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the black vote by speaking to black interests. he said we would be better off if there were more black republicans. the problem is that most of us don't want to be republicans, including me, he said. [laughter] i'm quoting him. there you have it. after both reconstructions, severe economic inequities remained. most of the black population after the first reconstruction remained poor, rural, agricultural laborers. today the picture is better, but it's still a case that one-third of the african-american population is mired in deep poverty. there was more of an attempt to address that in the 1960s but we haven't made a lot of headway. now, i made the argument at the beginning that the gains of the second reconstruction have proved more lasting this time. i mean, after all, if we say we're talking about the '50s and '60s, if we say 1965 the high watermark of the civil rights movement how many years have passed is in then, about 50 years. after 50 years there's been no rolling back, for example, of the right of blacks to vote. in many
the black vote by speaking to black interests. he said we would be better off if there were more black republicans. the problem is that most of us don't want to be republicans, including me, he said. [laughter] i'm quoting him. there you have it. after both reconstructions, severe economic inequities remained. most of the black population after the first reconstruction remained poor, rural, agricultural laborers. today the picture is better, but it's still a case that one-third of the...
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if you have a black school with a black principal and black faculty even if resources aren't what they should be and white people aren't paying attention to what's going on there because they don't really care, you that have ability in that school to teach all kinds of things that ultimately are going to become useful in the fight for equality. in a way that you wouldn't if white people were running everything. so there's a way in which the segregators dug their own grave. remember the montgomery bus boycotts. alabama state college. joann gibson robinson was a professor there. she ran off those flyers calling for the boycott on the alabama state campus. the sit in movement was conducted by college students emanating from black colleges from across the south. the segregators had created the infrastructure if you want, that black folk would use to attack segregation. is now, i'm talking about the lasting gains of the second reconstruction. let me issue a few caveats. the first place -- now i have to preface this by saying i don't mean any of this in a partisan way. i'll be talking about
if you have a black school with a black principal and black faculty even if resources aren't what they should be and white people aren't paying attention to what's going on there because they don't really care, you that have ability in that school to teach all kinds of things that ultimately are going to become useful in the fight for equality. in a way that you wouldn't if white people were running everything. so there's a way in which the segregators dug their own grave. remember the...
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now it is black. white mayor, white police chief, anything important is white. >> gregory's uniquely placed to provide historical perspective. he was shot in the leg in the 1965 los angeles watts riots, but he has not used violence to project his message. he has used comedy. he was a headline performer. >> when america goes to war they don't send no comics. they accepted folk who can barely read and write. >> at 81 years old, and father to ten, dick gregory reflects on his past and the legacy his children will inherit. we spoke in washington, d.c. >> you got into the civil rights struggle early on. could you have imagined, had i whispered into the ears of your 20-something-year-old self that six decades later we would till be having these arguments? >> let me answer it this way. 120 years ago if you were at a meeting and one day horses would be obsolete. we're the only group of people who have had to struggle through divisions that we've went through, and we offer education over liberation. george was
now it is black. white mayor, white police chief, anything important is white. >> gregory's uniquely placed to provide historical perspective. he was shot in the leg in the 1965 los angeles watts riots, but he has not used violence to project his message. he has used comedy. he was a headline performer. >> when america goes to war they don't send no comics. they accepted folk who can barely read and write. >> at 81 years old, and father to ten, dick gregory reflects on his...
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the white players, black players.hey wanted to do -- white ballplayers weren't paid like they're paid today. they needed the money. you could be a heck of a player and you're making $5,000 a year. that's better than the average person but we often forget jackie robinson signed for $5,000 a year, his original contract. i mean, there are going to be very few like babe ruth, you know, in his heyday in 1929 when he made that famous contract of, what was it,$80,000. more than the president of the united states. herbert hoover made $59,000. they said, how do you feel, you're making more than the president? he said, i had a better year than the president. but like the mega salaries today. it's just -- doesn't even equate. but robinson gets the credit. and one of the interesting things in my conversation with sharon robinson, i didn't even get to finish the question. i started to ask her, i said, do you think, looking at your father's life, that the integration of baseball -- and she just cut me off. she said, yes, i think th
the white players, black players.hey wanted to do -- white ballplayers weren't paid like they're paid today. they needed the money. you could be a heck of a player and you're making $5,000 a year. that's better than the average person but we often forget jackie robinson signed for $5,000 a year, his original contract. i mean, there are going to be very few like babe ruth, you know, in his heyday in 1929 when he made that famous contract of, what was it,$80,000. more than the president of the...
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black voters. the largest number of black virginians attended public schools for the first time with black teachers at the hoed of the class. african-americans could be found in the treasury department, pensions bureau, and other state offices. reconstruction came to virginia, not at the hands of meddling yankees but as the result of the actions of one of their own, and mahone paid a hefty price for it. former virginia comrades who fought with mahone at the crater, including david wisager, turned on their former commander, comparing him to john brown and benedict arnold. his detractors questioned whether he was even present at the crater or gave the order for the charge that many believe saved the day for the confederate army. the irony of all of this was not lost on prominent black readjuster and petersburg resident robert a. paul. they who had fought on the feied of blood and labors in the arena of politics to deprive the colored man of his constitutional rights now proclaimed that colored men sh
black voters. the largest number of black virginians attended public schools for the first time with black teachers at the hoed of the class. african-americans could be found in the treasury department, pensions bureau, and other state offices. reconstruction came to virginia, not at the hands of meddling yankees but as the result of the actions of one of their own, and mahone paid a hefty price for it. former virginia comrades who fought with mahone at the crater, including david wisager,...
