it really begins in black churches. it begins with a black women's literary associations.the begins in black women's interventions into recent civil rights work in the free states in the north, even before we get a radical at the slavery movement. black women are developing the intellectual come the critical intellectual foundation as preachers, as with his stick at the podium, as women the right. they always have been handed by the time they get to anti-slavery organizing, they only have a critique in hand and that is the critique that says no racism, no sexism in american politics. but that's the sort of what the bar sits come that is the principle to which they will work. and it is not one that antislavery societies easily or readily embrace. it is one that fits easily with white women's ideas about what a political future might look like, women like elizabeth stanton are always working by way of a complex hierarchy that places white educated women in a different strata than black women, even those who are free and educated themselves. i don't think for black women the

—— ex—black. notion of you being black —— ex-black.sible. because it is not that i am a ex—black man but i think everybody else is white and black and that these qualities are real. these categories are real. it is that iamat categories are real. it is that i am at ex—black because i don't any longer want to participate in this racial binary that is built on the unequal interaction of europe and africa through the slave trade in the new world. but if i may, sorry to interrupt, this is interesting because what you are trying to do is put all of the agency for the way you relate to the world in your own hands. but surely, the whole point of black lives matter, of all of the debate we see today about race, is race is not something that you can define for yourself, it is the way you are perceived and defined by others. and frankly for you, yes, you live in france but you are still an american man and you have an influential voice now thanks to your writing but you know when you go back home to the united states, you will be perceived still

all black people? most are not criminals let alone career criminals. most black people are not drug addicts and most black people are not poor in this country. but it is the black outlaw, the criminal, the drug dealer is not any time soon and some people feel good about themselves it's a way of carrying about the black community when they don't represent the black community. >> because of the history of white supremacy one of the cultures is a deep sense of identity and ultimately that can be blamed largely on how that has been through american history. it's fairly natural to have a sense of identity but is it deeply unhealthy reaction? and it gives a mental incentive and that is what is behind the tendency it's not so much that george floyd is representing black america and someone that would counterfeit bills but because he was a victim of police brutality and that victim is very deep seated in the black american consciousness. >> when you hear words like systemic racism brought up in this discussion

they join with the white writers and start attacking black people. 46 black men, five black women are raped. the union army troops have to be called into restore order. a few months later in new orleans, the constitutional convention meets to discuss reconstruction and radical republicans are asking that they consider black rates or what lincoln had written to michael hassan, the governor of louisiana. consider giving blackmon the right to vote. what happens here? there is an attack by racist mob on the convention, on the constitutional convention. and in the end, 34 blacks and three white radical republicans are killed. the union army has to again be called in to restore order because local law enforcement joins in and start attacking black schools, black communities. i'm the union army general arrives and says, it is a massacre. they are just massacring people. this evokes a huge reaction in the north. people are thinking, wait a minute. did we just fight a war for four or five years? them there was a lot of loss of life. and we are back to square one? this is not peace. these issue

black person. why do this sort of worst performers among blacks each represent all black people? most black people are not criminals, let alone career criminals. most black people are not drug addict. those black people are not poor in this country. yet it's the sort of outlaw, black outlaw, the criminal, the drug dealer and so forth that gets to represent blackness in america. i find that very troubling but i don't see it in think anytime soon. it seems to be something, and you spoke about some people feeling sort of good about themselves, that this is a way of caring about the black unity when, in fact, these individuals don't really represent the black community. >> yeah, well, i think because of the history of white supremacy going back to slavery, one of the features of black american culture is a deep sense of identity via victimhood. ultimately that can be blamed largely on how entrenched racism is the route american history. that when you beat people that for hundreds of years it's fairly n

