no. russian president vladimir putin has proposed some important political reforms what are they what are their significance and importantly why now and what about the claim of clinging to. greetings and sell you take. a monday january 20th the life the times and the struggles of civil rights icon dr martin luther king jr will be remembered and

celebrated across the land here in the united states of america on this day you can expect your news speeds to be filled with dr king's most famous quotes google will incorporate him into their search logo and the good man's name will be on the lips of many a candidate running for higher office as they try to so desperately to wrap themselves up in his message in order to court black america's folks but amidst all this hallmark style celebration of the great man one has to wonder just how sincere it actually is because remember that sincerity is not in your words but in your actions i mean can you can you take a country celebration of dr king's dream sincerely when over 20 percent of its black citizens are living in poverty and over 400000 are locked up in its bedroom state prisons. dr king once said the final phase of our national sickness is the disease of militarism something more clearly demonstrates our nation's abuse of military power than our tragic adventure in vietnam. i ask you what side do you

believe dr king would land on in the debate over the united states' continued congressionally approved military adventures and aggressive posturing in places like afghanistan iraq iraq or africa dr king also observed that a nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death in 2020 the united states will spend over 730000000000 taxpayer dollars on its weapons of war thanks to the democrat and republican approved national defense authorization act $738000000000.00 to be exact. if that spiritual death hasn't happened yet we my friends are definitely knock knock knock at the door and that means we had better start watching the hawks if you want to know what's going on in the city

streets you want to. listen to what she says she rises rejoice just state. rice grace suggests least systemic deception is the late show which. brings up this. world we're going to watching the i robot turn joining me now to discuss the united states and sarah when it comes to the celebration of dr martin luther king jr and the fight for equality is not the premier co-ordinating member of the earth he's on the coordinating committee for the black alliance for peace always a pleasure and of course social activist a musician very red barry thank you very much thank. you know i want to ask you both we celebrate dr king's life through through the meshal holiday honoring him but has the united states lived up to the legacy and you know what he what he was fighting for. think it ever has is never has i mean dr

king was assassinated we have to remember that this is a victim of the united states coin tell pro counter-intelligence programs targeted by that and so never and that was precisely what we many was believe that's why is because he was talking about. materialism and. this is a materialism and militarism so he was anti capitalists and time paralyzed and they actually even the cointelpro papers talk about how it was him starting to make the connect these dots that made him a threat they needed to be neutralized here and you know when you speak about the military. you know right now we look at the military budget is as over half of the american. overall budget and at the time when done see king was assassinated you know he was focusing on the lust in the the quest for war and in footprint all over the globe while we were neglecting

americans here and of course black people poor people suffered the greatest and here today he wouldn't administration it looks like americans legacy the suffering is still happening when i'm sitting here looking at spending $99000.00 appropriated per soldier and 800000 per poor person in this country so it's it's the same story just a different time that's an interesting combination a numbers $99000.00 per soldier $19000.00 per so that's that's a major discrepancy but how does i think one of the things that runs have a lot the dr martin luther king's dream of peace and nonviolence is american exceptionalism you know explain a little bit of what that exceptionalism is and how it kind of crashes into the ideals of dr king and the civil rights movement was altered and everybody part of it has fought for and they're still fighting for so the idea that america is

exceptional in some way has been what is primary the primary this kind of. caricature i think is the been primarily used to justify us adventures against the world domination of the world to police the world so the military budget that we're talking about is really talking about numbers but what that translates into in real activities is over 300 military bases around the world u.s. military bases around the world the periphery and all of these being coordinated through what they have of. us command centers like afrikaans we talk about africa in the black alliance for peace the u.s. africa command is quite african but they have those south com always around the world and it's been proven that. these things are and then they use this american exceptionalism is that we're going to fight for freedom and democracy we're going to stop terrorism and drug trafficking and all these kind of things like they say i'm in for a latin america is that the war on drugs which is many of us know it's domestic

impacts here but it's also had implications in other countries where they're claiming to fight the war on drugs and really what they were doing was propping up dictators and giving the military equipment to cause a lot of death and destruction and death squads and things like that so there's a lot of consequences to this concept of american exceptionalism and they really just cover or maybe some people just believe the hogwash on their superiority and just think because the really and one of the things and i'll just say this in the. dark we and the black alliance for peace is stated that we somewhat disagree with dr king when he talks about the militarism being the reflecting the spiritual death of the beginning or approaching of the spear of the death for us that big game that started in the sixty's hundreds when the colonization of this country and then the intent to exterminate and commit genocide against indigenous people into you know go west we're going to impose its will there's been no period in history of this

country that is known and been able to be reflect the ideals of dr king as powerful . you know here you know we look at the good old days there were no so in there definitely agree with brother. we in america have held on to this idea of american exceptionalism whether it's soley soft language or white superiority and sadly you know almost all americans let me know be very general but we've been conditioned as americans to accept this as our power in our prowess all over the globe. sadly enough it's reflected in our everyday lives when you have a so-called president right now donald trump who has appointed 91 percent of these judicial appointees as white men 80 as whites and 81 percent as me

