad relationship. there has been a history of things and ins depts of unarmed plaques being killed by police. even this neighborhood. one of the things that happened
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is smith was shot about two blocks away from the gas station and later that evening, basically it got crazy. police shot and killed 23-year-old seville smith and 100 protesters came to be near the site of the killing. a local gas station and auto parts store and bank were burned down. >> everywhere is aware with the civil unrests, but that was not about seville smith being shot. there were underlying causes that led to people being very upset. from 1963 until 2015, the city lost 91,000 manufacturing jobs. 91,000 good jobs left. a lot of the manufacturing jobs are out in the suburbs. people don't have access to get out to where the jobs are. as a result of that, you have
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high rates of poverty and crime and you have schools that are not effective. the underlying wauz was related to the history of segregation. we are surrounded by 18 suburbs that surround the city of milwaukee and 86% of the people who live in the suburbs are white. only 6.4% of black people in milwaukee county live outside the city. that's the lowest of any of the most highly segregated cities in the country. since 40% of the residents are black. >> hold up. a lot of you are shocked because you didn't know there were black people in milwaukee. but at 40%. milwaukee is blacker than chicago, oakland and the city of compt compton. >> you have a very diverse city. you look at what segregation has done to milwaukee and the relationships between the police department and the black
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community, black people feel as if they are surveilled. one district where i think blacks make up like 3% in their district, but make up 67% of the people stopped by police. just look at the incident with milwaukee bucks player accosted by parking in a handicapped spot. >> there is this ideas that you can achieve your way out of this. it doesn't matter if you go to college or get a good job. the police will still see you as sbhon is up to no good. >> this creates a perfect storm. >> milwaukee is more and i often referred to our state as wis
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i saw the entire thing. >> you might have been shocked when you heard about it, but i wasn't. i have the experience of a coffee shop with some not wanting me to be in their coffee shop. >> he met up with his wife sitting in an outdoor table and showing her a book when the employee told him to go away. >> i went away and went straight to the internet and told everyone. after those things happened, i think a lot about where i get my coffee. in milwaukee, if i get kicked out, it won't be because of the color of my skin, it will be because of the content of my character. coffee makes you black is a shop that serves to black people and people who are nervous being near black people. >> milwaukee in the 60s was the 11th largest city in the united states. >> really? >> yeah. isn't that strange? >> this issy is rig y serita.
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>> black people moved out of the south to escape racism and moved to the northern cities where there was no racism. >> there is so much racism. what's hilarious. >> i don't think i know what you mean. sad lairious. >> the middle west north buys into this narrative that they are far more superior in terms of character and tolerance. midwest ninth. there is this veneer of like i'm not in my heart races. you are doing shut that's racist af. why the city has the shape it does. this map is from 1937. what they call a security map, but it's common so we can call it a red lining map. it was a series of maps produced
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by the federal government. they did neighborhood appraisals for where they would issue them. the green areas are like good loans. the red is basically areas that they say are on a decline and blighted. everybody black concentrated in the area. they made a distinction about where the black people live. no other ethnic group. the very existence of blackness would devalue this space and blackness should be prohibited from being in this space. that's what you are saying. it's by design. this was intentional. we can point to a legacy of like systemic inequality. >> when you see this on a map like this, racism is not just like a feeling. it's an institution or a structu structure. >> this seems like as good of a time as any to define racism. most people say it's hating
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someone based on their skin material. >> i have black relatives who are racist. >> every academic i know believes that hating someone or treating someone poorly is prejudice. >> being racist is not just prejudice. it's prejudice plus power. >> think of it as one cop. racism is the police department that has that cop's back. if a banker doesn't give a black person a home loan, that's prejudice. but if they have approval of the bank, that's racism at work. in america, racism gets a lot of work. it's embedded in the structures and institution of the country because of how this country was founded. that's why you can't hire black people and expect the institution to not be prejudice anymore. any time you apply for a job or talk to a police officer or walk outside outside. no offense to my white crew
