african-american soldiers served in vietnam.ome willingly, some reluctantly but they all took pride in their service and did their utmost to serve their country, a tradition that had continued on from earlier wars in american history and since the vietnam era for . the vietnam tour jacket was a common memento acquired by &r, in okinawa where they would have them embroidered with symbols of their service. in this particular instance, and african-american soldier not only had a tour jacket made to commemorate service in vietnam but he had it but he had it adorned with symbols of black power representing his commitment to the black power movement and his own service in the vietnam war. also in this area on the black power era with elements of broad concerns, basically a representation of the harlem renaissance of the 20th century, a concern with literature, culture, with representation. particularly the development of black women writers, black feminists, critiques of american society, the growth of surely chisholm, the first black

in history in african americans studies at yale university and specializes in 20th century african american and american history with an emphasis on immigration, war globalization and social movements and political resistance. she is the author of a number of books one of which is out available outside at encourage you to grab a copy while you can. the glory of their deeds, a global history of black soldiers and the great war era. that sage was working on that book as i recall as part of your work at the warren center, was a close to publication? so it's almost done. really sage, is a great friend of ours and were just so delighted to have you back here with us again. thank you. please join me in welcoming doctor welcoming dr. matt how. and joining us tonight is a scholar who has a specialized focus on the red summer of 1919. and the fight of this nation to create a just and equitable society. is a staff reporter for the wall street general, based in atlanta he covers politics, economics, breaking news in other subjects and he's worked in a variety of countries reporting from bosnia, iran,

african-american quotes from african-american publications that are, i mean, we would read them today and think that they should have rights. but at the time it was just, you know, really contested. >> red summer means we're literally seeing red as they suggested for the blood running through the streets, and also because of all of the red scare, the communists everywhere. and this idea that they would target african-americans and infect the notions that challenge the core of a hierarchy that worked as well for the north as the south. so, i shall bring him up on the screen. i developed a man crush nor guy, he is an awesome dude. he is one of those dudes, he wrote "lift every voice and sing." he wrote poetry, a novel, he wrote amazing essays. and he is doing all of this amazing work. and he was tapped and he says i want you to ko come to the naacp and work with me. that organization had been founded after a riot in springfield, illinois. it was dominated by white do gooders. it was not lead at that time. and he says it might hurt my writing if i do that because i won't have time. he sa

for african americans, being able to create their own images and for free african americans, being able to purchase and acquire the images of prominent african americans in the antebellum era was terrifically important both politically and personally. so join her truth of course another well-known abolitionists in women's rights activists who like douglas and placed the power of the photograph to not only represent herself to present herself as a refined and dignified older women, not as a battered former slave so she curls her hand and you can't see her had that's been injured. but she also of course told her photograph to support herself, and2@a! e as you are doing the research for the book, one of the things that we came across for leathers to sojourner written by free black women to places like brooklyn, asking to purchase a copy of her photograph, and saying how tremendously important it was and how meaningful it was to be able to support the anti slavery cars on the wages of a domestic servant by purchasing this photograph. and in what letter, oh meant rights to truth and says i

well, you imagine at the time, you had free african-americans who aligned with enslaved african-americans, again, a collective voice fighting for freedom. but they are fighting for freedom in a nation founded on liberty, but still maintaining slavery. directly behind me, you see the cast figures of benjamin banneker, and thomas jefferson. we really unpack that story of the voices of freedom. included on that platform in addition to the voices of jefferson and banneker are phyllis wheatley. all voices of freedom. what is very powerful to me about the connection of banneker and jefferson includes, benjamin banneker sending his almanac to thomas jefferson and stating, in fact, african-americans are brilliant. they are human. they contribute to the development of this nation and deserve to be free. and excuse me if i paraphrase, but thomas jefferson essentially said you are the exception and freedom was not going to come during his particular time in life. so now, why don't we go forward and making a way -- remember, this is a human story. in the midst of all of this inhumanity, you still hav

