more monuments celebrating the nation's racicit history are toppled or removed, we will speak to bree newsome. five years ago she was arreste at the sta c capit in n soh carolinafter scang a 30-ot flagpolendnd reming g th cocoederate ag. i come against you in the name of god. this flag comes down today. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome toto democracy now!, dedemocracynow.org, the quarante report. i'm amy goododman. in a majoror victoryry for the q community and d civil rights, te supreme court ruled monday that a landmark civil rights law protects gay, bisexual, and transgendeder people fromm discrimination in the workplace. the historic 6-3 ruling comes after decades of legal battles and campaigning. the ruling was penned by one of the court's most conservative justices, trump appointee neil gorsuch. chief justice john roberts joined the majority opinion in stating that titleleii of the 1964 civil rights act forbids workplace discrimination on n te basis of sex, applies to gay and transgender people. at least half of the 50 states previously alloweded employers o fire workers for b

you think about b bree newsom after the horror and mother manual church in charleston, south carolinawho shimmied up that flagpole on the grounds of the south carolina legigislature and took down the confederate flag and they put it right on back up. what about what we are seeing today? >> of course bree newsom was .onderful pioneer i think it is important to link this trerend to the campaign in south africa. roads must fall. i think this reflects the extent to which we are being called on the o deeply reflect racism thatorical has brought as to the point where we are today. racism -- racism should have been immediately confronted inin the afterermath of the end of slavery. his is what dr. dubois' analalysis was about. not so much of what we were going to do about these poor people who have been enslaved 70 generations, but rather how can we reorganize our society in order to guarantee the incorporation of previously enslaved people. the attention is being turn now to the symbols of slavery, the .ymbols of colonialism of course, any campaign against racism in this country has to addre

newsom don't cut our students' future. pass a state budget that protects our public schools. >>> nfl superstar drew brees is getting criticismments he made about colin kaepernick's kneeling protest. here's what he told yahoo's finance earlier today. >> i will never agree with anybody disrespecting the flag of the united states of america or our country. let me just tell you what i see, or what i feel when the national anthem is played and when i look at the flag of the united states. i envision my two grandfathers who foul for this country during world war ii. one in the army and one in the marine corps both risking their lives to protect our country. and to try to make our country and this world a better place. >> racist comments outraged players around the league. it was basketball superstar lebron james who may have said it best. wow, man! is it still surprising at this point? sure isn't? you literally still don't understand why kap was kneeling on one knee, has absolutely nothing to do with the disrespect of flag and our soldiers, men and women who keep our land free. joining me now is benjamin watson, a former nfl playe