we wanted to really do something because we felt that the moment called for it and george floyd's death was having a different kind of impact. and one of the things that we learn as we were able to learn more about floyd's life was that all of these academic things that we had been reading about in social science papers about these different forms of discrimination and injustice faced by black americans face, especially by people who grew up in poverty, you know, can be very scientific and can seem very distant. but we were starting to see it come to life in george floyd's life as we were learning about his, as we learned about his family and how they came up through the, you know, the period of slavery and sharecropping and all of the things that like there are a long time ago, but still having reverberations today and just being able to see a person who brings to life a lot of these different systemic issues. we really felt that that it was worthwhile to let people see george floyd for his for humanity and every time we saw him especially because his personal loyalty was such such tha

winnie: there is no way that george floyd is dead. george floyd is alive, america. prove me wrong.d died in 2020. however, if your influencer of choice suggests that something like the george floyd video is a deepfake, then by 2030 many people might believe that that is indeed the truth. so that is a liar's dividend in play. winnie: so, folks, do not believe anything you see or read or watch on tv, okay? [putin impersonation] putin: america, you blame me for interfering with your democracy, but i don't have to. you're doing it to yourselves. hamish: these deepfake parodies were commissioned by the non-profit represent us in the lead-up to the 2020 election to highlight the fragility of democracy and encourage voting. but the group says they were so realistic, american tv networks refused to run them. kim jong-un: i don't have to do anything. you're doing it to yourselves. hamish: but what happens if a deepfaked leader not only looks real but mouths far more dangerous intentions? this is the scenario that keeps former cia expert, matt ferraro, awake at night. matt: so the most plaus

it is been three years since george floyd. what is the effect been for not only those who police with those communities they serve? guest: been a dangerous and detrimental effect in the aftermath of george floyd. it has had consequences on a number of levels. number one, police officers have retreated in a lot of instances and more people leaving the profession then ever before. there is a staffing crisis in the law enforcement community. i was in los angeles police department saturday for one of their faith and blue events and they shared with me that there are -- they are 1000 officers down in los angeles. that is a real crisis and has a lot to do with the aftermath of george floyd's death. there are increased tensions between cops and communities and more police involved tragedies since the death of george floyd than there were before the death of george lloyd as well. crime and violence is reaching very dangerous places in terms of the numbers of crimes happening in our communities. we see a perfect storm where this contin

um never really been the kind of thing in the last four. or 50 years really or even more. with george floyd and countless other victims of police brutality, the show often covered police violence and mistreatment of us citizens, especially african-americans. floyd's passing is painful reminder of the price the african-american community has paid in the country. he was an ordinary black man, but his demise enabled him to do something that most have not. transcended imposed barriers in the society and elevated important conversations in the united states, but what role did floyd's death play in the black lives matter movement and what lies ahead for the movement in the immediate future? the murder of george floyd in may 25, 2020 electrified the black lives matter movement. i think particularly hartening to this movement were the solidarity demonstrations overseas. and now once again, and in the cycle of american police brutality, another unarmed black man has been killed. the killing of keen and anderson has patterns of an episode that has repeated itself again and again, horrifying footage,

she grew up on neighborhood away from george floyd. george grew up in the third ward , she grew up in the 50 word. george was the same age as her, 46. sonia had cousins who went to the same high school as george. her dear friend and cousin, derek, remember george as the tight end on the yates football team that made it to the state championship. so i tell you all that to tell you this. george's murder was the first time that my wife and i decided to let our kids see that this was part of the black experience. our twin boys were then nine, our daughter was then 11 and our twin boys in particular had a lot of questions about what they saw that day. it started with, are all cops bad? are all cops racist? as the questions became hours and then days, they evolved and they sort of took a step down toward self-hatred. what does this mean for my life? am i inferior in some way? it was a really tough time, the latter half of 2020. and so, they became despondent in some way. all three of our kids. they started to talk about how america was an awf

