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comes out alive. this is white privilege. if that idea bothers you, let's call it benefit of the doubt. those cops give jared 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. of course when you're black, you rarely get that benefit of the doubt. cops killed laquan mcdonald in less than 30 minutes. but jared just got probation and a fine and a bump on the forehead. we're talking about the difference between two minutes and a few seconds. ♪
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>> you want to call the police on him for having a barbecue on a sunday at the lake. >> yes. >> you've seen the videos. >> i'm white and i'm hot. >> last couple of years they've been sweeping the nation. >> put them where they belong. >> like a new beyonce album, they drop without warning and are all anybody can talk about for days afterward. >> i love she's the self-appointed barbecue police. >> what's your favorite. >> white lady calls the cops on black dudes for barbecuing in the park? or white lady won't let black person into a pool? >> get out. get out. >> or white lady won't let black person into a pool. >> i just showed you my key. >> i know it sounds like i'm repeating myself. there haven't been this many black people kicked out of pools since mlk had that dream. my favorite is -- >> illegally selling water without a permanent. >> white lady calls cops on a
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little girl for selling water on a hot day. that's the opposite of white privilege. all the white people get twitter worthy nicknames. the white people end up looking ridiculous, and this is the key ingredient. none of the black people end up dead which is different from the videos features eric gardener, philando cass teal and so many more. people thought recording videos would lead to justice, but we found out it doesn't. cops and people acting like cops get away with murdering black people all the time. in these new videos, people are getting involved. >> did you seriously just call the police on a child? >> fewer bystanders, more up standers. in many cases the cops don't have to get involved, and sometimes it's just to comfort the snow flakes. it'll be okay, becky. while the stuff in these videos
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might be new for some of you white folks, my people have been talking about this since that famous boat ride. so, white folks, i'm inviting you to the conversation. please don't bring your potato salad with the raisins in it. if we're talking racism, we can do this in any city in the united states. but one place is named the most negative gaited city in the country. before you start guessing cities below the mason-dixon line, i'll tell you milwaukee, wisconsin. milwaukee has the most neighborhoods defined by race. another viral video just dropped right in our laps. >> today is supposed to be the park party. we pull up to start setting up this. this lady walks right up to me and said you don't have a permit for this today. i'm going to need you to take this down. so, we might have a problem here today. >> that's white people calling
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the police again, huh? why do they all call the police and stand there in a certain stance and wait on it. >> this one has a twist. we were there just as it was going down. >> so, cnn just rolled up. funny how the universe works. >> forget cell phone footage. we can use the cnn cameras. everybody on deck. >> i got a call i got sent out for. >> do you have an id? >> i never heard of such a thing. we're just passing out candy. >> okay. going to have to talk to my supervisor to see what's going on. i appreciate your cooperation. >> my name is kamau bell. we're doing an episode about living while black in milwaukee. >> rough. it's rough. >> you're in the right spot. >> and we stumbled on somebody living while black. what happened? you want to talk about it? >> yeah. we've been working this park since 2016. for whatever reason, this lady shows up and tries to tell me i don't have a permit and proceeds to walk over there and call the
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police. >> she right there, halloween helen. >> black folks, we're undefeated. do you have a name yet? halloween helen. it's already started. are you surprised this is what happened? >> absolutely not. growing up in mississippi, i can probably still count on one hand probably maybe two or three incidents at the most that were racial. here, i was here not even a year and i had my first racial run in at 14 or 15. so, if you don't know, you're going to know right away where you're not wanted at or where you're not welcome at. >> wow. we just rolled up. >> hey, let's see if we can find some living while black. here it is. you ain't got to travel too far to get to it. >> now we can get back to why we came to the park in the first place. i came to speak to reggie jackson. not that one, or that one. this one, a historian who don't play games. it's crazy we walked over and walked into that. it's amazing. we joke about it and give it a hash tag, whatever. it's not funny though.