, or who were believed to be black, or believed themselves to be black.nd he and my mother taught me that race is not something that is biologically real — we see physical contradictions all of the time around us — but it is something that is socially constructed and real because we make it so as a society. so my mother and my father were pretty clear that my brother and i were black men in this world and we needed to understand how to move that way in the world and we also needed to be proud of that. so actually, in my mixed family, i had a relatively uncomplicated sense myself as black. yeah. i am interested in that, because i know you — for a while, you were into rap culture and sort of popular black culture and then you decided that that was a very restricting, unsatisfactory sort of framework to express your identity and your blackness within, so you moved on from that, but nonetheless, i am very taken with something that you wrote as recently as 2012, when you were reflecting on the age of barack obama and the white house and you said "mixed race bl

why can't we, why isn't culture, black behavior, black attitude, black habit towards police, towards law enforcement, why isn't that allowed to be part of the conversation? why can we talk about black homicides that don't involve police like the ones ralph was describing which was the overwhelming majority of them so why is it so difficult to have an honest discussion about the role of the black culture is plain here when it comes to incarceration rates, crime rates and so forth. >> that is the biggest elephant in the room. >> yeah, so, many people are extremely uncomfortable and you can feel the temperature of your own body almost driving as you utter the phrase black culture. but, if you lower the temperature and think about it and what is important to discu discuss, every group has a particular history of particular culture that has shaped by that history and if cultures were all the same, you know, we won't haven't a word for multicultural. and so you know the difference between how many americans seem to view black people and white people is that white people are in this group o

we are not gung ho about black officers just because they are black. we are gung ho about professional police officers, and that is that we are asking for patrolling our neighborhoods. house passedthe legislation when it comes to certain police practices, we saw not passing, we saw an executive order. solution legislative as far as practices by police? i think legislation is good, i think if it has teeth there is a level of accountability. i think it is the on legislation, it is about how human beings react. we all have biases. racism is theof ability to affect systems that can systematically destroye. we have a few black people in the country who are powerful. none of them together with all of their money have the power to affect systems that can systematically destroy white people. i'm going to push back on the black people being racist thing because i don't think he has that level of power in this country. but i do believe policies are necessary, i do believe if you're a politician, right now, 92% of black people believe there is a problem with poli

so moving on to the politics of writing a black history in particular and how we know the black women's role of organizing is critical because our work has the man of our own raise if we were fighting alongside so this is one of the many cases where history is so instructive as they are fighting for male suffrage as well as fighting for white women's rights and suffrage and then to be sidelined as people were marginalized with churches and antislavery movements and then you have the illuminating passage that james was reporting on the women's suffrage blamed black women for introducing the color question and you told her that was not the rights of color and all together to introduce this question and said black women's not be seeking to aspire to the level of their own class to take a black woman's place. in fact you write about to use that in a metaphorical way when black women were an actual slavery and to talk about sojourner truth push back and said iam women's rights. but what's fascinating about that is we clearly see today black women still see themselves fighting off racism and

black people. she is also the cofounder of an organization for women's activism. she is strategy director for the domestic workers alliance. she also hosts a politics and pop culture podcast called "lady don't take no." you have like seven jobs, that is seven full-time jobs were working at any time. we are thrilled you joined us today. thank you so much. >> thank you for having me. >> let's start by talking about how this summer has been. obviously, as one of the cofounders of the black lives matter movement, you have been centering some of the issues, all of the issues really, that have taken even a bigger place front and center stage in national politics, the national conversation, more generally. what has -- how do you feel 3, looking ater the political landscape today versus how you felt at the beginning of summer, early june? >> while, it does feel like time is not a construct, but ever flowing. i'll say that in the beginning of the summer, we saw unprecedented rebellions spread not just acros

[cheering] open 500,000 new black-owned businesses, increase access to capital and black communitieslion. [cheering] this includes investing in community development, financial institutions, and minority depository institutions. and safereaceful urban neighborhoods with the highest standards of, and you know this of policing. standards.e highest we want the highest standards of policing. bring even greater fairness to the justice system. we did criminal justice reform, we remember that. even greater. we will create a national clemency project to right wrongful prosecutions and pardon individuals who have reformed their lives. you saw alice, right? we love alice. she had another 24 years ago, can you believe it? twenty-two years, yet another 24 years to go. it was ridiculous and she is a great woman. create a lot of opportunity for -- a ladder of opportunity for african-american children by delivering school choice to every parent in america. [applause] give black churches the ability to compete for federal resources for their communities, bring better and tailored healthcare to addre

