terms of what you write about. >> guest: perhaps what was most fascinating to me, as i'm saying, jim crow segregation is formed, and ideally the african-american funeral director's going to have a secure market of black consumers because saying that black people should go to the black funeral home, white people should go to the white funeral home. what happens, actually, is the modern funeral industry takes off more in the 1920s because of the funeral home. before that embalmers would just come to your house and you would embalm somebody in your home, and you would lay them out in the parlor which is why we ultimately changed the name of the parlor to the living room. many listeners don't know that, but architects finally decided the parlor was so associated with death that when the funeral homes started to separate death from the home, architects said we're going to call the living room the living koma so people -- room, so people will never associate it with death anymore. so in the 1920s funeral homes take off, but the other thing that happens is hospitals come, the modern hospital com

it just clicked -- why not bring the two together to bring this link from the past unsegregated jim crow to what is happening in the 21st century and that has been happening? i think i was inspired by michele alexander's booke." >> it is my pleasure to say, ms. colvin, without you we would not be where we are. [applause] thank you for sharing your story, and keep telling your story because we need to know, and our children need to know, and our children's children need to know your story. and we want to thank our sponsors today. we have the san francisco unified school district. we have marked as bookstores, who will be selling this -- ms. colvin's book, written about her, by philip house. we have sponsorship from the african diaspora, and the friends of the san francisco public library. i serve as part of the african- american interest committee that helped put this program together, and i want to thank all of you for coming, and i want to thank sfgtv for taking the program today. we want to thank the department here at san francisco public library, and we are having a reception in l58,

slavery reconstruction, jim crow, the civil rights movement, this is my family story of struggling and fighting for humanity and freedom in a context, and a culture that was saturated with injustice and dehumanization. now what is so amazing about this narrative, this story, is that not only does my family know where the plantation is, escambia county, we now own it. and there are members of my family currently living on it as free people, who have property rights to it, codified and protected by the rule of law. now how many countries in the world is it possible to have a group of people who were once slaves on a piece of property, a few generations later actually owning the property they were living on, they were being enslaved on? this makes this place absolutely amazing. yes, of course we noticed the progress -- progress in our country by having a black family in the oval office. there are not too many countries around the world where you can see subdominant cultures rise to the that level, that status just a few generations after movements like the civil rights movement. it's amaz

that is jim crow another his best. jim crow, the wife, the children, and all of them. jim crow family. >> republicans say this is not some master plan to suppress democratic votes. many.o.p. lawmakers are not talking because they're under subpoena. but the party chairman says the chananges are about saving tax dollars and reducing voter frfraud. >> if citizens don't have faith. in one election, one vote, then it has no meaning. no value. >> in protest has for the first time in 72 years suspended voter registration. >> the impact so far has bee to create 1 drop. 10-point drop in the percent of registered voters in our state. >> study last fall by the liberal leaning brennan center for justice, found 15 states change election laws that could impact 5 million voters in november. amonghahanges requiring a government photo i.d. or proof of citizenship to vote. >> the idea that requiring an i.d. to cast a ballot which is the most important thing we do in this country, that is suppressing a vote is absurd. >> the lawsuit by the league naacp and aclus still i scovery phase. an

jim crow, the wife, the children, all of them.hole jim crow family. >> florida's republic dominated legislature and republic governor also imposed new restrictions on third party voter registration efforts and in protest the league of women voters has stopped doing it for the first time in 72 years, shep. >> shepard: phil, these changes in effect for the primary could be thrown out by the november election? >> >> they could. they are being challenged on the state and federal level. the lawsuit filed by the league of women voters naacp and aclu is still in the recovery phase. however, that could actually partly explain why governor rick scott declined to come here and answer questions today. the party chairman did tell us these changes were needed to save tax dollars and target voter fraud. >> if citizens don't have faith and one person, one vote, then elections mean nothing. they have no value. >> now, under the 1965 voting rights act, all southern states that had a history of voter intimidation and discrimination must submit for

there certainly are, but the disparity can't be explained by old-school jim crow digga tree. instead you have a collection of factors including neighborhood segregation such that racial minority groups particularly african-americans are more likely to reside in neighborhoods where crime rates are high in. they are more likely therefore to get caught up in crime and particularly the king kind of conspicuous crimes that attract police attention. you have the problem of economically deprived neighborhoods, neighborhoods and which in which in some cases be gray market which is already teetering on the edge of criminality is one of the main sources of income for many people so you have a hold, the isolation of the underclass such that they don't have access to job opportunities. they don't have access to good role models. all of these factors that are legacy of past discrimination but for the most part not the result of ongoing bigotry and ongoing overt discrimination. these are resulting in high incarceration rates for young black men so you have a collection of social injustices

