the issue of looking up black people for years, destroying black communities and lack families and black and original -- generational wealth. joe biden was the architect of the 1998 crime bill and the unfair crack cocaine sentencing that also led to mass incarceration for black people. this is a man who has not been on the side of the black community when it comes to law and justice. matter of fact, charlamagne tha god said joe biden was at the line of incarceration. you compare that a president trump, who was a champion for criminal justice reform and sought to undo the damage done by the 1998 till. joe biden had ample time to be a champion and fight for the black community. he has been in office for 44 years and sent several -- spent several months in his basement in delaware. president trump, the record is clear on his leadership as a relates to the black community on education, the economy, and most important, on the issue of justice and criminal justice reform. facts will be the guide to educate any mind on the left or right, but especially those who consider themselves to be democr

that is where the term black on black crime came from. what people now are talking about black on white crime. it is a distraction. the reality is that police departments as they are designed operate in ways that penalize black people for being black. there also statistics that confirm that black and white youth commit the same crimes at the same rate and black youth are disproportionately arrested and penalized and otherwise criminalized. are very early. we can look at public education throughout this country, where data that came out of the department of justice and the department of education confirms that black male students are disproportionately disciplined and expelled at more than twice the rate of their white male counterparts. one thing that is often not discussed because people like to talk about statistics around black men who have been targeted through the history of our country is that the rate is six times higher for black girls. there are policies that have been designed, often by white people, by elected officials, princi

black troops began to hate black prejudice and discrimination as they never hated it before. they had been transformed by their overseas experience and become new men. filled with the desire to escape from their race and country, he wrote, they were filled with a bitter, dogged determination, never to give up the fight for negro equality. make no mistake, dubois suggested, a radical spirit has been born in france, which leaves us older radicals far behind. dubois spoke of the emergence of what would be coming to be known as the new negro. the new negro movement rooted in the racial identity of people in communities throughout the united states and the large african diaspora, more broadly, was a product of domestic upheavals in world war i and its aftermath. i know logically diverse, the ideologically diverse, the movement was characterized by a racial pride and embracement collective organization, and a renewed commitment to self-defense against white racial violence. the new negro, unlike the old negro of the past, had no fear. we can point to many factors, international rev

youth black young people and black children. i want to bring in paolo who is a black. and she feels it's very important that canadians get out and protest. inequality this is what she told us early on the street. black was matter and had like racism protest in canada are incredibly important and necessary but canadians have been here for generations and it's time for other canadians to stand with us in solidarity in this movement to fight injustice i'm currently not protesting because i don't have the capacity to do so but i am an artist and i'm creating our work to spread awareness i'm circulating resources online and i'm donating to flyers and organizations that support black lives matter when i am able to does and i know you hate that comparison between the u.s. and the king and candidates like oh canada is us light and it has its own issues so when we talking about these protests this sense of let us talk about race and let's be honest about it right now we still mood in the country appetite to have that conversation what's

person they want one black abyss and one black cat. a lot of black people you know in this area they like to stick to what we call projects which is free housing the student going to work and paying their bills and taxes that might then support a family they didn't know what free housing which the government here actually gives there. and they give their what they call the stamps where they feed their families and they don't have to worry that maybe even their lives are built for them so the majority i would say 95 for seen in their lives in the projects of this black community they don't work and they sit there for money and they're selling drugs seized the children teenagers you know younger my kids and then are already addicted they ruin their lives in the community there's always a high crime rate robbery people's houses being broken deal where they're keeping them in jail or they're specially doing it to elderly white people kicking their doors knowing that they can defend themselves. breaking a lot of white women and they're doin

