they were concerned about, and what martin luther king and others did in the moment was to make jim crownd jane crow visible. you either do this, or you lose your democracy. make a choice. these days in 2012, we either deal with poverty, or we lose our democracy. phil: that is not the only then that may move us to lose our democracy. i mean, we have got now people in power who believe that this is a nation of law unless we are scared. miranda schmrianda. do not even talk about that. >> the connection between poverty, tied into social misery, and oligarchy tied to greet avarice -- tied to read -- greed and avarice. the top 01% compared to the bottom 150 million. democracy cannot survive in this sense, but worse, and this is where we try to shatter this, everything is up for sale. and what was wonderful about brother martin and others is that even if they were tied to a losing cause, they were never up for sale. they were going to speak the truth. [applause] they were going to bear witness. you know what i mean? and it comes through strong in the text of that tradition. we are vessels. it

. >> you talk about jim crow. is voter i.d. same already. >> absolutely. >> what is at stake for america? >> do you think there was voter fraud in the 2008 senate race. >> i don't think there was voter fraud. i know there was voter fraud. >> what to fix. >> you can't run a system that is going to be 100% error free. >> if the fix is in. >> it is oddly ironic that we have an election coming up and they are stopping us and saying weigh can't do it. fox news reporting stealing your vote. reporting from new york city.rr >> the former louisiana senato, used to tell a joke after i dis bury me in louisiana so i can stay active in politics. celled. fox news has investigated voter fraud and how easy is it in this day and age to steal your vote. >> in connecticut. >> i was a little surprised because they said it's not possible. >> but what happened deceased mother voted in 2007. but apparently she did. the town clerk's record clearly shows that she voted more than 7 years after she died. >> it was impossible situation. >> it's what most

so slavery becomes reconstruction becomes jim crow becomes the civil rights movement becomes the era incarceration when despite of equal race and drug crime, black people are policed at higher rates because of racialized social control is extremely valuable to maintaining the status quo. and at the bottom of all of that, alexander points out is an imperative flowing from the elite class that blacks remain america's stigmatized class so that poor whites and blacks will never see their interests as aligned and thus merge as a potentially unstoppable super group demanding reform in economics and the legal system and the distribution of power. and one america rather than what we have which is two americas, separate and unequal. read this book, it will change how you see this country. you won't like what you read. but it is a must to understand where we are now. >> when i look at the contents of this book or look at the statistics that are borne out in this particular vein of conversation, it really is one of the most shameful things i feel as an american. >> yeah. >> and i wonder if as t

jim-crow had to go win the unelected judges gave us brown v. board of education but that was their principles. >> if i run a hotel market would correct for that. the market would sort that out better. >> guy look at the assets of most of the media also getting transfer payments that nobody wants to give up. shouldn't we applied the title "no they can't" to our side. i get despondent sometimes. >> i am not good at that. [laughter] thomas jefferson did say it is natural progress for government to grow and liberty to yield. i never thought welfare would be peeled. but then losing ground was written toothache how they people have got 10 that welfare how capitalist produce win i said "no they can't" i left out that does not need we can't add by entrepreneurs pursuing profit and music had trouble also private sector that seems to overcome the trend with there are more people are age and look at steve. states suddenly pay attention state pension funds? this is now in the deuce i am optimistic. >> i am heather. i ride the randolph foundation. to see th

hillary shelton the naacp says holder is right. >> jim crow is dead and buried. james b. ll more insidious and trickyer than ever before. >> jim crow was the area of institutionalized segregation from reconstruction to the mid 1960s in which many southern states prevented black from voting using poll taxes to even murders and lynchings. >> more than 50 years later america now has a black president. shelton charges supporters of voter id laws want to turn back the clock. >> suppress votes all together. that is unamerican. that is undemocratic. >> voter id laws are not the only tactic he points to. take the 2010 maryland governor's race in which gop governor early faced off against martino maley. republicans sent out this robo call to more than 100,000 voters predominantly african americans. >> i am calling to let everyone know that governor o'malley and president obama have been successful. our goals have been met. >> prosecutors say the goal was to convince any one who answered there was no need to go to the polls which were still open. >> we are okay. everything is fine.

