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greetings and salutations august 26th is women's equality day in america it was created following a resolution proposed by representative bella as in 1971 and passed by congress 2 years later though this day is celebrated across america it's important to understand that we are still a far cry from achieving gender equality today women are equal pay for equal work in a nation that values mill contributions more than their female counterparts in punishes women for daring to work while being moms meanwhile a man can have a house full of kids and still be seen as capable of climbing the ladder. women overall earn 84 percent for every dollar a man earns black women earn just $0.62 for every dollar paid to white men and covert 19 has made things worse women are more heavily employed in helping professions in the service industry like retail restaurants hotels and their lines and those jobs have had the most layoffs and because childcare demands fall more

heavily on mothers the ones lucky enough to keep their jobs either were forced to take time off or try to work their positions on nights and weekends to top it all off men are leading the charge to eradicate women's reproductive rights. and turning to politics sexism is once again on the ballot democratic vice presidential candidate and senator camilla harris was dealt the hand of being black and female meanwhile daring to run for high office no racist and talk radio giant rush limbaugh appeared in attack on harris in a recent essay from the right wing news outlet the american spectator saying quote it is no secret but public knowledge that comma here is slept her way up into california political life by being a very public escort and matches for california democratic kingmaker willie brown amazon was even selling joe in the hope campaign t. shirts. the civil rights movement and activists of present aren't immune from

sexism either women even in police brutality instances black women are also victims but their murders don't get the attention that males do after all we're still fighting for justice for brianna taylor equality women's rights and the fight against sexism seem never ending it's time we start watching the hawks. she wanted was going on a cd you street you want to. listen to what she says see the prizes joyce state i'll see you right mass graves suggests least systemic deception is at least show which. some pretty tough job as. well everyone watching the hawks. and i and joining us today to discuss the women and equality we're joined by the co-host of boom bust ceremony just to yoko are to you america sports producer regina hanley on the professor of african-american

history at george washington university brittany lewis thank you all 3 for coming on and joining us today for having to have. well are going to we're going to go ahead and get started britney and i'm going to do a wrap around here so everybody gets to answer this one can women's equality truly be achieved and why is it so hard to move the needle forward on gender equality. you know i'm going to say yes and i'm going to say that as long as we continue to fight for it can be achieved but the reality is he is still with us today and we see it and we continue to find it expression with the times so i'm excited about the progress that we're going to continue to me and sarah what do you feel about it do you think that women's equality is moving forward i think it is and i think it has changed but i think it we still have a long way to go unfortunately we still live like britney said in a very patriarchal society where you see the women doing majority of housework and that sort of thing of course men are stepping up more but i hope that we are going

toward about road at least that's what it seems like and i think to echo what are they saying i think it's because we still have this traditional gender roles where men are typically the breadwinner and women are typically the homemaker isn't until we break that and make it where women get equal pay for the same job that a man can do and then the men can be less discouraged from doing housework because there's still a stigma about men that do housework for some strange reason we're not going to be able to afford but i think we're getting there it's just sometimes we feel like we're in a slog and we need we don't know how to get out of it i mean i think part of what plays into the slog is you look sexism has been on full display in the 2020 presidential election but we also saw back in 2016 in the presidential election we see a lot of local lections especially. and you know we see it on a regular basis where we see attacks on people like that and other women who hold high levels of positions in our government. you know if it's happening at the highest levels of elected service in the united states is there hope for every day

women you know and what can the government do to help curb the sexism is still running rampant in our society and i think a lot of it needs to start with the fact that women in power should not be a threat and i think that's where the paycheck he feels threatened is that women are in a position of power we have the decision to be able to make. a wide range of laws for men for so long have the ability to decide what our reproductive rights are rights are what we're allowed to do look at title 9 things like that were decided by predominately male lawmakers and i think men are afraid of that power being taken away from them and given to women what we might do which is a war is not equality you you want to have our response whatever we can do why can't you accept the same i think that's where part of the issue lies i think a lot of the problem much like regina said is that you know women are trying we are or more women are and positions of authority now but now everything is of oh she's too bossy or she's it's must be hormonal you know we we tend to attack more women then they find it easier the people the audience you know society just finds it

