by black people. the currently fashionable standoffishness concerning black relationships to the american project, for instance, the new york times 1619 project, serves the interests rightly understood that neither the country nor black americans themselves. frankly, the american posture was never popular on campuses and in liberal newsrooms, but the sophomoric indulgence for we blacks in the 21st century. our birthright citizenship in this great public is an inheritance of immense value to whom much is given in much shall be required. we black americans are a blessed people. our americanness is much more important than blackness. we must embrace this great inheritance and resist the temptation to see ourselves as a people apart. we americans of all stripes have a great deal in common, and those commonalities can be used to show how bridges undergirded by patriotism can be built between black america in the nation as a whole. at bottom, we americans all want the same thing. we all want a legitimate sh

he had had a number of black male clerks, but i was his second black female clerk after his goddaughter karen hasty williams. what did that experience mean to you? oh until i got married and had children. it was the best year of my life bar none. thurgood marshall was an icon obviously, but he was also just a wonderful human being he was the best storyteller he would share the most you would be on the edge of your seat listening to him tell stories from barely getting out of sleepy southern towns within with his life evading an attempted lynching to meeting with prince hanging out with prince philip when they were drafting the canyon constitution when he was doing that to hanging out with langston hughes his fraternity brother and my grandfather's fraternity brother alpha phi alpha at lincoln university. so it was just delightful. i i devoted time to my work, but i also whenever i had the time to just sit with him and talk to him i took it and it was fabulous. your second book. the agitator's daughter came out in 2008 to family history. who's the agitator? and who's the daughter? the ag

most black preachers most black politicians most blacks civic organizers. i call them the iron triangle. that was my first book. this is a sequel to this. and as i studied and saw these cats were connected to the democratic party and found out that their number one goal. with to make sure they got 90% of the black vote for the democratic party period full stop by hook about crook. and that's what they've been doing for the last i mean, they're just for me they're descendants of those safe master crew, you know, you know, it's fascinating because in one either chaps you talk about god won't hold you responsible. it's just a play on words, but what you're saying? when you look at and you talk about this in your book the decimal results about education the high crime right the homicide right and how it's just so heavily concentrated and these communities you actually believe there's a connection between the leadership. who have relinquished their moral? and obligation and a leadership obligation to make sure that the new plantation you keep them as slaves. you

black churches started saying it's okay black politicians started saying it's okay and black organizersd it's okay and they go to school and they said it's okay. then they started getting the okay from people in society. they were causing these young people, you and i will enough to remember the birth control, we've seen what's been happening. >> they knew what would happen. >> that was there : so what do they do? they put abortion fauci's in black communities and so body parts and make money from it. this is $50000 and they are using is to make money. it is money laundering. they take as much money as you can and pay the teachers union and the money goes back. >> they marked the legacy. you talk in your book, i know you've touched on this but young people watching our conversation today learning about the book 25 lies, why is education the foundation. >> could you imagine going to this world not knowing how to read? wasted talent is the most terrible thing that could ever happen in this world. could be a great mechanic. they're not teaching these children to read and if you can't teach

and a black family that very specifically teaches about the "black panther" party across the country. especially young people don't have a sense this history. often we have in our minds one single snapshot, black men with guns, and it comes with this connotation of bad and scary, so scary we don't talk about it, don't put in the history books. i never learned anything about black than they are party cloeg up in indianapolis. even as someone who loved to read, loved black history, the civil rights movement, i didn't have a sense of the panthers other than the snapshot that i described. i learned about them in my early 20s. so out of college, working as a grant writer in new york. i was fund-raising for a kid's food program in contemporary context and ran across an article that was the black 357b they are's free breakfast for school children program. i thought, that doesn't compute with the snapshot in my mind. i clicked on the article being a curious person and found out that the black panthers had a free breakfast for school children throughout the country as early as 1969 that is in