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members. except for these twenty-one, two, three four, five. he's from alabama so i don't think of him as white. every video, michael brown and garner and philando castile. i see myself in that. even if i never have been in that situation. eric garner is on the ground being choked out and saying i can't breathe and he has asthma and i'm a 6'4" black man with asthma. white people don't see themselves. we had white women that must have seen the other videos. you think in that moment, wait a minute. am i about to get a hash tag? >> white people see groups with people of color and individual white people. that's their mo. it's nice to see the stories are aggravated because that particular of white folks saying i believe this black body does
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not belong in this coded white space. i feel threatened and i have the agency to call some authority figure to correct that. >> i have the agency to be the authority figure. >> that's how it feels to be in milwaukee. >> it may seem impossible and too big, but there is a workshop across town trying to do just that. complete with power point. >> we're are defining the anti-blackness is the distance between black people and your acceptance of their name. >> it's put on by university of milwaukee wisconsin. >> today's workshop is focused on dignity and can't blackness and we focus on the dignity as our responsibility. dignity resonates with folks because we talk about every individual can talk about how their dag nitty has not been affirmed. this is a deepening and application of how we connect on a human level. >> this work is very important for cities that are going
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through what the real estate people and the politicians call a renaissance. i went through the milwaukee and you can see the construction around it. i'm sure that was buildings or warehouses and now it's like high end real estate. that changes the complexion of the city. >> this kind of reputation of being a place for the young professionals to be. it's good for white young educated professionals and not everybody else. what does it mean to be in a position to rupt it or say i have this privilege and i have this power and i have this know how and i run in the circles. we have to change something about this city. >> maybe i need to turn it into a workshop. >> boop. >> talk more about the history. >> i entered grad school and i was in the classroom space and y'all got me fed up.
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black people f'ed up. you have the same degree as me and you don't know how to treat black people. that's kind of of the impetus of this. >> did you get your ph.d. >> yes. >> so i should call you doctor? >> you know. >> my wife is a ph.d. she makes me call her doctor around the house. >> i'm not going to fight. >> when he's workshops happened, it feels like it's either black people showing up who are kind of like yeah, you know what i mean or white people saying oh, my god, i never had these thoughts. if they are in a room together, one is not being served. >> what we learn side that a lot of the issues of other intersections of oppression become more real. we focus on race and yeah, you can bring up that white people are problematic, but black people play into that, too. even you. what does that mean in this
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one of the things i have 5u8z heard about milwaukee, it's a city that people are from. if you are from here or want to get something going on, you had chicago or new york or anywhere not milwaukee. according to a study about the university of wisconsin, madison, the state lost 14,000 college graduates per year between 2008 and 2012. it hurts milwaukee's ability to innovate over the years. they are trying to keep the brains here. people like lisa caesar, a harvard-educated entrepreneur with a resume who is mostly known for winning an oscar or writing this. >> do you believe in justice as you said? >> i do. >> the feel good movie of the
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summer. >> the things that i had to learn to execute 12 years is that there is a system that is put in place that becomes mass psychosis. to make it work, you have to get so many people involved. that's the thing that hurts the most. we see it still happening. >> they grew up in milwaukee and left for careers in new york and los angeles. now they have come home and converted part of a brewery that started over 20 years ago into no studios. they take people's dreams of show business and shows how they can be a reality. >> i remember as a kid to be a young black guy in milwaukee thinking about i want to be a writer or an artist or work in film, it seemed like a million miles away. 30 years later, to actually accomplish those things and realize there are black, hispanic, asian, gay, straight,
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queer, whatever. people were feeling the same. they wanted to do the things they love from milwaukee. >> i have a little bit of talent, i better get out of here. >> what if we were to embrace that talent instead of suppressing it. we grew up here and it's a suburb and not exactly in milwaukee. there were no black folks where we grew up. virtually none. >> even when we moved in, as few black people on that, we all lived on that block. we all lived on that block. kids stare and they used to call it n word row. >> you were treated as not quite as american as everyone else. when you are a child, you internalize that. >> we have it good by comparison. our father was a practicing doctor here for a long time and mother was a teacher.