my wife sonia grew up in inner- city houston, one neighborhood away from george floyd. grew up in the third ward, she grew up in the fifth, they were the same age, george -- my wife had cousins who went to the same high school as george. her dear friend and cousin remembered george as the tight end of the yates football team that made it to the state championship game. i tell you that to tell you this, the murder of george was the first time my wife and i decided to let our kids see that this was part of the black express. our twin boys were nine and our daughter was 11, the boys in particular had a lot of questions about what they saw. it started with, are all cops bad, are all cops racist? as the questions became hours and days, they evolved and took a step down towards self-hatred. what does that mean for my life? am i inferior? it was a tough time in the later half of 2020. they became responded in some way. all three of our kids. they talked about how america was an awful place and they could not wait to move away as soon as they could. when my wife and i told him,

and now, at a moment when young people in particular, after the murder of george floyd, were demanding an anti racist education, we're trying to understand why breonna taylor and george floyd were killed. teachers started to respond to those students. but the response to those teachers was to ban their efforts to do their job, which was to provide education. >> there's, like, an accelerating frenzy to it now. it has gone from everything from suing over affirmative action to suing people who give grants to black women. it feels like there's an all out assault on black progress. you have an anti racism center that is designed to sort of deal with these issues. do you feel that it is a multi pronged assault? or am i just seeing it that way because i'm inside the news world looking at all the stories? >> i do. if you look at the headlines, you see anti-racist author is being challenged, anti racist books being challenged, anti racist organizations being challenged, anti racist elected officials being challenged. wherever you look, people who are striving to abolish racism are being challen

ellis died three months before george floyd.in, remind us of the details of this particular case in that jntacoma. this man, 33-year-old manny ellis was walking home from screens store, he had doughnuts and water, an altercation with police where he was stopped and a fight enpseudoaccording to the defense, but the prosecution said this was no fight, that he was the officers instigated this and punched, tased and hog tied a man and sat on him for more than six minutes as he said i cannot breathe, sir, i cannot breathe. he was promournsed dead there on the scene. right now there's a lunch break. the medical term for lack of oxygen was not the cause of death it was that he was high on meth the medical examiner ruled this death a homicide also listed meth and a heart disease as contributing factors to this death. kate. >> can you tell us more about the officers charged, are they still employed by the police department, what are they facing in. >> reporter: they're still employed, on paid leave, they're out on bail. you've got office

. >> even a hamas warlord exploited george floyd's death. >> george floyd put infamous in egypt. man had your own story. >> amadou diallo there, of course, if you had your ownle year of george floyd, you might have had enough. and yet another law had delivered the injury and laststd week, blm posted a pro-hamas image paragliding terrorist t swooping in to butcher kids, but apologized and said they do not support hama ds and we believe them. hmd m. >> the first ever black miss israel is now calling out bl.m, saying they're all hypocrites. remember, you scream in the. street. >>e. breath i can breathe. hamas is isis. pray for us.s is pray for israel, because we can break a tie and cause a forum. >>>> is israel j and a human rih activist. so what exactly changed your opinion with black lives matter? >> hey, jesse. thank you for having m>>e here tonight. i just saw that poste here. ou you know, as you said before, thth the soldier, with the terrorist that can to kill israel and israeli citizens. and for them, not just for themn supporting palestinian, th for them notkayian saying any

in minneapolis, a city that became the center of a global racial reckoning after the murder of george floyderactions with communities of color remain under intense scrutiny. in june the department of justice released its investigation into the minneapolis police launched after floyd's killing. among its findings, the department officer stop native residents at almost eight times the rate they stop white people and during those stops native people are 20% more likely to face searches or use of force. the disparities were worst in the third precinct where george floyd was murdered and where many native americans live. that area the doj said is where officers referred to as cowboys. >> they did not tell us anything that we did not know. reporter: we spoke with three native community leaders with deep understanding of police interactions here. >> as a young man growing up here i've always dealt with the police. it was us against them. >> the report said that native people are the most adversely affected and discriminated against and abused by the minneapolis police department and yet there has