. >> talk about jim crow. is it voter id? >> absolutely. >> even to murder. >> even to lynchings. >> what's at stake in america. >> you think there was voter fraud? >> i don't think. i know there was voter fraud. >> you can't run a system that is going to be 100 percent error free. >> if the fix is in. >> it is oddly ironic we have an election coming up and they are saying we can't do it. >> fox news report stealing your vote. reporting from new york city here is eric shawn. >> er law used to tell a joke. after i die, bury me in louisiana so i can stay active in politics. a clever line and at times you have to chuckle at the length some politicians will go to win an election. when that happens it may be you who is being robbed. your vote canceled out. fox news has traveled across the country to investigate charges of voter fraud and ask the question how easy is it even in this day and age to steal your vote? >> stonington, connecticut. >> i was surprised because they said this wasn't possible. >> what was not possible that th

create the savings then you're going to have a doubling in our interest rates that's a financial jim crow law well but it's also this notion that the solution to everything is cheap interest rates and cheap interest rates will make every single human problem go away a quote here from cecilia munoz director of the white house domestic policy council said we must keep rates low so more americans get a fair shot a more affordable education and a clear path to the middle class well interest rates have to low they've been declining max for thirty years why then has the middle class also been declining if the only way to the middle class is low rate you tell me max where is the middle class the quote selective interest rates engineering the financial engineering is also applied to interest rates and as reporting out if you're not somebody with a huge lobbying effort in washington you get penalized with higher rates predatory rates payday loan rates if you're on the inside if you're a clip the credit if you're a political hack the cost of your money is zero percent and if anyone questions that y

. >> jim crow is dead and buried but one more is well and tricky as ever before. >> jim crow was the area of segregation from reconstruction total mid 1960s. in which many southern states prevented blacks from voting using everything from taxes and literacy tests to murders and lynchings. >> 50 years later, america now has a black president. shelton charges that supporters of voter i.d. laws want to turn back the clock. >> the only way is to is suppress votes altogether. that is unamerican. >> and voter i.d. laws aren't the only tactic that he points to. take maryland governor's race in which one faced off a democratic challenger, republicans sent out a robo call to more than 100,000 voters predominantly african-americans. >> i wanted everybody know that president obama has been successful. >> prosecutors say the goal it was convinces anyone that answered there was no need to go to the polls which were still open. >> we're okay. everything is fine -- >> it didn't work. the republican lost and his campaign aide was later arrested. they found him guilty of four counts of voter fraud. >

. >> jim crow is dead and buried but one more is well and tricky as ever before. >> jim crow was the area of segregation from reconstruction total mid 1960s. in which many southern states prevented blacks from voting using everything from taxes and literacy tests to murders and lynchings. >> 50 years later, america now has a black president. shelton charges that supporters of voter i.d. laws want to turn back the clock. >> the only way is to is suppress votes altogether. that is unamerican. >> and voter i.d. laws aren't the only tactic that he points to. take maryland governor's race in which one faced off a democratic challenger, republicans sent out a robo call to more than 100,000 voters predominantly african-americans. >> i wanted everybody know that president obama has been successful. >> prosecutors say the goal it was convinces anyone that answered there was no need to go to the polls which were still open. >> we're okay. everything is fine -- >> it didn't work. the republican lost and his campaign aide was later arrested. they found him guilty of four counts of voter fraud. >

. >> jim crow is dead and buried but one more is well and tricky as ever before. >> jim crow was theof segregation from reconstruction total mid 1960s. in which many southern states prevented blacks from voting using everything from taxes and literacy tests to murders and lynchings. >> 50 years later, america now has a black president. shelton charges that supporters of voter i.d. laws want to turn back the clock. >> the only way is to is suppress votes altogether. that is unamerican. >> and voter i.d. laws aren't the only tactic that he points to. take maryland governor's race in which one faced off a democratic challenger, republicans sent out a robo call to more than 100,000 voters predominantly african-americans. >> i wanted everybody know that president obama has been successful. >> prosecutors say the goal it was convinces anyone that answered there was no need to go to the polls which were still open. >> we're okay. everything is fine -- >> it didn't work. the republican lost and his campaign aide was later arrested. they found him guilty of four counts of voter fraud. >> in r