but they try to restrict black rights and black freedom and put black people to asclose a state to slavery as possible. and several of these were egregious. the mississippi black code was probably the worst. they enacted vagueerance eed v saying if a black person is found not working for someone, he can be arrested and fined. in order to pay his fine, he's released to a plantation to work for a planter. if a black person is tilling his own land or is self-employed, he's defined as a vagrant. they vase black people to enter into year-long contracts to work in plantations. so get to sort of commandeer black labor the way they had under slavery. enticement laws, meaning if i have signed a contract with a black person for his labor, if another person comes to him and offers him more money to work for him, he can't do it. that's a that is a criminal offense. that is enticing my laborer. now is that the free market? wage labor? that is not how it works, right. would you work for the guy who pays you the most. but that is not allowed. to oppressing. and apprenticeship laws. it was seen as a nice

i know i'm black. no, i say that for reason because i understand being pulled over by police because i'm driving. i understand some of these roles and i am not compromising black man. i will never compromise my black this and i'm proud to be a black man. [cheering and applause] i will fight for black people as long as i can. here is the deal. when i met him he touched me with strong, you know, i'm donald j trump and he wasn't timid. then i stood by his daughter and it was time to pray and i say let me test it again. we were holding hands and she reached out for my hand and said let's pray. she was pregnant and i will never forget it and she held my hand and i say a racist man's child would never -- [applause] so i got several reasons why i will support him and i'm ready to take whatever heat because it can't be hot enough because the furnace is in my favor. [applause] i believe in righteousness and justice and i don't believe in fighting for justice alone but there must be righteous and i believe in fi

officers, black teachers, black prime ministers and i thought, "actually, policing can be my callingven some family call you a sell—out? absolutely. if you ever want to reduce a christmas card list by 90%, join the met. be a black young men and joining them at. i was called judas, a sell—out, i said, i don't think i've sold out. i said very clearly, i'm a black man who happens to be a cop. so that means i integrate into the organisation with my beliefs and values. i'm not going to assimilate into norms and values of the culture. it's a long time now since you did that training, the police school in hendon, and then as a young beat officer, you joined the police on the streets of london. how painful is it now, as you've done in the book, and as you probably will have to do with me, to recall some of the racism that you experienced? i'm not thinking racism from people on the streets, but i'm thinking of racism inside your own team. 0h, absolutely. i would get monkey noises on the radio, i even remember a massive n—word in upper case on my locker. it's in a secure area, so it couldn't b

to be blacks the next always let's start by discussing black black chain summit being held on line this weekend i understand maximizers going to be a part of it the theme is global black survival elaborate on the theme parents house who'll be speaking aside from max kaiser we got to grace that populous we have john perkins we have i say exact quote and say look our roasts. 70 days we have made. like. experts in folks very much in best time and it's far as there is space up the deep blotching. decisions the right really comes out of work john talked about a life get the economy and the fact that we need to let recent technology like 'd as special cyber be seen so many young people come up likewise that are you know what does that really mean to bed assess that going forward you have to actually look at the way we actually see how we can change yet john perkins that's a fascinating choice you know he of course wrote the book confessions of an economic hitman talking about how the cia america's intelligence organization goes to different countries and takes them over economically and when

people, i love you, i love us, all lives matter, black lives matter. that continues today. tonight alicia garzer and chris jackson will discuss resistance and resilience and how they ground the work in the vision, every day people are powerful enough to end practices that are unfairly holding black people back and harming our country and we champion solutions that move us forward. in the last few weeks we held -- help 6 million people take action for racial justice, both an important conversation. chris jackson, one world editor in chief will kick us off. >> thank you very much for being here with us. can't imagine who i would rather be talking to tonight. alicia garzer, one of our country's most powerful who can speak particularly well at this moment. i want to thank color change for working with us on this project tonight and people who have been so active in getting it organized. to take a short moment of silence for the tens of thousands of people who we lost in this pandemic we are undergoing, disproportionately black, disproportionately brown, di