easier to attack women and i whether it's on looks then they are at work to attack a man and i think it's time that you know women accept each other which i am seeing more of which i you know i think it's great and it's a step forward but i think men to need 2 more men because some are i'm not going to speak for everyone but more men need to be able to accept and come to terms with me how can the government of the people and for the people truly you know how can the . government or state local governments help help adjust and fix this issue as i'm . sure i am i think the 1st things that we can start is that we need to strengthen our pay discrimination laws you know when i look at the paycheck fairness act which is the bill that's been around for nearly 20 years and there's really no good reason that it isn't the law you know women of color are overrepresented among the lowest paid workers and they deserve a raise and we must ring to the federal minimum wage which hasn't changed in nearly a decade. you know legislation like the workers fairness act that's the only act

that schedules the work would address the discrimination women pregnant or caregiving and support those that need paid leave and i think that is so important as we go forward. and i have the pleasure of working with these 2 wonderful ladies at the table but i also want to bring this back to something that we have see. that has been showcase for women of color particularly over pretty much generations in this country being silenced in many ways so briana taylor is among a long list of women black women who have not received the same type of responses to their deaths as min even blackman we've seen that there are attacks and there's murders across various communities of color in state sanctioned violence and citizen's arrest and the bad news that comes from those isn't exactly new but the way that male story's a male tragedies are elevated is not done the same way for females in there hasn't been a point in history where women also haven't suffered we can go back to lynchings

most people know that black men were lynched but there is that much showcased about the black women in the black children there were also lynch so it makes people think that you know there was a softening when it came to women which is absolutely not the case what it was how can we move into a society that actually elevates and pays more attention when women particularly women of color. well i think it's it's already like i said i think there's a lot of work that we're still doing but bringing attention i think to to women and women of color because you know they're still we're still struggling like you said taylor did not get the same type of attention that george of course protests brought light to what happened in awareness the officers got fired but still there was not enough done and what society does is they try to look at the background to tailor what it would achieve do she must have a criminal record actually you know she was a stellar citizen an e.m.t. you know it just it really it really is triggering to to see that nothing has been done you know something like this in such a tragedy happens

a loss of life especially somebody comes into my house with normal clothes and not you know warning that they're a police officer they have the right to defend themselves with a gun so it was such a tragedy and still that nothing has been done it is just mind blowing and the fact that it's like sarah said we always investigate that. background it's 0 is 0 well if you look at grapes for example among women it's always what she wearing what is she doing why does that matter a crime took place brianna taylor was murdered. what else can that why do we have to investigate her character and defame her character as trying to justify what happened it's wrong and you know feminism as a whole is you know a dirty word for the nobody likes has come a long way but if we look really in the past like you said in the black then minutes we're not entirely included in the seventy's in that movement and hopefully we can bring it together as an inclusive black women women of color with minority women and trans women into that conversation as well hopefully one day in the

future but when it comes to crimes especially the murders of black trans women as well they are not investigated enough and often they go unsolved it's a shame for their families absolutely and britney i'm going to bring you into this as well because i know personally you lost your sister to domestic violence and when we talk about you know that situation particularly around the fact that her murder did not actually serve real time at all when we talk about things like that we're still working to get the violence against women act reauthorized there are so many cases where we just see that people do not care when these violent acts happen against women what are some of your comments. yes absolutely i mean i think you touched on a number of excellent points and i think one of the major issues here even within the african-american community is understanding that there is layers of oppression and we are a part of a matrix of domination where we suffer not only gender discrimination but regional discrimination and i think it's a result oftentimes you know under the language of reality where in the reason why

people are talking about her spoke saying well you know work and we're not trying to compete why are you trying to divide the african-american or the black community and i think what's really important here is that we need to understand we're not trying to compete let's say with or exploit story we're trying to complete the story right and i think that until we stop this from blaming until we start actually caring about the lives of black women and take away the strong black woman slope we're going to continue to be fighting against this issue i want to ask you what what do you do bertie what do you feel is the biggest thing that men get wrong when talking about equality for women and feminism and things of that nature in your experience what do you feel is the 1st thing that men get wrong when they when they comment on these issues. i think it's a it's a lack of education on the topic to be quite frank i don't know how many men are taking the time to pick up a book and genuinely read about feminism to understand that it has to do with women

