ah ah exaggerated rhetoric, massive arms shipments and endless threats. this is how nato presents is with asian, a pan european security. meanwhile, moscow waves to the u. s. and his allies to respond to his demands and vision for the say. the status quo is hung with without federal enforcement of the new civil rights legislation, the states and acted the black codes. these punitive laws restricted the movement of blacks, rigged the labor economy against them and doomed them to low wages and debt. the

laws also opened the door to the widespread use of convict leasing, which was just another form of slavery. so if you broke these laws, then you could be in prison for it. and so then that starts the cycle of people going to prison for really trivial reasons for getting caught up in the system. because then if a white land older or business person pay fair fine, then they had to work off that fine. and so you could be years maybe for the rest of your life in these situations because these people were not an investment like they had been during slavery, so you could work them to death, get them replace and move on to plessy versus ferguson. supreme court decision in 1896 created separate but equal the legal

separation between black and white. it's always been hard for me to believe that these so called jim crow laws. the blatantly discriminated against african americans remained in place until night in 64. jim crow created america's own system of apartheid. jim crow was really born in the south, although it would, it would go north certainly, but in the south it would become legal. it would become part of state laws, local laws. in the north we became kind of part of the custom, but not necessarily part of the law. i think it's fair to say that dixie, the so called white south has left a very deep imprint on the political culture of the united states. it was defeated militarily during the civil war,

but not to be defeated politically because it's white supremacist ideas were not defeated. and in fact, it seems as if the part of the reconciliation between dixie and the rest of the country is to give dick see a pass. ah, the south had lost nearly everything in the war, but we refused to surrender. instead, we united around a strange myth known if the last cause i grew up surrounded by it. it was always the yankees or the war of northern aggression life before the war was romanticized, as one of content slaves, an idyllic plantation, life monuments to confederate battle fields and generals were everywhere. we were a separate people who were superior, distinct and noble. but i always felt that beneath this mask

a southern gentility and outward politeness was a culture that was deeply flawed at its core. if you investigated lynchings, any great extent regio, you can't believe that it really happened. the country in the country. and the country still stands and break to know. these tactics were used with terrifying effect, particularly at night by the notorious white supremacist group. the ku klux klan, the clan's primary goal was to keep african americans in their place. by any means . yes, the sorry. it was the southern clans, violence and a labor shortage after world war one that drove $1600000.00 african americans from the south to the north and mid west. there. they worked in the steel mills,

railroads, meat packing plants, an automobile industry. but poll taxes literacy tests and the clans, intimidation in the north, kept blacks from voting their goods that nothing from any little government. there are no cones, glendon presidents, unquote. probably the worst of the ball is woodrow wilson. and the natives avenue assume low med lower general. and as me goes to wilson, get stand the see successful blacks around him. and he makes a point of the moaning them send in from the offices to the difference. they agree, pride in this. you also had northern politicians who pandered to the south because the south, as they called it, the solid south was such a voting block. if you were northern politician. and even if you had ideas of

fairness, let's not even say equality, but just fairness and that these black people were human beings. but at the same time, you wanted to win the south or you needed to win the south to be elected. you had to step lightly around the southerners to south put this was stored national power to work, maintaining the nation's racial hierarchy with its veto power. southern politicians tarnished the creation of president franklin delano roosevelt. new deal . royal himself is a very good example of this that he has to make certain compromises. he has to tell walter why to the delay vb, i'm sorry, i can't sign this anti lindsey bill. the bill is to make lynching a federal crime. that will be a big step. yeah, this is that is so intense. so roseville himself says, look, if i do this,

we get about the new deal. ah, roosevelt's new deal created relief programs to put people back to work during the great depression. but southern politicians made sure the new federal job benefits programs, social security, the minimum wage, unemployment, insurance and union organizing did not apply to the 2 primary black locations of the era. agricultural and domestic service. ah, the jackpot that followed the american victory in world war 2, which gave birth to the american dream, good housing, education and employment was off limits to most african americans.