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,

. >> jim crow is dead and buried but alaska james. jim crow was the era of segregation.e mid 1960s in which many southern states prevented blacks from voting using everything from taxes and literacy taxes to murders. of course, 50 years later, america now has a black president. shelton charges that supporters of voter i.d. laws want to turn back the clock. >> the only way they win elections is suppress votes altogether. that is unamerican. >> and voter i.d. laws are not the only tactic he points to. >> take the 2010 maryland governor's race in which he faced off a democratic challenge martin o'malley. they sent out a robo call to 1,000,000 voters predominantly african-americans. >> we're calling that the governor has been successful. our goals have been met. >> prosecutors say the goal was to convince that there was no need to go to the polls which were still open. >> we're okay. everything is fine. only thing is left is to watch it on tv tonight. >> the republican lost and campaign aide was later arrested. they found him guilty of four counts of voter fraud. >> niosh vi

that is the idea behind the jim crow museum in big rapids, michigan.ay houston tells us it's about education and we want to warn you some of the artifacts might be offensive. >> how far -- and -- however, we're telling you we don't like people to stick their heads through linen or cloth banners and people will pay money and throw rocks. >> reporter: hard to look at and offensive. horrible. these are some of the words used to describe objects at the jim crow museum racist memorabilia in michigan. >> most of the objects are negative. they're aspect black caricatures. and that they segregation memorabilia. in those cases, i believe, and i mean, this they should be in the garbage can or -- [ indiscernible ] finally, we come here. >> reporter: the idea is not to offend but to educate. >> and this is about phoning. not racism or that other crap. what it is is to get people to think about themselves. >> reporter: it's something he has been striving for his whole life. the museum's founder has been collecting symbols of racism since he was a boy growing up in

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of course, at that time, we had jim crow south, you know- we still had a jim crow south at that time. yeah. >> you see, that's what i mean by empowerment- he had to empower the african-americans so that they could then make the decisions. i understand that. >> this other step that you are taking, where you differ from your father and the others, is this then- it doesn't seem to me, from what i'm hearing, that this is actually a swing back, if you wanted to call it that, toward original islam doctrine and so forth, as it is a moving forward into maybe another arena. am i on track with that, or- >> well, yes. to me, the change is a moving forward into real islam, but it is also a moving forward into the world of reality. and i don't think the qur'an, or the religion given to us as given by- as it is preached by muslims of the world could have brought about this change in me, or in many of those like me- i don't think it could have done it. it took what that man did, it took his trick to break the grip of what we thought the world was, what we thought white people were, what we thought t

so many of the old forms of discrimination that we supposedly left behind during the jim crow era areat's why i say we have to end racial capitalism. >> where people get lost in this is they fail to recognize that the exact crimes for which black and brown men are being incarcerated are being committed every day at the same frequency or a higher frequency by white or non-hispanic, non-black individuals, karen, and it is easy to be like, oh, well, you know, they must have been doing something. there's got to be something they were doing. that's sort of the easy knee jerk. but that, statistic alleyalally utterly wrong, which leads you to see the only characteristic is the race of the individuals, karen, and it's the same crime, totally different treatment. am i missing something? >> no, i think that's right, and what i would like to put out there is what you're talking about is structural racism, right, a self-fulfilling prophecy, so we have young black and brown men being incarcerated and charged with these crimes at a much higher rate, dylan, than you were just talking about. at the s

in 1910, which is the height of the jim crow, the height of lynching in america, this african-americanmunity that was so solid and built up around this great university called howard university, it was the black as spiration at the time. >> there's going to be new people who discover this and discover its history but to see it in its modern context. what would you like that context to be? who is the target audience for it now? what type of productions would you like to see? >> everyone in terms of people coming to -- i mean, there are bus loads of people now coming to this particular section of the city, just not stopping to see the capitol, the mint, the smithsonian, they come to the neighborhood. so they will drop in to see two shows a night of whomever, whatever the place holds 600, 700 seating. and standing room for about 1100. so you can see busloads of people coming from japan, coming from denmark, coming from spain, mexico, to not only view and see the music that they know that is worldwide and the performances but they can also come and see this jewel. >> i want to ask about a

