this is not few black america. what we are looking at are children who are going to be extremely confused. going to go into a public school system that teaches them moral relativism and secular museumism and pattern their lives after their parents. the dad has two boys in this equation. these two boys will probably repeat his habits. the daughters, awful these girls are going to look at this and the way that their mothers being treated and accept that as normal. this is horrible what oxygen has done. i actually commend the young woman -- she a committee of one who says i'm going to start a petition. where are some of these leaders who pretend that they care will the plight of the poor and the black america? where is jesse jackson today or al sharpton and others who keep insisting that they can mount up all of these protests. [ applause ] >> mike: that's the point that does concern me. you are speaking out about it it, your organization does. i'm not hearing a whole lot of people who are so-called leaders in the civ

but when they first black america family members were caught off guard those two. points those points of comfort were not quite there you know thank god some people had great family support. most families back then did not know what he was they were afraid you know there was not a lot of information there was a lot of myths so we have that myth that it's not part of me i'm not gay i'm not a lesbian oh i'm a lesbian i can't catch it. i'm not in that age group i can't catch it yes it is it's it's it's in the house many victims of a child v. and aids were shunned by close family members and when they turned to the church they had the head of the state that initially applied to. anybody willing to come forward without fearing that they would be attacked as specially by their religious leaders the church you know was caught up in this is a homosexual disease and you know it's you know again you know going to hell and we not going to you know we're not going to address the fact he was so important for the black church to be there for the truth. because of the black churc

may still be a little dirty secret the biggest part of this little secret is its growth across black america as i've seen a zoo is gonna hold in the african-american community it's it's it's this right here it's not spreading out that way despite in the african-american community a collective silence has enabled it to spread across gender and sexual orientation african-americans tend to have sex with african-americans it's black men and black men usually it's black men and black women usually we're spreading death. among ourselves. both black men down women are at much greater risk of getting h i v compared to their white counterparts youth as well as adults. we began our investigation by looking at men who account for seventy percent of all new infections among blacks but what was surprising is that it's not just men who have sex with men who need to be concerned about hiv. i did everything possible to get in this position yeah i wanted that act you know the way i did my life was famous and free so i pretty much got what i was looking for if i'm not mistaken alice and pain she community clo

we explored internal factors that led to the early growth in the aids epidemic in black america while doing so we learned that silence fear and denial so evident back then as undergone little more than cosmetic changes thirty one years later. the womb close . and i have quite a few friends that were raised in a church you know i had lots in a church service and been so quite a few church visiting but it was something that i just didn't see. in my spirit and still totally come to. enjoy the music but a lot of the other rituals just didn't sink in as i became older and found all the way islam was the only way that i knew and in place that i knew to go back to. something spirits leave something a little more religiously grounding. from mine the same day isn't anything in the koran actually says about homosexuality being gay it's just a lot of the other. laws govern by the sharia laws you know things that were not a lot of the some of what the profit were practice. where it goes into homosexuality. it being missing. the point i first found out i was positive. like i said i really didn't t

this is not new in black america.'re going to look at are children that are going to be confused and go into a public school system and teaching them moral, and pattern their lives after their parents. the dad, he has two boys in this equation, these two boys will probably repeat his habits, and the daughters, all of these girls, are going to their mother's treated and accept that as normal. this is horrible, what oxygen has done and i actually commend the young woman and she's a committee of one, who said i'm going to start a petition. where are some of the leaders who care they pretend about the plight of the poor and where is jesse jackson and al sharpton and keep insisting-- >> that's the point that does disturb me. you're subpoenaipeaking out abo and your organization, but i'm not hearing leaders in the so-called civil rights movement or anti-poverty saying something is wrong when you glorify this life style. >> and it should have knocked on the door and privately discussed and not that oxygen would dare to touch

it's fascinating in the context of black america because he represents so many trends in black americaegregation of black america. there are african americans who do spectacularly well. there are african americans who have these foreign connections and heritage by growing numbers, including african heritage, like president obama. >> you know, there's one terrible con flew wens. you know, the hatred on the right, not all of 24e78, but the people that really have a probable with the black president. it koccomes up with the birther movement and the terrible comments made by people during the last campaign. dr. martin luther king was also hated. so was muhammad ali hated by certain people. every major black hero has had to suffer from the right. >> yjackie robinson, muhammad ali, martin luther king was bugged by the f.b.i. and all kinds of rumors were spread about him and the demonizing of barack obama falls into that power. and one of the things that he did today was place history, in the history of civil rights and the history of progressive movements into the mainstream of america, you