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there simply are more black mayors; there simply are more black representatives in the u.s. house; there... depending on how you measure the senate, there have been more black senators, and now there's been a black president. which means that we will have to not always think of ourselves as the outsiders, but sometimes as the insiders who are controlling the access, and we'll have to necessarily shed out own privileges in ways that we have often asked white americans to do. >> hinojosa: do you think that there is that kind of conscious understanding of "we have privilege and we have to share"? >> oh, no, because i think at this point, the focus group is still always white americans who have just vastly more resources and privileges, that it feels as though what we're doing is simply competing. you know, that there's just one piece of pie for all the blacks and browns, and all the blacks and browns must compete for that piece of pie. and what we have to recognize is, one, that the pie, like love, can grow. it is expansive; we can... >> hinojosa: oh, i love that! "the pie, lik
there simply are more black mayors; there simply are more black representatives in the u.s. house; there... depending on how you measure the senate, there have been more black senators, and now there's been a black president. which means that we will have to not always think of ourselves as the outsiders, but sometimes as the insiders who are controlling the access, and we'll have to necessarily shed out own privileges in ways that we have often asked white americans to do. >> hinojosa:...
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what did black power mean? well black power according to carmichael meant radical social, cultural, political and ethical ratification. dr. king said don't use there term black power because people are equating that term with violence. carmichael says the decision to release black power was a collective decision and black people need to define political and social funonmes for themselves. it is minteresting now. we talk about ferguson and the politics and the police brutality. but the black people stokely carmichael was concerned about were the poorest of the poor. it wasn't just students even though he was concerned about students. it wasn't elites. it was the poorest of the poor because they were designed right and citizenship and closed out of democracy. king and carmichael's ship is close between 1966 and king's death april 4th, 1968. in the course of doing research on stokely's life his anti-war activism was fascinating to me. this person who is one of the people who inspired dr. king to come out against t
what did black power mean? well black power according to carmichael meant radical social, cultural, political and ethical ratification. dr. king said don't use there term black power because people are equating that term with violence. carmichael says the decision to release black power was a collective decision and black people need to define political and social funonmes for themselves. it is minteresting now. we talk about ferguson and the politics and the police brutality. but the black...
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or black.our students need to know the story. why does martin luther king matter in what is john lewis and representative clyburn matter but clyburn matter but why did ferguson have been? they need to have an understanding of everything from racial slavery to the movement for citizenship and voting rights in this country. we can do that by organizing on our campuses, teach-ins. we had teach-ins against the vietnam war in the 1960s. we can do teach-ins for racial and economic justice and black equality in the 21st century. so we can do a lot and i think the key of this is education but also dialogue. black and whites in this country and latinos are not speaking to each other. we need to have a dialogue with each other that's not about accusation but that's rooted in reality. where we have today and why are so many black people in jail? what about immigration? why are so many black people poor? why did ferguson happen and if we have that dialogue and we can collect that dialogue to a push for pub
or black.our students need to know the story. why does martin luther king matter in what is john lewis and representative clyburn matter but clyburn matter but why did ferguson have been? they need to have an understanding of everything from racial slavery to the movement for citizenship and voting rights in this country. we can do that by organizing on our campuses, teach-ins. we had teach-ins against the vietnam war in the 1960s. we can do teach-ins for racial and economic justice and black...
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admiral coburn sought to replace many of his white marines with black recruits. "they are stronger men and more trustworthy, for we are sure they will not dessert whereas i am sorry to say that we have many instances of our marines walking over to the enemy." and promoting slave escape seemed the perfect turnabout to punish the americans to entice americans to dessert from their duty. and so it is the desertion problem that is one of those things that nudges these naval officers to embrace blacks as essential allies in the chesapeake war. to perform more effectively, the british needed more men. now, they have a second problem. they need better knowledge of the landscape. and hereto, the solution to their problem lies with runaway slaves pressing themselves on the british during growing numbers during 1813. now, they are under pretty strict orders not to take in a significant number of refugees. these orders were renewed in march of 1813 by the british secretary of state forewarned the colonies. but despite these orders, black men, women, and children are stealin
admiral coburn sought to replace many of his white marines with black recruits. "they are stronger men and more trustworthy, for we are sure they will not dessert whereas i am sorry to say that we have many instances of our marines walking over to the enemy." and promoting slave escape seemed the perfect turnabout to punish the americans to entice americans to dessert from their duty. and so it is the desertion problem that is one of those things that nudges these naval officers to...