the jim crow laws, we're all better off for that. that is an important issue. i strongly supported that. what you don't want to do is undermine the concept of liberty in that process. and what they did in that bill was they destroyed the principle of private property and private choices. so if you do this, all civil liberties are protected by private property rights, whether it's a tv station or newspaper or a church billing building or the bedroom. civil liberties are not divorced from property. if you try to improve a relationship by forcing and people and telling people what they can't do and you ignore and undermine the principles of liberty then the government can come into our bedrooms. that's exactly what has happened. look at what's happened to the patriot act, they can come into our bedrooms our businesses, the private property has been in their mind. it started back then. they can't twist that and say i was against or favored jim crow laws or anything else. it's the government that causes so much of the racial tensions when you look at anything from s

at the time it was government that was racist enforcing jim crow. businesses fought that. >> government was ricky's problem. he had to escape the government of missouri. down south, there are companies like pepsi that advertise to black consumers. >> john: they were doing it when it was illegal according to the government to share pepsi at the lunch counter? >> these ads came out before people knew who martin luther king was. >> john: pepsi wanted to make...? >> money. they were nearly bankrupt during the great depression. coke won't sell to negro consumers so the rest is history. >> john: in jacksonville, florida, city officials acting the behest of companies wouldn't force segregation ordinances? >> everybody knows about it separate and equal is okay on street buses and cars. what happened was, they didn't want to enforce it. it cost them business. so they fought it. blacks boycotted, it was a mess. ultimately the government in many cities has to enforce the businesses to do it. one city, jacksonville, the companies convinced the government to bac

slavery and jim crow lawws and segregation in the military.was all government. >> chris: it sounds like ideally. you are practical. you would like to return back a century when government didn't intervene when there was a economic problem and didn't soften the blow and didn't force racial -- >> guest: we advance the cause of liberty in a modern state. you go back a hundred years you go back to i didn't mean croww and slavery . the gold standard. we want to build on the freedoms that our founders gave us and the tremendous success in the prosperity. we are now losing our liberties with defense authorization act and rest of the american citizens. we are going back ward and all civil liberty will be attacked if we don't reverse this. >> chris: you are recently leaving the door open to runnning as an independent if you don't win the republican nomination. there was a conversation you and i had on "fox news sunday". let's watch. >> i have no intention of doing that. that doesn't make sense to me to think about it et alone to do that. >> chris: beca

states that were still subject to jim crow laws. it should be remembered that the legendary all-african american fighting force originally composed of 16,000 pilots and ground crews fought on behalf of the country that were also actively discriminated against. now we honor the air men because they proudly asserted their african-american heritage in spite of widespread racism. they painted details of their planes and bright red and earned their name red tails. these veterans returned to fight racism at home and helped develop a new aviation technologies. they set the stage for quality at the military and lead the nation on course and better for all america. i am pleased to be joined by the president of the tuskegee airmen. i would like to thank mr. leroy and j giliad. [applause] mr. james goodwin. [applause] mr. clyde grimes. [applause] mr. richard harter. [applause] mr. harold hodgkins. [applause] mr. james warren. [applause] and mr. les williams. [applause] i would sincerely like to thank you for attending with us today. mr. robert

run and the hope it will appeal to voters who would love to see us return to the good old days of jim crownamed bob frank. i don't know who he is. isn't it a shame that we have to talk about this stuff on martin luther king's birthday? when that man was so inclusive he wanted everybody to join together to have a better society, more fair society. holiday dedicated to him. isn't it a shame we have to talk about that garbage. >> let me tell you what else is a shame. liberals like the to you with had on can't see anything except through a prism of race. they fancy themselves progressives but they haven't progressed one inch from the days of segregation of jim crow. i'm starting to think that these people are laying the groundwork for an obama loss. that way they can say the only reason, the only reason barack obama didn't win re-election is because of these racist bigots who are all over america and threw the election to the republic candidate. it's pathetic on this day and any other day. >> bill: happening big time and ramping up now it looks like romney is going to be the guy who are l. run

. >> jim crowe was never like big fun in the kitchen. >> stephen: in some ways don't all women says ter stereotypes. >> all women face ster why types and the point isn't to say there is no oppression olympics where things are so much worse. >> stephen: who would say if there was. who would win. >> let me just suggest this, the real point of the book isn't that there are these bad things that these other folks are doing to african-american women. the real point of the book is that it parters how we feel about ourselves. that african-american women's internal life experiences are part of the american story. so when we are listening, for example, to the gop rhetoric about this nostalgia of this america when things were simpler and better, you can never tell that story if you bother to think about african-american women's experience. because there is no moment in american history where it is nostalgic and better to have been a little black girl so we are put black women's stories at the centre of the american story and all of a sudden the american story takes on a very, very different reson