armed resistance is always talked about with african-americans as a kind of point where african-americanset angry in the 1960's and start burning shit down. in actuality, why we need to have discussion about nonviolence as a legitimate option is because armed resistance was a perfectly in 1919, wen, and see this with these veterans coming back and making a claim for themselves as citizen soldiers who are prepared not only to defend their immediate lives, but also those of their communities. d.c., in omaha, we get these reports, sometimes exaggerated, but oftentimes true of african-american soldiers setting up a perimeter on the roofs of buildings to defend their communities, no differently from where they would have needed to along any point on the western front. mr. mcwhirter: sort of tear point, we talked about a lot of horrific things that happened, but the ultimate answer was african-americans weren't going to be stuffed back into that south,in the rural certainly not in the cities of chicago and washington. it didn't work. for men and women, african-american men and women, things had

, but because ofer one ties within the african-american memory. mr. levin: just to close this out, what do you think -- i hate historians trying to predict arehing, but is what we seeing now going to continue? at the current pace? happening? see monument avenue is going to be gone by the end, apart from the arthur ashe statute, by the end of the summer? charlottesville, perhaps? dr. green: i think it is going to continue with a couple more years, then slow back down. because five years for canorians is short, i barely keep up and i am doing a database and i'm at 120 removed mostly from charleston up. and then 25 of the columbus and global ones, and a whole bunch now that are promised to be removed. what does this mean? 40. is going to be another i think the next three years, we are going to see more continuance, and then it will slow down. on mycern, especially campus and other campuses who have a slave past -- the university of alabama apologizes for slavery. they gave a marker in 2006 to it. we gave them a marker culture. markeraid we remove the

there's also african-americans threatening other african-americans if they get on the bus. if they had to walk anywhere to job, that this would have been as successful. that would have been a burden that would be an really difficult. so, looking to the baton rouge example, they form a car pool, a very intricate car pool that's organized and run by the montgomery improvement association. and many of the drivers are middle class black women who are either housewives of elite black men or teachers at the universities in that sense. so, they're trooifidriving peop around. they also have the black taxis do free rides or reduced fare rides until the city makes that illegal. so, there's this really organized car pool that is happening. at the center of it, they need funding. they need to put gas in the cars. there's a woman recognized, a cook, an activist in montgomery. she formed the nowhere club. it was like the name was kind of a joke, so when people would say where -- she sold all these sandwiches. where did you get these sandwiches? nowhere, nowhere. it's a hidden transcript

began by declaring african americans be citizens of the united states.we can 66 act went on to ban racial discrimination making an important contracts, selling property suing in testifying in court and guarantee african americans the full and equal benefit of all laws. and protection against an equal punishment, pains and penalties. new act raised questions was it? eliminate this question congress set to work on another constitution amendment. rump congress have opposed the 14th amendment. i wish we had time to discuss the chief drafter of the 14th amendment. he deserves to be better known to everyone. certainly historians and there is a lot to be said there. let's take a quick look at the 14th amendment. it's about 100 percent formally and state americans were born in the u.s. is one of the arguments that people could use for american sectionalism. it's really not something in europe. it came to any world. the second center the senate with in a very significant controversy. it reads no state shall make or enforce any law that should abridge the privileg

african americans understood what the war was about. they had their own way of commemorating, whether it was emancipation ceremonies, there are a few monuments you can find throughout the south, not many at all for the obvious reasons. these monuments, this is the part that people struggle with, these monuments reflect the political hierarchy of the jim crow era. it is white southerners that have the ability because they are controlling local government, to decide how the past is remembered in public spaces. in doing so, it constitutes an argument for legalized site gradation. if you can erase the past of other people from the public landscape, then you can justify placing them as second class citizens. >> and you can also, the placement of them at the court houses. then you have the legal system, the criminal justice system and this second-class citizenship. mass policing of space whether it is through courts -- it is a different type of policing which is why i think it is interesting now that the ones that court houses have been a par