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he's a serviceman and volunteered and he was in the air force. he just tells a story about coming up to milwaukee and stopping in a restaurant and our mom. you were a baby. he was just accosted by this gang of young white kids. he thought if he didn't have you in his arms, they would have beaten him and beaten my mother. he talks about when he got a house on the phone. it was all good and he checked on the house. who is moving in here? he would talk that he ended up on the board. the first black man on the board or as part of this committee. he was just talking about his experiences. that's amazing that you did that. it wasn't amazing, but when you are black and particularly in milwaukee, if you did something, you were that first person. you led by example. we are a by product of our
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parents. they fought and stood up and i think the thing we wanted to do was create a space and let people know these things are not accidental. part of what we want to do is make people realize that you can be comfortable with anybody. what are the things we have in common and enjoy? you have to get people working together. that's the thing. >> i like this. i'm about to come back here. >> i'm about to get you on came camera. when this episode is ready to air, can we do a screening of it here? >> absolutely. we can make that work. >> absolutely. make it happen on camera. >> it's a binding contract. verbal agreement. >> and people in hollywood never lie. we have nothing to worry about. >> that's right. i'm just a normal person
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next, we are going to switch it up. instead of a black people meeting, a people of color meeting. i will have fun before we get back into it. i'm meeting with student activists. they are part of leaders igniting transformation or lit for short. that takes on issues of race in milwaukee's education system.
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>> after the pass the conkegz rotocol, it was time for the people of color meeting. >> our organization is filling a need that combines black and brown young people. that's the need we fill in milwaukee. bringing together young people to make the city better and hopefully ease racial tensions. >> that's a big deal. >> very big deal. >> something i love about lit, we are all people of color. people in public education to bring black and brown youth together. they have white staff. how are you going to do that? we need to throw the whole thing away and start all over. >> the whole public. the concept of public education. >> already, okay. >> tearing it down may not be a bad idea. lit and the center of popular democracy shows that the black
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high school students made up 53% of the student body and 80% of the over 10,000 suspensions in the 2015, 2016 school year. double the national rate. not only that, more than 100 black students were expelled for things white students were suspended over. students of color were 85% turned over to the place. while the system is racist, what affects students more is the subtle ways they crossed boundaries with race. >> we have to pick an organization to work with and my teacher told me she wanted me to help out a foster home. why? she was like don't you cover foster care? i was like -- i said where did you get that and she said i just -- you just what? >> it's almost like when she was
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talking about it just happened this year. it was actually wacky tacky wednesday. >> i already know. >> i was all crazy. my hair was crazy and all in the ponytails and stuff. one of the faculty came into my classroom to get this college letter and she continues to say you know what you remind me of? a pekingese dog. i didn't know what it was. i googled what i thought it was. she said no, that's not how you spell it. she retyped it and searched it. >> the direction for the racism. >> this is what a nick 99y doll looks like. she doesn't look like one. nobody does. if i give you the power overtime and space and harry potter magic, what would you do to fix the problems? >> when you meet somebody, you see a glimpse of their past. that makes us take a step back
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and think about where we are. >> i like that one. >> admit it. you knew it was a matter of time before we talked about the criminal justice system. they are so caught up, they are the most incarcerated zip code in the country. 62% of incarcerated and as a whole, more than half of all black men have at some point been behind bars. this pipeline of prison can be traced to the milwaukee police department's stop and frisk. the aclu took notice and sued the city and won the case. i am meeting with the plaintiffs. along with their aclu rep at the wisconsin black historical society. >> they should have a general perception with wisconsin that black people don't live here. is that it?