a woman's ability to choose i also think there is quite a bit of victim blaming there well you know if she wasn't wearing this or if she didn't say that work she's not prioritizing the correct thing so again i truly believe that it's a lack of education combined with going. regina's so what do you feel is the 1st thing going to get wrong when you try to have these discussions about you know equal you know equal rights and gender rights i think it definitely comes down to you know the victim blaming as well but also they don't really they think it's that women who want equal rights who are. proponents of feminism hate men and that's not true it's not we're not hating men were hating the picture across society that has oppressed women and that's what a lot of women want men to understand is we don't hate you not all men are bad we're trying to get you to understand what has been wrong for us and correct that justice i think we've all mentioned here occasion an understanding do they ever do

men ever actually say if i were a woman what would that be like how different would my life be if i were a woman if i were you know if i were being discriminated against for my gender for my race if i were you know a minority woman what would that be like what kind of challenges what i face but now there's a lot of victim blaming like regina said men hate you know women hate men and that's not as a whole and also probably add to the argument that the minutes are trying to be mean so the idea for many people is bad for many males is that you're taking something away from them now that you're pushing for equal rights and i don't know what in the man's mind makes that elementally go there but the idea that you are somehow reducing them by wanting to have equality you know i learned a lot and thank you for sharing all that with us in the audience today that truly means a walk once again brittany we're genius or a pleasure. to talk to both thank you so much. all right everybody

as we go to break remember that you can also start watching the horrocks on demand this wonderful brand new portable t.v. available on all platforms it's on every platform so you have no excuse you can get it horrible t.v. we've got it. coming up the n.h.l. has found itself in hot water and many more tragedy yes more tragedy has struck the protests of the strongest of states to watch.

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. clearly dramatic to follow only closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. if you go to the symphony orchestra's warming up and each musician is is tuning his or her instrument so you hear this all these sounds are noise but it but it's it's a constant a it's disorganized and then the band the orchestra plays and you get music so what

the brain does and what the maker juveniles do is organize all orchestrate these one collapses. all right welcome back everyone the n.h.l. has been riding high this summer as the normally winter based professional hockey league has been thriving in the summer heat thanks to the league's brilliantly. q 2 month long 2014 playoffs in a bubble effort to finish their pandemic we cut short 2020 season earlier this year so far everything had been wine roses and body checks against the glass until well until former n.h.l. player and coach and now n.b.c. studio analyst mike milbury couldn't well he couldn't as motivational speaker matt

bowley would say shut his big yap or on a recent broadcast with n.b.c.'s brian busch air broadcast partner suggested how well the bubble environment has kept n.h.l. players focused on the game on the rink. chimed in saying quote there's not even any women here to disrupt your concentration yeah joining us once again is a hard to america sports producer gina hamm to discuss the fall out from curious comments regina. let's get into the dirty details about mr millbury this isn't the 1st time he's actually made comments like this about women or scandalous comments about the game. even during these playoffs he's done that he isn't the 1st broadcaster to have this opinion women in sports especially fall under this kind of criticism and that who by men who think that they shouldn't be there and they

should have any any job at all with them sports is the subsequent reaction to mo burns quote surprising to you their reaction is not because it is probably a comment that many male analysts in sports feel they just they said the quiet part out loud and again all men in sports are not like this there are a lot of great allies for women in sports that happen to be male but back in 1700 if i didn't take it back for a quick 2nd melissa lucky had a loss to her in timing out a law suit against major league baseball to allow or in a locker room to cover a game. that was only 42 years ago that's not that long ago so women in sports have had this shy it mountainous climb up the hill we're now allowed in locker rooms so like erin andrews laura open and people like that who are on the sideline who do great reporting tell great stories are these wonderful storytellers and yet they're still reduced to a distraction and a lot of women angry on twitter it blew up and some of them are the n.h.l.

social media teams for the leagues that are in the bubbles going hello hi we're here we're not distracting we're doing our job and that's a point as women in sports sometimes still aren't taken seriously as analysts because we didn't play because the the problem with this quote is basically the. i don't care if we have a disposable cell for people but the problem with the quote is basically like you know women are always the destruction of the moment strong and like they did nor the game with they saw a woman walk by and somehow they couldn't get as many goals as a son should leave the problem to grow it is and it's a shame because as you know as women in sports as analysts as broadcasters as reporters we are constantly under a spotlight if she's too fat she's too thin she doesn't have enough makeup on she has too much makeup on you know i couldn't tell you just from my perspective i don't wear spanx because i've been called fat and i went you know i don't care anymore we are constantly under scrutiny and there's nothing you actually how well we do our job and it's a shame because there are a lot of talented women out there who go we're doing