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men, it is an issue about black boys, it is an issue about black women and black girls. my god, two days after the shooting of mike brown, police shot and killed in phoenix, arizona michelle couseau who was 50 years old, mentally disabled, had a hammer in her hand and they decided to shoot her 20 times. the community was so disgusted that 300 people marched with her casket and took it to the city hall and put it in the middle of the rotunda in the lobby. let's be very clear that everywhere in this country black people are rising up. that we are standing up and saying no more killings of our people but we need, we need these systematic and institutional reforms. we need to dig deep and fight to make sure that the change happens. that i'm not sitting here on the panel next year talking about the latest people they shot and killed. no. my brothers and sisters we can stop this by getting the racial guidance passed. by getting the funding taken away from the departments that have histories and clearly are engaging in police brutality. we can change this by making all of the p
men, it is an issue about black boys, it is an issue about black women and black girls. my god, two days after the shooting of mike brown, police shot and killed in phoenix, arizona michelle couseau who was 50 years old, mentally disabled, had a hammer in her hand and they decided to shoot her 20 times. the community was so disgusted that 300 people marched with her casket and took it to the city hall and put it in the middle of the rotunda in the lobby. let's be very clear that everywhere in...
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than blacks and could you talk about the breakdown of the black family and the way black youths are not being raised right, causing these negative interactions with police? >> guest: i don't think i have written anything about illegal immigrants and black workers. i do believe that immigration, people who come here as immigrants, wherever you come from should be let into the country and absorbed into the body politic because it is part of that dichotomy between american values on the one hand and what really happens in the united states on the other and i do think there are economists who think there's a negative impact on jobs. not just black workers but workers generally especially in jobs that are unskilled by having more immigrants coming into the country but that has happened in every period in our history and there have always been over time adjustments and on balance it has worked out but i am aware of these tensions. as far as black families are concerned, i don't believe that what happened to michael brown happened either because he didn't have a father, because he does or
than blacks and could you talk about the breakdown of the black family and the way black youths are not being raised right, causing these negative interactions with police? >> guest: i don't think i have written anything about illegal immigrants and black workers. i do believe that immigration, people who come here as immigrants, wherever you come from should be let into the country and absorbed into the body politic because it is part of that dichotomy between american values on the one...
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.- black males >> black males, right? targeted black men so just to give you a sense of that, the women's bureau of the federal government was pushing really hard for a women's job corps, too. they are like women need to earn a living too. they finally got one but it was tiny compared to the men's job corp. it also promised to teach poor girls family responsibilities like how to be homemakers and how to be good wives and mothers. the job training offered by the war on poverty paralleled the sex segregated labor market so as one brochure offered job training for men as automechanic -- heavy equipment operator, women were offered training for secretary, hospital serviced, food services and coulds it's aide. nurses so, it is not surprising the job corps is built around the same poverty inck male particular. they rejected childcare. that was not part of this either. in fact, headstart was not at all about childcare, right? it was about this remedial education. so the new york times editorialized while mothers compose the bulk
.- black males >> black males, right? targeted black men so just to give you a sense of that, the women's bureau of the federal government was pushing really hard for a women's job corps, too. they are like women need to earn a living too. they finally got one but it was tiny compared to the men's job corp. it also promised to teach poor girls family responsibilities like how to be homemakers and how to be good wives and mothers. the job training offered by the war on poverty paralleled...
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the dance was called dancing some crowberry it was a man struck kind of black face, the way that blacks were supposedly. >> host: when did that movement in? >> guest: after reconstruction and the ending of reconstruction. we actually get laws passed the segregate on the basis of race. those a formal, legal structure to place gradually and was in place by the end of the 19th century as we go into the next century, in fact, it was in place in reality in many places. all that was was a different way to control black people below full control by slavery. and now to control them by segregation which would also mean that they were inferior >> host: back to your book many blacks felt better about the certainty of discrimination in the south and the bewildering twists and turns and the color line in the north primitive was not that the south was a land of opportunity or that race relations are better there than in the north. on the contrary, blacks prefer the soft because of a mason-dixon line in new what to expect. in the north discrimination appeared in the most unexpected places. apec was ne
the dance was called dancing some crowberry it was a man struck kind of black face, the way that blacks were supposedly. >> host: when did that movement in? >> guest: after reconstruction and the ending of reconstruction. we actually get laws passed the segregate on the basis of race. those a formal, legal structure to place gradually and was in place by the end of the 19th century as we go into the next century, in fact, it was in place in reality in many places. all that was was a...
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black and brown? this is an issue we have to deal with what's crazy about this is and i do mine crazy is that the republicans are too stuck on stupid to take advantage of that. i mean two constitwainses, black and brown who in many respects both feel marginalized and taken for granted by their party. you can't give them another option in their best interest. so what are you to do? >> why you need people like dr. king who are willing to tell the truth no matter where the chips fall, bill o'reilly, your sparring partner says african-americans need to take more responsibility about what's happening in their communities. >> there is no issue in black american that is not a tentacle of the primary issue, poverty. in america, there is a highway in to poverty but not even a sidewalk out. we disexpected from afford a.m. education and. >> talking about leadters not having people for whom to vote t made sense, martin luther king was 39 years old. jessie is in his 70s. al sharpton is almost 60. the people who we
black and brown? this is an issue we have to deal with what's crazy about this is and i do mine crazy is that the republicans are too stuck on stupid to take advantage of that. i mean two constitwainses, black and brown who in many respects both feel marginalized and taken for granted by their party. you can't give them another option in their best interest. so what are you to do? >> why you need people like dr. king who are willing to tell the truth no matter where the chips fall, bill...