african-americans understood what the war was about. they had their own way of commemorating whether it was emancipation ceremonies. there are a few monuments you can find throughout the south, not many at all, these monuments -- this is the part that people struggle with. these monuments reflect the political hierarchy of the jim crow era. it is white southerners that have the ability because they are controlling local government to decide how the past is remembered in public spaces. foronstitutes an argument legalized segregation. if you can erase the past of other people from the public landscape, you can justify placing them as second-class citizens. dr. green: the placement of them at courthouse is. you have the legal system, .riminal justice system of policing,e which is why it is interesting now that the ones that s and if you look at the north carolina once and even in alabama, they are at courthouse is. there moving them because protesters see that long term legacy and the legacy of various types of policing. monuments those re

african-american hand cut the quad. the rest of the campus grew up around it. when a mob kicked her off campus the klan claimed that as a rallying point of the mob violence of '56. you have this current day and people tailgate and then charleston happened and charlottesville happened. to use that monument as a teaching tool to get my students to have conversation about our current campus but these other debates for me it went from student to faculty to teaching and right now i am always teaching to have those conversations because most people don't know they exist and engage and they lack the language and the tools to have these conversations. >> you're absolutely right. i think i'm glad you brought this up because the work you're doing on the campus of university of alabama is the reminder of the reach of the udc extended beyond courthouse squares and parks, it extended to the universities themselves. it does speak to the udc's commitment, we focus on their monument work, but of course they're much more concerned about controlling textbooks, really controlling

for african-americans and non-african-americans. we expected 4000 people a day.were getting 8000. we had to actually say you have to have tickets to get people in, because the crowds were so great. david: so every congressman and senator is calling you for tickets? lonnie: i am everyone's best friend. david: president bush signed the legislation to approve the museum and president obama was president when it opened. i think he said to you, make sure it is open when i'm in office. lonnie: let's talk to the president. he says we have to move a little quicker. ♪ david: as a result of covid, how have you had to pivot, and how has the organization had to pivot? lonnie: i had to put together teams to help me think about this. one team to look at the virus, to give me the best medical advice working with the cdc and others. but then i put together a team to look at, what is the new normal? what does it mean when we reopen there will still be a virus concern? what does it mean that we have to think about doing more digitally? what does it mean that we have to protect our

it was particularly dire for african-americans, and then he told rosenwald that in many places, african-americans to offer their children the education they have been denied, they were raising money to build schools. so washington and julius put together a program that paired julius's money, money raised in the african-american communities the schools were built to serve. those communities also donated land, labor, materials, and dollar for dollar more money than the rosenwald fun gave. thanks to booker t. washington's skill and influence, the local public school systems were pulled in. these were public schools. so the public school systems became the largest donor to the schools and there are over 5,000 schoolhouses, teachers' homes and shop buildings built across the rural south. most of them were rural. there were a few in towns. these schools were in come places financially assisted by local whites, sometimes i think out of goodwill, sometimes in an effort to see their men and women they relied on labor not leave, in some places the schools became anchors keeping families from joining the th

and there are reports of african americans threatening other african-americans if they get on the bus so they are absolutely walking, but it's not reasonable to think that if they had to walk everywhere, to their jobs and everywhere they wanted to go, that this would have been successful as they wanted it to be. it would've been a burden that was really difficult. ,,,,. . . . . . ,. . ,,,,,,. , the spring of 1956. so primarily these women and none of this is visible, if you have the saintly rosa parks and then suddenly the powers that realize this is really wrong and they disagree to the buses. it's a lot of work that went into it. well there is no narratives, he compiles all of these documents about what was going on during this boycott. you see the memos and the inter office memos about events, and plan things they needed, and how they were going to fund king going to different places to talk and so this was a big big, machine behind the boycott, and this is a huge one. the idea, that the boycott among government boy bus boycott, was segregated not the buses. how many of you think t