jim crow had to go, and jim crow began to go when unelected justice, thankfully, gave us brown versusboard of education. that was public schools. government schools -- if i run a hotel and i want to keep you out,, and the market would correct for that. >> i would boycott that hotel. lots of people would. the market would sort them out -- they would sort it out better them awkward. >> i look at the assets that are deployed by the other side, which include most of the media and the whole educational establishment. then you add demographics to that, increasing numbers of people are getting transferred payments, which intuitively, none of them want to give up. i wonder if we shouldn't apply the title of your book, "no they can't", to our side. i hope that would cheer me up a little bit because i get very despondent at times. >> yeah, i'm not good at showing up people sometimes. [laughter] [laughter] >> thomas jefferson said it is the natural progress of things for government to grow and at liberty to yield. we'll look at the stuff that is happening in spite of that? some of the things to

in the year the fifth amendment was ratified we're going to take a shot xander author of the new jim crow about the system that keeps millions of americans outside the democratic process. illegal. download the official ulti allocation joy so knowing called talk from the i choose option. like. video on demand keys mind roll calls. and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. machine on the call. me is at least. a. blemish free. education free in-store charge free arrangement three. three zero three legged old free blog libby over for your media project a free meal gondar teton com. yesterday senior pentagon official signed off on a new trial for alleged nine eleven mastermind khalid sheikh mohammed now the trial is going to be in front of a military commission after over a decade he and four others who were accused of planning the september eleventh attacks are once again charged with murder in violation of the law of war attacking civilians hijacking aircraft and terrorism all of which are punishable by the death penalty now in a reign of the five men will be held at good mon next month but

color and this is the way police are always going to specially if you look you know through the jim crow era and before for african-american communities police were never a source of safety and now it's starting to reach so wide that even privileged folks like myself are being spied on and police are losing our right to privacy but certain communities never have that right and you know i think michelle alexander's book new jim crow talks about this way that an entire generation of people being criminalized if we look at the n.y.p.d. and specific four million young men mostly black and latino have been stopped by police completely innocent over the last eight years in the so-called stop and frisk and this is you know it's a criminalization of a general generation. and it's going on our show later on this week these are excited to talk to just one last thing do you think that there's a way to fight this or is there a way that it can be used because one of the things we also saw with occupy movement is that often a large police presence. led to violence like the clashes led to the excessive

joining me to discuss it is michelle alexander civil rights advocate and author of the book the new jim crow mass incarceration and the age of colorblindness michel i want to thank you so much for joining us tonight and you know you've gotten a lot of attention for this book and rightly so right how can it not get a lot of attention especially when you put statistics out there like that but what do you think took so long for people to really start talking about this issue for it to become something that's more acceptable in the media. well i think many of us have been more or less lulled to sleep about the true nature of mass incarceration in america after all prisons are out of sight out of mind most prisons are located in predominately areas that's where most new prison construction has occurred and those who cycle in and out of our prisons and jails are typically folks who are living in racially segregated get it why communities and so this cycle and system of mass incarceration happens outside of conscious awareness of you know most mainstream white americans in particular who rarely hav

the year the fifth amendment was ratified or to speak with michelle alexander author of the new jim crow about the system that keeps millions of americans outside the democratic process. or is that similar to the believe you should be sitting on the market leader in the wake of the recent military coup there are growing fears if you are of the state plunging deeper trapped in civil strife. yesterday senior pentagon officials signed off on a new trial for alleged nine eleven mastermind khalid shaikh mohammed and the trial's going to be in front of a military commission after over a decade he and four others who were accused of planning the september eleventh attacks are once again charged with murder in violation of the law of war attacking civilians hijacking aircraft and terrorism all of which are punishable by the death penalty now an arraignment for the five men will be held a good moan x. months but it's been a long and winding road to get there so they were originally charged in a military commission back in two thousand and eight when the obama administration came to washington the

