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you know one of the big i think issues today that a lot of people and it's interesting you talk about them like playing a song like that in your shows do you do you get pushback from from both sides saying like oh that that's you know that has a history of being a racist song or you have the other side saying oh why are you you know changing the lyrics of a classic song represents a certain year because i could see how both sides of that should be like we

shouldn't play that song the bay because of the you know were removed beyond it you know or the other side saying like we don't change the song or make it your own because it belongs to us and what are you know forefathers wrongly thought at the time there are maybe we still secretly do you know that kind of thing do you see that kind of pushback when you play excuse me yeah i get all kinds of responses playing even you know when i joined up with carolina chocolate drops the main tenant of carolina chocolate drops was you know this is. black people's music the banjo is a black instrument which was like not you know whatever eight years ago not widely known even within old time world and so we'd play shows and people come up to me hey my granddaddy played the banjo you know f. you like you're wrong and so you just have to deal with that. as i've gotten older now like just you know historically infiltrating and giving people the visceral reaction of seeing a black person play the banjo has become kind of normalized for me now and so it becomes more of integrating these more political ideas social attacking everyone to

call it and so when that happens i get responses like what was one of my favorites if we talk about it nothing's going to change hey this music is supposed to be fun and easy why are you doing that or on the flipside i'm glad you didn't get all angry about it i'm glad you can say nigger because i can i was great to hear. gets mixed up i've had people leave shows. at a show. you know i think like ten people left and tried to get refunds for we seem to got a place for it we know how to get great we know that we can people can get enraged about what's happening and see things and get angry how do we use things like music and use the banjo how do you see that going into communities and helping them deal with that anger and finding a productive way to help our community. ok have a few things say that. so you like so you're asking about like how do we use this

music and this banjo stuff to get people really to grow and really to change their communities and hopefully change the country. and also like you know. but the beginning of course was like the response of the anger like response to the images and all that sort of stuff and i like to think about. you know. sorry given what's going to get my thoughts together. you know you have like the turn of like nine hundred centuries twentieth century one thousand eight hundred and you know around the beginning one thousand nine hundred there are these work prison farms that are happening and this is a you know after the compromise of eight hundred seventy seven soldiers leave the south and the redeemers take over the south and they're able to just go hog wild fire all the black people from government and they start the black laws which are the birth of jim crow. and it's this is a legal way of becomes legal but this sinister way of imprisoning mostly black men

and you know farming them out to coca-cola dredging swamp in florida all these sorts of things around this time. there's a train of prisoners that breaks down going through florida and usually they transport these prisoners at night but that train breaks down they get there during the day and all these people mostly white people see all these prisoners who are about to go dredge the swamps and they're covered with marks and they're macy and they're people like oh my god this is horrifying we have to stop doing this this is terrible so happens that fast forward thirty years lynchings a big thing lynchings a problem people start seeing it you know lots of black newspapers are trying to put it out there oh my god this lynching thing is terrible we have to stop it fast forward civil rights movement like you know oh my god cops are brutalizing people and all this stuff terrible bloody sunday happens white people are outrage rodney king happens l.a. riots. almost seems like every thirty twenty eight years this is happening and you keep going and i think this is that of our generation you know i mean i was about

richard pryor where he tells his joke you know you know i get paid on friday night you take your girl out then you get pulled over by the cops you know hands up drop your pants spread your cheeks and he's like you know who feels like having fun after something like that that's why people don't believe this happens because they know the cops differently that's a job from the seventy's that works today. so yeah you know. white people getting outraged by the injustice the black people had to deal with in this country for hundreds of years does nothing for me. it doesn't inspire me any way and it doesn't it's not something that i would bet on i wouldn't put my eggs in that basket. that being said i think that there is something to this thing that i like to. think that inspires me more or feel more optimistic about a cultural shift right there's this idea of you know this cultural shift towards like you know what pop music digesting forever i'm done with that you know watching

a movie called the great wall starring matt damon i think i might be done with that you know i mean a movie or a show set in new york with no puerto ricans i think i'm done with i'm like that's the kind of thing that. i feel is moved towards growing because it's changing the concept of how you look at a person yes everyone going to be outraged by seeing something violent but it's like how can i change my change your cultural shift so i hope you know when they see when the banjo craze sort of happening people start playing banjos you know a lot of that credit went to like mumford and. taylor swift or and whatever well people might have been grabbing bands up or they were they were playing their own things or running their own things are starting to grow vegetables again in their backyards and canning or. whatever it might be and so. i don't know i think. this is where you know i start to get conned conflicted but i think that it's. if you can. i don't know i just think if you can understand

something culturally and understand its roots and like if i pick up a banjo and i understand that you know if i don't not a plate if i can just strum and i understand in a deeper level that that brings about some sort of change small ripples but whatever it is america. think especially in the sick you talk about it is really about. poor are working class americans and it speaks to a lot of different people it's one of those universal things like music do you see new forms of that or do you see that coming and the new music that's that's coming down the pike. there there are you know now americana music is kind of like this big all encompassing thing like. i was at the american awards like two years ago and like booker t. was there performing and like you know under that umbrella. and you have you know like dylan welch and. dave rawlings and something you know there