imagine if you are the parent of a black senator you are the black person.t difference does it make to have a policy where 80 percent of the black males in the entire city get stopped? just being on the sidewalk? i teach law at georgetown. i had black male students tell me about their experiences. he kept ae' running count he had been stopped 19 times and he was a law-abiding citizen. think about the distrust that blanket approach where every black male the lens presumed that is applied to them over presume to citizen so they overinvest in policing. a lot of wasted time and resources. and then you create distrust of policing their less likely to cooperate and i cite a study in the book they are standing $851 million per inner-city block every four years to incarcerate people almost $1 trillion almost $1 billion. every four years to incarcerate to that make them violence go down in chicago?? know. so focus on communities high poverty communities and to see the people there as citizens particularly the people who are potentially engaged in gun violence and giv

crosshairs on black folks. so that's what the trayvon martin peace does in terms of critical race theory here. you have the kind of erasure of teaching real american history so we can understand who we are and how we got here. it is dangerous. it is absolutely dangerous to be able to do that. and the role of the constitution in black folk, one of the things is that you see black folks being pulled into the constitution particularly after the civil war where you get the 13th amendment that banishes slavery you get the 14th amendment that deals with birthright citizenship saying if you are born here, you are an american citizen and that is to overturn the dred scott decision and it's also say equal protection under the law and then the 15th amendment saying that the state shall not a bridge the right to vote on account of race color or previous condition of servitude. next call for carol anderson comes from jim and darlington, south carolina jim. you're on book tv. we're listening. thanks for taking my call. i wa

party, unless you grew up in a black community and a black family that very specifically teaches about the black panther party across the country. especially young people don't have a sense of this history often we have in our minds one single snapshot black men with guns and that often comes with this connotation bad scary. in fact so scary that we often don't even talk about it. we don't put it in the history books. i never learned anything at all about the black panther party as a young person growing up in indiana in a predominantly white community even as someone who loves to read who loved black history who love to study the civil rights movement. i didn't have any sense of the panthers other than the snapshot that i describe and so i learned about them but in my early 20s when i so out of college working as a grant writer in new york city, and i was fundraising for kids food program in the contemporary context and i ran across an article that was about the black panther party's free breakfast program for school children, and i thought black panthers free breakfast for school chi

let alone, you know, a black president or flat black mayors of large cities forth as you begin to see 1980s and 90s none of that was in place and yet this was a period when blacks were increasing their incomes were increasing their home ownership rates were leaving poverty. we're entering middle-class professions and so forth at unprecedented rates and it's because the economy was growing the post-war period was a time of tremendous economic prosperity in this country. and the argument there is that that is primarily what these groups need and then they will be able to take advantage of it from there. and that is what they need much more so than awoke president who is putting in place racial preferences or group preferences picking and choosing winners and looters. so to speak in terms of government policy more so than they need wealth redistribution programs, which we've seen in the in the post civil rights era starting with the great society programs and so forth that is not done as good. job of lifting low-income groups as simple economic prosperity has done and so what we need are

graduates are black. i'm going to state like alabama public high school graduates are black or a place like north carolina where unc chapel hill and roll something like 8% black students in north carolina state and rolls five percent right? just kind of looking across the board. there were all of these individual instances and i think one of the things that best helps people understand that sort of injustice is the granularity of it, right the fact that when when ada louise simple fisher is suing to get into the university of oklahoma school of law in the supreme court says you have to enroller instead the state of oklahoma rushes a law school and to existence in five days and says, here's your law school, you know, we've hired a part-time faculty. this is where you can go understanding the granularity of all of that. i think is i felt was important. so that's i think why why i really kind of wanted to examine this broader structure and she was just like in a room, right? it was like, you know, it was it