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issue about black boys, it is an issue about black women and black girls.god, two days after the policeg of mike brown, phoenix,killed in couseau who was 50 years old, mentally disabled, her hand andin they decided to shoot her 20 times. the community was so disgusted marched with her casket and took it to the city hall and put it in the middle of the rotunda in the lobby. let's be very clear that country blackthis people are rising up. that we are standing up and killings of our people but we need, we need ande systematic institutional reforms. toneed to dig deep and fight make sure that the change happens. here on the sitting panel next year talking about the latest people they shot and killed. no. brothers and sisters we can raisial racialtting the guidance passed. by getting the funding taken away from the departments that have histories and clearly are brutality. police we can change this by making all of the places wear the cameras gets out.e story by having dash cams on police cars. people to keep statistics on who is being shot killed. by making sim
issue about black boys, it is an issue about black women and black girls.god, two days after the policeg of mike brown, phoenix,killed in couseau who was 50 years old, mentally disabled, her hand andin they decided to shoot her 20 times. the community was so disgusted marched with her casket and took it to the city hall and put it in the middle of the rotunda in the lobby. let's be very clear that country blackthis people are rising up. that we are standing up and killings of our people but we...
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nowhere is saver for a black man than the blackness of outer space.o be [beep] kidding me, man. >> excuse me, sir. what are you doing in this neighborhood, you live around here. >> it's space. we all live around here, sir. >> that's a expensive space helmet. you have a reset for that thing? >> actually i do. >> take that stolen helmet off. >> i need the stolen helmet to breath. i bought it. what are you talking about stolen. >> down on the ground. down on the ground. >> no ground, it's space. jon: michael do, what he says. we will send you a lawyer on the next rocket up. michael chey, everybody. we ♪ boys, can i get some help? i don't know. can you? guess you don't want doritos. ♪ [ whistles ] [ whimpers ] ♪ ha! ♪ [ crunch! ] yay! whoo-hoo. walgreens knows that heartburn sufferers can sometimes find themselves at the corner of "mmm, home cooking" and "umm, i think that's enough." that's why walgreens offers new nexium 24 hour, protection strong enough for whatever your day dishes out. walgreens makes it easy to treat frequent heartburn. with new nexiu
nowhere is saver for a black man than the blackness of outer space.o be [beep] kidding me, man. >> excuse me, sir. what are you doing in this neighborhood, you live around here. >> it's space. we all live around here, sir. >> that's a expensive space helmet. you have a reset for that thing? >> actually i do. >> take that stolen helmet off. >> i need the stolen helmet to breath. i bought it. what are you talking about stolen. >> down on the ground. down...
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nowhere is saver for a black man than the blackness of outer space. (sirens). >> you have to be [beep] kidding me, man. >> excuse me, sir. what are you doing in this neighborhood, you live around here. >> it's space. we all live around here, sir. >> that's a expensive space helmet. you have a reset for that thing? >> actually i do. >> take that stolen helmet off. >> i need the stolen helmet to breath. i bought it. what are you talking about stolen. >> down on the ground. down on the ground. >> no ground, it's space. jon: michael do, what he says. we will send you a lawyer on the next rocket up. michael chey, everybody. michael chey, everybody. we [ man ] cortana, when my wife calls remind me to tell her happy anniversary. [ cortana ] next time you talk to caroline, i'll remind you. [ siri ] oh no, i cannot do that. oh, and remind me to get roses when i'm near any flower shop. sure thing. remind you when you get to flower shop. i can't do that either. cortana, it's gonna be a great night. [ beep ] oh wow! thanks for the traffic alert. i better get goin
nowhere is saver for a black man than the blackness of outer space. (sirens). >> you have to be [beep] kidding me, man. >> excuse me, sir. what are you doing in this neighborhood, you live around here. >> it's space. we all live around here, sir. >> that's a expensive space helmet. you have a reset for that thing? >> actually i do. >> take that stolen helmet off. >> i need the stolen helmet to breath. i bought it. what are you talking about stolen....
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black supermodels and start the black girl coalition. >> the black girl's coalition was something thathelped black girls keep working. i just wanted to get the girls together to celebrate them. and i thought, my god, they don't know. know, i come up in the '60s and the '70s, i know this is rare thing. >> she held meetings and really forced designers from prada to the american designers to actually use black models. >> she became the fashion industry's go-to person when it came to discovering talent and working on projects with black models. when italian vogue's all-black issue hit the stands, everyone knew bethann had been involved. >> the dedication to something that was obvious was needed. so you have to support that because it's always like something when you see somebody wants to document and proof that this is beauty here and there's quality here and fashion doesn't end with color. >> a force to be reckoned with, she'll one day leave behind a legacy affecting young models both white and black for years to come. >> i don't think she realizes how many people she affects and what she
black supermodels and start the black girl coalition. >> the black girl's coalition was something thathelped black girls keep working. i just wanted to get the girls together to celebrate them. and i thought, my god, they don't know. know, i come up in the '60s and the '70s, i know this is rare thing. >> she held meetings and really forced designers from prada to the american designers to actually use black models. >> she became the fashion industry's go-to person when it came...
