stay with us for our next programs in your part of the world to off break for me. very good evening. ah. is the earth still large enough to satisfy the ambitions of jeff bezos? you know, it's got its tentacles in so many aspects of the economy. there's nothing that amazon isn't trying to get into to step by step. the amazon empire has extended its grip on the world that walks like a dog inquiry like a dog gets it out. so amazon looks like monopoly trades like a monopoly makes money like monopoly behaves like monopoly. amazon essentially controls the market place. it's not really a market, it's a private arena, a world where a single company controls the distribution of all day. the products and the infrastructure of our economy is loose the world, according to amazon. without federal enforcement of the

new civil rights legislation, the states enacted 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, but getting caught up in the system because then if a white land older or business person paid, they're 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 can 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 1964. 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 and would become legal and 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 is the 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 the beat 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 and 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 corn. if you investigate his lynchings, any great extent that will you give blame that really happened in the country in the country. and because you're still stanza, great to know these tactics were used with terrifying a fact, 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 necessary for it was the southern clans, violence, and

a labor shortage after world war one. that drove 1600000 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 boots that nothing for me, little government. there are no cones. glendon presidents, unquote. probably the worst of the ball is woodrow wilson and the natives crab as them low mantle over general. and as we goes, wilson can stand the c successful blacks around him. they make the point of the morning them sent in from the officers to the good sense days. we 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, that's not even say equality, but just fairness and that the, that 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 restored 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 . brazil 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 would be a big step in the opposition. that is so intense. so roosevelt himself says, look, if i do this, begin 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 did follow 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 was systemic racism more on display than in our national housing policy. also created by the new deal it was a government leaving the way in creating a segregated landscape in every metropolitan area. in this country. you had many neighborhoods with european immigrants, of 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 and 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 got 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 wanted 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 fearless. we are the turn and we've got a home we are, we are not afraid and we need to change them. and then i expected me to do all i there was an understanding that southerners, we're not gonna easily give up their control, their power, this idea of, into the inequality between the races. there was always misunderstanding that there

was going to need to be this federal intervention on the level of a civil rights act to the civil rights act of 1964 in the 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 or 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 nearly mirrored what happened after reconstruction. political assassinations, and the overturning of policies and laws, gradually destroyed games made by african americans. from the beginning of our administration, we've taken strong steps to do something about this horror. a predatory over predatory

ah, in meridian mississippi, a flash point for 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. a funeral 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 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 how long did you know thomas with lights on,

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i learned that to me for the bathroom and i must be happy i can. i'm of fact not enough that i'm with you. me. ok here professor for him. um, give me the money that i can live with best buy is a survival guide with stacy just like all the stored safely at the federal reserve or if you're still there or you don't get a back product. oh no. what with came we get the rest, the 7 years bill every year, what kind of the report thomas willis 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 national 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 occasion 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 it. mister willis told them exactly what was going on. thomas's comment to me was that he felt like the company all to do something. ah, 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. and there was one day williams put a white work booty on his head. i'm from the south. everybody. there are no no what signifies 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, doug, mister williams, you've got to take that ludy off your head. their conversation was quite escalated . jack insisting that he pulled the cap off, doug refusing, he wanted to know who had reported. 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 draw, got his guns and came back. and that's when the shooting started. storms in the room. he goes by numerous wide employees don't shoot any body in mickey fitzgerald, brave man, he was the white guy. stood up said doug, you'd wanna do this, bel kilten just point blank. shad. i'm in. he and

he go straight to the area where the black co workers that he had been intimidating worked. we shot thomas willis in a back as he was running away. in total williams killed 6 of his co workers and injured 8 more. he then killed himself. ah, it was a devastating cuz we can't bear it. my mother. that's right, this can't be happen. mm mm. like his voice was on her. and that's what i'm kinda confused about. why did it go on her?

we file suit for wrongful death under the mississippi wrongful death statute seeking damages for mr. willis, man murdered, and an intentional act. it went to the 1st circuit court of appeals, which through the case out, based on the fact that it was a workplace accident. when they ruled, it is accidental and know what that word means. things happening. you leave a court out, you trip, that's an accident. you didn't mean for that to happen. i understand. 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 willis, his circumstances couldn't protect his civil rights. and who are what could i just wanted to see just to stop. 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 grown diversely. they're quite scared because they feel 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 the bruises,

the almost brought to ruin or the mere effect 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 jim crow. you see it in terms 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 they africans with as loaded. no interrogation of the lingering unpack, no attempt to connect the dots between slavery,

jim crow and the present. and it's cromwell because, you know, people are suffering and people are dying. or you can explain to me about the james' a these other day when they were these of the day dangerous man, ah, ah, ah, de la i ah,

there are many people don't believe in equality. the many people believe there's a natural order of things and the whites right. the end to some extent, i would argue that we're still fighting the civil war and the south winning i guess quite honestly, i'm not sure how to how it can be fixed. mm. could she be right? is there really no way out of this? 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 a practical achievement would take the form of refurbishing the black community in terms of the quality of schools. garalia housing is now getting another 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,

the 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 we 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, a white identity that doesn't need to dominate a white identity. it's 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 inequality has comic far too high

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