new federal mandates for early voting, ballot drop boxes and vote by mail. chuck schumer plans to order a vote which is likely to fall short of the 60 votes necessary. in response, senate democrats are expected to consider changes to filibuster rules however senator manchin and senator sinema have already expressed opposition to the idea which will prevent the voting rights package from being passed by a simple majority. as always, you can follow the senate live on c-span2. on this mlk , we are joined oncen by founder and renewal. i do not know if you were listening, but he recently wrote

about it. saying the message has been distorted and replaced by something different. guest: thank you for bringing up my column. you can see video of a snapshot. dr. king's message was very different. thinking that america is not a good place for people of color. martin luther king did not try to overturn any truth. he appealed to the founding principles. what he wanted was to live up to

values. he broke it down into three parts. he said you guys are not delivering on your own founding principles. he asked us not to get angry or bitter. it is equality for all. this is not going to be easy. we are -- we need to be overhauled and transformed. host: how and why did that message get distorted? guest: poverty was extensive throughout our country.

there were attempts to declare wars and other social engineering. they were not brand-new. for the first time -- we started seeing a lot more liberal policies. we have about 8700 zip codes that are tracked in poverty. this is social engineering of the left. when president trump came to town, he asked them to identify the bottom 10% of where their poverty is. he told black america, let me

try to fix this. this is not help based on race. there are differences in culture and value. there are differences in family structure. let me back up one minute. senator tim scott and cory booker took that information and put it into the bill that was passed so that we could focus time and attention on these zip codes. we started seeing some life, but an interesting part of this dynamic, in 2017, because of that bill, we started seeing middle america flourish. we had more blacks in this country making over $75,000 a

year. america works. dr. king knew it would work. we believe that people have the capacity to work for themselves. host: democrats had hoped that the holiday would be the deadline. guest: i think it is offensive, where they failed with covid and inflation, they are going to focus on racial matters? you start thinking about voting rights. we have opportunities for people

to come to washington. we do not need more legislation. we have civil rights offices in every department in washington dc. people find that they have a grievance and we want those structures in place. try to overhaul what they are trying to do to have election integrity. i think it will go through. you have to take away the filibuster to get it through, you know it is already a problem. we already have majority rules in the house. we have a majority of one in the white house. we do not want it to end.

host: the lines are open. plenty of calls already this morning. good morning. caller: good morning. appreciate coming in. i am not a racist, but things are being pushed down our throats. i do not appreciate -- the black community now is thinking that we have done them wrong, and the history that we have. we do not take away the history.

i do not appreciate that it is being brought down in a fashion that is like protesting. i think about 35 years ago, if you have the same jobs in my case and a black person came in for that job, they have the right to get it because they were of that race. we are bringing these up because of all the police, but what about all the looting that they have a lot to do with? host: a couple different topics. i will let you jump in. guest: the progressives want a

political grab. there are some important things that we should all be concerned about. when we were shut down and saw that incident, it was an opportunity to go inside ourselves. you had a progressive movement to push forth their agenda. they are moving towards a marxist, socialist utopia, in their opinion. we know that is not true. anyone can tell you that one size does not fit all. this is what they are trying to do now, break us down to insight anger. they know that this is an emotional place for us as a country. the dynamic breaks down politically. we have to stop this war.

second, what we have to do is say, why did we have such problems? how do we remove these barriers so that now we are fighting over one slice of the pie? start dismantling the focus on race. they have one discussion in common. some were very alarmed by what happened with george floyd. the emancipation statue -- that

former slave who was sitting down at the feet of abraham lincoln has a significant place in history. that moment in history is what america could do together, black and white. some needed to be saved. if you need to have a conversation, that is a very local issue for the local people to decide with their local government. host: good morning. you are on with star parker. caller: good morning. i have two questions to ask. former vice president mike pence said it. mike pence said it, nikki haley said it and tim scott said it.

the idea that america is a racist country -- guest: i hope my memory will hold. caller: first, when wasn't america a racist country? second, when haven't white people cheated black people in america and when was dr. king as much loved and respected and every much of a hero to white people as he has been to black people? guest: the first question, when was america not a racist country.

i would think that we could look in to the 1960's and see that this is one of those opportunities where we remove barriers. on the question of when did white people began to look at black people, i think this is all throughout our history. at the founding of the country, one of the first things that they did was get video of slavery. they were doing what the pro-life community does now, to try to work legislatively the way that dr. king did to get their year is the way. they got rid of slavery and it took another 89 years and a civil war.