when was it great for african-americans?n, most -- most people get it, especially african-americ s african-americans, but you know your question will be twisted that you're anti-american and un-american. you understand what i'm saying. what do you say? >> totally -- totally do. and guess what, my -- again, my question would still stand. people are sitting here saying all lives matter. again, demonstrate or, you know, let me know, just let -- point me toward a time in america where african-americans, again, in the ghetto, specifically, because i'm not literally talking about the small percentage of us that may make up the middle class. the small percentage of us that may make up the wealthy portions of america. i'm not talking about the signs of symbolism people can point to and say, hey, we had a black president. again, the things in which that many people point to or try to utilize as evidence is actually more progress than it actually represents overall greatness in its totality. you see what i'm saying? so people will try

learn more about african-american history this sunday at 10:00 p.m. eastern here on american history tv. in 1995 and 1997, the u.s. air force published reports on the so-called roswell incident in 1947 in the new mexico desert. the alleged sightings of aliens and ufos have led to numerous books, conferences, documentaries, hollywood films and several museums alleging a , u.s. government cover-up. up next on "reel america," a video companion to the air force reports. this 1997 documentary argues that experiments involving high-altitude balloons, parachute dropped test flight dummies, and several air force accidents were behind the public sightings. ♪

two or 300 african-americans who are newly in politics and about 300 african-americans outside of this place called the mechanics institute. the purpose of the rally is to petition for the right of black men to vote. white politicians are in power at this point in new orleans and the mayor of the city sends the police force and the fire departments to the scene of this rally to break it up. he is a member of a volunteer fire brigade, as are many confederate veterans. he apparently came to the scene, there is no fingerprint evidence that he was there, but the circumstantial evidence is quite persuasive. within two hours of police and the fire brigade arriving, meaning african-americans were dead by gunfire and by bludgeoning and lay scattered in the streets of new orleans, this massacre provokes congress to pass the reconstruction act. >> rights. which i did not know about that particular incident. i have been teaching reconstruction and the civil rights act for years. i did not realize there was a central animating event. john lewis and other attacks on the bridge, that is providing th

because he made overures to african-american men.uestion, they've been looking for leadership from the party over and over again and in some cases disappointed but i have to tell you there is no reason whatsoever for african-americans to look at what donald trump has done or failed to do in the last three years and decide to give them his vote. donald trump needs to go november 3rd and if you look at the biden and kamala team, and i took a deep dive into the policies they are proposing and african-americans will certainly benefit and prosper. >> you know, he keeps going back to the scare tactics about the suburb suburbs. let's listen to what he said last night about it. >> they were playing with the zoning so they could build projects in the suburbs. i said we're going to end it. somebody said, sir, let's just amend it. no, i want to end it. we have to end it. i don't want to have a lesser version. i was talking the other day, darling, somebody just moved next door. who is it? it's a representative of antifa. she looked at her husban

not just african-americans who were the main focus in 1866.ut the most recent major decision not to do it marriage equality for gay men and lesbians. that was not on the agenda in 1866. but it's -- it's a illegitimate reading of the concept of equality in the 14th amendment. the 15th amendment did not -- or say let open other means of this franchising people. literacy tests, factors other things like that which were not explicitly racial seeing results after today in efforts around country to suppress the right to vote while not violating at least according to the 15th amendment so final point about my intook it is argument that these issues are relevant today. citizenship. voting rights, terrorism ku klux klan was agitated to try to overturn these amendments. so you can't really understand where we're at today in the racial justice without knowing something about the reconstruction here with rewriting of the constitution. i was inspired to write this book for a number of reasons you know i've written a lot on reconstruction over the kowrgs ko

many african-americans -- in fact, 30% to 40% of the black soldiers in canada were african-americans who were like i'm not afraid of the kaiser or the western front, but i am very much afraid of the lynching pos si that just came through my town, so i'm out. and i was going to move to canada anyway. and i'm going to prove to you canada, how much i'm a fantastic new citizen by fighting in your army from the very beginning. so, once the u.s. joins the war in 1917, it tries to get those other people to m coback and fight on the american side. some say, no thank you, right? but yes, americans did fight in all of the other belligerent camps including for germany and for austria-hungary because they were there or they were from there. okay. thank you very much, folks. have a good rest of the day. i'll see you thursday. >>> weeknights this month, we're featuring american history tv programs as a preview of what's available every weekend on c-span3. tonight, mark burns explores public opinion, the rise of radio and the debate over entering world war ii. he outlines the arguments and uses rad