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>> no, no, no. >> especially here in milwaukee there's a relationship between the police department and the black people in the city. it's always been a bad relationship. there are incidents of unarmed blacks being killed by the police. even in this neighborhood. one of the things that happened is seville smith was shot two blocks from the gas station. later that evening basically it just got crazy. >> on august 13, 2016, the police shot and killed seville smith. that night around 100 profesters came to be around the site. things got hectic. a bank, parts store, and gas station were burned down. >> people don't know what led up to that. that wasn't about seville smith being shot. that was a precipitating act that led to the explosion. there were underlying causes that led to people being upset. from 1963 until 2015, the city
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of milwaukee lost 91,000 manufacturing job, 91,000 good jobs left. but a lot of the manufacturing jobs now out in the suburbs and people don't have access to get out to where those jobs are. and as a result of this, you have high rates of poverty, higher rates of crime, schools that aren't very effective. and underlying cause was related to segregation. so, we're surrounded by 18 suburbs that surround the city of milwaukee. and 86% of the people that live in those suburbs are white. only 6.4% of black people in milwaukee county live outside of the city of milwaukee. that's the lowest of the highly segregated cities in the country, especially since 40% of the residents are black. >> hold up. a lot of you are probably shocked because you didn't know there were black people in milwaukee. milwaukee is blacker this
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chicago, oakland, city of compton. >> what you have is a very diverse city, a very diverse city surrounded by communities that are not diverse at all. when you look at what segregation has done to milwaukee in terms of relationships between the police department and the black community is that black people feel as if they're surveilled everywhere they go in milwaukee. there's one district where blacks make up 3% of the population in the district but 67% of the people stopped by police. just look at the incident with milwaukee bucks player sterling brown which was accosted for parking in a handicap spot. >> take your hands out of your pockets now. >> i've got something in my hand. >> tauzeser, taser, taser. >> there's the idea you can achieve your way out of these situations. doesn't matter if you go to college, get a good job, doesn't matter any of those things. >> right. >> the police will still see you
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as someone who's up to no good. >> all of these things kind of, you know, work together, create a perfect storm in milwaukee. >> i've heard people coming from the south and going milwaukee is n for -- i feel racism deeper in milwaukee than the south. >> i've often returned to our state as wississippi. >> that's good. i don't know if i'm allowed to say that, but that's good. (paul) great. another wireless ad. so many of them are full of this complicated, tricky language about their network and offers and blah blah blah. look. sprint's going to do things differently. and let you decide for yourself. they're offering a new 100% total satisfaction guarantee. try it out and see the savings. if you don't love it, get your money back. see? simple. now sprint's unlimited plan comes with one of the newest phones included for just $35 a month.
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>> one of the biggest viral videos was of a philadelphia starbucks. you might have been shocked when you first heard about this, but i wasn't because i have experience of a coffee shop not wanting me to be in their coffee shop. >> kamau came here, met with his wife sitting in an outdoor table. he was showing her a book when an employee knocked on the window and told him to go away. >> i went away and went to the internet and told everyone. i think about where i get coffee. in milwaukee if i get kicked out, it's not because of the color of my skin. it'll be because of the content of my character. coffee makes you black is a
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coffee shop for black people and people nervous being around black people. >> milwaukee in the 60s was the second largest city in the united states. >> really? this is serena. she's a writer, and new york city english professor. >> people believe black people moved out of the south to escape racism and they moved to the northern cities where there was no racism. >> there was so much racism. >> yeah, exactly. >> if i can -- i don't know if that can be a word -- >> i don't know if it's a word, but i know what you mean. sad-lairious. >> the north thinks they're more tolerant. but there's a veneer of i'm not
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in my heart racist but you're doing shit that's racist af. this is called a security map. we can call it a red lining map. >> okay. >> it was a series of maps that were produced by the federal government. they did these surveys and kind of neighborhood appraisals to determine where they would issue home loans. green areas are good loans. red is basically areas that are on a decline and blighted. everybody black pretty much concentrated in this area. they made distinction about where the black people lived. no other ethnic group. you mean to say the very existence of blackness devalues this space, therefore blackness should be prohibiting from being in this space. that is what you're saying. it's by design. this was intentional. so, we can point to a legacy of, like, systemic inequality. >> when you see this on a map