. >> slavery reconstruction, jim crow, the civil rights movement, this is my family story struggling and fighting for humanity and freedom and context and the culture that was saturated with injustice and the humanization. what is so amazing about this narrative and this story is that not only does my family who not know where the plantation is in escambia county, we now own that and there are members of my family currently living on it as free people who have property rights to a, codify and protected by the triet now how many countries in the world is it possible to have a group of people who were once leaves on a piece of property a few generations later own the property they were living on so this makes this place absolutely amazing. yes of course we notice that progress in the country by having a black family in the oval office. there are not many countries around the world you would see the subdominant cultures rise to that level and it's a few generations after the civil rights movement. so it's amazing to me and i am delighted to think about what is it about this country and

case in point, michelle alexander is doing extremely well now with this book, "the new jim crow. "money when the first presented it, they printed two or 7,000 copies. i want to see it was between two and seven thousand. that's all they printed on the first print of her book. but michelle alexander, with this provocative text, got to work and went around the country, doing all the thing outside have to do to get the country engaged in a conversation about our criminal justice system, about what the calls the any jim crow. now thanks thanks to cornell wet become has 200,000 copies. look at the conversation. look at the conversation that michelle alexander has kicked up about the racist prison industrial complex and prison system we have. so success isn't defined but the number of books sold. and dr. west is one of my dearest friends and we have done a lot of things but never written a book together until now. and it's called the rich and the rest of us. a poverty manifest stop we have been talking about this for a long time but now the book comes out in april and we're going around

dialogue going on that has been in parts ignited by professor alexander and her new book, the new jim crow, and we want to begin a public dialogue from where we think critically about the effects of what has been called the war on drugs in our communities. thank you for coming, and i am going to turn the microphone over to commissioner davis. >> before we get started, thank you all for coming out, and in the western division where i work, we do a lot of work with families that have been impacted by this war on drugs, and we have seen a wide range of that impact. i want to it knowledges the chief of juvenile probation and thank him for being here as well. for 40 years as a nation we have waived this widespread war on drugs, and there has been an increase focus on drug-related crimes, and with major increases in funding to law enforcement and criminalization in communities of color and this increase in prison and jail population, we really want to examine it and take a closer look. this is an opportunity to take part in a critical and honest dialogue about the impact of the war on drugs and

of restrictions don't fit the day, what we need to do to make sure that we are not creating a new jim crow system in san francisco. we'll duplicate this file, send one or to the full board and adhere to the call of the chair. if we can take that without objection. on the underlined ordinance, we will agree to move to the full board with recommendation. thank you very much. president chiu: thank you, colleagues. supervisor avalos: we are going to go to item number four, i know folks are waiting for items 2 and 3, but lots of people are here to speak on item number four that we have lost in the process. item #5, excuse me. before we do that, can we take a three-minute break? >> hearing on collaborations' -- experience and repeated exposure to violence and drama, review of current programmatic strategies to address posttraumatic stress in children and research from the child, research program. -- child tramua resaercearch program. supervisor olague: i want to apologize for the late start, but we are finally here. i think those of you that were able to stay and still be here providing testimon

read "the new jim crow." it lays it out brilliantly. >> mr.eharp, you have been a journalist, we went in front of the house you grew up in jersey and showed what you went through. did you do it because you wanted to incite violence or try to get a conviction or were you showing people that people go through this and that's why it meant so much to so many? >> right. to show people, you know, here is where i lived. this is where those lessons took effect. but also because the outpouring of emotion over that particular piece was really rather overwhelming. i'm not talking about from african-americans. >> a lot of people. >> i'm talking from a lot of people. >> of all colors. i have to leave it there. >> who didn't know the story. >> thank you both. we'll be right back. wake up! that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm. for half the calories plus veggie nutrition. could've had a v8. since ameriprise financial was founded back in 1894, they've been committed to putting clients first. helping generations through tough times. good times. never taking