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when instead the black churches started to say in the black civic organizers.d then the lady started to get the okay before they were supposed to tell the truth and then remember starting to put sthe condom. >> that they knew what would happen. so now what do they do? they sell the body parts. they make money for it. is not what they get from planned parenthood it's a $60000 for use body parts and they areoe using us again to make money. >> public education doesn't work. and then it goes back. >> continuing the legacy. and then for young people with our conversation today and with your book 25 lives why education is the foundation. >> wasted talent. the most terrible thing that could ever happen in this world. when you cannot teach a child tohe read or have moral instruction you destroy their lives and in the ghetto it's because it doesn't have to be that way. all i have to do is go tell their mother about the school down the street will educate your children. these black men and white men and asian mental teacher son how to treat their mother with respect teac

imagine if you are the parent of a black sonor you are that black person . what's sense does it make to have a policy where a percent of the black males in the entire city are get stopped. often for just being on the sidewalk. i had a teacher at georgetown, i had some black male students tell me about these experiences. one of them told me hekept a running count at the been stopped 19 times . and he was a law-abiding citizen.and think about the distrust tat that kind of blanket approach where every black male the lens of thug is applied to them. a lens of presumed versus presumed citizen so the state over invests in policing . a lot of wasted time and resources. didn't necessarily reduce crime at all. you create distrust. of policing. communities are less likely to cooperate with the police to solve crimes. i cite the study in the last chapter of the book where in chicago alone there's been there spending 851 million dollars per inner-city black ever for every four years. $1 million per inner-city block every four years to incarcerate people . almost $1 tril

southern black workers. moving north during the great migrations the unions and in the north and in management in the war and in the north did not want the competition for they don't last filling these jobs the politicians in the north in one black spilling these jobs, and these minimum wage laws were put in in part to price blacks out of labor come out arguing that that's why people favor them today, but my point is that they're having a similar effect regardless of the attempt of the intent that they are disproportionately harmful to to to blacks and i bring that up because we recently having a debate about whether the filibuster was was a racist because it was used to block civil rights legislation in the past and i and i think if you're gonna play that game you can talk about the origins of a lot of laws that are in place today including the minimum wage laws having a a sort of tarnished history. yeah, so i i think we're coming up on the last few minutes here. i think, you know first of all congratulatio

i and my team want to understand the black disparities, creating black opportunity. we were able to solicit a grant with the urban land grant of san francisco to specifically identify a cohort of black and brown developers to learn how to engage in affordable housing development system in san francisco to supplement and find opportunities to partner with the nonprofit housers and to really understand and engage and invest in affordable housing development. in addition, for hope s.f., we just launched that piece, including the hiring of a hope s.f. resident as one of our new hope s.f. staff members. one of the 450 members who went through the initial engagement, and in addition to that, we are working to change the system, so in the instance, talking to our lenders with the goals that we're laying out as a city. and finally, there are some challenges. i'm very happy that h.u.d. has launched a racial equity strategy, but it was about a year after we launched d.k.i., but there's a deep aligning out of federal programs, and once again, the idea in the end is diverse blac

black woman and a successful black woman.acial biases when they approach black students. that's part of the reason that law school grading is blind, because academics cannot be trusted. people generally cannot be trusted to act upon their inherent racial biases, but one thing that is critical to think about and we just saw this with the confirmation of judge ketanji jackson brown is that there are so few pathways for black women in the law, there are so few pathways for black women to get to become supreme court. i don't know, we've all seen the chart that ticks off all of the things she had to do in order to get where she was and everybody else on the bench had many two out of the six or seven things she had to do to get on the bench. if you walk into a classroom with a white professor and you don't know how they're going to view, it affects the way you behave in class. she's doing our black students a disservice, doing people of color a disservice with her remarks. >> imani, thank you for being here and i love that you got

born, same for black women.'t get mental help, don't talk to therapists in the way black women do. there's a lot of men moving through this space with bravado they're allowed to have, the anger, but not the tears they're allowed to have, vulnerability they're allowed to have. it leads to a boiling point that may spill over on an oscar stage, and i think we're seeing it play out. as we discuss this and everybody has these issues, we need a place of grace for both these men as they work through what they have to work through. it was a big moment. will lost a lot by his own hand, right, but there's an underbelly of pain there that needs to be discussed and when they get help as i hope they both do that we celebrate that. >> well, i have a lot of thoughts about that. i will ask you to stick around. we're taking a quick break. this is a nuanced discussion that requires more time. more family talk after the break. y talk after the break. to help prevent bleeding gums, try saying hello gumwash with parodontax active gu