talking about this treatment of african-americans at home.s, just absolutely just saying i'm not on your tour. not telling everyone america's awesome when you're doing this to african-americans at home. so that's what louis armstrong could do and a that's kind of the deep meaning that these tours had for him. despite the kind of images that the kind of, the public perception had of him. they crafted him as this sim l ton. not really thinking deeply about his role on things or his music, but you can see he had a rather deep and complex understanding of what he was doing. so this is what he wanted to do. he wanted to play for the people. didn't want to be out there playing for ambassadors and their wives and things. he wanted to be playing with the people, for the people and there he is in egypt doing just that. dizzy gillespie, whose music you heard earlier, turns out he was a little more democratic than the state department. here the state department sout the is out there saying this is the image of american dmossy. this is why you guys shoul

african american serving on juries. it's going to be that is going it's going to have a profound effect on the american constitution and we are going to do reading some major cases. any questions that we discussed today? any questions? how many of you believe that congress is justified and shutting down what johnson did. when you got? were you ready to talk? what we want to say? >> of course they were justified. johnson is completely out of control. i mean he was pretty much not punishing the south for causing this intense violence and if congress hadn't done anything and even though they did he still pretty much ruined the process as he tried to curtail some of the negative impacts. >> excellent point. >> constitution about how they did not want a tyrant president and it really seems like that is what johnson was doing. it was like, i don't care what congress does, i don't care what anyone else says, this is what i think, don't worry south, i am on your side so that is completely one person taking absolute control of t

he owned hundreds of african-american slaves. this guy is a slaveowning indian fighting politician who would be cut from the jacksonian cloth. he embodied attitudes toward statehood and representation that many of the delegates in the 19th century later would. the term of service was very brief. it set a precedent for later territorial delegates. he was the very first delegate from florida. focus, it was largely internal improvement. this is the storyline that follows throughout the 19th century. he focused on a postal road from saint augustine to pensacola. like a lot of the territorial delegates, he had no committee assignments. his powers were very limited. he could introduce legislation, cajole members, lobby, but his powers on the floor were circumscribed. the story takes a turn with war with mexico in 1846. this is the first major turning point in the story and it raised questions for congress about how territories with culturally unique populations acquired from the massive mexican secessions these wake of war, how would b

so there's a higher proportion of circle cell in african-american buzz not exclusive to african-americans and africans it's not a black disease. we see similar effects when it comes to things like athleticism and you look at the begins sport with explosive energy success, which you see in sprint running. we see real differences between all people and elite levels of athleticism. sportes definitely not a level playing field in that regard and yes michael johnson almost certainly has a genetic advantage over most humans but is that unique to black people or african-american people? no, it is not. the question whether his genetic advantage is as a result of slavery, the idea being that during two or three hundred years of the slave trade in the americas, enslaved people were bred such that being strong or being fit was selective. this a scientifically testable idea that we can look at and two years ago when 29,000 african-americans had their genos scanned, not looking specifically for a superior athletic gene as michael johnson speculated but just to see if there was any evidence of natural

particularly, african-americans.he tried to slip the answer by, again, with unemployment numbers, he had two problems. one is the gentleman who was questioning him, who was so on point. he should be in the white house briefing room. i'm sorry i don't have his name. the gentleman had the immediate followup, stressing, again, what does that word again mean to you, president? and the answer. and the second problem is that president trump tried, again and again, to go back to, well, six months ago, before covid, things were rosy. but here is the reality of the numbers. the black unemployment rate, in january of this year, was 6%. that was a one and a half percentage point drop from when he took office, which is good. but it doesn't compare to the over 5 percentage point drop over president obama's, his predecessor's, eight years in office. trump may improve on that, in the future. but right now, he -- it is's puffery when he says things were the best before covid for black people in america. >> david, thank you. listen,