brutalizing black people and you know i'm going out into the world as a black person and at this protest and sort of how can i ensure that it's known that i am a journalist. but as we see in recent weeks being a journalist does not make you immune to being harassed by police and also sort of just being able to. capture the moment and speak to people and sort of share why are there out there especially during this pandemic but also you know answering some questions that you know folks in the newsroom i have or not like so it's sort of. what questions well questions to the needs you know. so it's sort of like you know in news meetings were kind of thinking about a deer as it's like quincy you know what is this sound like you know. for instance this past week i had to kind of it seemed like a story was forming about maybe doing a profile of. old who also went viral for singing a few years ago and said we cannot have a headline story. saying. that's not what the protesters are asking for those are things that. he's kind of steering them in in a in a direction where you felt this way it's a b

attucks' prominence among black and white abolitionists grew during the civil war, as black men donned blue uniforms and risked their lives to preserve the union and dismantle american slavery. so he's widely known in the 18th century, and received considerable attention through the reconstruction era. tion of theon -- erec attucks monument in the boston commons in 1988, also sometimes -- in 1888, also sometimes referred to as the boston massacre monument, was the most publicly visible honor attucks received up to that time. it was also a turning point. while the monument was erected with black and white support, it also drew a lot of criticism from conservative bostonians. leaders of the boston historical society mounted a position, declaring that the proposed monument was a waste of the public's money, maintaining that these men were rioters, not patriots. attucks in particular, because the famous mulatto was a rowdy person, killed while engaged in the defiance of law. a few years later, one longtime bostonian referred to attucks as , half-negro rowdy who should've been strangled the

people is just that black skin just black people being in control and best going to turn the place into a ghetto and always white flight. any protection at all when you have the president of the united states encouraging law enforcement to brutalize people that comes out on. so we have 0 protection they can come and blow our brains out at any given time and we can't really do anything actually america is the only country in the world where you can kill people outside of war and legally get away with it you can't kill nobody you know of the country and get away with it you can't do that in north korea you can't do it in russia you can't just go and kill somebody and then just walk away in and in get acquitted how can you be the beacon of democracy how can you be the gate keeper of the world and you have that rule. you know the media out here always try to call me a leader a black lives matter especially the people at fox news they were real good at telling me that a lot of people consider myself a leader because you know prison where i can be hard and i can't do anything about it yet so

so it criminalize blackness. it wasn't that blacks were criminals, it criminalized blackness.sucked them into the criminal justice system with the added bonus so you get them sucked into the system to get the convict labor system happening with the added bonus that you also strip them of their voting rights. so after, we've got over 100 years the moles 150 years or so. you get this mass mobilization happening in florida of people ballot initiative, amendment 4 that feeds the inherent injustice and permanent felony disfranchisement. the way that it had run in florida was that there is the permanent you had to wait seven years after you have finished your term your sentence before you could even petition the governor's commission to get your voting rights back. the commission didn't meet all the time it met four times a year. when you have 1.7 million people this is designed not to work. there's a way you can design structures to work and away you can design structures to not work. i think it was the newspaper in tampa or palm beach account number which one, they did a study and

bank there was a bank and the black community was in a black and going to leave it was a big that the black community were leaving on their own zen and you know the story the whole the faintest clue did you know they are a well the community just looted and it's the same story over and over again you know somehow we get taken and because we have. rights or we don't have it he said that all or some guy gets off with the money that restoring someone else that day's over it's a beautiful day that they don't really have a life perhaps to get on and to get out of this. titanic that would shine upon society at this moment and it's time to rebuilt and with the schools it is a compass it will it is ours and it has a sense of ownership and you know that's that's pretty much the only way i can see forward so as as as one does this idea catches on its longest as i promote it i think it's just going to be you know greater in the black community as this is the financial system if you think it back to 1968 of course i was all i was around i was watching may allege picks and we had that some and all