nowhere with systemic racism more on display than in our national housing policy. also created by the new deal it was a government leading the way in creating a segregated landscape and every metropolitan area in this country. you had many neighborhoods with european immigrants, so african americans white, true, who came from rural areas to work in factories in the same neighborhood. but in fact, what the public works administration did with its housing program was creat segregation when none have existed before to build public housing in those neighborhoods, demolishing the integrated neighborhood to create land for the public housing and build segregated public housing smith returning black world war 2 veterans were forced to live in the segregated housing because dixie crat vetoed an amendment in the 1949 housing act that would have re integrated housing

throughout the country, mass production builders, god bank loans guaranteed by the federal housing administration on condition that no homes be sold to blacks in good paying industry jobs, followed white to the new suburbs. the white families like mine who owned their homes, gained several $100000.00 worth of equity over decade. the white middle class was born. the federal housing authority made it illegal for lenders to loan money to blacks who want to buy houses in white neighborhoods. red, lining by banks, denied mortgages to black people, even in their own communities. black people understood that when pursuing the american dream, there were 2 americans, one for white people and one for african americans. from this tension emerge,

the civil rights movement, where blacks were unflinching. and here we are the turn and we want to turn that home. we are, we are not afraid and we need to change them and to expect me to do all i there was an understanding that southerners, we're not going to easily give up their control, their power, this idea of into the inequality between the races. there was always this understanding that there was going to need to be the federal intervention on the level of a civil rights at the civil rights act of 1964. and in this case it

finally gave some t. so the 14th amendment, title 6 of the civil rights act of 64 was very, very important because it said that if you were receiving federal monies, then you could not discriminate based on race, gender, religion. finally, in 1968, a fair housing act was passed, which said that you couldn't discriminate in the sale, rental of most housing in the country. incredibly, the legal discrimination against african americans that began in the 1600s only officially ended in 1964 with the enactment of the civil rights act. but all across the country, not just in the south expressions of open racism, went underground white privilege was finding

a way to maintain itself. the national, pushed back against the civil rights movement. and the laws it helped in act began right away. this resistance eerily mirrored what happened after we construction political assassinations, and the overturning of policies and laws gradually destroyed the gains made by african americans. from the beginning of our administration, we've taken strong steps to do something about this order. they are often the kinds of kids that are called super predatory. oh, in ready in mississippi slash point to the civil rights movement. i discovered an

incident that took place in 2003. that struck me as an enduring example of the terrible consequences of not directly confronting racism. ah, and the funerals for 3 lockheed employee shot to death earlier this week were held to day and both mississippi and alabama. thomas willis, the father of 3, a vietnam war bed, was honored with whom i was immediately drawn to thomas willis. to me, his life seemed to personify the progress that has been made by african americans in the us since the passage of the civil rights. and oh, did you know thomas william? yes. plates on by with on brands with good work ethic, family, orienting. loudon. script far

fair. ah, now in all you do this is he is a sphere. if you are fast, you will fall off the and and, and um, a del aside, already came home and you are back home. so i would like to envision that the does it also the address of the living is just like that, you know, on the actual worry to him from the other side. you're chatting with the geography, nutritional the chinese students and the sub boshoway shakeelah. hi sharon, i'm wish wish rel group. hopefully we'll be able to. lo, please, your name again. right?

yes, for 30 latoya this summer, rudy mcgrew. she been wholesale, i mean kelly recording court and i renewed my financial night issue of the 1000th of london. keep to our lord, let me for she gave us times to i must be happy. i could fatima fact, mother, you know, if that will can think of that little christie asked him. you myakea the better for him. um, we'll proceed again, martha. the moment that i can love, thump ah, in thomas wilson, who was making good money in

a union job assembling aircraft wings for lockheed martin, the largest military contractor in the world. as a u. s. government contractor, lockheed is barred from discriminating against people based on their race color or nash origin by title 6 of the civil rights act. in 2001 mister willis courageously reported to lockheed management. that he and his african american co workers were being intimidated by a white employee. doug williams williams work the assembly line alongside mr. willis. i'm going pulling punches. who am i ask you the believe doug williams was racist? check for you. he had a problem with, with, with blacks in general, and some black specifically, did he ever tell you why he thought a race war was common? he told me i want to cation that he thought that the society had got to the point

were, the blacks were given everything in the white males, no longer had anybody representing us. and he thought that that was the answer. violence was the answer. they called in an investigator to determine if there was any, any type of racial threats being made in, in mister willis told him exactly what was going on. thomas. his comment to me was that he felt like the company all to do something odd and that he wasn't going to quit until something was done. doug williams was ordered to attend diversity and anger management classes, but repeatedly refused to go. one day williams put a white work booty on his head. i'm from the south and everybody that i know i know what signify. some african american employees assumed he was imitating the ku klux klan and reported the incident to

their supervisors. finally, the system plant manager comes back down and says, does mister williams, you've got to take that moody off your head? their conversation was quite escalated, jack insisting that he pulled a cap off, doug refusing, he wanted to know who had reported it. he wanted the names without approval from lockheed williams took a week off. when he did return to work, he was punished. lockheed again ordered him to diversity class, and again, he refused to go, went out to his truck, got his guides and came back. and that's when the shooting started. storms in the room. he goes by numerous wide employees. don't shoot anybody in mickey fitzgerald brave man, he was the white guy, stood up said doug, you don't do this. doug kilten just went blank shot at him,

and he and he go straight to the area where the black co workers, that he had been intimidating. worked michelle thomas willis in a back as he was running away in total williams killed 6 of his co workers, an injured 8 more. he then killed himself. ah, in staying here to bear my mother. i can't be happening. and the me i can't force on her. and that's what i'm kinda confused about. why did it go on her?

