ah, without federal enforcement of the new civil rights legislation, the states enacted the black codes. these punitive laws restricted the movement of blacks, rid 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 said, 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 their 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 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 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 defeat 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 c 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 as 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 which i will give blame that really happened in the country in the country. and it under still stands and break to no. these tactics were used with terrifying a fact, particularly at night by the notorious white supremacist group. the ku klux klan, the clans primary goal was to keep african americans in their place by any means necessary for it was to 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. so government, there are no codes. glendon, presidents, unquote. probably the worst of the ball is woodrow wilson and the natives crab as them low, med low general. and as me goes to wilson, get stand to see successful blacks around him. and he makes the point of the loading them send in from the offices to the difference. 3 pride in this.

he 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, 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 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 end of

lazy b, 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 to 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 was systemic racism more on display than in our national housing policy. also created by the new deal who is 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 shoe 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 had existed before. to build public housing in those neighborhoods, demolishing the integrated neighborhood to create land for the public housing and built segregated public housing and that returning black world war 2 veterans

were forced 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 here we are the term and we've got a home we are we are not afraid and we need to change them and they need 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 this federal intervention on the level of a civil rights act. 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 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 pushback against the civil rights movement and the laws it helped in act began right away. this resistance eerily mirrored what happened after reconstruction. political assassinations in 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.

ah, 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. ah, and the 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 him. 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 by withdrawn brands with tom. they had good work ethic, family oriented latin script. far. fair. ah, bring you the very latest every hour the day. this is all. no fun and everyone had home with

them. there is champs all down there. here holland is the larry over here. so your camps are always a little nicer than this. this is evidence of absolute poverty despair. and 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. and 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 bad you with ah, ah,

it's an open secret that private military companies have been playing a role in om, complex world wide. u. s. government doesn't track the number of contractors it uses in places iraq or afghanistan, united states army and the military in general is so reliance on the private sector . i would call that dependency, but we don't know who's the on the ground presence of these companies overseas. we just don't out west and private military companies can in their turn. views so cool . some can thanked us from countries with trembled, pass. ah, the chances i quite good that they had also been shall, soldiers, possesses. i was a child, as i drove professional drove, is his wife fully fully wouldn't see what it would if i said that looked with no flaw. miller, malone. if you want shim, which i mean to be merciless killing machines. now they fight and die in other

people's was people carol, lot one and a dead soldier or dead marine shows up in this country. we start asking yourself, why did they die? why do? what were they fighting for? nobody bothers down to about that contractors. 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 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 worked the assembly line alongside mr. willis, ally, go pulling punches william, i asked 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 rice war was common? he told me, on one occasion, that he thought that the society had got to the point where the blacks were given everything in the white males no longer had anybody representing us. and he thought that that was the answer balance was 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 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 know what that thing a fine. 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. it 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, why 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 point blank shot at him and he and he go straight to the area where the black coworkers 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 a

faint bear my mother can't be happening. and the me i can't force was on her. and that's what i'm kind of 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 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 rude, it is accidental. i 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 wilson circumstances couldn't protect his civil rights and who are what could i just want to see just a star. 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 why people have about growing diversity. and 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 i talk about taking america back, they're talking about taking it back from the other. you see brazil the i'm was brought to ruin by 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 comprised the bulk of us history, slavery in temporal. 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 oh, 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 noted. no, with her a geisha of the lingering impact. no attempt to connect the dots between slavery, jim crow, and the present. and it's criminal because you know, people are suffering and people will die. i can explain to me about a these other day when they arrive

a free day with ha ha, there are many people don't believe the quality of many people believe there's a natural order of things and at whites right the top and to some extent, i would argue that we're still fighting the civil war and the se 20 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 regions that would be impractical achievement would take the form of refurbishing the back community in terms of the quality of schools

. garalia housing is now 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 i . the hardening 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 and so deeply in our dna and as reflected in politics the way we do politics, the way we do our 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 lou. 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 to higher price. why are we so afraid to face the possibility that we might actually do something with tree ah ah, ah,

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ah, in the stories that shake the week just gone, ukraine dominated both the headlines and the minds of nato steaks with lethal arms, ammunition, and military equipment kinds of over to kiev, while the u. s. and u. k. prepared to send troops to eastern europe, but not all night. her members agreed to weaponized cray. germany was slammed by allies. the going against the blocks lied about some spanish opposition. party say it's not bad countries war to way. spain has no police in this conflict. we are not interested in any worse. all this is a pro cation of the united states and nato in an attempt to reshape the work order in which they are losing input.