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like this, racism's not just a feeling. it's also an institution and structure. so after more than three seasons of this show, this seems like as good a time as in to define the word racism. most people define racism as hating someone based on skin color. occasionally i use that definition too. every antiracist academic i knows thinks that's just rej. to get to racism -- >> being racism is not just prejudice. it's prejudice us mr. power. >> think of prejudice as one cap. but racist is the entire police department having that cop's back. if an individual banker doesn't give a black man a loan, that's just prejudice. but if the entire bank has his back not giving that loan, that's racism. america racism is embedded. it's in the structures of the
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country. you can't hire black people into racist institutions and expect the institution to not be racist anymore. imagine all that going through your head every time you apply for a job, talk to a police officer, or walk outside. no offense to my white crew members, here's the problem with white people -- except these one, two, three, four, five. yeah, five. he's from alabama so i don't even think of him as being white. there's a black man, every video of michael brown, eric garner, philando casstille i'm seeing myself in that. when eric garner is on the ground saying i can't breathe, i see myself in that. white people don't see themselves in these videos and see themselves. we've had enough of these videos now, white women, you must have seen the other videos. you would think in that moment you would be like wait a minute,
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am i about to get a hash tag with a name that's not mine. >> white people always see groups with people of color and see individuals with white people. that's just their m.o. it's nice to see these stories are aggregated because that kind of behavior, particularly white folks calling, i believe this black body does not belong in this coded white space. therefore i feel threatened and i know that i have the agency to call some sort of authority figure to correct that. >> or you can not have the authority and the agency to be the authority figure. >> and that is how it feels to be in milwaukee. >> everything may seem impossible and too big to dismantle, but there's a workshop across town trying to do just that, complete with powerpoint. >> we're defining antiblackness as the distance between black people and your acceptance of them. >> it's put on by university of milwaukee professor. >> today's workshop is focused on dignity and antiblackness. we're understanding dignity as
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our responsibility. it resonates with folks because we're talking about every individual can talk about how they dignity hasn't been affirmed. it's a deep penning of how we connect on a human level. >> this work is really important in cities that are going through what the real estate people and politicians call a renaissance. i went through milwaukee downtown and you can see construction around it. i'm sure that was formerly wi buildings and warehouse and now it's going to be high end real estate. that changes the complexion of the city. >> yeah, as milwaukee gains the reputation of a place for young professionals to be, it's good for white young upper class professionals. it's not good for everybody else. what does it mean to be in a position to interrupt it. what does it mean to be in a
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position to say i have this power. we've got to change something about this city. >> maybe i need to turn this into a workshop. so, talk a little bit more about the history. >> so, there's a couple steps. i entered grad school and i was in the classroom space and i'm like y'all got he f-ed up. you got black people messed up. you're not thinking what it's like to be black people in this city. you've got the same credentials and don't know how to treat black people. >> did you get your phd. >> yes. >> so, i should call you doctor? >> i mean, you know. >> my wife has a phd, so i know that's a real serious thing. she makes me call her doctor around the house. >> i'm not gone fight. >> so, when these workshops happen, sort of antiblackness workshop, it feels like it's either black people showing up like all right, all right. you know what i mean? or it's white people showing up like oh, my god, i never had these thoughts. it feels like if those people
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are in a room together, one of them is not being served sometimes. >> mm-hm. what we've learned is intersections become real here. we focus on race. you can bring up that white people are problematic, but black people play into that too, even you. what does that mean in this space. >> for the record, as i came in here, one of the producers told me you're related to sell listen. >> that's my great uncle. >> i'm not going to ask any questions because that's not what we're here to talk about. >> i represent though. lacks, to our lightest blondes. it nourishes while it colors. plus avocado, olive and shea. change a little, or a lot. nutrisse. nourished hair. better color. by garnier, naturally! ♪ ♪ award winning interface.