you want to attribute it to george floyd's death.t is kind of a curious thing. >> taking advantage of that. >> it is curious that you would say that george floyd, his death was a reason why. >> no, i did not say that. >> it is in your testimony, sir. i want to point that out to you. it is in your testimony. well, you know, more questions that i would like to ask but i do not think that you are being completely genuine in your answer about how much you would rely on an objective measure such as standardized testing and admissions. i yield back. >> may depends on education programs. a decent wage. waste on the educational program >> the gentleman's time has expired. you are recognized for five minutes. >> first of all, i would like to thank all of you for being here today. i want to explore a little bit what is behind this drive for so-called diverse city for this tremendous obsession with where one's ancestors come from. as i understand it and we can ask, really, either one of you here, as i understand it, the drive for diversity is i

we need a reckoning just like we had a reckoning after george floyd.rge floyd was one man loaded with narcotics and alcohol who contributed, obviously, to his own death even hoe he cheerily was -- though he clearly was murdered, and the people who murdered him had to be held accountable. one man caused a major reckoning of how universities deal with race. i think that 1200 innocent jewish people in israel and the way universities have dealt with that ought to cause a reckoning. and i won't rest this that reckoning occurs at yale where i went the law school, at harvard where i taught for 50 years, at the city university of new york which won't allow me to speak. do you know harvard won't how me to speak about israel? they will allow think anti-israel, hamas supporter to speak, but they will not allow me or other pro-israel supporters to have a platform on the campus. larry: a taxpayer-funded university. professor dershowitz, one more thing. in congress this -- i want to play some tape, this a rashida tlaib woman who is completely on the wrong side and i

even a hamas war load exploited george floyd's death. >> [inaudible].ng foreign language]. >> jesse: blm posted a pro-hamas image terrorists swooping in to butcher kids. but apologized and said they do not support hamas. we believed them. the first ever black miss israel is calling out blm saying they are hypocrites. >> i remember. hamas is isis. pray for israel. >> jesse: this a former miss israel and a human rights activist. what changed your opinion with black lives matter? >> thanks for having me here tonight. i just saw their post as you said before with the soldier and the terrorists that came to kill israeli citizens. for them supporting palestinian the state is okay. but not saying anything about 1,400 civilians murdered by hamas. for them not saying anything about women who was raped by the terrorists, for them not saying anything when they heard that they are slaughtering babies in israel. they say they care about black people. they say they care about human rights. what about my rights as a black woman in israel? in israel there is huge black

it is been three years since george floyd.he effect been for not only those who police with those communities they serve? guest: been a dangerous and detrimental effect in the aftermath of george floyd. it has had consequences on a number of levels. number one, police officers have retreated in a lot of instances and more people leaving the profession then ever before. there is a staffing crisis in the law enforcement community. i was in los angeles police department saturday for one of their faith and blue events and they shared with me that there are -- they are 1000 officers down in los angeles. that is a real crisis and has a lot to do with the aftermath of george floyd's death. there are increased tensions between cops and communities and more police involved tragedies since the death of george floyd than there were before the death of george lloyd as well. crime and violence is reaching very dangerous places in terms of the numbers of crimes happening in our communities. we see a perfect storm where this continuing distr

george floyd? >> you heard the one guy you should not be on a pedestal.aura: he does not count. he is not good enough either. nobody really is able to pass their test because a sub -- -- a couple years later somebody else is offended then there is empty pedestals around the united states. maybe that's at they want is a socialist country. >> trying to destroy the foundations of. >> faith, family, recovery, telt country on the face of the eartt born out of conquest, you tell h one. raymond, great -- >> that was important in all its complexity. >> thank you. raymond, stay witx news will be on for the latest g israel's response to this barba. now and forever it's america ans next