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perhaps my best friend is black.e doesn't particularly care for homosexual because they rape young men. i don't feel that i neither or racist, yet when i see a black man walking with a white girl or they are together, there is something that goes off in me and i'm a little concerned about that. what do i say to my sister? what do i say to my friend? how can i change my own mind about these things. when you think these things, have you change your own mind or anybody else's mind. thank you very much. >> guest: well, that is a very good question, actually. it is a complex one. you first realize that everybody has biases. i'm reminded that because a student in the first day of one of my classes said when another student said what you just said about this issue that you want to read about sounds like you have biases. the student responded i don't have any biases. and if i do, i can suppress them while i'm reading. and everybody else that now come you might as well face up to them. so face up to it. everyone has biases. e
perhaps my best friend is black.e doesn't particularly care for homosexual because they rape young men. i don't feel that i neither or racist, yet when i see a black man walking with a white girl or they are together, there is something that goes off in me and i'm a little concerned about that. what do i say to my sister? what do i say to my friend? how can i change my own mind about these things. when you think these things, have you change your own mind or anybody else's mind. thank you very...
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black men who owned land, grew the cash crop of the day, tobacco, and some of these black men even held paper on indentured servants who were white. for a time, the idyllic vision of an egalitarian village where all men were equal and could rise to the individual level of their accomplishment as the colonies were first envisioned, even the idea that this vision was attainable for a time but the need for cheap labor and the darwinian racial attitudes of that moment, people who believed that anybody who was not christian, who was not christian was believed to be a lesser human being, these notions, these notions combined with the attitudes and the cultural change within the colonies eroded the vision of equality and slavery at the same time as an economic system began to replace the agrarian village model with racial slavery as the end result. slavery is not ready studied in american schools today, not here at friends select, not at schools a few blocks from here like ben franklin high school. the chains, the whipings, the rapes, are deleted or even softened in most of our textbooks. the
black men who owned land, grew the cash crop of the day, tobacco, and some of these black men even held paper on indentured servants who were white. for a time, the idyllic vision of an egalitarian village where all men were equal and could rise to the individual level of their accomplishment as the colonies were first envisioned, even the idea that this vision was attainable for a time but the need for cheap labor and the darwinian racial attitudes of that moment, people who believed that...
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black man who owned the land grew the crop of the day tobacco and even some of these black man even held paper on indentured servants who were white. for a time all men were equal and could rise to their accomplishment as the colonists first envisioned, it was obtainable for a time. but people who believed that anybody who was not christian was believed to be a lesser human being, these notions, these notions combined with the attitudes and the cultural change within the colonies eroded the division of equality and slavery. at the same time it began to replace the agrarian model. slavery is not studied in american schools today. the chains, the whippings, the rapes are deleted or even softened in most of our textbooks, the passion which we see today, the passion of christ, it surprises us because we don't teach the passion of what happens in this country. it has been almost 30 years since "roots" was on network national broadcast television. history is not today part of our national popular culture. the civil war documentary by ken burns touched a nerve in this country and people watched
black man who owned the land grew the crop of the day tobacco and even some of these black man even held paper on indentured servants who were white. for a time all men were equal and could rise to their accomplishment as the colonists first envisioned, it was obtainable for a time. but people who believed that anybody who was not christian was believed to be a lesser human being, these notions, these notions combined with the attitudes and the cultural change within the colonies eroded the...
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ferguson, 67% black. 1 black city council. mayor white talking about how his city has no racial problem. the school system, everything is an example of the need for us to fight back. fight back with what we got. we got the vote. fight back with our economic power. fight back, so it's very important. the second thing is i saw that special that many people saw last night. "fix my life." and i tweeted the following, you cannot think that by preaching a gospel of personal responsibility that you can solve systemic structural racism problems. you can't. you can't. as we take on the police, there are problems with the school system in ferguson. as we take on the police, there are problems with unemployment in ferguson. as we take on all these issues, they're all related, my sisters and brothers. systemic structural racism has to be dismantled before justice will ever prevail. we got to understand that. that nobody is safe. it doesn't matter what your title, doesn't matter what your accomplishments. so going forward every single one
ferguson, 67% black. 1 black city council. mayor white talking about how his city has no racial problem. the school system, everything is an example of the need for us to fight back. fight back with what we got. we got the vote. fight back with our economic power. fight back, so it's very important. the second thing is i saw that special that many people saw last night. "fix my life." and i tweeted the following, you cannot think that by preaching a gospel of personal responsibility...