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one of the things i've always heard about milwaukee is it's a city where people are from, meaning that if you're from here and you've got something going on or or if you want to get something going on, you've got chicago or new york or anywhere not milwaukee t. according to the study by the university of wisconsin madison, the state lost 14,000 college graduates between 2008 and 2012. that's called brain drain. that hurts milwaukee's ability to innovate. people are doing their part to keep brains here. lisa caesar and her brother,
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who's mostly known for winning an oscar for writing this. >> do you believe sir in justice as you've said? >> i do. >> slavery is evil. >> the feel-good movie of the summer. >> the things i had to learn about slavery to even begin to execute "12 years" is that there's a system that's put in place that becomes mass psychosis. to make it work you have to get so many people involved in it. and that's the thing that hurts the most is that we see it still happening. >> they grew up in milwaukee, but many people they left careers in new york and los angeles. now they've come home and converted part of a defunct brewery into no studios. >> i just remember as a kid, you know, to be a young black guy in milwaukee thinking about i want
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to be a writer, i want to be an artist, you want to work in film, it just seemed like a million miles away. then 30 years later, to actual accomplish those things and realize there are other kids who are feeling that same thing, there are people who could do the things they love but do it from milwaukee. >> without having to, oh, i have a little bit of talent. i better get out of here as quickly as possible. >> what if we were to embrace all of that talent instead of systematically suppressing it. we grew up in ma kwan. it's a suburb of milwaukee. not exactly in milwaukee. there were no black folks where we grew up. virtually none. >> even when we moved into that neighborhood, as few black people that were in macuan, we all lived on that block. >> that block was the black section of town. >> back in the day, they would call it n-word row.
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>> you had the sense you were treated as not quite american. you're not quite as american as everyone else. when you're a child, you begin to internalize that. >> and trust me, we had it good by comparison. >> yeah. >> our father was a practicing doctor here for a long time. our mother was a teacher. he is a serviceman. he volunteered. and he was in the air force. and he just tells the story about coming up to milwaukee and stopping in a restaurant. and when he came back out to the car with our mom -- you were a baby -- and he was just accosted by this gang of young white kids. he thought if he didn't have you in his arms as a baby that they would have beaten him and beaten my mother. he talks about when he got a house, on the phone it was all good. then go check on the house and what? who's moving in here? and he would talk often that he would end up on this board like i'm the first black man on this
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board and i was the first black man on this committee. he wasn't saying in a bragging way, just talking about his experience. he goes it wasn't amazing, but when you're black and particularly black in milwaukee, if you didding sm, you became that first person. you became that example. we are a by-product of our parents. our parents fought. they stood up. i think the thing we wanted to do was create a space. these things aren't accidental. part of what we want to do is make people realize you can be comfortable with anything. what are the things we have in common? what are the things we enjoy. you've got to get people working together, and that's really the thing. >> i like this. i'll have to come back. i'm going to get you to commit on camera. when this episode is ready to air, can we come back here and do a screening of it in your screening room? >> yes, absolutely. i think we can make that work. >> absolutely. you got it. you got it. >> on camera. >> binding contract. >> verbal agreement. and people in hollywood never
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they're part of leaders igniting transformation or l.i.t. for short which takes on issues of race in milwaukee's education system. >> that's how it's going. >> after i passed the concussion protocol and took a hit from my buffer, it was time for the people of color meeting. >> i think our organization is filling a need that combines black and brown young people, and that's the need i think we feel in milwaukee is bringing together young people to not only make our city better but hopefully ease racial tensions amongst people of color. >> in milwaukee that's a big deal. >> very big deal. >> something i love about l.i.t. is we're all people of color, we want to bring black and brown together, but have white staff. how are you going to do that?
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we need to throw the whole thing away and start all over. >> we say the whole thing, what's the thing? >> the whole concept of public education. >> okay. all right. okay, okay. >> tearing it down might not be a bad idea. last year l.i.t. and the center for popular democracy showed a report that showed 53% of the student body but akointed for 80% of the 10,000 suspensions during the 2015-2016 school year. that's double the national rate. not only that, more than 100 black students were expelled for things white students were just suspended over. worst of all, students of color were 85% of the students turned over to police. that's the school to prison pipeline. while the system is obviously racist, often what affects students more is the subtle things. >> last year we had to pick an organization to work with the semester. my teacher told me she wanted me to help out a foster home.
