it was as black as black could get. that scared the bee gees is not only out of the confederates, white liberal people in the north, ladies and gentlemen, nobody thought always black people were going to vote. south carolina, mississippi and louisiana were majority black states. south carolina, mississippi, and louisiana were majority black states. georgia, alabama and florida were in the 30s. that was like a mini black republic and it was much too powerful, potentially powerful to allow that to stand so something had to be done. simultaneously between 1870-1877, 16 black men are elected to congress. and and and, and a constant, in 1866 and 1876 that were eight major massacres of black men, eight massive whingeings. with meridian in vicksburg and hamburg. there were lynchings in that tenure period. in the iteration, the thirteenth amendment was ratified in december of 1865, in december of 1865, parallel discourses, simultaneously during the whole period of reconstruction. and and the ballot, pass the bone of contention.

who better than black people, black skin, white eyes, black lips. look at the black, look at the white, look at the green. i mean, three or four images used over and over again in tens of thousands of these racist images. when i left the state university that day, the old songs from the 60's, what it is isn't exactly clear. literature this is the end of racism. he's going to be in mount rushmore. there were people that were pissed off, pardon my french, mr. mayor of having a black man in the white house and you saw that the most counterintuitive unlikely thing happened was donald trump succeeding barack obama and the white house in part because the alt-right rollback to -- embodiment of a black person in the white house represented. it was reconstruction. the rollback reconstruction. so i decided that i was going to change the sequence of my films and pbs and do the first major treatment of reconstruction. what is reconstruction? well, it's america's second founding. remember lincoln's new verse of freedom. the passage of the 13, 14, 15th amendments

black hoods. because it just seemed like it's time we put to bed one black supporting institution we created another, right? so supremacy still manifest, just the structures change and ideology rather changes. so that is one reason i wrote because i do find something ambitious to say to my alma mater but the other thing is i happen passion my entire life about come at a get this from a fellow come come from civil rights them in alabama, about low income black people and how they are others in society. how they are treated, not just by whites but even by middle and upper-class, sometimes, well, you get the point. i feel very passionate. i call the folks trapped in high poverty black neighborhoods descendents in recognition of the connection to slavery. they are the two descendents of slavery, and as i said in the introduction, i see them with love, and i wrote this book to humanize them and to advocate for them. >> well, sheryll, i have to say election was impressive for a five years ago, and this

ghettos, black hoods. and because it just seemed like each time we put to bed one institution, we created another. so supremacy still manifests and the structures change and the ideology around it changes. so that's what -- that is one reasons i wrote it. i had to find something ambitious to say so to the my alma mater but the other thing i have been passionate my entire life about and i guess it's for my family, comes from civil rights family in alabama about low income black people and how they are in the society, how they are treated not just white but middle and upper class blacks. well, you get the point. i feel passionate and i call the folks trapped in black neighborhoods descendants in resignation of the connection, two descendants of slavery and as i said in the introduction. i see them with love and i wrote this book to humanize them and to advocate for them. >> well, cheryl, i have to say your lecture was impressive and this book is really impressive. it is the total package, you combine histori

what they do is they start investing in black advertising agencies and black creative marketing and black market research companies. corelle corporation takes mcdonald's on and creates a series of ads that are supposed to speak to the black consumer. there's an anecdote about they tried to sell african-american consumers that you deserve a break today because it doesn't work what break in 1968 america look around. all of this is to say this is something i came to really appreciate during the research of this book. there are not a lot of african-americans on television during this time. it is a very big deal. even when i was a kid growing up in the 80s it was a really big deal to see these commercials. two seat not only actors and actresses and singers, to see black creative talents have a place to start. because producing commercials, being the backup singers, being a dancer in a commercial , this was the platform before the internet. if you spend as much time on youtube's idea, watching old mcdonald's commercials there are some really big stars to get started in these commercials. and so

among black americans in the pessimistic tradition you have black nationalists. marcus garvey, elijah muhammad, the nation of islam. in at least large faction, lack nationalists thinking. you are people who say this is a white man's country, has been from the beginning, will continue to be a white man's country. therefore, black people need to do something else. black people need to either have some sort of inward migration and develop a certain, you know, a separate identity within the united states, or leave the united states. there are plenty of black people, there is certainly been funding of efforts to leave the united states. now, where am i? where am i on this? this issue, optimism, pessimism has a a deep meaning to me because, largely because of my father. my father was a thoroughgoing pessimist, thoroughgoing pessimist. my father was born in louisiana and had a very tough upbringing. and saw many terrible things. he endured racist affronts. one of the racist affronts that i know last a scar with him had to do with the treatment of black american soldiers