to further devalue black neighborhoods, black assets? >> is going to clearly be credit tightening and of the folks that really do need credit, black folks. let's suspend or not look at credit scores for a period and let's not punish people for going into debt. after the last recession you saw black businesses not survive at a higher rate because they had to go into step because they didn't have the wealth that other folks had. all businesses are struggling at this point but if you don't have wealth going on you are going to go into debt very quickly so i have been pushing that we've got to figure out how to get lines of credit to people or businesses that have businesses in devalued areas. another study my colleague jonathan rockwell and i did we examined businesses in black communities and use data from across the country comparing black neighborhoods in white neighborhoods for spending power, we control for education and a lot of other variables like in the housing report and what we found was businesses owned by people of color and bl

of the movement also black after black after black and that has got a lot of people affiliated with black lives movement rather upset because this is not just a throwaway hashtag black lives matter it's not just a way to show support is actually a way to exchange information to share what's going on to show what's happening and black lives movement people are saying please we appreciate the thought but if you're going to do this but keep it to black out tuesday and keep black lies matter out of the way so don't use the hash tag black lives matter black lives today there's a very strong economic component in fact economic goal for this particular movement have activists been trying to deal with that well quite literally getting online lots of internet people going out there and saying fix this fix the issue we almost all the posts that we went through today in our research just people are out there commenting on pages we can see. here just showing commenting in the bottom of instagram post please remove this tag please remove black lives matter tags you can see this here for example

from the black press and black civil rights organizations, and it also contained black officers. the war department established an officer's camp in des moines, iowa, which opened on june 15, 1917. over 600 cadets received officer commissions. there would be approximately 1200 black officers who would ultimately be commissioned throughout the duration of the war. the 92nd division, what dubois would later characterize in his words as the storm center concerning black combat troops, had a trying experience. the various regimens of the division trained at separate facilities in the united states, preventing cohesiveness and a sense of collective identity. in france, white soldiers and officers spread rumors that the men of the division were habitual rapists and threats to white french women. black officers were particularly attacked. as potent representatives of black manhood and authority, they were constantly demeaned by their superiors and disrespected without regard to their rank. the division's own white commanders labeled black officers as worthless, inefficient, untrustworth

that is the black community and i would like to see a challenge from you to see how many in the black community can put their names on the side of the building coming out of this. and we're really going to reshape and reform the way that we do this, issue that challenge because that's what we need more now than ever and we need it to be focused on the black community and not for people coming in and gentrify areas that are generally ours. >> and you don't need closed police departments. >> no, we need the police, but if you take and look at what happened in ferguson because ferguson is like where black lives matter came out and i ain't going to say it was born because people will fight about that, but when you go back and look at ferguson, the doj did a report on ferguson and what came out of that report was that the mayor's office was using the police force as a taxation unit. so they were forcing interactions between police and the citizens as a way for them to raise money and bring money into the mayor's office, that was causing over-policing, so it's not the fault of the police no

when you say black lives matter, i'm black. regardless of what else i am, i am black. >> hey, there. i'm joshua johnson, this is "pride and protest." a conversation for a turning point in american history. social justice warrior had become something of an insult. now it seems that millions of us are eager to enlist. how did that happen? the killing of george floyd was a flashpoint that united americans like never before. people from many walks of life warned their elected leaders, no justice, no peace. the movement for racial justice and for lgbtq rights, 2020 marks 50 years since new york's first gay liberation day march, after the stonewall riots. people could have been fired from their jobs if they got outed. now the supreme court says that kind of discrimination is illegal, based on a law based on racial discrimination. but when it comes to the fight for equality, we are and always have been directly connected to one another's progress. who laid the groundwork for stonewall? trans women of color were among the prime targets

black trans nationalism. he should revolution and michelle obama's treatment in the american media among others. join me in welcoming to a as, mitch kachun. (applause) >> thank you. good evening everyone. i want to thank you all for coming out tonight. braving whatever you might have to face in this interesting time we are living in. i'm so pleased and honored to talk with you this evening about my book first martyr of liberty: crispus attucks in american memory. i want to thank kayla, and all of the staff at the american antiquarian society. i am truly honored to be invited to make this presentation at one of the premiere historical institutions of the nation. it is worth noting that over the next several years, we're all going to be hearing a lot about various events commemorating the american revolution. especially here in massachusetts, where so many of instances took place. the boston massacre it's considered by many to be one of the earliest events of the beginning of true revolutionary thinking in the

