so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy on sunday shouldn't let it be an arms race is a dramatic development only and. i don't see how that strategy will be successful betty. you see. greetings and sell you take. on 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 new 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 so desperately to wrap themselves up and 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 us black citizens are living in poverty and over 400000 are locked up and it's federal and 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 $730000000000.00 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 then we my friends are definitely knock knock knock on 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 see. clear so you can see see the rises rejoice state

see drone strikes graves displays systemic deceptions 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 for free men they're coordinating member of the earth is 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 mesh well 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 cointelpro counter-intelligence programs targeted by that and so never and that was precisely what we know 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 talked about how it was him starting to make the connect these dots that made him a threat they needed to be neutralized you know 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 dr 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 he had 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 800004 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 to 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 a part of it has fought for and they're still fighting for so the idea that america is exceptional in some way has been was 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 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 africa 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 the. things are and then they use just american exceptionalism and 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 them 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 in their superiority and just think because the really and one of the things and i'll just say this in. don 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 16th hundreds when the column is asian of this country and then the intent to exterminate and commit genocide against indigenous people and to you know go westward to and impose its will there's been no period in history of this

country that is known and been able to be reflect the ideas of dr king this. will you know here you know when we look at the good old days there were no and so in there definitely agree we're. very we in america have held on to this idea of american exceptionalism but it's slowly soft language white superiority and sadly in all america all americans mean a general but we've been conditioned as americans to accept this as our power and our prowess all over the go 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 male 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 good thing is today marks the 3rd year from being in office. and it is time over the next year when americans to come to a more spiritual understanding of themselves and a better reflection of a change from an empiricist. and i want to ask you both do you feel that because it really gets under my skin to maybe assist me but it gets under my skin i feel like a lot. you know we give someone a holiday to honor them with say dr king it feels like hey look we gave him a holiday that's good enough now we can all talk about what he said we can all do this but we don't actually ever 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 the 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 a quality. 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 rich on public assistance residents or cutting 70000 people off. it 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 you 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 king stood for for a couple of them and they actually talked 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 so 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 of. i mean are vacant because they're there's no one that doesn't need them and so it's tantamount to the principle that they would have people news is forced to do it and we'll 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 legislation we need to completely dr king's that these things not just. reflect the contradictions with capitalist economy and racial justice which means a massive a radical redistribution of resources this is his words radical redistribution and not just some piecemeal stuff like of the gross

a good way to end and today i want to thank you both gentlemen so much for coming on friedman thank you for educate my audience today always a pleasure having you both thank you all right as we go to break walk watchers don't forget to let us know what you think the topics we've covered over social media be sure to check out watching off the podcast which is now available on spotify apple music and everywhere you listen to your favorite or well not so paper podcast coming up we get the view from the left and the right in between the democratic analysts that we should cross and former missouri republican party chairman ed markey join us to discuss a 2nd amendment rally that was dripping with controversy just outside the capitol virginia state to watch.

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am. thankful right we begin now with a fresh round of protests coming out of the capital of the commonwealth richard richmond virginia today thousands of gun rights activists converged on the city protesting new gun control legislation in the democratically controlled legislature the state's democratic governor rob northam was even forced to declare a state of emergency artie's fair and crohn's act was there in this report let's take a look. but here around 5 o'clock this morning and you can kind of see as you take a look around the governor did call this a state of emergency but as from what we've seen so far there hasn't been any violence happening whatsoever i talked to a number of ralliers here today they said they just want their voices heard all they want from the governor right now is they don't want their guns being taken

away and they also want the governor kicked out now what is in these 3 bills so what we have is they were $35.00 now again these are all going to passing in the virginia senate and now they go to the house we have s.b. $35.00 that allows localities to ban guns from public events you have s.b. $69.00 that makes that where virginia residents can only purchase one handgun a month or in a 30 day period and then as the 70 which requires a background check on all private transfers of firearms now the virginia senate democrats they say that these laws are reasonable massive measures and democrats are also saying that you know these people were voted in office so the public has already spoken as far as what they want but virginia republicans they say this is a case of just a few large localities that are actually dominating and trolling the rest of the state take a lesson. you need to feel why it may be a republican state again a little better in virginia not allowing this to happen and we spent all week every person out here and say and we're going we're not going to be scared away to shoot

you city dwellers moved. to. move people. in who do. believe me we're here. and you know governor ralph northam he has a package of also gun legislation that he's going to be pushing for that would prohibit all individuals subject to final protective orders from owning a gun and it would also require lost and stolen firearms to be reported in a 24 hour period no other legislation that has been filed includes banning indoor shooting ranges that offices were there's more than 50 employees and that's also including the n.r.a. offices were there headquartered in northern mitch. virginia now republican program groups they have said that they will fight this 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 on the virginia rally or to folks who represent both the left and the right side of politics in the united states today democratic analyst and political or democratic. major 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 when the type of those things i'm like who are going to give this out and then know what they do for both for coming i want to are 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 6 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 ahead of 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. gun ownership in this country is safety of security. how do we allow both an armed populace that follows the 2nd amendment while also stopping gun related violence like we send you to a park with chicago how do we do that what 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 the scribe 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 that are 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 have 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 right i mean the facts are you mentioned 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 a lot 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 trunk 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 in the i'm not majority of mentally ill people and scaring well i want to not get any type of violence against anyone else and 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 park lane 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 so it's not the guns don't commit crimes in chicago that handguns get in chicago and criminals commit crimes we have a lawless miss problem in chicago and other cities that we have to get spot on 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 it i look at both sides of what's going on here and i think one of the things that this. you know every each side 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 let you know we've got the mental health issue things like that or it's crime we go after the criminals know that thing 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 when we are cheerleading dropping bombs on foreign countries and things like that nature when we're cheerleading that that doesn't have a way of coming back around into our own society and saying hey violence is ok violence is an answer have to leave it there are. 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 fine housing and employment discrimination to segregated education dr king etched indelible mark on this country fighting the ills of racism and 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 law with their own just because those walls 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 talks that are great everybody. i'm going to fulfill the repeated purposes ok politics to the people i promise to be you know we've all pots to. be really really really.

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