we file, so for wrongful death under the mississippi wrongful death statute seeking damages for mr. willis been murdered and an intentional act. it went to the 5th circuit court of appeals, which through the case out, based on the fact that it was a workplace accident. when they rule, it is accidental and know what that word means. things happen. you leave a court out, you true, that's an accident. you didn't mean for that to happen. i understand there, but this was intentional at the time of the massacre, lockheed held federal military contracts worth billions of dollars. if lockheed had been found guilty of violating thomas willis and his colleagues civil rights, it likely would have lost its lucrative government contracts. vietnam

veteran and law abiding citizen, thomas willis, played by all the rules. and he was still struck down by a racist. if mister wills, his circumstances couldn't protect his civil rights and who are what could i just want to see jeff? i needed somebody to say, hey, we will not allow this to happen again. the country is becoming increasingly diverse. so the way race plays out today, not just in the south, but the whole country is this profound anxiety that a lot of people have especially white people have about growing diversity. they're quite scared because it's like they're about to lose, not simply their neighborhood, but their sense of self, who they are. so when they talk about taking america back, they're talking about taking it back from the other. you see a presidency,

i was brought to ruin the mere fact of hitting him that eventually we will do anything to make it possible for this person to succeed. to succeed were still suffering the after effects of those 2 powerful regimes that comprise the bulk of us history, slavery, and improve. you see it in terms of the population of our prisons. you see it in health care outcomes in terms of life expectancy. you see it in terms of per capita income on a racial basis. this culture has been created. that is still in some ways, punishing and penalize thing africans with as no, to know her again, of the lingering impact. no attempt to connect the dots between slavery, jim crow and the president. and it's criminal because

you know, people are suffering and people are dying or you can explain to me a these other day with oh wow. 3 stay with. oh wow.

there are many people don't believe the quality of many people believe there's a natural order of things and that whites right the top and to some extent, i would argue that we're still fighting with civil war and the south is winning i guess quite honestly, i'm not sure how to, how it can be fixed. ah, could she be right? is there really no way out of this? or what's one thing i know for sure is that oppression against african americans has been relentless throughout our history. this history is not just in the past, it's still very much alive today. we need an official government commission to investigate and interrogate

the lingering impact of both slavery and jim crow. perhaps we need also some way to repair the damage. or i would think the reasons that would be impractical achievement would take the form of refurbishing. the black community is in terms of the quality of schools and housing is, you know, getting and i mean change ah, leveling the playing field for african americans is one big dancer. we tried this with reconstruction and with the civil rights act, but fierce white resistance pushed back against both. ah, i hard not of it is

really white. so we had it exactly backwards, right? in terms of the problem, we have a white problem in the united states and we, and i don't mean this as a blame and whatever. but i think people won't get this on their own. that really takes a lot of work so deeply in our dna, and it's reflected in politics the way we do politics, the way we do economy and the way we think about ourselves. but we actually need to give birth to a new white identity, white identity that doesn't need to dominate a white identity is not totally anxious about being a connection in relationship with the other white identity, the recognize that it is the other. ah, but to do this we have to recognize that we as white people have benefited enormously from our privilege. busy at the expense of other people, the cost of this prejudice and any quality has comic far to higher price. why are

we so afraid to face the possibility that we might actually do something with true ah ah ah, with with

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say. the status quo is untenable. with james all down through here. all in is the larry over here. so your camps are always a little nicer than this. this is evidence of absolute poverty, despair. people in our city and other cities all across america are living like this. where at the original eden village that opened up in 2018 right now there's 31 homes on the property. it's a little over 4 acres with 31 homes and a community center. unfortunately, a lot of people don't make it out of edition more homelessness, and i'm just really happy. it made it. her dad, you with

me, from other to the west insisting that russia said to invade you, craig, tonight, nato secretary general makes a stunning you to admitting the military block. actually has no confidence whatsoever that any such aggression will happen at all. you should be able to release it if it depends on the russian federation, then there will be no war. we don't want any wars, but we're also not allow our interest to be rudely trampled on and ignored. i made a growing stand off with the west over ukraine. russia's top diplomat stress as moscow does not want conflict, but insisted security must be ensured.