sleeping while black, breonna taylor. jogging while black, armaud arbery. the names are too numerous to mention, but those tragedies are of what we cosm confront in our communities on a daily basis. want to have a discussion about where we go from here. is ressional black caucus working hard to put forth the egislative package to respond andhe moment that we are in to finally bring some accountability and change to the which our communities and every other community is police america.n this is a phenomenon that has been with us year after year, century ter decade, after century. i was struck by the fact and i opening observations that i talked to my youngest son the other day who brought me the video of george floyd being on a minneapolis out and d wanted to go protest, which as a concerned had hesitations about but knew it was the right thing o allow him to do, this young teenage african-american boy. i had to remind him of certain things, make sure he has his he is harassed or mishandled in an inappropriate fashion use restraint, even if it's disrespectfu

race and the black nation. it afforded them the opportunity to remain connected to their discipline, racial camaraderie, and sense of manhood that many black servicemen valued during their experience in the war. with dreams of freedom, democracy, they supposedly fought and labored for during the war vivid in their minds, like veterans, whether it was the messenger or the unia, represented the advanced guard of a movement to attack and challenge white supremacy. black soldiers stand at the core of the new negro movement. without centering and appreciating their experiences and significance, our understanding of this pivotal era in history will remain incomplete. at a time when we seem to be facing many of the same challenges that black people confronted nearly a century ago, let us remember that the struggle for democracy has never ceased, that the new negro has never died, and that black people have always and will continue to fight back. thank you for your time. [applause] >> as always, we are going to open up

that black women struggled to decode. in 1862, congress approved the terms of freeing just over 3000 enslaved people in the nation's capital. the abolishment of slavery in washington legally set in motion the emancipation process, making the violation of the emancipation act a felony and incentivizing compliance with the new order due compensation for each enslaved person freed. slaveholders applying for compensation were offered a specific amount of money determined by assessed value of each enslaved person, which at times exceeded $300 allotted by the measure. the shift away from chattel slavery and property disputes that ensued disrupted the social fabric of the chesapeake. black women were ready for the possibilities, but legislators remained unsure as they cautiously entertained the prospect of emancipation with broader implications in mind. so, vignette one, the board of commissioners. on may 29, 1862, an enslaved girl named maria submitted a petition for her freedom. although the slaveholder applied for compensatio

instead of knowing black people and black culture, you've got white folks interacting with black peopleey're making contact with e.t. "hello, my friend. do your people shake hands?" >> "nah, (bleep) coronavirus." and it's because millions of white americans don't have the first clue of how to interact with their black coworkers or to just be normal around them that black people in corporate america have to spend an inordinate amount of time making white people feel comfortable. >> for those of us who have been in corporate america, we have to be able to exist, and not only exist, but to really thrive in two totally different cultures, this idea of double consciousness. >> our blackness isn't accepted in a lot of spaces that are critical for our success. >> intelligence is often linked to whiteness, so black people are often encouraged in professional settings to use a-- quote, unquote-- "white voice," a.k.a. "code-switch." >> i turn it on. i have to be my best un-authentic self in order for me to relate to my white peers. and i have to make sure that i can talk about subjects that relat

it's about black lives in black humanity. abouts case it's really universal rights and universal humanity, but through the lens of black people. we have to understand that if we achieve black dignity and citizenship it will be for everyone. cause.our i agree that we have to move steps and concrete terms, holding people accountable. and is 11 days of marching we have to hold our structures accountable and move towards racial justice. it's the work of a generation but we can achieve it. host: since you brought up drew brees i have to ask, doesn't drew brees have the right to think and say what he wants? guest: he has every right. we have the right to educate brother brees. we have the right to save not about the flag, it's about black lives bleeding for democracy since before the founding of the republic. we cannot live in the united states of amnesia, we cannot allow white denial, white fragility to not talk about our lives and our reality. based oneality is white supremacy. how many black soldiers came back from different flo