yet the majority of the population. have no. it appears to me have no political will to put a stop to this ended good thing is today marks the 3rd year. from being in office. and it is time over the next year when americans do come to a more spiritual understanding of themselves and a better reflection of a change from an imperialist that did you know i want to ask you both do you feel that because it really gets under my skin to maybe assist me but it gets none the less good i feel like a lot that you know we give you know someone a holiday to honor them with say dr king it feels like hey look we gave him a holiday you know that that's good enough now we can all talk about what he said we can all do this but we don't actually have we're going to practice what he preached you know we're not ever actually going to truly honor this this you know one of the icons not just dr king but the other icons of civil rights by actually

practicing what they preach i mean when you have 20 over 20 percent of black americans 25 percent of native americans living in poverty within your country that's not equality here we are going to africa where the holiday is being co-opted . to a day of service. where a day of actual change would be great. day of actual legislative overhaul would be the mission rather then put you back to work we get free labor for 250 years and so work today where you're so that's problematic to me but i look at. the fact that we have heard raising the risk on public assistance residents or cutting 70000. names. in requiring that they work if they had a job they wouldn't need to begin with so we. whose idea that

his holiday is being honored for this one day and everything's ok with you is a sad commentary on the white washing of this country and we see it every day that your so called president does it t.v. and. i agree with that i would add more to it though i think there's a number of things that have happened within the last couple of months there are the fly in the face of what dr can stood for for a couple of them and they actually talk about the actually reflection of the intersection between capitalism and militarism poverty and race and class and those will be in a couple things i can think of are the military surge the police surge the militarization of the police the donald trump ministration authorized giving you know i can 600000000000 dollars 600000000 dollars to local police forces and then the eviction of the moms for just the house moms for housing recently using the

military militarized police to do this and so we're looking at a situation where there are millions of people who are homeless and then there are also millions of vacant homes so it's not like people are homeless because they don't have enough housing people and it's not like those housing housing the homeless or. i mean are vacant because they're there's no one doesn't need them and so the flies and it's tantamount to the principle that they would have people news is forced to do it and we would talk about black mothers you know that makes the most impacted reflecting of them on the most impact the poor black mother working class black mothers and so we're looking at it's not just a race of this problem i would only differ with my brother perry in terms of if not more than legislate all the way to the supreme court with more than 100 virginia cities and counties declaring themselves as a sanctuary city when it comes to the 2nd amendment and they're going to pose any new unconstitutional restrictions on guns. joining me now to discuss the 2nd

amendment and the virginia rally are 2 folks who represent both the left and the right side of politics in the united states today democratic analyst and political or democratic. crossways of one of these days i will get your introduction right now i'm not a dog thank you very former missouri republican party chairman martin righty i get so excited one of the things i'm like who we're going to get this out but no but there you are both for coming i want our look there's a lot of controversy surrounding this rally. who were these protesters and a lot of people said they were evil and dangerous and terrible but what was the crowd like from what you were well look at and as you mentioned your reporting had some people down there some of our folks activists would i live in virginia and i work in the local politics too as a precinct captain a lot of folks who were going out were regular citizens they were conservative more conservative concern like it's a big moment in this sense elections have consequences in the fall the democrats swept everything and they made a promise they were going to do a lot of very liberal things

a lot of folks in virginia aren't used to that happening it's going to happen so look i think it was a peaceful rally i've heard the reports were over 20000 people between the small rally and right at the capitol which was gun free and then a larger one happily no incidents no major problems at local i think it's called rally had. time we do a pretty good job of keeping everybody safe but what's coming in the next few weeks is major changes to virginia law and we're going to see how that impacts the future here you know the next couple years in virginia be a governor's race i think so but people are unhappy i think they're just republicans who are now frankly paying the price for losing an election i want to ask you the biggest question surrounding gun ownership in this country is safety of security you know how do we allow both an armed populace that follows the 2nd amendment while also stopping gun related violence like we send you a park with chicago how do we do that why i think that 1st and foremost it's important to understand that the differences between what happened in sandy hook

and parklane in chicago so there are certain things in terms of gun regulations that we can do to prevent atrocities like sandy hook and parkland that aren't going to affect chicago at all so when we're talking about these high capacity weapons for instance weapons of war as i would describe them and as many other democrats with describe them i don't think that those belong in the hands of everyday citizens those are not weapons that are used for hunting those are not weapons they're used for for you know your entertainment purposes in terms of you know collections and things like that those are weapons that have mass destructive properties so if we are able to eradicate those i think that we would haue certain situations diminish that doesn't affect chicago in chicago the majority of the gun violence is done by handguns so i think that in a city like chicago that in a state like illinois which is my home state chicago is my hometown we have some of the strongest gun regulations in the country what we do not have is our nearby states who also incorporate those same types of laws in chicago the majority of the guns come from out of state and states that are surrounding the city of chicago in