who worked day and night with the african-american chamber of commerce and main street launch to support the zero percent interest loan up to 50 thousand dollars. we have been striving to be specific and target communities of color and african-american small business entrepreneur community. it is so much more difficult for this community to access resources and it was important to do something in this moment that is reflective of a movement we know has been emotion for such a long time. for us to do something real, provide financial relief for the community in this ka this way ar them specifically. we are very proud to get this up and running. we look forward to applications being live so people from the african-american and black business communities to get relief. flexible terms. forgiveness up to $50,000 for

we achieved the largest job gains for african-americans on record.ncrease in homeownership. [cheering] the poverty rate for african-americans reached the lowest level ever recorded. last year, 811,000 african-americans were lifted out of poverty, the most in over 51 years. [cheering] in my first three years, we lifted 56.6 million people out of poverty, the largest reduction of any president in the history of our country. [cheering] i did more for the black community and 47 months, i don't want to ruin it, it was in the video but i will say it again. joe biden did 47 years. [cheering] in here today to announce a new plan to deliver more opportunities, more security, more fairness and more prosperity to block communities. we call it the platinum plan. [cheering] that's a contract with black americans and it will be something people talk about for a long time to come. if you vote republican for the next four years, we will create 3 million new jobs in the black community. [cheering] open 500,000 new black-owned businesses, increase access to capital an

what has changed is that african americans people who are very much concerned about the conditions of people of color and poor people in general have come together to try to make think isn a way that i going to be difficult for anyone to sort of intervene and stop the momentum. but things have gotten much worse as well. i was concerned at the time that there would be a backlash, because there were certain changes moving in the right direction and, certainly, we have experienced that backlash. the last five years have been very difficult, especially for people of color and for folk who are attempting to help turn us in another direction, in the right direction, i feel. but i think i am encouraged this time as well, because we know that the last time changes occurred because of the shooting in charleston. things are changing very quickly this time, because of a similar kind of violence, but i think it has been the response to it has been sustained for a much longer time than i had anticipated. and i was looking the other day people an image of the who are out demonstrating, who are prot

he said at one point that he has a lot of support from african-americans, when his support with african-americansnow about you, but i don't think that's great or a lot of support. he missed some opportunities to show empathy and a real connection and show there is a real race problem in america and to separate these issues between can you support black life and also support police officers, and he didn't do that tonight. >> rahm, let me bring you back into this discussion, the president on the issue of law and order kept hammering down on democrat mayors. as the foormer mayor of chicago, how does this play for voters and how do you respond? >> i would look at this and look at what cities are doing, and i think george came at the president correctly. you are the president for those cities as well, as if they're another america separate. and i think he called him appropriately on that. second is that what you have right now in the country politically is a situation that cities and suburbs have a joint political alliance on a series of issues from public safety to education to equity and funding to

. >> african americans.overty has declined to the lowest rate ever recorded. >> president trump engineer a highest up limit for the black community. -- inclusive robust growth. biden says if elected charter schools are gone. access to education is a civil right. >> a nation divided cannot stand. >> have done more than three years to the black community than joe biden has done in 47 years. >> if you have a problem figuring out whether you are for me are trump, then you ain't black. they say i'm not black if i do not vote a certain way, come on, man. we can see to israel. seed whod of -- we can israel -- we can see who israel is real. see who my president, donald trump. ♪ [no audio] [applause] >> hey. ho. god is good. this matchest he suit. i was born two and a half hours from here, knowing that i was colored. i went to college and hour and a half from here knowing that i was black. i have a home here in atlanta knowing that i'm african-american. time has changed. now i'm proud to be an american. [cheering] i