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to be black. >> and with black music and black art on the wall, there was a lot of blackness even without yes, they just were, they didn't have to wear the blackness on their sleeve. they just were. i think the issue with a lot of the way that people of color are written on television, they're written through a certain filter so they can have all of the black affectations. that's not what made cosby special. i always maintained that if you give black characters higher economic status, you give them a profession, but they act in the same stereotypical ways, you're not seeing anything different. >> i always thought it was funny that he was an obgyn. thank you for joining us. i'm going to bring in the rest of this panel when we come back. i'm talking to my "essence" colleague. take and... exhale.in... aflac! and a gentle wavelike motion... aahhh- ahhhhhh. liberate your spine, ahhh-ahhhhhh aflac! and reach, toes blossoming... not that great at yoga. yeah, but when i slipped a disk he paid my claim in just four days. ahh! four days? yep. find out how fast aflac can pay you, at aflac.com. want
to be black. >> and with black music and black art on the wall, there was a lot of blackness even without yes, they just were, they didn't have to wear the blackness on their sleeve. they just were. i think the issue with a lot of the way that people of color are written on television, they're written through a certain filter so they can have all of the black affectations. that's not what made cosby special. i always maintained that if you give black characters higher economic status, you...
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black is to be a suspect, to be black is considered to be a criminal, to be black is -- means that you're not safe in american society. and in those 1000 murders that we have catalogued, there are several things that you need to know. >> i was sucking right now, because i want to stay focused right now on data -- i want to stay focused right now. inappreciate your comments that space and about this issue in general. i would like to open it up to the rest of the panel to share any data that they believe is relevant to this discussion. anyone? summit,e seven-year this is from "usa today" and ian , the and like hill said travesty of this is that these statistics are not really kept. independent media organizations have to go and talk to the fbi and peace these things together -- and piece these things together. 2012, two times a week a white cop tilde never whitein american -- a a cop killed an african-american. of black men or black people under age 21 were the victims in these shootings appeared to 8.7% of white people. weree cases that complained about war drew media attention, of the 26,
black is to be a suspect, to be black is considered to be a criminal, to be black is -- means that you're not safe in american society. and in those 1000 murders that we have catalogued, there are several things that you need to know. >> i was sucking right now, because i want to stay focused right now on data -- i want to stay focused right now. inappreciate your comments that space and about this issue in general. i would like to open it up to the rest of the panel to share any data...
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paul laurence dunbar's poem, "mask," and my own poem, "for old black men." mr. dunbar wrote "mask" in 1892. we wear the mask that grins and lies, it shades our cheeks and hides our eyes, this debt we pay to human guile. with torn and bleeding hearts we smile, and mouth with myriad subtleties. why should the world be otherwise, in counting all our tears and sighs? nay, let them only see us, while we wear the mask. we smile, but oh my god, our tears to thee from tortured souls arise. and we sing, "hey, baby-bye," we sing, but oh, the clay is vile beneath our feet, and long the mile. but let the world think otherwise, we wear the mask! when i think about myself, i almost laugh myself to death. my life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song was spoke, i laugh so hard i almost choke when i think about myself. seventy years in these folks' world the child i works for calls me girl. i say "ha! ha! ha! yes ma'am!" for workin's sake i'm too proud to bend and too poor to break so i laugh until my stomach aches when i think about myself. my folks can mak
paul laurence dunbar's poem, "mask," and my own poem, "for old black men." mr. dunbar wrote "mask" in 1892. we wear the mask that grins and lies, it shades our cheeks and hides our eyes, this debt we pay to human guile. with torn and bleeding hearts we smile, and mouth with myriad subtleties. why should the world be otherwise, in counting all our tears and sighs? nay, let them only see us, while we wear the mask. we smile, but oh my god, our tears to thee from...
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blacks and whites voluntarily segregated themselves. blacks shouted "we want wallac e." whites shouted "down with wallace." however, everyone seemed to be about having a good time, rather than rioting. he revisited familiar themes, i agree nothing big businesses, and even finish to a round of applause. but this could not translate into votes for the progressive party movement. although southern black workers fired by wallace -- were inspired by wallace, they could not vote for him. most of those black voters cast their vote for harry truman. in fact, as the election neared, leaders in winston-salem's black community try to wean away supporters from wallace to truman. and the local union, the president of the locally organized negro club denounced their support of the progressive party. "this led union members to a terrible conclusion." the reaction to all of this, in the press, was extensive. as i said, it was mostly positive in the north. after the initial excitement, though, in north carolina, this news slipped off the front pages. as he continued on through alabama, l
blacks and whites voluntarily segregated themselves. blacks shouted "we want wallac e." whites shouted "down with wallace." however, everyone seemed to be about having a good time, rather than rioting. he revisited familiar themes, i agree nothing big businesses, and even finish to a round of applause. but this could not translate into votes for the progressive party movement. although southern black workers fired by wallace -- were inspired by wallace, they could not vote...