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i was like why. she was like don't you come from foster care? i was like -- and i asked her where did you get that from? she was like well, i, i just -- i was like you just what? >> racism? i just got it. >> almost like when she was just talking about, actually this just happened this year. it was whacky tacky wednesday -- >> i already don't like it. >> i was all crazy. i was all crazy. it was in these pony tails and stuff. one of the faculty came into my classroom to give me this college letter or something. but then she continues to say you know what you remind me of? a pick neez dog. i didn't know what it was. so, i went to google and i googled what i thought -- >> what she said. >> she said that's not how you spell it. so, she typed it in and searched it. >> let me direct you to the
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racism. this is what the doll looks like and nope, she doesn't look like one. because nobody does. >> i gave you the time over time and space, what would you do to fix the problem. >> i was thinking you meet someone, see a glimpse of their past, make us take a step back and think. >> i like that unwione. that would dig deep. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. admit it. you knew it was only a matter of time before we talk about the criminal justice system. it has the most incarcerated zip code in the country with 62% of the black men imprisoned by 34 years old. in milwaukee county as a whole more than half of the black men in their 30s and 40s have been behind bars at some point. this could be attribute td to t stop and frisk. i'm meeting with some of the
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plaintiffs, gregory chambers, steven janssen, and wisconsin state representative david crowley along with jared english. this is a general perception of the midwest, particularly with wisconsin that black people don't live here. is that it? have you heard that? >> i hear it everywhere i go. i went to new york and when i told people i was from wisconsin, they literally had their eyes wide open. what part of wisconsin, do you have cows? ain't no cows in milwaukee, bro. >> i'm the aclu celebrity ambassador for racial justice, and i had the same reaction you just had. i'm a celebrity? >> tell me why the aclu gets involved with this and including stories that aren't about black people being killed by cops therefore they're harder to tell and harder for people to understand the racism. >> it's completely per vase skpif not just cities like milwaukee, but other cities as
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well. what we ended up finding out with the city of milwaukee, their own data, we found they stopped 350,000 people unconstitutionally. >> wow the numbers are ridiculous. but what's harder to measure is the emotional toll when you're not doing anything wrong and you could end up dead for nothing. listen to steven who was walking home from class and accused of marijuana possession. >> i said i don't smoke marijuana. he stopped and stared at me. it was in that moment where you realize if something happens to you, if you make sudden movement, you could be on the pavement. >> so what if you did smell like weed. you didn't smell like a bank robbery, you know what i mean? then there's the state rep trying to avoid walking through an area with gunshots. >> if i was a white man walking through that field, i guarantee i wouldn't be stopped. maybe would have given me a ride home. it was a sunday afternoon and i was driving home and i noticed that there was a squad car
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behind me. sirens went off. i rolled down the window. both officers get out the car and approach. they told me that whatever reason my plates didn't match the car. so, the cop that was on the driver side goes and checks my information, takes my id. the other cop is still staring in the car. he starts playing with his holster on his gun. mind you this is just fresh after brown was murdered and philando was killed right in front of his girlfriend and his child. i keep telling myself don't, don't say anything. don't get enraged. don't get mad because it'll turn bad. finally the cop does come back. the other officer, he's like well everything seems to be checked out. okay. that's cool. they walk away, get in the car, and i literally turned around to wait for them to pull off.
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the rage and anger that i immediately felt in that moment, you know, to know that your life can be on a thread like that. it's a fine line, and to them it's just like a snip and that's it. >> there are people who are going to hear you tell that story and go what's the big deal. nothing happened. you know what i mean? why are you so angry? >> yeah. and i think that's the crazy part. i remember telling that story to people and it was like you see a scary movie and the killer is toying with his victim, twisting the knife around as he has the victim gagged. 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 newt tralization in peoples' lives. if you don't see the fear in that, i don't know what to tell you. >> one white lady asked me do you get tired of having these conversations as a black man? you know what?
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yes. but at the same time, understand this is the only way to make sure my children see something different. we are the ones that got to come up with a solution. we are the solution to this and understanding that we just need some partners. >> that's why we did this. it was entirely about changing the community, changing the way that policing takes place. >> but also the george soros money you're being paid to do this, right? you got the soros check. >> no, i haven't got the check. >> i haven't got mine either. i keep trying to find somebody who got that soros check.
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while the aclu plaintiff stories weren't violent, those men stood up because they know those same situations can end up in violence. take the story of maria hamilton's son. >> i feel his fear in here. i very seldom go to the cemetery because dontre's blood and life is in this park. >> in 2014, the manager of this starbucks called the police on 31-year-old dontre who was waiting for his brother on a park bench. >> the police were called on three occasions. the first time they went and
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spoke with him, they came to the conclusion that he wasn't doing anything wrong. he wasn't 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 manny. he confronted dontre who was unarmed and not bothering anybody. >> he stood over dontre's head, dontre was startled, jumped up, and he tried to do a pat down. dontre resisted. officer manny unloaded 14 bullets into dontre killing him. dontre hadn't been bothering anybody, even the 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.