charles: david solomon said he was grieving for george floyd and people who died at the hands of racistn't know george floyd but you would think david solomon if he is grieving than should be grieving for the people of israel. is the ceo of goldman sachs, not a word. brian moynahan, the stuff he said in 2020, how horrible this country is, not a word on this. wise that? neil: not by accident. charles: jamie diamond --dimon said something in the context, the employees are safe. i can only think this is related to the awakening of corporate america. the only explanation. i'm writing a book about this called go woke go broke, hopefully come out early next year. only thing i can say is these folks are so scared of violating something that might get aoc to hold hearings on demand radical leftists in congress supporting this mutilation. some of that. i don't know. it is striking they are not saying anything. hard to get my hands around this. according to the left, something that is a totalitarian government. neil: they are the ones getting lectured about your response, this happens after every

we think in this moment post george floyd and that's what happened two years ago, we have pele like youra the bring us on to talk about this, and we hope their state legislators will do the right thing. we hope that oklahoma state court will give us the opportunity to move our state case forward in trial, and we hope that the people around this country will stand with this just for justice for greenwood, justice for viola fletcher and push everyone to make sure they get the reparations they deserve. >> damario thank you so much. as you know i've actually taken my children to the tulsa greenwood district to see for my own eyes. if you ever get a chance, it will see the different blocks of where businesses wants to state. they are on the ground, it gives you such clarity as to the overwhelming tragedy that took place. there's the greenwood rising center people should see as well. thank you so much for joining us tonight. >> thank you so much laura it is good to see you. >> me to thank you. up next, remembering and nfl legend. tributes are pouring in for the late pick but gush, one of the

for more than three years after the police murder of george floyd there is a new push in places likewareness and change. special correspondent fred has this report. reporter: a recent rally in the heart of south minneapolis native american community brought out high emotions and strong numbers. they were protesting the imprisonment of leonard, an american indian activists serving life sentences for the 1970 five killings of two fbi agent's. supporters have long said he was wrongly convicted and they consider him a political prisoner. >> as long as leonard is not free, there is aps that this system holds of every single one of us as indigenous people. reporter: activists say the problems with the system are upheld by law enforcement authorities who regularly mistreat native people. the vast majority of native americans live away from the reservations and live in cities like new york or albuquerque. most of their law-enforcement encounters happen with local police. in minneapolis, a city that became the center of a global reckoning, police interactions with communities of color remain

we heard -- about the issue of george floyd, they did understand what lynching was, and the history oft a minute, we get this and it till anti-lynching act. in my home, as a black person, i was hearing these stories, these oral traditions of the horrors, even the successes that are in our communities. when we come into a newsroom, we understand a lot of times what our mainstream cohorts did not hear about, you know, did not even here, for instance, black wall street. we've been hearing, as black people, about black wall street for a long time. in the last couple of years, oh my god, this really happened. we, as black people, we have to learn mainstream news. we have to, to do the story, even five times, ten times better than their counterparts. yet, when it comes to our news, they send it to us. they don't take the time, mainstream newsrooms don't take the time to learn the history. it's rich, it's real, and it's still a community, highest a reserve negatives on almost every category. those facts -- >> rene, i want to shift to the political lens for a second. typically republicans and

remember, everybody, you can trace this back to the george floyd murder, what was horrendous. people thought the solution was to vilify law enforcement. not just the individual that did that but everybody. so now you end up with this huge deficit of safety and police officers. here's a reminder from de blasio. watch this. >> our young people don't need to be policed. they need to be reached. we'll be moving funding from the nypd to youth initiatives and social services. we'll do it in a way that we're certain that the city continues to be safe. >> this completely backfired. the city is not safe. my question, i want to leave on a note of what to do. curtis, give the leadership one indication. what do they need to do? >> let the cops do their jobs. they act like we can't let cops deal with the emotionally disturbed. always did. they did a good job. now you need mental healthcare experts. where are they, martha? i never see them in the streets. let the cops be cops. they can get us back where we need to be. >> what is the best program to bring people back in the profession? how d