blacks and whites and others are saying black lives matter we're still saying to the nation treat us with dignity and respect and like the human beings that we are and tragically are not getting any relief yet now up there we may have turned a corner with the tragic killing of george clooney and what i mean by that is we've had individuals marching in cities and towns or a few years now but this one incident yaba now as all 50 states have been demonstrations ran all over the world they have been demonstrations and the demonstrations are not just blacks and a few whites many of them oh well mainly white and so something of it's almost like a light went off in the hands of people to say this is wrong this is unjust this is immoral this is not who we are we have a president united states and i'm i'm i'm wondering what you think about president trump when he sang you know basically will will sic dogs on them if they cross the fence in the white house we will deploy the military we will shoot if there's looting there will be shooting. this sounds reminiscent indeed of the time your father

if black lives matter, that means black business matters. that means that black scholars matter. that means that people -- black business owners having contracts on the city level. across the board we have to be precise and specific. >> congresswoman, i work for a private company. you work for the public. police work for the tax payers. police serve at the mercy of tax payers. it's something for some reason police and their unions are having difficulty understanding. they are public servants. >> absolutely. what i would say about that is that we cannot allow the narrative of the defund movement to be corrupted. we're talking about the investment of community. there has been targeted hate, hurt and harm put on black communities. legislated. it's about the divestment in meeting the basic needs of community. i'm not new to this issue. i served on the boston city council for eight years. it's why i voted down three budgets because i was not going to put more school police in our schools rather than school nurses. these are the sorts of unjust choices that are being made in municipali

black people and black women especially elected him and we know that and come november, guess what, black women in this country are organizers of the black community, black men and women working in the coalitions with other progressive organizations we know how to lead and put people together with common interest so that's what it's going to take. i want to thank you for telling the truth and for your buck. [inaudible] often times people ask me and i know they ask you how do you feel about this as a black woman and i say lock we've been dealing with this and still we rise. we don't get depressed or beaten down. we understand what we have to do to make the country stronger so you have illustrated how we just keep going. nobody told me about the world was easy. after you've laid out all of this because people ask me all the time how do you withstand this constantly. we look at the murder rate of young black men in the community. you look at covid-19 and social workers in governing the country back up and once we put them at risk, you look at every aspect of this country and we are still fig

with over 300 black owned businesses known as black wall street. in main 1921 the whole 35 block neighborhood was obliterated by a white mob triggered by a false rumor that a black man had raped a white girl homes businesses schools and churches were burned and by and over 100 people died. while a massacre after another in a sort of rolled across the country all of these riots where thousands of black people were killed if you study history you see that this is been a continuous. a continuous assault on black people we we think there is a giant. and we think it needs to be met because i think it is a just response to america's history my family's. you know status and wealth as as has been has benefited from from their choice to enslave people the total number is staggering of whites who owned at least one black body you know it would have at least half at least half the states well probably a good white population i actually met recently the descent descendants of one of the people my family enslaved and found out that i had actually known this thi

women that have been killed black trans women that i think you know you know black queer women that have been killed because everything is there so now it's like say his name what his name has been said over and over and over to the point you don't have any worries right now 3 weeks ago it woman an interesting list later died in police custody and people are not i talk about this every day because i just don't understand why nobody is saying talking about this or are mentioned he said that she's not getting the colorful cartoons she's not getting the means for instagram but yet and this is not to disparage the black men but they found a case from last year a young boy eliza who is now be a memorial eyes and i'm like priscilla just died 3 weeks ago why didn't she get the flower that's why did briana taylor get a star studded televised memorial service they don't know what he articulated it wasn't even if i mean let me just bring in joe johns joe johns he's a transmetal she's an actress an activist she spoke to us a little bit earlier because rudy talking about a marginalized group of