i'm a black mother. i'm raising a black family in america. i can tell you that i'm not concerned about whether or not my child can consent to an abortion at 12 years old or can consent to hormone therapy. what i'm concerned about is how i'm going to put food on the table and gas in the car and pay for college while we are trying to pay for all of these things. it is a complete and utter and insulting disconnect from the black community from the party that claims to own our vote. i say it's time that we make some noise and make them pay for not listening to what he would want. >> lawrence: one of the places we are making noise, wesley, is in the barbershop. when i go back to the barbershop lawrence, the gas prices are joe's fault. the meat prices are joe's fault. the unsecure border is joe's fault. taking jobs away from them that's joe's fault. how are you going to message that from your party's perspective to those black voters? >> well, i was in a barbershop a couple weeks ago. actually a topic of discussion. tide is turning. while liberals

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men, black people, or the black community.y was a scam from the beginning. and i thank you for providing some space in this country where there can be a transparent discussion of the facts that black lives matter was a sued so radical movement that exploited the suffering. the irony is it did nothing to save black lives. the majority of black males are killed by black males. but never once in the entire tenure of this ideological movement was there any real discussion of how black people, black people are being subjected to criminal behavior whether tacitly endorsed, and politicization that suggests we should abolish or defund police is suicidal at best. and absurd. and the black churches and year thinking black folk must now build a movement of faith that will put boots on the ground to do what the black lives matter failed to do with millions of dollars, none of which has been accounted for. none. lawrence: a lot of black folks say, we just want fairness. the country we respond and said this is unjust. if it happens more in

>> black lives, they matter here!llo, and welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm nick watt in los angeles. >>> russia is increasingly targeting vital-supply lines for ukrainian troops, as it ramps up its assault on the east. you are looking at a railway bridge that was blown up on friday. we have geolocated, and verified the authenticity of the video. it's near the done everdonetsk region.

erasure, black marginalization, black silencing and stereotyping of black people. in a visceral and real way in this slap. stephanie: professor, you have taken a different take in previous interviews, you have criticized will smith's action as rooted in notions of traditional manhood, what people refer to as toxic mix of -- toxic masculinity. why do you see it that way? >> there has been a recent discourse about the way black men show up for black women. we saw senator cornyn book or last week judge ketanji brown jackson. -- senator cory booker last week with judge ketanji brown jackson. like she suggested, we saw a man who was unhinged in that moment, and the only thing that seems to be in his toolbox to respond in that moment was violence. but i also do not want to erase the violence that was enacted by chris rock in that moment. in his critique on jada pinkett smith, an extension of a broader critique of black women. is it ever a comfortable space to make fun of the kind of chronic diseases that black women are suffering? i absolutely agree with eisa that we are

by and large, a period when blacks had virtually no political clout let alone a black president, black bears of large cities and so forth as he began to see in the 80s and 90s. none of that was a in place and yet it's a period when blacks were increasing their income, home ownership rates, leaving poverty and entering middle-class professions and so forth at unprecedented rates because the economy was growing, postwar was a time of tremendous economic prosperity and the argument is that is primarily what the groups need and they can take advantage of it from there and that's what they need much more than woke president putting in place racial references are group references picking and choosing winners and losers so to speak in terms of government policy, more than they need wealth redistribution programs which we have seen post- civil rights era, the great society programs and soo forth, that's not done as good a job listing low income groups as simple economic prosperity. what we need are policies that produce economicc growth and ths takes advantage of that. the trump years prior to

being black beard's flag.but it was a flag of a pirate named ned lowe who i am going to talk about a little bit later. and you can -- this is a modern representation of it. but you can understand the iconography, the skeleton and the harpoon piercing the heart with drops of blood falling from it was supposed to signify death. and raised in his right arm is an hour glass indicating that you don't have much time to make a decision. you better make the right one. this is when pirates voted in democratic fashion to determine who would be their captain and where they would go to hunt for prizes and which ships they would attack. this is when pirates signed the articles of agreement, or the pirate's code, which laid out the rules for their behavior and also mandated the virtually even distribution of wealth and at the bottom of the cartoon it says, there's the flag that will fly aboard our pirate ship. many black men served ads pirates. a significant number of them were african slaves captured by pirates and they co