two years ago, after the killing of george floyd by the american police, the human rights council the united nations formed a specialized mechanism to promote racial justice and equality in law enforcement. now , the experts of this institution recently had a trip to america. during this trip , we met with civil society representatives, american victims, and police officials. also from two reform centers. we visited prisons in los angeles and cook county jails in chicago. the result of these meetings and visits was a 32-page report, a report that reveals a kind of organized and rooted racism in america. racial injustice in america dates back to the founding of this country. injustice as a result, blacks were three times more likely to be killed by the police than whites and four and a half times more likely to be imprisoned. according to a special report of the ministry of justice , black people are 3 times more likely to experience the threat of force or the use of non-lethal force than white people. the latest type of this violence can be seen in the behavior of the american police

in the wake of 2020 murder of george floyd they passed police reform legislation that changed policing in the district. city leadership has not supported law enforcement and that shows up in recruiting and failure to retain officers that they have spent money training and has simply been let go. we will hear from a former u.s. assistant attorney and victims of crime on ways to make the city safe again. i have two articles that i'm going to enter into the record one called the d.c. city council failed at justice reform and d.c. murder problem. they will be admitted into the record without objection. seeing none. i'm going to show a short video. [video] bullets went flying. eight people shot and killed in the district. shooting. two women are dead. 80% of that, majority of that are just fine. mr. biggs: i thank the witnesses for being here and i look forward to your testimony and the audience and members of the committee being here. i yield to the ranking member ms. jackson lee. ms. jackson lee: thank you for your courtesies and thank you to my colleagues that are here, ranking member na

unrest following the murder of george floyd and a massive surge in legal gun sales. as we get farther from those factors, violence across the country seems to be slowing. locally, we need to understand that washington d.c. is unique. the metropolitan police department is one of more than 20 law enforcement agencies operating in the jurisdiction. the prosecution is split between the u.s. attorney's office and attorney general. and there is no other jurisdiction in the nation that's jointsly administered in this way. if there's one thing i know, after more than 25 years in this field, it's this, reducing crime and violence is a team sport. if individual players do not play well together, the team will not succeed. collaboration is key. collaborating is hard in any jurisdiction, but it is especially hard here in the district due to its unusual local, federal structure. that is no excuse. the district can and should do better in communicating, collaborating and executing its strategies, it's not easy however, and in concrete ways, i'll list a few year. >> every criminal

. >> like the families of george floyd, ahmaud arbery, breonna taylor, michael brown, and hundreds of young african americans whose names are being chanted in protest nationwide, malcolm scotts, wants his story told. >> because if we do not know it exists, how can we do anything about it? >> his story, starts like so many other black lives, that have struggled to matter. raised in poverty, under the watchful suspicious eye of the police. and destined to a life of run-ins with the law. but at its heart, it is a story about two brothers, malcolm and cory, and a bond that could not be broken. not even in the face of an imaginable odds. what was it like, growing up in tulsa? >> you felt like you are always home. familiar faces always around you. >> large family, very upstanding. >> 12 brothers and sisters. >> 12? >> yeah, it was crowded. i was very big into sports. me having a football in my hand was life. >> malcolm caught the football bug, from cory. who was his older half brother, and best friend. >> we have a beautiful relationship. my mama would tell me he is crazy about you. he woul

they were only too happy to speak out about the death of george floyd.litical statements as university administration, then it seems to be perfectly reasonable to expect that they're going to say something about the slaughter of over 1,000 jews in israel. >> i think that's exactly the question is whether universities should refrain from this kind of -- i think the stanford example is very interesting, where they say we think it's important that the universities as an institution refrain from taking institutional positions. there's others also saying here that this idea of needing to weigh in on every single thing that's happening, i wonder if that's going to be really where university should look. whether or not they have a problem with anti-semitism being separate and of course being an issue. but in terms of these public proclamations, and even the corporate workplace being dragged into this in recent years as well. >> they have already gone down this road. once you've decided you're going to make statements about black lives matter, once you've decide