when do whites and blacks sit down together and across these racial lines -- i think that we do it all the time. one of the biggest problems i have with the racial narrative is that we act like we have not matured. we have an entire generation who are so diverse in their lives that could be dragged into the questions of race is only political. host: joey is in atlanta. good morning. caller: thank you so very much for misses parker. she is exactly the type of person that we need in this country. her intelligence and the way she speaks about our history is what

we need. she is not only a star, but a rising and beautiful shining star that this country needs. i really encourage her to run for president because she is a beautiful, beautiful person. host: so, parker had you decided to run for office? caller: i did consider running for office. what we do is we look at all the issues to fight poverty. i brought my work to washington. you can be much more effective outside instead of running for office every couple years. you have lawyers and legislators , but we also have think tanks.

i really believe that if we focus time and attention to fight poverty, we can bring people up instead of pulling the rest of the country down. the caller called me misses, but i am not married. i would not want to miss an opportunity because he said that. host: we mentioned president biden was discussing the issue. i want to play a clip of a reaction to president biden's speech.

>> he got very big pushback from all sides. some say he took it too far. mitch mcconnell called joe biden and presidential for his divisive language. >> absolutely not. that is what it is all about. [indiscernible] that is exactly what these laws are about. one of the strongest points that i agree with. if you have never had to worry

about it, -- that is exactly what these are. host: star parker on jim crow 2.0. guest: that was offensive. that he would come out to try to clean up that mess is also offensive. this country has changed. we see a lot -- we need to come into the 21st century. the reason many states are changing voter laws is because we had a year of covid. they had emergency efforts put in place.

he should watch his own area because when you think of what happened, the state that was in chaos, nikki haley is the one that finally got the flag down. tim scott went down to the church -- his friends were killed at that church in charleston. it is an example of what can happen. there is rhetoric from the 1950's and 1960's that are growing tiring. many are tired of being called racist. they were not even here when we had slavery. is it offensive, our last card

to play? it is not going to work. caller: good morning. i want to congratulate ms. parker. the biggest part of this voting bill is that they had gas lighting the african-american community. it is all about the illegals voting and allowing them to vote. they are gas lighting the community. that is all i have to say. guest: it is of interest that

what the biden administration did was open the borders. we have created some tensions that are not necessary. african-americans are in the great class. we have grown up in america and it works for all ethnicities of any background. if you put the sequence into your own life -- what we have to do is stop trying to pretend that we are in the 1950's and move into places where we can make a difference. we ran them in milwaukee and other places in st. paul and around the country. we know that there are still problems and over aggression when it comes to policing.

we ran their works with a success sequence. get married, save and invest. after they were forced to take the billboards down -- this is not about racism. about value. there is nothing else that is coherent. what it means is that we had to decide. that is what is happening here in washington. the history of black people in this country to get their way. they are going to try it. the country has changed. even on better election integrity, they cannot see if it

is not close. they have not made a decision to go into these pockets and selling ideas of freedom for the agenda of the grand old party, the great opportunity party. host: the line for the democrats. good morning. caller: we often remember the dr. king's i had a dream speech. one year to the day before he was assassinated at a church in new york, dealing with foreign policy and the vietnam war. there are inequities built into this system. that should be seen and listen

to. thank you very much. that was an important speech. keep what you are doing, young lady. guest: thank you. i appreciate that. i think that dr. king saw this moment. he saw that we need to fix what is broken down. he knew. he said it. he actually told us that what frederick douglas said is true. we have freedom and this is what it is about. it is about what you can contribute. what we saw instead in the development of a welfare state -- five years after roe v. wade as national law, we have more black babies dead took abortion

than in the 1960's. they have created these pockets of poverty. he was changing his focus on the really poor. i think that we see it all the time. somebody mentioned the homeless situation. there was a policy change. now we are seeing people that really need as as a society. come elections have consequences. we are getting into extra help.

host: our last call. can you make it quick? caller: the free press just came up. so much that they had done, where would he have been? what would have happened? host: ms. parker, we will give you the final word. guest: the problems that we are moving into now, it is because of systemic racism and looking at life patterns. we do not fix those problems

with socialism. the virtues of capitalism and rule of law are outlined in our constitution. those are local matters those are things that need to be fixed on a local level. we can help by removing barriers to help them. host: that is pure

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