have tremendous african-american support. have probably seen it in the polls. we're doing extremely well with african-american, hispanic american. levels that you have rarely seen a republican have. if you talk about make america great, if you look at just prior to and i'm talking about for the black community. you look prior to this horrible situation coming in from china, when the virus came in. that was the probably the highest point. homeowner ship for the black community. homeowner ship, lower crime, the best jobs they ever had, highest income. best employment numbers they have had. if you want to look over many years you can go back six or seven months that was the best single moment in the history of the african-american people in this country. i think. i would say. >> your statement is make it great again. historically, the african-american experience especially in the ghettos that have been red lined. and the ghettos that have been set up and treated the way they have been. the conditions of the drugs skb guns that c

african-american leaders, listen up.avery and segregation, to secure civil rights, black heroes like harriet tubman, sojourner truth, booker t. washington, martin luther king, rosa parks, and thurgood marshall helped build the most does -- just, noble, free country. with the help of new black patriots, and there are some of them right now, we will reach new heights of glory and greatness. we are going to revitalize our cities. it is in the process. we will bring more jobs and factories back to our communities. we will give every single child a chance to reach their full god-given dental. -- potential. we will include the most inclusive community and the most inspiring future the world has ever seen and we will do that for every citizen of every background, race, religion, and creed. together, we make unbelievable onceess and achieved unimaginable success. nobody thought it was possible. your support, your vote, and your voice, the best is yet to come. [applause] this has been a great honor for me. i have a lot of friends

out, as you remember, african-americans with the idea that african americans are corrupting the vote he could they want handouts from the government. they are cutting out laborers because of the idea that organized labor also wants a handout from the government. they are not even so sure about the robber barons because they are concerned that the are switching the congress and legislators to unfairly benefit them. there is a lot of people, like susan b. anthony said, that may be should not have a say. that may be race should be taken into consideration. maybe class should be taken into consideration. maybe education should be taken into consideration. but women are good wives and mothers. rightre going to vote the ways so long as they are wives and mothers. in 1890, the year after that, and i'm just giving you the line , the national women's suffrage and american women's suffrage association merged to become the national american woman suffrage in 1890. what they do is focus on getting the suffrage. they focus on getting the vote. and this alienated the number of the people part of t

let's say shot an african-american. i'm not a racist. two sheriffs in north carolina talking about the need for basically a final solution, and then they say but we're not racist. >> right. >> and on the left, we say well as long as i'm not that, then i'm not racist. but you see we have these narratives of race that are constantly reinforced; right? they are reinforced every time you open a newspaper, go to the cinema. they are also told in private. and so we have a performance of race that we do in public for the benefit, right, because it is socially unacceptable to be racist. however, we have another conversation, we have other conversations in private. and you say things that -- i use the david chase example here when he says to his credit, he admits it, but it's also completely unaware, oh, well i grew up in a family, they weren't what you call white chic racist, but it was just a sense of that, you know, they want to take what you have, or they're this, they're that, they're this, and everyone has grown up with that. >> yeah. so i

next, we have director glen from the african american arts and cultural district. i understand the district worked with local rappers to produce a music video that we'll see at the end of this press conference. evan? >> thank you, mayor breed. we really appreciate the continued support that the city of san francisco has shown the african american community. it's been a lot of unprecedented work over the last several years, and we deeply appreciate that. my name is evan glen. i am the executive director for the african american arts and cultural district located in the bayview and third street corridor. so it was a process working with fran says zamora, the -- frances zamora, the department of emergency management, making sure the message put forth in our campaign was representative of the people in our community: our culture, the way we look, and it just resonated with our spirits and our soul, and so that's what you're going to see in bill boards across the city. we also thought it would be a good idea to put a rap together to resonate with the young people. after

strom thurmond's family added his african-american daughter's name to the list of children. so there is an african-american name, but it is not exactly the way that we we have people like the great benjamin mays or the wonderful congressman, robert smalls who made so many contributions. and children, like i said, i was a generation that worked so hard to get rid of the idea of heroes, but i changed my mind. we need role models. at least alternative role models. i don't want to tell people how to think, but how do we know they were always blacks and whites in the southern states and every state i've ever looked, at every place i have ever looked, who stood against the grain. it goes against this idea too, well, that was a different time. you will find some of the most and temp -- antiracist right people -- white people living courageous lives at that time, so what does that say about the excuse that well, that was different time? you should know better. did i go off track on you there? ms. mast: i like your comments on that too, about how the place and the why and the where a