to the movement of black lives, a coalition of more than 150 black led organizations. hundreds of individual hosts who have come together over the last ave or six years to build movement that can transform the rules that have been rigged against our communities for a very long time. the breathe act is a pivotal milestone in this movement's trajectory. whatks us to reconsider safety, wellness, and dignity looks like. i would say it is this generation's version of the civil rights act. it is an identification of where it is we need to divest our resources from, and where we need to invest resources into in order to achieve the goals we have laid out. so one of the things i feel really proud of in relationship to this piece of legislation is for so many years, people would say things like "what is the solution?" "what do we need to do about it?" now here we are. we have proposed this very comprehensive way to address public safety, but also, community wellness, which essentially involves divesting from the punishment economy and investing into a caring economy that takes

the black futures lab and the black future action fund is all about making black communities powerful in politics so we can be powerful in the rest of our lives. so much of building power for black communities involves listening to and engaging black communities, and trusting that black folks can be the heroes in our own stories. that we actually don't need to wait for somebody to come and save us. so much of the story of our liberation struggle is centered around unique individuals who we assume had superhuman qualities, like martin luther king or like malcolm x. i think what we found is that, frankly, some of the most profound changes in this country have come from regular people who were sick and tired of being sick and tired. and what we are doing at the black futures lab is organizing the seney lou hamers of this country to help us lead in the process of changing rules rigged against our communities for generations, of being new governance structures in this country to help determine how resources are distributed, how economies and democracy function, and to make sure none of our

[cheering] >> if you have a problem to figure it out, you ain't black. >> if i'm not black for voting certain way, come on, man. we don't have to be told how to vote. we can see who's real. >> instead of letting washington changes, we are changing washington. >> my president, your president, our president, donald trump. [applause] >> hey. ho. god is good. this matchest he suit. i was born two and a half hours from here, knowing that i was colored. i went to college and hour and a half from here knowing that i was black. i have a home here in atlanta knowing that i'm african-american. time has changed. now i'm proud to be an american. [cheering] i played football in the 1980's in new york city. i met a young man i thought was very brass. i learned that he loved his family. he loved his country and he , so i remember telling a reporter from the new york times that this guy could be present of the united states in 1985. because he loved america, but i guarantee you can't find that in the archives today. but i have always known he is different because he became the 45th president of the u

again, with black lives matter seen this synergy that exists where people are now saying yes, black lives must matter and we will tell you why, look at the tape. we are on the eve of another 48, 50 days before the election so what we do think are some of the policy takeaways that we need from this. i know that congress recently has passed the anti- lynching bill which allows us to really condemn modern-day lynching. i know there is also a bill right now that is before the house which is around the racial disparities in healthcare and diana presley is one of the cosponsors of that which is all around making sure that there is antiracism research when it comes to health. i don't know, mignon clyburn, i think rashawn there needs to be some type of takeaway around the explicit use of these types of video devices for the administration of justice. i like to hear from each of you what you think are some of the policy takeaways so that we are not just having these conversations around having something in your pocket to record something back so what can we do to be a real change are real takeaway

to black america. some people are saying in order to turn out, senator harris, i need to know what you're going to do for me. what do i get in return for my vote? how do you respond to that? senator harris: that's absolutely right. people have a right to have their vote earned. nobody should be saying to anybody, especially to our folks, that you're supposed to vote for us. that's insulting. we need to earn the vote. and so let's talk about the economic piece. and i'm not going to even go into the fact that by the way donald trump refuses to say black lives matter. and joe biden has said it. but let's put that aside. in terms of the proactive, right, earning the vote. one of the things that is very important to joe biden and certainly to all of us is that we understand, you know, you talk about criminal justice, we've got to reimagine public safety and how we achieve it. and here's what i mean. if you go into any upper middle class neighborhood in america, you will not see the kind of police presence y