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have you heard that? >> i went to new york and when i told people they were from wisconsin, their eyes are wide open. >> ain't no cows in milwaukee. >> this is kind of an inside job. i had the same reaction you just had. i'm a celebrity. >> talk about why they get involved in this and including stories that are not about black people being killed by cops. they are harder to tell and harder to understand the racism. >> it's absolutely completely pervasive and not just cities like milwaukee, but other cities as well. what we ended up finding out with the city of milwaukee and police department and their own data, we found that they stopped something like 350,000 people unconstitutionally. >> the numbers are ridiculous and what's harder to measure is the emotional toll and you could
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end up dead for nothing. steven was walking home and accused of marijuana possession. >> i said i don't smoke marijuana and he stop and stared at me. in that moment, you realize if something happens to you and you make sudden movements, you could be on the pavement. it's his word against nobody's. >> what are if you smelled like weed. you didn't smell like a bank robbery. there was a state rep trying to avoid where gunshots were. >> i guarantee i probably wouldn't have been stopped. >> maybe they would have given you a right home. >> sunday afternoon and i was driving home and noticed there was a squad car and sirens went off and i rolled down the window and both officers approach. they told me that whatever reason my places didn't match the car. so the cop on the driver's side
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goes. takes my id. the other cop is still staring in the car. he starts playing with the holster on the gun. this is fresh after brown was murder and philando castile was killed in front of his girlfriend and his child. i keep telling myself don't say anything. don't get enraged or mad because it will turn bad. finally the cop does come back, the other officer. he's like everyone seems to check out. that's cool. they walk away and get in the car and i literally turned around to wait for them to pull off. the rage and anger that i immediately felt in that moment to know your life can be on a thread like that. to them it's like a snip and that's it. >> people will hear you tell
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that story and say what's the big deal? why are you so angry? >> that's the crazy part. i remember telling that to people. he is toying with his victim and twisting the dwooif around as he had this. imagine having somebody who has a weapon right in front of you and they are toying with the very thing that has been responsible for the neutralization of people's lives. if you don't see the fear in that, i don't know what else to tell you. >> yeah. >> one white woman came in and asked me do you get tired of having these conversations as a black man? you know what, yes! at the same time understand this is the only way i will make sure my children see something different. we are the ones who have to come up with the solution. we are the solution to this and understanding that we just need partners. >> that's why we did this. it was entirely about changing the community and changing the
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while the aclu stories weren't violent, those men stood up because the same situations can end up in violence. take the story of maria hamilton's story. >> i feel his fear. i very seldom go to the cemetery because his blood and life is in this park. >> the manager of this starbucks called the police on this man who was waiting for his brother on the park bench. >> the police were calmed on three occasions. they went and spoke with him and came to the conclusion he was not doing anything wrong and not bothering anybody. so they left. >> unsatisfied with the response to her calls, the manager called a personal friend on the force to the scene. officer christopher manning. officer manning confronted don
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tray who was unarm and was not bothering anybody. >> here stood over his head. don tray was startled and jumped up. he tried to do a legal pat-down. don tray resisted. >> the officer unloaded friend bullets into him, killing him. he was not bothering anyone, even according to other cops at the scene. >> his life was taken for that. because of a manager at starbucks profiling him as a homeless man and felt as though his presence stopped them from making money? >> 14 bullets. in broad daylight. unimaginable.
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thank you. >> following the shooti ining t police said he had a prior history for arrest and connected to mental health issues. >> was any of that true? >> none of it is true. he had not grabbed nobody. in 2016 he was diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic. he never tried to hurt anybody. >> there is an assumption that anyone can turn violent. that's not the case overwhelmingly. >> no, it's not. >> the bigger question is why are the cops the first responders to things that don't involve crime. it criminalizes people who may be hanging out in the park or having a bad day or may be in crisis. in 2017, mental illness was a factor in 25% of police shootings. >> this was a couple of weeks before he died. >> wow.