how many black folk in the room? how many black will go ahead with that? i impressive as a mommy black folk in this room. have a parent or parents who went to segregated schools. or went to a segregated school. and i don't they're they're very few black folk with their hands down. which just shows you to your point? yeah, how you can touch history how it's not that i mean ruby bridges is ruby still. she's like out in her six. she's doing zumba class something, you know, like it's yeah like bringing her grandkids to soccer games like i mean, you know, i think it's just so easy with the eyes on the prize documentaries or the black and white images and our textbooks to convince ourselves that this era is is not like the way that i was thought about slavery as a kid was as if it was in the jurassic period like it was the dinosaurs the flintstones and slavery like all existing at the same time and that's how so many young people are taught about it and then you know again that doesn't even count for the civil rights movement. my mother was the first person amon

never been a black woman. we have a chance to put an outstanding, very qualified black woman on and for some reason they say no, we're going to confirm her once our members are healthy, the couple of members that missed it, i believe it's two because of covid, they're going to come back. we're going to confirm her but for some reason the ranking member of the committee would like to embarrass dr. cook a little bit more. first they make all these unwarranted attacks. this enthey block her in committee. they called a boycott to stop any committee action on another very qualified woman and i might add parenthetically because the oil industry doesn't like her. so she -- one of the things i particularly like about dr. cook, she understands -- and maybe this is the objection. they want a federal reserve that's more sort of corporate dominated, corporate oriented instead of putting workers at the center of our economy. i know senator merkley has been one of the leaders always understanding that workers should be the

he was born into a black family. i went to a black school black church. attended elena university, which was a black school. but there was something very interesting about him. i should also mention that his parents george and madeline white were born into enslaved families. and they were the last of the last generation that could speak of the slave era as african americans from experience. um yet there something distinguishing about walter. he looked strange. to his peers at atlantic unit atlanta university and his school and his church and let's take a look and see what he looked like. so we can start here. this is walter. and you might notice that he has well, it's good. you can't tell from this picture. but he has blue eyes. his hair is dark blonde. here's another photo of walter. no this to me is just such a special photograph because a lot of walter's family is gone and a lot of walter's family sort of disowned and we'll get to that too later in the story, but i can only find one living member of the white family and that was rose palmer's niece and

this black woman is also a first. but if you do not work in the united states senate, you probably don't know anything about her. she had a very important role here today. we will be telling you about her later in our discussion tonight. most of the time, history moves slowly. slower than the hands of a clock. but today was a day of high-speed history. joyously, in the united states, senate and tragically in the united nations and our first guest tonight's white house chief of staff ron klain. he is working every day on all of the issues that made this a day of high speed history. i worked in the senate for several years. i was on the senate floor for many important votes, and many important confirmation votes. i am sure that ron klain will agree with me, that i -- we -- have never seen anything like what we saw on the floor of the united states senate today, when judge ketanji brown jackson won senate confirmation as the next supreme court justice. >> the ye votes are 53, the nays votes are 47. the nomination is conf

and not just for black women and black history but for america. today, judge ketanji brown jackson took a very important step toward becoming justice ketanji brown jackson, and the first black woman in our history to hold that post. what a day. as we were all watching that historic moment in the senate, judge jackson was watching alongside the man who promised if elected, he would put the first black woman on the highest court in the land. and today, joe biden's promise was kept. only three republicans could see beyond their party's neodixiecrat ways to join senate democrats in confirming judge jackson. because of that, by voting aya, they get to join in heralding this moment, with romney, who ceded an election to our first black president, barack obama, and senator murkowski, standing with the democrats in applause to this historic moment. today, it was an event celebrated across this country, as the women of the congressional black caucus display black women are supreme. as "the washington post" points out, her nominee highlighted the relative r