to be blacks the next always let's start by discussing black black chain summit being held on line this weekend i understand maximizers going to be a part of it the theme is global black survival elaborate on the theme parents house who'll be speaking aside from max kaiser we got to grace that populous we have job. we have i say exact quote and say well. how many days we have a major thing. like. experts in so keep it very much the best time and it's far as there is space up the the blotching. decisions the right really comes out of the work john talked about a life and get the economy and the fact that we need to let recent technology like . special cyber scene so many young people come up likewise that are you know what does that really need to get assessed that going forward you have to actually look at the way we actually see how we can change yet john perkins that's a fascinating choice you know he of course wrote the book confessions of an economic hitman talking about how the cia america's intelligence organization goes to different countries and takes them over economic player w

king, black america lost some black leaders. with the shift to politics in corporate america, is this a positive change in the right direction? mr. baldwin: i'm not sure what they mean by corporate america, and what that has to do with human freedom or democracy. a change in the right direction, i think the future is not as simple as americans would like to think. i am not convinced a machine will resolve many problems. we have to confront that but i think if we do not share the earth, we are going to blow it up. i think we have to rethink everything we think is true now, because it will not be true tomorrow. a future that is coherent and safe, but the moral choice we have yet to make does not guarantee anyone in this room has a future. the only way we can accommodate ourselves to that create our re-create our to vocabulary, which includes the human race. we are all at the mercy of the european vision of the world and that vision is obsolete. what is the proper role of the black politician today in american society? mr. baldwin:

black women as well.that has changed for you. so talk about the fact in the era of the hiv-aids, aids epidemic will read as beautifully as you would that you said that the reading of which was performed at your high school around matthew shepard's death who was viciously murdered in laramie wyoming. and you talk about the fact as i was walking to the dusty hallway to the assembly hall when the truth collided can being black can get you killed being gay can get you killed and a black a boy is a death wish if you're lucky one day it will become part of a new project. but it also feels like what we have lived with one reason or another. so did this give you a sense in this current moment that isn't the only path for the future generation on - - generation of black boys will think of death before they should be? >>guest: i think there is the possibility to be different when i am struck by is i woke up this morning and forgive me i cannot recall her name but i read about the black trans woman just in the last

president with brother brock obama black president black attorney general black homeland security black mayors and they still can't stop the police from killing young black brothers or sisters be honest. floyd's. brother gardner still got substantive issues are not being addressed and that in the substantive issues have to do with a predatory capitalism system they have to do it a militarism abroad that takes $0.53 a baby discretionary dollar spent in washington to go to military and you only have $0.47 left and then even there you've got austerity programs the neo liberals say we don't have any money but all when it's time to go to war in afghanistan when it's time to overthrow. the ruler in libya against that he would still have a right to rule without us overthrowing him and so we've been dropping a drone the only innocent people in yemen and somalia and afghanistan and pakistan it's all we got big money for that was trying to bail out wall street federal reserve done bell out not just main street they could have bailed out community banks they could have built a whole host about the

felony offense in the bollen tears state the associated press reports that in a direct response to black lives matter protesters who took up camp and part of the state's capitol building over the summer tennessee's new law are now states that those who illegally camp on state property would now face a class felony punishable by up to 6 years in prison rather than a misdemeanor and as a cherry on top right in time for this year's controversial lections an important elections and any protester convicted of this new felony crime would effectively lose their right to vote you see felony convictions in tennessee and in many other states across the country often result in the revoke ation of a person's most basic right here in the united states of america and that is our right to vote to take part in our government in response to this new law the tennessee executive director of the a.c.l.u. heavy weinberg said quote we are very disappointed in governor lee's decision to sign this bill which chills free speech undermines criminal justice reform and fails to address the very issue. as of racial