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>> johnny cash was the man in black. i'm the black in man. i can't remove this.w, johnny cash is a truthful cat, you know, and, you know, big fan of his. just like curtis mayfair, james brown, ms. mavis staples, ms. yvonne staples, you know, the message in music is that there's fantastic music that's behind us that is our future. and all we got to do is pay attention. >> how would you describe the project musically? what's on the project? >> 37 minutes of mind, nerve, rhyme, and community. and, you know, kind of built it around ms. mavis, you know, and the song writers and the producers, we made sure that ms. mavis has the lion's share of the song. that was just a joy. >> what do you make of the fact your career's lasted long enough that this is the way you're releasing product now as opposed to vinyl? >> well, rapstation.com, we have our own radio station, spit digital is our own aggregation system in the delivery of whatever we want to do, and we help a thousand artists at a time, and, you know, you got to make up your own rules. we don't ask for anything. it's
>> johnny cash was the man in black. i'm the black in man. i can't remove this.w, johnny cash is a truthful cat, you know, and, you know, big fan of his. just like curtis mayfair, james brown, ms. mavis staples, ms. yvonne staples, you know, the message in music is that there's fantastic music that's behind us that is our future. and all we got to do is pay attention. >> how would you describe the project musically? what's on the project? >> 37 minutes of mind, nerve, rhyme,...
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in enrollment for the black college implement for the black population. that is this enrollment has not translate into completion, far from it, a very clear example of a success example of a successor once said the pipeline does not translate to the other side. instead we see in a previous paper that like sims are over when we going to community colleges for the first choice institution it is likely to decrease their odds of college completion. next slide. you can click through the aeros. that is the racial achievement gap, a racial college, human get is will the college completion gap in texas. you see here for students six your completion rate, the difference between white and hispanics is 13.1 -- 14.1%, with black and white students 21.9% between white and black students. next slide. so within sought to examine the sensitive and will and a four year college, what is the racial and ethnic composition in key factors that influence college completion? we present three here. economic this event, academic preparation and percent minority in high school. in
in enrollment for the black college implement for the black population. that is this enrollment has not translate into completion, far from it, a very clear example of a success example of a successor once said the pipeline does not translate to the other side. instead we see in a previous paper that like sims are over when we going to community colleges for the first choice institution it is likely to decrease their odds of college completion. next slide. you can click through the aeros. that...
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there were black men before the mayflow mayflower. most people don't accept it and most don't have concept of how this country came to be. black men who owned land grew the cash crop of the day, tobacco and held paper on indentured servants who were white. the idyllic vision where all men were equal and rise to the individual level of their accomplishment as the colonies were first envisioned, even this was obtainable for time. but the need for cheap labor and the darwinian racial attitudes of that moment, people who believe who was not christian were believed to be the lesser human beings. these notions eroded the vision of equality and slavery and statement as an economic system began to replace the model with racial slavery as the end result. slavery is not really studied in american schools today, not here and not at the schools a few blocks from here like ben flank lynn high school. the chains, whippings and rapes are softened in most of the text books. the passion in which we see today in the movie today from "the passion of chr
there were black men before the mayflow mayflower. most people don't accept it and most don't have concept of how this country came to be. black men who owned land grew the cash crop of the day, tobacco and held paper on indentured servants who were white. the idyllic vision where all men were equal and rise to the individual level of their accomplishment as the colonies were first envisioned, even this was obtainable for time. but the need for cheap labor and the darwinian racial attitudes of...
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>> guest: it is a light skinned black woman. it is a street term and we comel in all complexions from blue and black to redbone being the comp lightest complexion black person that you can imagine. and so it is our way ofcribin describing, you know a lightompl complexion black person stanback what is jonin' us >> guest: it is a term that b depicts that you are joking. you hear people today call itn o so ragging. but another term is playing the of devil or you we get people together and they make fun of a each other just for fun andn it it is an art. strt that i might hone in and you y might look at mike to and say where did you get that funny looking rural and i might say look at your shoes and then you might hone in on my jacket and i would say, what about yourcutou haircut. you know? and we would go tit for tat and it draws a crowd and people would stand around to see who on could be jonin'. the if you got the best of me a someone could take you on and you would have a jonin' session. ha some will say look at that funny shirt
>> guest: it is a light skinned black woman. it is a street term and we comel in all complexions from blue and black to redbone being the comp lightest complexion black person that you can imagine. and so it is our way ofcribin describing, you know a lightompl complexion black person stanback what is jonin' us >> guest: it is a term that b depicts that you are joking. you hear people today call itn o so ragging. but another term is playing the of devil or you we get people together...
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others would be launched at the biltmore, a black hotel. this principle refusal to submit to jim crow was come and it felt -- was, in itself, and rubble. -- admirable. it had been targeted to provoke, particularly when it came to light that she had known about the policy and segregation for some time. southern papers also noted that on previous speaking tours, wallace had stayed in numerous northern hotels that imposed the same restriction. -- width of hypocrisy here southerners were very sensitive to it. one local progressive unmarked -- remarked, he made us carpetbaggers. his proclivity for germanic gestures-- dramatic ran the risk of alienating potential supervisors. it was an approach that is associated with the communists. for rebel city, it wasn't long coming. the press immediately leapt on this issue of the refusal of wallace to stay in a segregated hotel. press were always hostile to any attack on segregation. the diverted attention away from wallace's larger message of economic empowerment, and focused instead on the divisive and i
others would be launched at the biltmore, a black hotel. this principle refusal to submit to jim crow was come and it felt -- was, in itself, and rubble. -- admirable. it had been targeted to provoke, particularly when it came to light that she had known about the policy and segregation for some time. southern papers also noted that on previous speaking tours, wallace had stayed in numerous northern hotels that imposed the same restriction. -- width of hypocrisy here southerners were very...