reporter: critics note as recently as three years ago amid outrage nationwide following the death of george floyd at the hands of police in minnesota, mayor london breed backed a proposal to redirect $120 million in funding away from san francisco police to alternative community initiatives, but those proposed cuts in 2020 never materialized and funding to sfpd actually grew the following year. the aclu, we reached out for comment but have yet to hear back. in san francisco, sergio quintana, nbc bay area news. >>> we should learn more about the man killed by police after driving a car into the chinese consulate in san francisco. the san francisco police department is holding a town hall meeting thursday afternoon. it will be a chance to update the public on this investigation. last monday police say the 31-year-old crashed into the consulate. officers arrived on the scene and shot yang who was armed with a knife. he died at the hospital. the virtual town hall meeting is thursday at 3:00 p.m. >>> there's a move under way to create more low cost, affordable homes and quickly in kft county. as jodi

4 million is.w and omar wants another 4 million for george floyd square. yeah, george floyd has his ownow intersection after that kind of money. >> that intersection better look like the miracle mile when they're done with it. tter looaoc wants $3 million toy if a bard should be removed from the harbor, i not 3 million to remove the barge. 3 million to study whether to remove the barge. ould b here's an idea. leave it there. i juste but no remov saved us $. >> here's another idea. remove it. and let it sink there. i just saved sink. us $3 millio. >> aoc also asking for a half a million dollar anti-racist oyster reef. currently, there are no oysters in flushing bay. >> oysters usually don't thrive in the bay with rustg y barges in queens. >> so somehow aoc is going to get oysters to grow in thet bottom of the bay. and when thrive w they somehow do, only black people will get to harvest them. them. >> no whites. so this congress still earmarking, still insider trading, still not handingn in work on time. >> we're going to say this again. vote them all out. >

imagine if this had happened three weeks after the murder of george floyd.d charged around campuses protesting, right, on behalf of that police officer or whatever, and there were a lot of black students trapped in the library. >> jesse: great analogy >> piers: it isn't an analogy. what would have happened to those students? they would have been thrown out. there were professors on this protest. sfliet professors. i mentioned yesterday, this professor at cornell, professor roughly rich ford, the guy seen in public boasting about being compel rated and energized still hasn't been fired. >> unbelievable >> piers: imagine if that had been a white professor, i don't know his skin color is actually, but if it was a white professor who said after george flied i was exhilarated and energized after the death of george floyd. would he still have a job? why is there such a double standard about the way jewish people atrocity is being treated compared to the way that murder of a single man was treated. >> jesse: absolutely >> piers: i just don't -- it's the hypocrisy t

two years ago, after the killing of george floyd at the hands of the american police, the united nationsman rights council created a special mechanism to promote racial justice and equality in law enforcement. now, three experts of this institution recently had a trip to america. during this trip , we met with representatives of the civil society of american victims and police officials. we also visited two correctional centers in los angeles prisons and cook county prisons in chicago. result these visits were made. a 32- page report that reveals a kind of organized and deep-rooted racism in america. racial injustice in america dates back to the founding of this country. a justice that results in blacks being three times more likely to be killed by the police than whites and four and a half times more likely to be imprisoned. according to the special report of the ministry of justice, black people are 3 times more likely to experience threats or use of non-lethal force than white people. the latest type of this violence can be seen in the behavior of the police america met with a black m

worried if trump wins the left will burn it down because we've just seen the riots in the wake of george floyd's murder across the country. i said i worry if biden wins that the right is going to shoot it up, you know. january 6 happened after that. she said, there isn't anything you can do. i got with my democratic opponent. we decided to film an ad together. never been den before. i said i'm spencer cox, republican. i think you should vote for me. my opponent was, i'm a democrat, i i think you should vote for me. >> it's a quintessentially utah moment. you're running against each other but you're like, hey, guys, let's calm down. governor cox: that's what it was. while we disagree on a lot of things we can agree we candice agree without hating each other. we'll find ways to work together. >> the ad did go viral. kind of a counterpaint to the -- count point to the presidential election. governor cox: a professor submitted it to this study. it had an effect on depot larrizing people. lowering the temperature. especially toward political violence. [applause] so it worked, at least for a short amo