that's why you see so many african-americans coming to the republican party.ump to actually make this issue and bring it front and center. it took donald trump to end mass incarceration which the democratic party put into place. it took donald trump to actually go against the racial disparity e in our education system given historical black colleges and universities, long-term funding, fighting for the poor black kids that don't have fathers. this is the reality in america, and i think that black people are waking up and starting to support this awe amazing president that's done more for us than any -- gerry: that's a remarkable message. thank you very much. the president widely denounces racism by the media. >>> well, just ahead, the bravery that was shown by police on 9/11 made them heros. now unbelievably, some actually might want to make them villains. when i came to the u.s., i was fifteen years old. my family was really poor. now, i've got fifty employees. when the pandemic hit, i was really scared about losing my business. but osmar, my financial adviso

african-americans leave in the power of free labor to regenerate thesouth .they hoped that some of the truly anti-confederate southern whites, the small number of truly anti-confederate southern whites like elizabeth and lou who i wrote a biography of might be allies in the freedom struggle but african-american soldiers were much more focused on the idea that deliverance meant not only the end of slavery and reunion of north and south. it meant the end of racism and they believed strongly that you would not have national security and peace unless you rewarded the truest of the south unionists read that is to say african-americans themselves with the vote is without that tool, that vulnerability to exploitation would persist. so you do see some variation if you think about the various social groups. >> our next question comes from sherry. like to know, did african-americans serve voluntarily in the confederate army ? >> .. african-americans were forced to do hard labor by confederate soldiers labor had always done labor that was meant to serve the interest of

we are listening to the community and prioritizing investments in the african-american community around housing, mental health and wellness, workforce development, economic justice, education, advocacy and accountability. as a first step in this effort, we will redirect $120 million from law enforcement to support these priorities over the next two years. let me repeat that, this is $120 million. it's a first step. if we are going to make real change, we need to do the hard work. it's going to take all of us coming together, day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year. i often talk about how i overcame poverty, despair and vince to become -- violence to become mayor. my goal with these investments and this change in how we prioritize the black community is simple. i want my story, my experience to be the norm and not the exception. i want black girls growing up today to rise not in spite of their upbringing here in the city but because of it. i want black boys growing up today to thrive because we chose how to change the city and how this country treats our young

. >> so, it was an intuition as someone who long studied african-american literature, african-american history. i intuit that integration was the real goal and because race makes no sense. because race is a construction. so, what is it? what is it that racism is all about? integration. and you go back through the record and you see that's where malcolm ends up. that's where martin ends up. that's where douglas ends up. de tocqueville writes about it in the 19th century, two ways people can go, wholly part or wholly integrate. >> that's it and then you go styling further and further back, there's a lawyer from-- a boston lawyer from the 1600's who points out and as a lot of the revolutionary thinkers point out, we can end slavery, but how do we integrate these people? and that's where everyone was stuck. where the abolitionists were stuck. you could be an abolitionist and still harbor racial feelings, negative racial stereotypes against african-americans. you be be a liberal and still build a life for yourself that segregates you and to me, integration was not assimilation, all right? b

african-american daughter about racism without our son who is 3. you know kind of joining in on the conversation he says he's very intelligent in so i can imagine the conversations that i'm going to have with him when he is getting ready to say in kindergarten and we walk him in a class on the the 1st day as african-american parents and in when we run into these things because i do have a 3rd grade son who's biracial who's run into. if you're biracial then why the you have 2 black parents and he's only in the 3rd grade in so kids are to be very observant but very cruel as wail and you know go on back to something that angela say it which was make sure that your children are educated on you know race relations in conversations because it can make an increasingly difficult situation for trans racial adoptees when they are in these classroom situations. oh i like that i'm going to my computer here and show a stat this is how long babies wait in foster care by race and after the american babies we don't ever see 39.4 months compared to white babies whi