learn that black people die here in custody. and that the numbers keep rising and we failed to stop us. i don't believe actually the government have learned anything more than how to hide operational deaths in custody from the world. and that's what we're trying to expose here. we need to expose globally what's happening here in australia because we resonate with people like george floyd, we resonate with those families. we resonate with, you know, various deaths in custody around the world that are going. i'm same similar issue adobe with over the stop you think about it through the was the here, the slave we're we're set free play mouses or palletized masses. they became brain. gra kilo bab, though the blacks in about 70 years run the hotel, nor tulsa, oklahoma, and rosewood, florida, the master black alive. mm. mm. when i see blanca marriage, i see part of myself, when i was growing up, black america spoke to me. when white australia did not, we all read. we are right. we are down dragon. we are denied not a little right, but

black press wasn't having it. the california eagle suspected foul play and sent reporters to the scene of the crime, naacp and the l.a. chapter also investigated the crime. as they began to investigate the crime, it became apparent that it was almost impossible for a lantern to cross that kind of explosion. here's a picture of the eagle office because the walls of the house were knocked to the ground so the lamp or lantern theory, they should doubt on this theory. now it's a long investigation process, many months of investigation and i don't have time to do to help all of it but in the aftermath of the murder, there is an elaborate cover-up of evidence that would have led to criminal conviction. the corner in his investigation refused to admit evidence that was set by vigilantes. the lantern itself so intact i supposedly blew up was not entered into the investigation and the district attorney, it became clear in the midst of this cover-up but there was also an organized resistance to the cover-up and the efforts

that is directly linked to the black migrants. absolutely for those of you who read and you know about that about the history of the great migration. transform california african-americans came from the south especially from louisiana. any fans other communities part of that great migration. and then also a part of a plan thank you so much for asking that. in previously there were no white neighborhoods. in the black families they been there for generations but many of them are migrants and not sure predict he had been in los angeles for 25 years of his recent margaretville yes absolutely. this white supremacist activity that we see, is absolutely part of that movement so thank you rated. >> so just quickly they want to know about short, he actually passed away. >> yes read oh wow, talk about leaving often important sentence in which are, sorry you select that sentence out and thank you. a few days after his family died, he was told that the hospital and his friends and supporters were trying to not tell him pretty he was in the h

the master black alive. mm mm. when i see black america, i see part of myself. when i was growing up, black america spoke to me. when white australia did not. we all read. we are writing. we are down dragon. we are denied not a liberal right, but even human right. the only way we're going to get some of this friend right nation, far away from our, for aside from us, come together against the common enemy. and black america told me to dream. i have a dream that one day, this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed. we hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created with those who say black lives matter is a movement we are importing from america. no, nothing of who we are in the room knew i came out of the same black churches as jesse jackson and martin luther king. aus was the church of the forsaken and these men were our patron saints adorned her from black america. i learned how to speak back to whiteness, automatic. ah, who shall, why was he was such a cradle in color or religion with this. don't all other ways of connect

she's black. yes, it actually is definitely black. you know. thank god people like michael sailor came into the space and politic jones and kind of crowded out all the garbage projects that the roger fairs to pick on cash. because the touchy fish and all that garbage is being pushed to the, to the, to the garbage heap where it belongs. and big coin is rising. and i go back to fatality peter and in his scam coin, you know, he's the 1st one that came up with this maximal term as a way to disparage bitcoin irs but, but it's not playing in a countries like el salvador are going hyper bitcoin is ation 42 percent of the countries now aren't big coin. they're not buying any more. the garbage cries, thank goodness. but i know it's funny. i was just in france and people are still buying the garbage. going to france, i think. and, you know, they, they have an interesting culture over there. but anyway, let's talk about all salvador 1st. second. yeah, they've gone hyper bitcoin eyes. and what do you, what do you think when the president of the kind of, of

ah, jane and mundane storage good in any black community in australia lives, black pool and in the side of the police. as a young boy chain and lost his mother and his father, he grew up on the straits in a city suit. me. like so many others got into trouble, went to juvenile detention, and ultimately to jo. ah, australia may call him a statistic. we know those numbers, we had 3 percent of the population and you the food was behind bars. that came in is noticed statistic. he's real and his friends and his family a real. and his pain is real. come back to my community and all i see is time. all i sees one haunting memories where i used to play with my friends and my brothers that i've lost, where i used to sleep with now my brothers are in prison serving shifting use like visa, we never wanted to grow up to be drug addicts and criminals we just wanted to be loved. we wanted our mom and dad to be home. we wanted to have food on the table and we wanted to be safe. and we spend the rest of our lives trying to pick the paces up and understand why we never had such a beginning like everybody

