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of ways in which we deal with the problem that we see in black and hispanic and other minority committees that cause the foundational problems for kids going through their education. host: julian, rhode island, republican. caller: thank you for taking my call. i have a quick comment and a question. right before i started out in the workforce, i started working for the state. affirmative action started before that. i don't think where i work new what affirmative action was because i missed out on promotion after promotion after promotion over people -- from a different country. it is very frustrating. it was frustrating for myself to be able to understand why a young light -- white lady and a the new workforce, not being able to get a promotion because of the color of my skin and i don't limit on the people that got the promotion over me. i blame the people who did not know what affirmative action really meant. that is my comment, question would be -- my question would be. how would you deal with those issues -- that issue? guest: i think the caller is talking about of a situation in employment and affirmative action

so, that is inclusive of black women, hispanic women, asian women, all women of color. we also have our fearless foundation do our grant programs, and do a lot of educational programs, quite frankly, for small businesses that aren't ready to be backed by a venture capital fund. what i would tell you is, there are tremendous disparities in the venture capital space. in 2022, more than 288 billion dollars was deployed in veasey funding, in less than 0.4% of that went to women of color. >> less than 0.4? >> less than 0.4. and, two black women, it was zero point 13. >> wow. >> and we had a game-changer, because when we started this work more than four years ago, black women were getting point 000 6% of these funds. >> so, you know, it always comes at me when people raise questions about programs like yours, and funds like yours, and even about affirmative action. because the reason is a drive for this, is to undo what was done. i mean, they act like this is some natural occurrence, that women of color were not getting support. i >> yeah, it's unfortunate, because women of color are the most bum -- demographic.

of ways in which we deal with the problem that we see in black and hispanic and other minority committees that cause the foundationalems for kids going through their education. host: julian, rhode island, republican. caller: thank you for taking my call. i have a quick comment and a question. right before i started out in the workforce, i started working for the state. affirmative action started before that. i don't think where i work new what affirmative action was because i missed out on promotion after promotion after promotion over people -- from a different country. it is very frustrating. it was frustrating for myself to be able to understand why a young light -- white lady and a the new workforce, not being able to get a promotion because of the color of my skin and i don't limit on the people that got the promotion over me. i blame the people who did not know what affirmative action really meant. that is my comment, question would be -- my question would be. how would you deal with those issues -- that issue? guest: i think the caller is talking about of a situation in employment and affirmative action in em

absolutely essential, foundational to the big lie was the erasure of votes of black peoples' votes in philadelphia, atlanta, detroit, milwaukee, and the erasure of votes from hispanicnd indigenous and maricopa county. amy: then, we look at the crisis in niger a week after a military coup ousted the country's president. niger's new military leaders have just cut off military ties with france, its former colonial ruler. >> in view of france's casual attitude and situation, the national council for safeguarding the homeland has decided against the agreements. amy: one of the leaders had received military training and met with a top u.s. officer in niger just last month. african officers trained by the u.s. military have now taken part in 11 coups in west africa since 2008. all that and more, coming up. ♪ amy: welcome to democracy now, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. former president donald trump has pleaded not guilty to four felony charges over his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. trump entered the plea thursday in the same federal district court in washington, d.c. where more than 1000 of his supporters have faced crim