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warranted 14 bullets. in broad daylight. unimaginable. >> right. >> thank you. >> following the shooting, the milwaukee police said dontre had a prior history of arrests and claimed they were related to dontre's mental health issues. >> was any of that -- >> none of that was true. dontre hadn't robbed nobody. but he was diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenia. he never tried to hurt anybody. >> there's a subject that people with mental health issues can turn violent. >> that they're violent. >> that's not the case overwhelmingly. >> no, it's not. >> the bigger question here is
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why are the cops first responders to something that doesn't involve crime. too many times they're just responding to people hanging out on a bench or having a bad day or in >> this was a couple of weeks before he died. >> what i notice in all of his pictures, he was smiling. >> that was his uniqueness. dontre smiled all the time. and when his life was dangtakenm us, we didn't know what to do. >> adding to maria's grief, the police didn't even file criminal charges against officer manny. they said his use of deadly force, 14 shots into dontre, was justifiable. we've heard that way too many times before. >> 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 pulled into a fight trying to get the truth.
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>> 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 babies, they're not going to save us. >> maria and the mothers of eric garner, trayvon martin, jordan davis, sandra bland and tamir rice have joined forces and joined mothers of the movement to support each other and fight for police reform. maria has also started her own group, mothers for justice united, to support the moms whose families have been affected by police violence. it's an indictment of our entire country that we even need these groups. >> 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.
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have some bad news, everybody acts on their racial biases all the time without even thinking about it. we don't have racism to back us up. acting on your racial bias and not realizing it is called implicit bias. implicit bias is like a white lady in the park seeing a person of color and immediately seeing a threat or a criminal and not giving that person the benefit of the doubt as a human who likes to barbecue. and might have some extra if you're friendly. >> a lot of the research out there is focused on sort of racial attitudes and ask people in surveys are you racist? and people basically say no. >> 100% of people aren't racist. >> right. >> so i'm having one last black people meeting with university of wisconsin professor john diamond, an expert on the subject. i was not familiar with the term implicit bias until about four years ago. >> okay. >> because something happened to me and it was later transcribed described to me as implicit bias. i just called it racism. >> yeah, so tony greenwall established project implicit about 20 years ago so what they were trying to figure out is what is going on in people's
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minds before they're 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. right? it's in everything that you do. somebody walks through a door 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 have created a test that can measure a person's implicit bias. the idea being that maybe if we can measure it, maybe we can dismantle it. >> they find people have a hard time associating good characteristics with black faces. >> 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. right? 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 supremacy is sort of embedded in everything and you
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breathe it in in a way that gets into your subconscious. >> there is a test, right? >> there is. >> i feel like i'm hip to this stuff. is it smarter than me is basically what i'm saying. >> 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 in kamau. >> 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 would say strongly agree. >> the first part of the test is situational around yes or no. you have to pick areas that you agree or disagree. >> most white people can't be trusted to deal honestly with 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 a little more tricky. i had to quickly pick black and white faces and decide if certain words were good or bad. just so we're clear, this is what the test looks like. you can find it here.
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but this is what the test feels like. ♪ >> i don't like this. i don't like this at all. >> all right. your data suggests 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 what the results were, it's the conversations they have after the results. >> what does it mean? what are the implications of that? connected 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 is going to have a strong preference for black people. what's up, dwayne? [ laughter ] >> this week in milwaukee has featured a bunch of great black people meetings and one people
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of color meeting, and hopefully gives you white people out there a sense of what we're going through and what people of color talk about regularly. and even though this show's coming to an end, this week we all have a homework assignment. go and take the implicit bias test because whether you think you're biased or not, racism is part of your life with or without knowing it. but if we measure it, hopefully we can dismantle it. and white folks, if you don't think about your own bias then there is a chance you're going to end up in one of those videos harassing people who don't deserve it, or even worse, getting someone killed. because we ain't all jared steven leony. ♪ my father saved that lady's life. he was a hero. >> our father wasn't killed by the firearm. he was killed by the person behind the gun. >> i think they
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