throw that all out and think how often government was the culprit whether it was slavery or the jim crowaws and segregation in the military. this was all government. we want that out of the way. >> chris: sounds like idealia and i'm not saying you would do it because i know you are practical, sounds like you would like to return back a century to the days when government didn't intervene when there was an economic problem and didn't soften the blow and didn't enforce racial cession grace. >> if you go back 100 years you go back to jim crow laws and slavely. no, we don't want to go back. we want to build on the freedoms that our founders gave us and the tremendous success we have had and the prosperity. now, we are losing our liberties with the national defense authorization act and the arrest of american citizens. i mean we are going backwards on this and all civil liberty is delegate to be attacked if we -- is going to be attacked if we don't reverse this. >> chris: you have been leaving the door open again to running as an in dependent if you don't win the republican nomination. i want

surrounding circumstances were such that initially it sounded like the perfect case for an old school jim-crow style racial bigotry. there was a tree that was in the school that was described as the white tree where only white students could. and when a student asked whether he could sit, the next day there was an noosing from the tree, or not the next day, but later. racial tensions began to run high, and it looks from the outside like a little redneck town that was persecuting these six chairmen. as it turned out, the facts bryan and closer examination somewhat ambiguous. the assault was a real sold. six athletes to be when young man senseless. he was unconscious and taken to the hospital. so some criminal prosecution was appropriate. the incidents that were seen as obvious instances of racial bigotry were on further examination more ambiguous. it was not clear that the white tree was really restricted to white students. later people said, in fact, students of all races that under the tree. and so the point is that as the facts became more ambiguous it looks less and less like an obvious cas

this statistic drives home the very need to recognize that while the jim crow laws of yesteryear were certainly abolished, i also believe that they have been redesigned in repackage within the criminal justice system. [applause] and so, with this trend that i feel that we have no grass bond, a san francisco is an opportune time to pull together with the community and city hall. it is important to realize that while we have grappled with hit and run strategies, hoping that something would stick, especially to the eyes of job creation and job training, as well as job placement, we see that one of the main leaders, such as the utility of the redevelopment agency, which is next to becoming a thing of the past, it was one of the original lever's for job training and placement for people of minority communities, eliminating that particular agency and the debate that is certainly being well heard in sacramento and throughout the state of california. suggesting that absent of that asset, it puts the position that much more in a distressed place. says that non-profits and agencies, like good w

michelle alexander calling it the new jim crow. between the 1960's and 1970's, the prison population across the country doubled. in the 1970's and 1980's, it tripled. in california, and build no new prisons between the 1960's and 1970's, the height of political action. between the 1970's and 1980's, they build more prisons in california alone and in the past 100 years. one thing that has happened is the warehousing of black folks in these facilities. if you think about what slavery is, the parallels, it is not just a metaphor when you talk about modern-day slavery. slavery denied black folks the ability to be mobile. you were trapped on one location, in a plantation. it broke up our families. it subjected us to daly wants and violence. anything can happen to you -- an example to you for somebody else. it exploded us for our free labor. all of those things happen in prison today. the u.s. has 5% of the world's population and over 25% of the world's prison population. that is a big part of the equation. i am not waiting for superman,

for slavery, then jim crow, segregation and ku klux klan terror, and now the new jim crow, police brutality and murder, criminalization and mass incarceration and legalize discrimination yet again. that is it for the system. three strikes and you are out. now i want to focus on and talk a little bit about that last part that he talked about, the new jim crow, police brutality, legalize discrimination. wholesale criminalization. but i want to get at what is behind thatact, which creates a situation out of which that came. you have to go back to the post world war ii. back when large numbers of black people left the world's south migrating into cities across the country, looking for better opportunities for themselves and their families. now what they found was continued discrimination and employment in factories in the lowest paying, dirtiest and most dangerous jobs. but then you come up today and even that has disappeared. those factors have been mostly closed down, shipped halfway around the world by capitalists in search of greater profits who are subjecting the workers with more vicious

prophetic tradition that provided that leadership precisely because you had a people enslaved, jim crowed with terror and trauma and stigma, but still top the country are -- to talk to the country how to love. [applause] it is not a stereotype. you are of a tradition that has taught america about -- the best about itself. you talk about justice even when revenge is coming at you. that is spiritual purit. it is not just a political question. and [applause] we have 535 leaders in washington that are so obsessed with power and money. they are looking at where they're going to get money for the next election. when it comes to looking at the morals and providing for children of all colors, all they can think about is the election and that is back to business as usual. >> they are not leaders. [applause] it is so brilliant, what you just said. let's redefine the term. these 536 -- and let's throw by been in there, too. don't leave him out. -- joe biden in there, too. don't leave him out. [laughter] it is 537. they are not leaders. they are followers. they do what they are told by the people who