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i notice in the pictures he was smiling. >> that was his uniqueness. he smiled all the time. when his life was taken from us, we didn't know what to do. >> adding to maria's grief, the police did not even file criminal charges. they said his use of deadly force, 14 shots, was justifiable. it was like am i in a movie? and my fight even to this day is the truth. all i ever wanted was the truth. so i was pulling into a fight trying to get the truth. >> whenever a black youth or black person is murdered by a police officer, often we see the moms step up. >> if we don't save our baby,
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they won't save us. >> the mothers of eric garner, trayvon martin, sandra bland and tamir rice have joined forces and joined mothers of the movement to support each other and fight for police reform. maria started her own group, mothers for justice uniteed to s support the moms whose families have been affected. i wish you didn't have to do that work and feel compelled to do that work but i thank you for doing that work. >> thank you. whoever voice i have to be, i will be that voice. until their parent or their loved ones are strong enough to fight for them. >> well, thank you. ...every curve, every innovation, every feeling... ...a product of mastery. lease the 2019 es 350 for $379/month for 36 months. experience amazing at your lexus dealer.
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>> from the videos to the conversations, the heart of the question is prejudice and racial bias and while some of you may point to the klan and alt right and say hey, that's not me, pal. i have news, everybody acts on racial biases all the time without thinking about it. we don't have racism to back us up. acting on it is call implicit bias. it's like a white lady in the park seeing a person of color and immediately seeing a threat or criminal and not giving that person the benefit of the doubt
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as a human who likes to barbecue. it might have extra if you're friendly. >> a lot of the research out there is focused on sort of racial attitudes ask ask peopnd in surveys are you racist? they will say no. i'm having one last meeting with john diamond, an expert on the subject. i was not familiar with the term implicit bias until four years ago. something happened to me and it was referred to implicit buy ib. i called it racism. >> yeah, so tony green wall established project implicit about 20 years ago so what they were trying to figure out is what is going on in people's minds before they are able to think about what is the socially responsible answer. right? the way to think about implicit bias is you don't have to necessarily dislike people of other races to be affected by it. it's in everything that you do. somebody walks through a door
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and it's a man, you have some assumptions about what that means and we've also been conditioned not to talk about it, right? >> researchers from harvard and the university of virginia created a test to measure people's implicit bias. if we can measure it, maybe we can dismantle it. >> they find people have a hard time associating good characteristics with blackfaces. >> is that everybody? >> about 80% of white people. >> what about for black people? >> for black people, we're less likely to favor white people but we still tend to flavor white people slightly. so the challenge is thinking about not just what people's intentions are but like how do you grow up in a world where white supreme acy is embedded i everything and you embed it into self-consciousness. >> there is a test, right? >> there is. >> i feel like i'm hip to this stuff. >> the way it's set up, i think it is. >> okay. >> now we answer the question many of you had for more than three seasons, how racist am i?
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>> i would accept an invitation to a white person to their home because if i didn't, i wouldn't be able to hang with my in laws so i say agree. >> the first part is pick the level to which you agree or disagree. >> most white people can't be trusted more than black people. [ laughter ] >> i'll cover this from cnn's eyes, i don't mean my bosses at cnn. you guys are great with black tv hosts. the second part of the test is more tricky, i had to pick black and white faces and decide if certain words are good or bad. this is what the test looks like. you can find it here but this is what the test feels like. ♪ ♪
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>> all right. your data suggestions a moderate automatic preference for african americans over europeans. woo, hoo, hoo, moderate preference for black people. that's my brand. whether you agree with the results, it's the conversations after the results. >> what does it mean? are the implications of that? it does mean stuff. you connect it to how people react in school, discipline, policing, all those things, it matters. >> i think i'll make everybody on the crew take it. [ laughter ] >> i already know who on the crew will have a strong preference for black people. what's up, dwayne? [ laughter ] >> this week in milwaukee featured a bunch of great black people meetings and one people of color meeting and hopefully gives you white people a sense of what we're going through and what people of color talk about regularly and even though the show is coming to an end, we have a homework assignment. go and take the implicit bias test because whether you think
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you're bias or not, racism is part of your life with or without knowing it. if we measure it, hopefully we did dismantle it. there is a chance you'll end up in a video or ask for people that don't deserve it or worse, getting someone killed because we ain't all jared steven leony. ♪ ♪ on the next united shades of ameri america, are black people discriminated against on ski slopes? i'm in st
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