speaker, i, like every parent of black child remind my black boys, my sons to be careful. ut your hand in plain sight if approached by an officer. don't move suddenly when being questioned by the police. to ask for permission before reaching for your wallet respond to police rudeness with respect. i do that because i don't want anyone's black child to be harmed by the use of excessive force. i don't want them to be the police-involved shooting. they're good boys and too many too many good men, black men living in america have ied at the hands of police in america. so today, mr. speaker, i rise to say enough. endured too much and the congress has done too little. so today, mr. speaker, i rise of the justice in policing act. i thank my colleagues on the congressional black caucus, and present, who have worked on these issues for far too long. thank house leadership for bringing the bill to the floor so we can once and for all bring that has the injustice inflicted by those who we look justice. first line of mr. speaker, systemic racism our society and the criminal system fro

men as heads of the household before black mothers. reminiscent of the plantation, the courts often reinforced white power and paternalism to decide the fate of black families. although the labors of all household members were critical to the subsistence of families in the 19th century, local justices often refused to acknowledge the rights of black parents to protect the labor of their children. the judges at orphans court supported apprenticeship, as parents searched for children, attempted to claim guardianship rights, and faced threats and intimidation from former owners. in many instances, slaveholders hoped to entice parents to remain on the farm by withholding the children. as a result, black women sometimes took matters into their own hands in order to retrieve their children from the grips of planter exploitation a life where their families can enjoy the fruits of their own labors. jane kemper, a former bondwoman who belonged to william townsend of talbert county reportedly told mr. townsend, "of my having become free and desi

shopping while black, george floyd. black, breonna taylor. black, ahmaud arbery. are too numerous to mention. but those tragedies are a microcosm of what we confront in our communities on a daily basis. and we want to have a discussion about where we go from here. congressional lack caucus is working hard to put forth the legislative package to respond to the moment that we are in and to finally bring some accountability and change to the manner in which our communities and every other community in -- is policed in america. this is a phenomena that has been with us year after year, decade after decade, century after century. that,struck by the fact as i conclude my opening observations, that i talk to my youngest sun the other day who brought me the video of george floyd being assassinated the minneapolis street, and wanted to go out and protest, which as a concerned father i had hesitations about, new it was the right thing to allow him to do, this young teenage african-american boy. i had to remind him of certain things. make sure he has his school id. if he is

black lives matter means defund the police. got that? black lives matter means defund the police.that's what black lives matter means. no one really explains that. now we know with intel and pepsi and amazon are supporting when they send money. defunding the police. suddenly it feels like all the adults have gone to saint barth's and turned off their cell phones. who was running this country? who's in charge? anyone? yet amazingly, some republicans in washington seem giddy as they watch the country go insane. democrats have gone too far this time, they will tell you. we are guaranteed to win in november. probably gotten text to of that affect recently from friends. sounds good, but they are wrong. they are totally and completely wrong on many levels. but one thing if you care about a country, you've got to try. you have an obligation to try your very best to protect and defend it no matter who is helped in november. that's what patriotism is. not about you, it's about america. even as a matter of peer politics, this is a mindless analysis, a stupid calculation. bad ideas are like

hole just a pipeline where black producers can become executives that where black content creators can have their film on your platform. when you see your eat your ego seeing state that's what we find out how many people who are in your diversity inclusion division who what is your number of minority so contractors that you're working with so you have to get into the real some of that work is very easy to write a check when you're a multibillion dollar company and then write it off as a charitable donation all your taxes quite frankly i want to know what the changes you're making will in your corporation that will allow african-americans to get their finally get their 'd equal representation that the company you know you can buy your way out of you know show us and start doing rather than just trying to support cut checks i mean that's really what we want to see from everybody across the board robert thank you so much brittney lee lewis thank you so much for starting this conversation off with us today always a pleasure. thank you. all right as we go to break remember that you can also