a great job we're not just this body we are these wonderful brains and wonderful storytellers absolutely and to your point the point you just made about social media one of the reasons why this story got picked up so heavily is because sports analysts female sports analysts because female sports anchors they call this out and they called it out loudly and even told their own stories of discrimination and sexism and i thought that that was pretty powerful just to watch happen the issue that women are facing right now being called a distraction is it new poor women in sports obviously it's been happening for years 42 years since women legally won the right to be in the locker room. do you think the culture is still the same or have things progressed in that for decades i would love to say it's totally different and nothing's going to be the same but you know in the same isn't we are making so much progress but unfortunately we're still climbing up there we're spam oliver who is in her fifty's is a wonderful analyst for fox tons of n.f.l. games someone i looked up to as like a woman in sports and a woman of color in sports who has had such

a big profile one day she did not seem to be on sound as much because they wanted a younger audience enter erin andrews who is the exact opposite and so you're seeing that yes we've come so far we are now being recognized but still how you look sex elves and unfortunately sports that's true and to kind of segue into the washington football team where sex normally sells for their calendar unfortunately they're not a scandal i want to bring that up because you know as you say speaking of damage and culture of the washington football team the professional team the n.f.l. team is again in the hot seat after this leaked report that a private video from the cheerleaders from the washington football team's cheerleaders like you know they do like a calendar shoot every year which has its own problems anyway but apparently dan snyder the owner of the washington pro bowl team asked for all the highlight videos basically the extra thing basically the shots were like at the girls on the beach and she's normally covered it's the shots in between them going to get into the you

know and basically showing them half naked and things like that is this the final nail in the coffin for dan snyder at this point you would hope so because the article came out last month about how these women were sexually harassed touched in appropriate texas resent that were reporters or or executive with not officials who worked in the front offices of the law of the team and you're shocked that now this is having to these jurors who may not have been aware this even happened until recently like oh my gosh this spans back to 2810 years 12 years now why. i can't dance i get it through his head that you are having one p.r. nightmare after another how do you you don't surface or this but i'm glad to see it come out at the end of the day because we all kind of have so our suspicions about snyder's about use because we fought so what are you to keep that raises its name for so long regina big you so much for coming on always a pleasure having you on and giving us the sports of the week thank you. the follow

up from the shooting of jacob blake by police in connection with concent as protest bear continued this week and now even more sadness and violence has come to this already tragic and volatile situation just after midnight in the early minutes of wednesday after a long night of tear gas and protests shots rang out shots that left 2 people dead and another one wounded r.t. america is trying to shove is the story. today 2 people are dead and one injured after another chaotic night in can no show us constant police say at least one gunman opened fire on protesters during the 3rd night of demonstrations late tuesday evening civilians seen walking through the streets bearing handguns a r 15 style rifles and military flak jackets. other video shows a man in nursing a serious arm injury following the incident while another man crouch is next to him with a firearm i don't want to say i don't know 7 several rioters seem vandalizing cars

and smashing windows. others seen looting businesses including this mattress store right before burning it down riot police responding with tear gas and rubber bullets at curfew violators as demonstrators shot fireworks and threw rocks at police some reports suggest protesters are traveling from neighboring cities to take part in the destruction the governor now calling for 1500 national guard members with police powers for assistance the 3rd night of protests comes after jacob blake was shot multiple times by police after resisting arrest now confirmed pair. ally's to from the waist down his family's attorney ben crump said earlier today that it would take a miracle for him to walk again the medical diagnosis right now is that he is paralyzed. and become a story of the silver here's piratical or. shared it from his vertebrate good attorney charlie were to get 2 or more details.

it is going to take a miracle. it is going to take a miracle. for jacob really julia to ever walk again and back here in new york black lives matter protests continue throughout the city and hope like family is asking for the officer who fired the shots to be arrested and the others involved in the incident to lose their jobs legs mother is asking the rioters to end the violence and the looting reporting in to your trinity shop as r t. alright everybody vatos our show for you today remember in this world we are definitely not told but we love to know what to tell you all i love you i am irrelevant and i'm me to cross keep on watching all those hawks out there and have a great day and night everybody.

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