a lot of those guys in the americana john or were influenced by the people from the sixty's and seventy's who were influenced by a lot of this music that i you know feel more connected to and like to play old time country blues all that sort of stuff and you know so it's not uncommon to hear you know an old timey line or an old timey phrase in a modern song put into a modern context you know. i think. the money was the question you asked me. that was a question of like how is this people today sort of creating are people still creating that new thing yeah and so like i think through you know the singer songwriter thing it's becoming a new thing you have like when i hear like electro swing from for it like in europe if you were like making beats out of old swing music and. yeah you know i think i think that it is being it is integrating and influencing people and i think you

know part of my thing is you know yes you know about black people like all day and but also just know the roots of your thing know the roots of what you believe and know the roots of what you're into. and then find a way to express it and so people getting into the old time a thing that old time thing does have that history of protests and activism and community. and telling the news and telling the stories and expressing it so you know people just get influenced by that that's great you know. where do you see. how you jenkins as a musician and then as a man in the future like where do you see yourself going as a man. you know so you know every day changes you asked me yesterday the answer might it might be different you know. i like playing music i'd like to play more of it i'd like to add some point for get away to get more instruments into kids' hands you know like music programs closing all over the place and doing

things with that i also really like the radio. i actually like that before i came out here i've been working on a project of talking to homeless people in new york and like interviewing homeless people and trying you know more and more buildings are growing up in new york city but the homeless population is rising so i want to do something with radio. at my old high school brooklyn technical high school has a defunct radio tower on top of it so my big like pipeline dream i hope no one steals it it's like reopen the radio station and do something with kids in music on the radio stuff like that as a man. hopewell know how to fix a diesel engine. on a car like i think that would be good for me and i've never like needed bread i've never like used east to make bread and i think it's a man those two things would probably. get the whole thing.

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the headlines this hour a crowded market in yemen is hit by an alleged saudi led air strike killing at least twenty five in an age where millions are already on the edge of survival due to the sagging blockade. plus we look at the farm fields of combat h.i.b. in russia as infection rates so-called denial lists are also on the rise spreading disinformation about the virus and an israeli m.p. their own floridly a vicious tirade at palestinians making their way from garza visit relatives is a great job. that well can you watching r.t. international start with breaking news from moscow because one person has been shot

dead in a hostage situation is under way at a confectionery factory in southeast moscow it's understood that the shooter is a former director at the company three people are reportedly injured but it's not known exactly how many people are being held hostage at this stage the identity of the dead person is also not known at the moment that's the latest. an alleged saudi coalition air strike has hit a busy market in yemen killing at least twenty five people according to local security services we are about to show you the immediate aftermath of the attack but a word of warning it does contain upsetting images dozens more civilians were wounded in the bombing raid which happened in the west of the country many of the victims children saudi arabia launched his campaign in yemen back in march of twenty fifteen to support the government again she who three rebels riyadh has repeatedly claimed that its airstrikes do not target civilians international law professor

died carolla believes the global community should bear some of the blame for what's happening in yemen. the international community particularly the members of the international security council during the night of national security council are participants are accomplice in the crimes that are being committed conscionable crimes are being committed against defenseless. people civilian people in popular markets it is absolutely unconscionable if there is any doubt that there are that these acts constitutes crimes against humanity there should be at least some kind of investigation. well in addition since early november saudi arabia has been blockading amman and that's plunged the war ravaged country into an even deeper humanitarian crisis.

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catastrophe or that the world needs to highlight the almost eighteen million people need some sort of humanitarian aid more than twenty people men women and children lose their lives on a daily basis in yemen food and and and medicine prices have really increased to an unattainable extent where people are unable to buy their basic necessities this is really unacceptable for people to die of totally preventable reasons. meanwhile after the fall of ice or in syria and iraq more tales of horror are emerging of life under the terrorist rule. kurdish minority families in iraq known as you see these suffered capture death or enslavement or correspondent more aghast there has been speaking with some of the families who manage survived the ordeal we'll show you the full interviews here on thursday but here's some of

what's the cup. the number. we were captured we spent two months in iraq then we were taken to syria they made me a slave we were put to work and held where the troops were we were given one hour a day to rest then i ran away they caught me and locked me in a toilet for three days without food or water i tried to escape again and again but each time i was caught beaten and severely tortured they shot my friends we begged them for mercy on our knees then we were hit by an airstrike and i was concussed my head still hurts i can't talk for long. monologue that i was pregnant but i was so terrified that i lost my child my husband and family were captured and i was left alone with my mother so i took poison i decided it was better to die when they caught me i thought that since my

family my husband and my house were gone it would be better to die. well in twenty fourteen up to ten thousand you see these were killed or kidnapped by i saw in a matter of days and of a third were executed however the true scale of the tragedy may never be fully knowing the testimonies that have emerged there do suggest many have been taught to just be heard their beheaded or even burned alive and in many cases entire families were captured together women and girls were often sold as sex slaves while young boys were forced to become eisel fighters some weren't even old enough for school when they were forced to serve the terrorists. my daughter was five years old when she was captured for years have passed since then so she's nine we endured a lot of suffering my brother escaped and i stayed at his place then he died

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arranging an interview required over a week finally one woman who used to refuse therapy a choice that almost cost her her life agreed to talk on condition of anonymity. she asked to be called deanna the x. aids denial list struggled to maintain her composure as she recalled how she was diagnosed with hiv. you'll learn to cook to mine your. share your stiffness so not those two dollar you petitioned the chorus of show to system to. continue to even as initial treatment had put her health back on track until she met a man who introduced her to the online world of aids denial the dean eventual he convinced her to give up hiv treatment her desire to get rid of the stigma prevailed over common sense. when you write.