we talked in this last hour a lot about the black community, black voters, black women, when we lookto white voters, white community, white people, their responsibility in this moment, get a couple words to people who are wondering, you've got a system that does everything it can to save black lives don't matter if we want to say black lives matter what's the role for white people? >> there so many people who support black lives matter but don't support tearing down the confederate monuments and don't support defunding the police, which people need to understand what that means. that doesn't mean the donald trump commercials have not made it like Ãbit's rethinking public safety. allocating those funds to other people. i think people need to ask themselves, what does black lighters mean Ãbblack lives matter mean to you? it's like people say they think racism is showing up walking around in skinhead attire. we know that's not all it means. i think when white people show up as allies it's not just showing up to the march. it's not just putting the blm sticker in your window. he is chewi

but when there is black on black crime, where is black lives matter? where is the protesting? the black people up in arms when our sons kill our o ther sons? black on black crime. i really do appreciate the last comments which you just made, and i think we all need to focus on it. it is not just when police officers shoot black males in the back, it is also when our own son shoot our own son in the back. please, please, pay attention to that. let's stay focused on i think the real problem, it is just a violence in general. host: we will leave it there and let our guest respond. guest: i actually think he is spot on. all lives should matter. when you talk about black lives matter, americans are in this together. whether you want to respect it or not, the bottom line is you cannot escape whatever befalls america befalls you. we have to honor and protect all lives, all circumstances. that is the human experiment, that is the moral society that we must engage ourselves in. say because somebody is white they cannot understand a young black kid dying for no reason in chicago and con

you ask for black voters while dehumanizing and criminalizing the very black americans who would cast them, all while anyone paying attention has seen the violent es escalators supp you. you dismantled an ballpaobama e program because you think you're special, the chosen one, the best president since lincoln. and you want to have it both ways. you use black folks fighting for our very lives as fodder to scare your white base enough that they'll forget your myriad failures and then you turn around and try to court those very black voters all while your administration sends uniformed forces to confront us with violence in our own communities. mr. president, i'm going to tell you something that you should have been told many decades ago. your delusions of grandeur are just that, delusions. and come november you'll be in for a rude awakening because americans can see both sides of your two-faced approach to so-called law and order, and we can't wait for you to finally be on the receiving end of the kind of real justice your administration has not been visiting on peaceful protesters and t

black hair was part of the civil rights e.r. ray with the black is beautiful civil rights movement.'s progress in breaking down the stigma which hopefully leads to the day that letting our hair exist doesn't lead to a political statement. as soon as i had a baby froe, i could walk down the street without someone saying sister queen, i see you're starting a revolution. hey, man, i'm just going to whole foods. what are you talking about? that's the messed up history of black hair in america. that's an overview. the rest is angela davis' 'fro. next time, remember, when it comes to black hair, look but don't touch or copy. put the conditioner in and oil, black people. don't let me catch around with you walking around with your hair dry. it looks ashy. >> trevor: that's a great tip, dulce, thank you for that. when we come back, i'll talk to the man who is called "the intellectual in air jordans." mychal denzel smith is comi treo "the daily social distancing show. so earlier today, i spoke with "new york times" best-selling author mychal denzel smith. we talked about his new book where he

are the roots you it is you have the black lives matter you have. supposes from both sides so this is about it was and is right now on. what you see in a lot and to be as bad or permits and i said all. people that's got rights are fighting against people with rights so they're split makes this that much more special because they're fighting fire with fire. is this is i mean if you haven't been hit to experience it is hard to even like i said before it's hard to fathom. i guess it is this is just that is just a crazy when you're on the ice trance do you cannot do you get the feeling america is becoming more divided or do you get the feeling people are coming together behind you know fighting racial inequality and fighting for racial justice what's your feeling. being i think like a lot of matter though the slogan assumptions of the bar. so are to see that there's a. mob. might mean there's that you would expect to see the church as their stand and you don't. so they're taken there are. the black wire matters has basically taken their own side because

of black people. and in that coalition we suddenly again feel less alone, less helpless, and we feel more powerful. when we feel powerful we take risks that wouldn't necessarily 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 some of the changes it, fundamentally requires connections and relationships. >> 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. even the people would hang out over the stoops and claim their pots, you feel like you're not alone and that is the beginning of i think that since what you said like feeling like there's some real power in this, it's not just my feeling. it's a feeling and we can do something with this feeling. it's powerful. that brings me to my next question is how do we do something with that feeling. first of all, going back to your renisha mcbride store,