infections among black americans had surpassed white america. blacks accounted for forty percent of all newly infected age hiv cases. the most startling discovery was to learn that african-american women accounted for a greater proportion of new aids cases among african-americans overall in two thousand and three. it rose to become the number one cause of death for black women ages twenty five to thirty four and persis this day. after ten years from now. my husband and three year old daughter and at the age of twenty nine discovered to have aids my third child was born very sick. we didn't know what was wrong with her and no one was able to tell us what was wrong she was in and out of dol spittal and by the time she was about to my husband began to get sick my husband wasn't feeling well he had a cough and we kept going to different doctors feel they kept misdiagnosing him first they said he had allergies they gave him allergy shots then they said he had tb they tested him he said he's fine it doesn't have to be after about a full year of trying

she was america's pop princess, and definitely black america's pop princess.see the success of what she did -- of course there was a price she paid for this level of celebrity. we see it also with the late michael jackson. ll coolj, coming out of rap, someone would be hosting the grammy awards 25 years later, is simply amazing. it is a testament to the level of success that someone like when houston had as a crossover artist in the 1980's. >> "democracy now!" this! back in a moment. ♪ [music break] >> we're joined by dave isay, the founder of storycorps. talk about this project to have been doing. >> you describe it very well. it is this mass of oral history project. we have done 40,000 interview with everyday people across the country. >> it is not you doing the interviews. >> no, everyday people come to the boot to gather and that i facilitator they think of themselves as bearing witness to these interviews. many people think of it as, if i had 40 minutes left tto live, what would i say? two cd's r berndt, one does with you and the other goes to the library

over the last five years in this series, we've explored what it means to be black in america. my mother is black and cuban and my father is white and from australia, and when i was born in the mid 1960s the census doesn't even track the number of mixed race children, because my mother was black, i always considered myself black, and when i was a kid, my mother would tell me don't let anybody ever tell you you're not black. and more often the question i was getting was, what are you? with the 2010 consensus, more people are grabbling with that question and their racial identity. we follow two women who struggle with their racial identities and who were sick of answering the question, what are you? ♪ >> if i had, like, a word to describe me, it would most likely be quirky. i am in a band and we do progressive alternative rock, kind of. at first when people meet me, they don't know what i am. people will ask me, what are you? >> 17-year-old nile jones is a singer, a talented poet and high school senior. but that's not what people want to know. >> recently, i had one of those exper

has never been a greater voluntary abandonment of men from their children than this is today in black americaver. i mean, when men went off to war, they had to go off to war, that wasn't voluntary, but never as great a voluntary abandonment of children by their fathers than in black america today. >> bill: why do you think that's happening? >> well, i think it's happening for -- if i have to pick the most important reason, it's fatherlessness. >> bill: perpetuates itself? if you don't have a father it's the same thing. >> you said yourself, it creates chaos, one of the reasons so many people killing themselves in chicago. >> bill: it's my problem as a historian, out of historical point of view. 1960-65 was the time in america there was all kinds of civil rights problems. the black out of wedlock birth date then was 22 it to 25%. and this was the roughest, roughest part, okay? it's tripled now, tripled, why? >> one of the reasons -- i'll tell you why in a second. one of the reasons that they, the black community attributes to this, black civil rights leaders, is races. in 1940, when there was

it was a moment of unprecedented black prosperity in which the two jacks three of black america was on the rise people were getting jobs were buying homes were buying cars sending their kids to colleges was a moment of real optimism. in the late one nine hundred fifty s. you begin to get the first. wave of what came to be called the industrialization. the american economy is changing we're moving from one of those really cami to an economy based on service based on information rooted in technology that is its high skill file wage training on one very low skilled sweatshop labor another. class find their skills don't fit into either those demands. they don't have the education or the skill or the training because of historic discrimination to work in aerospace. on other hand they don't feel any desire or need to go into the low skilled service sector jobs like hotel cleaning like sweatshop work downtown l.a. because they don't perceive that as jobs that american citizens should have. and not talking about people who are at the rear we're talking about people with jobs if you have a job

black now. for a long time i checked other. i never checked white. i'm not white. america you know real fast that you are not white. i have never been jumped and called cracker or honky. i have been jumped and called monkey or -- >> you're black. >> i'm black. i'm biracial but i'm black. i'm no different than many historical figures who are biracial and are black and are a part of black history. >> for becca, it's not that simple. >> i think i am from africa. i know i am from africa. but the black kids don't seem to really want me and the white kids don't really want me. ...$10 off any turbo tax deluxe level software or higher! find thousands of big deals now... ...at officemax. to the best vacation sp(all) the gulf! it doesn't matter which of our great states folks visit. mississippi, alabama, louisiana or florida, they're gonna love it. shaul, your alabama hospitality is incredible. thanks, karen. love your mississippi outdoors. i vote for your florida beaches, dawn. bill, this louisiana seafood is delicious. we're having such a great year on the gulf, we've decided to p

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