the state of illinois and i think we also have to have states that that sign these agreements that make sure that the gun trafficking is reduced as well look a couple hours ago the president added states tweeted on this subject he said 2nd amendment i'll never go we've got to be strong the 2nd amendment does matter here. and i mean the facts are you mention the terrible shootings the terrible shootings that we saw these are mental health problems these are people that have serious problems has to be addressed we do have a 2nd amendment the people in chicago that are committing crimes are criminals there are lots of most americans have a right have have the right to the 2nd amendment and they abide by that right they're willing to abide by the rules they're willing to play by certain rules but what we're seeing is a move on the 2nd amendment by the left and it's systematic it's happening in prosecutor's offices in st louis in philadelphia in chicago where they're targeting gun owners not targeting criminals and that's a problem the crime criminals and people that aren't healthy and well mentally are

the ones that cause those problems not regularly and there's often a conservative that is used when it comes to mental mental health and mental illness and those who commit gun crimes what we know factually as someone who with that on the committee is that someone who has worked through mental illness and mental health associations my brother committed suicide very sadly and tragically. the majority of people who commit these crimes are not people who have sort of illnesses are not people who maybe they're left in 2 parts of the population on have actually you know committed these crimes who have who are mentally ill so utilizing that as the truth to scare people it actually hurts people who are who are going to get another majority of mentally ill people and scaring well i don't know how to get any type of violence against anyone else i think that there is a problem in that type of analogy when i'm saying when someone has a 2nd amendment right our constitution has worked well because it has protections for we the people against the government and against enforcement and against tyranny and in for example let's go parkland parklane the kid in parklane read the

book on his background he was repeatedly problematic in school deeply disturbed whether he was diagnosed as mental health or not that's a different problem and he wasn't kicked out of school he wasn't reprimand he wasn't treated look we have a problem whether it's mental health diagnosis my point is regular citizens have a 2nd amendment right. and they don't break the law in chicago the gun owner he said it's not the guns don't commit crimes in chicago that handguns get in chicago and criminals commit crimes we have a lawless mess problem in chicago and other cities that we have to get to bottom but don't take my 2nd amendment away because there's criminals over there doing that you know it's interesting because i look at i look at both sides of what's going on here and i think one of the things that the missing from this is. you know one says hey it's the tool that's being used let's try it let's try to cut back on the tool the other side says ok well you know we've got the mental health issue things like that or it's crime we go after the criminals know that they you know the one thing that we forget about all this though is that the united states is also a culture of violence we can say we're not but we are and we love to spread that

cultural bias because let's remember at the end of the day we are the biggest arms dealer in the world we spread the violence around the world that we can't be surprised then when we are cheerleading dropping bombs on foreign countries and things like that nature cheerleading that that that doesn't have a way of coming back around into our own society and saying hey violence is ok bios's mansour have to leave it i know you want to get. more many more days many more times this subject ain't going anywhere so i want to thank you both so much and true pleasure having you on given such great ideas here already before we go today watching the hawks news contributor ameesha cross brings us her thoughts on the legacy and celebration of dr martin luther king jr take it away mission dr martin luther king jr remains one of america's most prominent historical figures and a global example of leadership strength in the face of adversity and moral courage but sadly in america today much of what dr king thought and died for is unraveling before our very eyes and his legacy is being whitewashed for the comparability of

those fighting to dismantle the very things dr king stood for from water hoses and attack dogs to whites only find housing and employment discrimination to segregated education dr king etched indelible mark on this country fighting the ills of racism in the stain of this country's original sin slavery he did so with the courage that most of us can't fathom he had a vision for america that focused on inclusion not separate. he had a vision of equity and equality dr king saw an america that our founding fathers couldn't and never intended though most well known and quoted for as i have a dream speech dr king's letter from a birmingham jail is more in the magic of who he was and what his legacy stood for he was relegated as an outsider and an agitator whose activities were unwise and untimely dr king was willing to break laws that were unjust because those lawless should never have a place in our society though he believed in the goshi ation he realized its limits

and the direct action to organize marches and sit in will create the tension necessary for change he also realized that administrations and elected leaders can almost always be counted on to maintain the status quo unless the people rise up and force them to see things differently today we faced great challenges in defending dr king's dream legacy and vision we have more segregated schools now than we did at the height of the civil rights movement our prisons are filled with black and brown people crushed under the weight of an unjust system our health care system is crumbling and communities of color across this country are suffering we have a white supremacist marching in the streets and not to mention in the white house we have a president with actively stoking the flames of hate to truly honor dr king we must all take up the mantle he did get uncomfortable get comfortable in being uncomfortable we must lead and pursue justice in action on this martin luther king

day let's pledge to carry out his legacy by religion in america and fighting to ensure that she is equitable and just for generations to come that was very nice and beautiful thank you so much for sharing that with us today it was a pleasure both of you thank you art everybody that is our show for you today remember everyone in this world we are not told that we are loved enough so i tell you all i love you i am tyro ventura keep on watching those hawks they have a great night everybody. russian president vladimir putin has proposed some important political reforms what are they what are their significance and importantly why now and what about the claim of clinging to power.

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