black lives matter started by three black women, primarily interacting on facebook, communicating with each other. now it's turn sbood an international movement. the way that the movement for black lives has been able to use social media is something that's unprecedented. let's go back five or six years ago after michael brown was killed, so many others who weren't fortunate to have a hash tag is that the level of public support at that time was significantly low. people were trying to figure out black lives matter. it kind of reminds me of what's happening now over the slogan defund the police. i'm curious to see how that evolves over the next decade, but the movement for black lives matter has increased over a short period of time because people affiliated with the movement have figured out how to usual social media and social media algorithms. part of what happened with george floyd and ahmaud arbery and breonna floyd and others, the algorithm has uploaded additional videos that shows what happened to george floyd is not isolated,that instead it's part of a broader pattern of system

her the black candidates that oh she's black so she's one of.s but in many cases didn't pay to bring the in so they were trying to jump on the bandwagon and the white women were like we brought her in so we can schedule. her i just had to hide until the two got together and settled their disagreements. i will tell you very funny story. i remember when i went to tallahassee, all these cars in the airport to meet me, they must have been, maybe about 50 cars. white women, black women, a few black men, and it was exciting time, pedal their lack carson, everything and then the plane landed, and i got off the plant in with my two aides, the black community and the white community rushed to -- to take me off to the rally and while they were taking me, while they were taking me to their car. she's one of us, she is a sister, i found this tiny white man, i don't think he was even five foot tall and he was screaming and laughing and he had on this hat. chisolm for president. it felt like he was in the world on his own and i went over to him and i said tha

predominately black u.s. counties are experiencing a threefold higher coping $1000.00 infection rate than predominantly white counties blacks feel face significant hurdles and access to voting rights and president trump and the republicans assault on the post office is just another lever and full scale voter disenfranchisement and even though many businesses have suffered due to code 19 black businesses were hit the hardest the national bureau of economic research found that we want percent of black owned businesses that's $444000.00 enterprises have been up and compared to just 17 percent of white owned businesses . black folks bore the brunt of america scores of racism for generations but it's shocking how many whites are just now waking up to the blatant inequities for a while blacks and several groups of well meaning supporters challenging the status quo are protesting in the street the truck ministration his supporters are labeling them as anarchists and people un-american and i'm patriotic we're clearly

a few black men. it was an exciting time. and the plane landed and i got off the plane with my two aides. the black community and the white community rushed to meet me to put me in a waiting car to take me off to the rally and while they were taking me to their car, the black community, she is one of us. she's a sister. and they were arguing and i looked over, and i saw this tiny white man. and he was standing and he was grinning and laughing and he had on his hat. chisholm for president. he was in a world all of his own. and i went over to him and i said thank you so much. can i get into your car and you take me to the rally and they will stop fighting and fussing. and he said -- i said, does it move? he said, yes. he was so excited. the moment i got into his car, all of the raucous outbursts stopped and they got in their car trying to follow that car. i'll never forget that so long as long as i live. >> how many delegate votes did you get at the conviction? >> 158 votes. most of them came from the s

of black people. in that coalition, we suddenly, again feel less alone, less helpless, and more powerful. when we feel powerful we take risks that we would not necessarily take alone. but the very nucleus of being able to go from why is this happening to me, too i'm willing to be somebody who changes that, fundamentally requires connections and relationship. stu and that is so interesting. and it feels so true. yesterday was watching what was going on from a distance. very different than being in the middle of it. and feeling that energy. even the people who would hang out over their stupid and clean their pots, it's like you are not alone. i think that is the beginning of that sense of what you said feeling like there is some real power, it's not just my feelings. it's a feeling. and you can do something with this feeling, it is powerful. and i guess that brings me to it my next question. how do we do something with that feeling? how do we first back to your initial story, you all had to consider wha