and he came to the black, black shame summit and, and participated last year. so you guys are super amazing as it relates to it. still salvatore in central america, many of our brothers and sisters have been actually using bitcoin well before the government adopted. what we see that this is a movement of the people still. and then we need to make sure that we keep as many of our people engaged in space. we're happy to see governments do things right. a broken clocks can be right at least twice. but literally, i think it's the movement of the people, the reason why. because adoptions taking place, as you know, someone who's been so early and so often telling us this is the people baby and we're going to make this thing happen. no one can stop us. the chinese, the, the u. s. government f, b i, c, i. all the alphabets in the world can stop, b, i t, c. packed and the now, now let's switch confidence head over to africa. we know that in nigeria, things are, are getting down there, taken off their happening. you know that 30 percent of the countries already on bitcoi

we have some of the undercounted black men. 40% of black men are uncounted.e by the census and the undercounting of our communities. it's par for the course, but right now it's extremely damaging, especially, as we know, as america continues to brown and darken in these newer generations, it is extremely dangerous for what it means to be black in these united states. >> w. mondale robinson, appreciate you coming on. glad to have you on the show. >>> coming up, the racial inequality in our criminal justice system isn't limited to adults. shocking new details about the disproportionate jailing of black children in one tennessee county at the midwest of a single white judge. stick with us. >>> i'm alicia menendez. ahead for us on "american voices," trumpism infiltrates the virginia governors race. the former president putting himself front and center in the hottest political race of the year. >>> as school boards face fights over masks and vaccines, you'll hear from one florida school board official who stood up and spoke out about threats facing herself and her

we think about their separate set of laws the slave codes and the black codes that govern life for black people were very different from people who are not black. it shifts what we think about in terms of criminality. who becomes a criminal. i thought it was really important to establish that women who are trying to live lives on their terms and many of the ways we would like to, were facing laws that prohibited that. and it impacted their ability to create their own lives and create a liberty for themselves. and so these illegal configurations especially once the american civil war hits and reconstruction. and so we see there interacting with the law in different ways and a different context. not is really important. if the same writing a history of african-american women and i only focus on women in a particular context i'm missing a whole different context that shapes life for them. >> thank you, thank you. thinking more about legality, criminality, doctor can you talk a little bit about the criminal act of 1866 what did it do, what didn't do? and kinda put that into perspective for u

who rejected the very notion of black equality. >> he believes that black people should not play a majorrican society. and the result is that he does some things that grant does not agree with. brett: >> johnson drove grant toward a more radical view about slavery and race, it became clear that if the north did not intervene, that southern whites would reestablish some form of serddom. brett: grant agrowed with radical republicans in congress who pushed for abolition and equal rights. no state would be allowed back in the union unless it gave blacks citizenship and equal protection under the law, congress imposed martial law on the south, giving grant power, but made his balancing act trickier. >> grant's role as commander general to oversee the military reconstruction. he did not engage in open conflict with andrew johnson, but it was more difficult for him. brett: johnson wanted federal troops out of the south even as violent escalated against african-americans, just one example, a night raid in memphis burned churches and schools. washington was a buzz with speculation that johnson mi

this movement is growing and black, the black community, as with so many of these other movement, is definitely playing as role. and we're going to continue and not be distracted. yeah, i mean look, this is an institutional racism. and this is why supremacy right here by misstating the facts, to favor the minority white population. so i hear you got a situation right now where as i said, for years big coin is the ultimate emancipation because it's on confiscate of all right. it's on confiscated, property whitey can confiscated sinclair. no, absolutely and, and i don't know what a p was doing slavery during a reconstruction, but i'm sure they went right in great articles about how we need to be liberated. so when i expecting them to change, now we got to be the change that we're looking for. and big coin is that to that. so many more people are using every day and we can't be stopped. all right, now the black block chain summit just wrapped up that howard university in washington, dc. big success there while were some of the big themes. well, the biggest things we're talking about, ho

why is it that black women, the numbers don't add up. why are black women being left behind?atches a cold, black people catch the flu, right? so the reason for this -- and it's not about education, right, because black women are one of the most educated demographics in america, but it is about, like when we see the economy shrink, the people who get the choices to lay off people and to hire people, they make those choices based on how they've always made those choices, so if the black unemployment historically since the 1930s have been twice the white unemployment rate. then when people lay off, black people are laid off at twice the rate of white people. when people are hired, white people are hired at twice -- it's just a mad problem that reflects the racial dynamics of economics in america since the 1930s, 90 years, and that's just since we've been counting but it's really always been that way. what we're seeing is this disparity play itself out in a pandemic. >> yeah, and jeff, look, i mean, it's not that much better for latina women and when you look at the unemployment