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and then he reneges on his promise to the black soldiers. he promised them freedom and then said, sorry, you're not going to be freed because i don't really have that power. yes? >> thank you for a superb presentation. >> thank you. clifford from warrenton, virginia. i question the effectiveness of a 1,000 broadside circulation to a population that cannot read by reality, the effectiveness of their inability to read and i also question the notion that white virginians, marylanders, would discuss the circulation of this broadside to their enslaved people. can you address that? >> yes, i can. two very good questions. one is, there is much greater literacy among the slaves in this period of time than i think we've recognized. this is probably the peak period for literacy among enslaved people. a couple of reasons. one is, it's not illegal yet to teach slaves to read and write in virginia. that will become illegal in 1832. in the wake of nat turner's revolt. until then, there's an actual fair amount of teaching slaves to read and write, particul
and then he reneges on his promise to the black soldiers. he promised them freedom and then said, sorry, you're not going to be freed because i don't really have that power. yes? >> thank you for a superb presentation. >> thank you. clifford from warrenton, virginia. i question the effectiveness of a 1,000 broadside circulation to a population that cannot read by reality, the effectiveness of their inability to read and i also question the notion that white virginians, marylanders,...
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does my insurer have rights to my black box date? if not this black box, another black box? >> insurance companies have been trying to people to put modules on onboard diagnostics to possibly get discount on insurance. that black box you showed will be on every single car. it has been on a lot of cars, since 2005. 62% of the cars on the road. what is interesting that data is used when there's an accident. let's say i hit you me. you say, no, i hit you. especially if there are injuries or severe crash, they can subpoena the information. information does belong to you. the 14 states do protect you you have to read the regulations, because if you read them carefully they can subpoena them. gerri: here is other thing i'm worried about. so i make a claim on my car insurance. something happened, i need something fixed. there is a gash in the front bummer, what do we do? so the insurance company says i have to see the black box because i want to see if you're going too fast where you were supposed to be. that is a possibility as well? >> that is possibility. they haven't gotten to
does my insurer have rights to my black box date? if not this black box, another black box? >> insurance companies have been trying to people to put modules on onboard diagnostics to possibly get discount on insurance. that black box you showed will be on every single car. it has been on a lot of cars, since 2005. 62% of the cars on the road. what is interesting that data is used when there's an accident. let's say i hit you me. you say, no, i hit you. especially if there are injuries or...
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that black crime and accept an of crime by so many in the black community and glorifying criminals inf hip-hop -- terms of hip-hop hollywood commenculture. the emphasis has historicly been on family, education, self help and entrepreneurship, then all of a sudden, you see people say let's make an excuse for the gang bangers, and let's gore fi let's glorify them, and let's make it so they young black people think it is aathon ticauthentic if you alikr dress leak you just got out of jail, i am glad that sharpton is now speaking out but i apologize, i still feel he is a little late to the game. >> the truth is that the president, though of willing to divide the nation it seems to me, farther rather than seize this moment, this opportunity to again be the president of all of the people. he h had a tremendous opportuni, he shows to be devicive. >> i don't know how you see him as divisive, i thought when holder went to ferguson, i was concerned about how this ul work, he is chief law enforcement officer. you don't want him putting the finger on the scale. instead we saw was, that situation
that black crime and accept an of crime by so many in the black community and glorifying criminals inf hip-hop -- terms of hip-hop hollywood commenculture. the emphasis has historicly been on family, education, self help and entrepreneurship, then all of a sudden, you see people say let's make an excuse for the gang bangers, and let's gore fi let's glorify them, and let's make it so they young black people think it is aathon ticauthentic if you alikr dress leak you just got out of jail, i am...
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so until maryland builds a law school for its black students and builds an equal lawsuit for its black students, maryland must allow black applicants who are qualified to attend the university of maryland. houston marshall assured the trial judge we're asking you to enforce plessey versus ferguson. there's no separate school. they put on the witnesses who agreed with the simple fact is there a law school for negro students in maryland? no, there's no. thank you very much. is there a law school for white students? yes, there is. thank you. the only way to equalize them was to allow the black students into the university of maryland. until they build the law school for black students, to the shock of everyone including houston and marshall, the trial judge issued his ruling from the bench and said you're right. there's no law school for black students. the law is clear. therefore, mr. murray, you're admitted to the university of maryland law school. the appeals went through. houston and marshall prevailed. donald murray graduated from the university of maryland law school in three years
so until maryland builds a law school for its black students and builds an equal lawsuit for its black students, maryland must allow black applicants who are qualified to attend the university of maryland. houston marshall assured the trial judge we're asking you to enforce plessey versus ferguson. there's no separate school. they put on the witnesses who agreed with the simple fact is there a law school for negro students in maryland? no, there's no. thank you very much. is there a law school...