recently it was a gathering place for the community following the guilty verdict in the killing of george floyd. dr. penny hogue joined the church in 1961 as a student and said it turned her into a social activist. >> oh, i think it's very important. it certainly influenced those of us who were members at the time and how we live our life. >> reporter: the church now ministers to the homeless and down and out in the area and that's why they consider the location to be so important. >> it's a message and people in this community see it as a message. it's a reminder of what else is there. there is a place that's safe. >> reporter: it may be about to get even safer because the city is on the verge of granting historical landmark status to the church, which would severely restrict what could be done with the building. >> to me it would be an insurance against a developer coming in. this is very valuable property and this is the jewel of the developments always, but i feel that the importance of it is to have a piece of san jose preserved as a community meeting place for this neighborhood. >> i shal

of protest that is being maintained. you're a liberal who breaks monuments after the death of george floydse gangs live with the idea that they have been indoctrinated for years, they are oppressed, the country is filled with racism and founded by racists. and the chaos will continue until we have equality for everyone, regardless of skin color. in the meantime, ordinary racism flourishes. since floyd's death, corporate america has hired 3,000 new employees, only 6% of them white. the founders of the blm movement have mansions for millions of dollars, ordinary activists have been pushing for reparations by force for the third year. they need to feed their children, but they don’t have money, maybe they’re in situation when you choose between taking something out of the store or being hungry. and the fame of compassionate democrats spread throughout the continent. biden has promised not to expel undocumented immigrants, and states have been flooded with millions of refugees streaming across the southern border. one of the richest came to see this show with his own eyes. illegal immigrants p

city in the midst of black lives matter protests, a palestinian artist painted a large mural of george floyd, the african american man of course, who had recently been murdered by a police officer in minneapolis. these 2 places are more than 6000 miles away from each other. yet palestinians and black americans have found a common cause with each other struggles. how does a moment like that? how does these moments come to be? well, no more for is about as long as my political memory goes back, i think the causes of palestine and black liberation have been intertwined. um, i just can't imagine that those of us who call also the scholar active this i can imagine i'm not calling for justice for palestine. i can't imagine the whole agenda of social justice in the world not including palestine in this respect. i think i as a black people in the west and throughout so the of the, the, the, the region of the west of the south. she should feel a very special try to palestinians of course is there is a long history up. but i know, i think back to june, jordan, the incredible poet, when very few people

you remember this, when i wrote my first book, then i was the ceo of my pharmaceutical company, george floydess began and there were questions that could not be raised regarding race relations and the like in 2020. i remember what it was like, it was a speech-stifling environment where certain issues were not allowed to be discussed, and many on the left called me a racist, trying to stop open debate because i believed in meritocracy regardless of skin color, the situation seems similar but a little different, now isolationist has become the new racist, a new label to call you, that and the like. there are many such labels to keep people silent, i mean, a supporter of hamas is funny, an opponent of israel is funny, but to use this to stifling substantive discussion, whether it comes from the left or the right, is, i think, the highest form of anti-americanism. yeah, i gotta say, if you're being attacked for asking what's good for the united states, asking it as an american who wants to lead the country, if that's considered out of line, if you're for... believing that it was lies, we would l

recently, it was a gathering place for the community following the guilty verdict in the killing of george floydgue joined the church in 1961 as a student and says it turned her into a social activist. >> oh, i think it was very important. it certainly influenced those of us who were members at the time. and, um, and how they live our life. >> reporter: the church mow ministers to the homeless and down and out in the area, and that's why they consider the location to be so important. >> it's a message, and the people in this community see it as a message. it's a reminder of what else is there. there is a place that's safe. >> reporter: and it may be about to get even safer because the city is on the verge of granting historical landmark status to the church which would severely restrict what could be done with the building. >> to me it would be insurance against a developer coming in. this is very valuable property, and this is the jewel of the developments always. but i feel that the importance of it is to have a piece of san jose preserved as a community meeting place for this neighborhood. >>