men were arrested for being black at a starbucks as we always thought they were only about black lives matter when it's convenient lucky for starbucks so it's not taking all the heat as other companies also suffer from selective memory fashion powerhouses i secretly prada tweeted how how sickened and somehow did they work by inequality and how they were companies ethics which could be seen as full suffered ties in given that if you google though you might stumble across words like child labor best rotation black face as the vogue obviously the most influential fashion magazine well now it's promoting voices and brands in the black community which probably came as quite a surprise to the publication brazil director who recently celebrated her 50th birthday with own problematic slave themed party the world of big tech is also massively promoting black lives matter not on to amazon then you'll be welcomed by the movement banner and jeff bezos is publicly naming and shaming customers who send him mean e-mails because of the company's starts which would be a full proof plan to boost your po

no black owners in the nfl. michael bennet said to me, he and his brother once, to very conscious former nfl players from an word for lease. so i see that in the importance to what you bring to the table to be part of our sports dialogue. >> the way you view that means you look at that dynamic as far as players, i thought about lack of lack executives. but the players inside. there's nobody in the nfl to say let's not do this because of this. i wasn't even thinking about the ownership because just from the executive standpoints, somebody using provocative terms, sit down as a equal or partner or a voice or voices to say the commissioner and all the other executives in the business model that we call the nfl, we need to at least think about this because this is how it will affect this. rethink this. let's not treat this violence as an aside because maybe you've got somebody looking for the side effects. the role we are playing, others making decisions, not just the nfl. the impact nfl has and how people and what

on black crime.to the george floyd funeral, used a funeral to launch a campaign speech attacking donald trump, i don't see al sharpton in chicago, that 3-year-old kid who was killed, you know why because it's not profitable. there's no money to be made. and this narrative which is, again, i have the credibility. attack me. as a civil rights attorney i know there may be one or 2% of bad cops, but 98% are great and when you talk about chicago, you talk about atlanta, you talk about washington d.c. and l.a., this big lie of systemic discrimination, how can you have systemic discrimination in chicago when the leadership is minority. i know what systemic discrimination is. it does not exist, but yet this is the narrative that the black lives leadership. trace, the democratic leadership, systemic discrimination. it doesn't exist. this is not 1960. this is 2020. i, an african american on your show. it's not like it was 50 years ago but black lives matter and the democratic leadership wants you to think it's

of black people. and in that coalition we suddenly i can feel less alone, less helpless, and we feel more powerful. when we feel powerful we take risks that we witness a show take a loan. but the very nucleus of being able to go from why is this happening to me, too i'm willing to be someone who changes it, fundamentally requires connections and relationships. >> that's so interesting and it feels so true. i was out at a march yesterday and sort of watching what's going on, like from a distance, very different from being in the middle of it, and feeling that energy can even to people who would hang out over the stoops and clang their pots. you feel a sense like you're not alone and that is the beginning of a think that since of like you said feeling like there's some real power in this, it's not just my feeling. it's the feeling that his network out and that we can do something with this feeling. it's powerful. i guess that brings me to my next question, how do we do something with that feeling? first

when they put on a black face and different black stereotypes. >> because it is a stereotype and it's a character, right, it's not a complex person, but you have the good black and the bad black and even when it's the good black like the aunt jemima or uncle ben's character, that's still insidious which you argue no better than the bad stereotype. >> right, they end up being two sides of the same coin and i think these benign images can seriously repress the deeper implications and a lot of times, people have continued to be in denial about the ways that these images can be linked to certain microaggressions against blacks. would anyone want to have anything around that made fun of them? that sort of thing, or be the butt of the joke? so these images take us back to some of those problematic dynamics. i think that is obvious when we look at images like, they're obviously cringe worthy, and so the box on the breakfast table seems a bit more innocent but when we take a second look, we realize it has problematic implications. >> all right. we have a question coming in from one of our fac