and he said you know it's no longer jim crow it's now james crow e s q and and to its certain extent that that it's that subtle more subtle more pulling away we see what the supreme court we see with all these states ash angel these laws and it makes it i think harder for average white people who who don't have much contact with the issues and don't think about these issues it's not the same kind of in your face stuff we saw when you and i were young you know back in the sixty's and seventy's. how do we cut through that how do we expose that it seems like the trayvon martin murder and the george zimmerman trial has at least cracked open that conversation but it's got to be a lot more than that does it not know that's true but i want to come back to the other bill madison he does that's a magnificent job done in washington d.c. the black eagle but there is a difference between james esquire jr that holds for the black middle classes because it's not in the face of the black middle classes and their children but for the black poor and their children the new jim crow is just as in your

which just today overturned a key provision of the voting rights act of 1965 which required the jim crow states to get federal permission before changing any of their voting laws. thankfully, chief justice john roberts, old blue eyes, knows that the south doesn't need to be baby sat anymore saying, quote, nearly 50 years later things have changed dramatically. yes, for some reason since the voting rights act was passedded, things have changed dramatically. therefore, we can get rid of it now. it's just like those outdated labor law that prohibit children from threading bobbins on a loom. a kid hasn't been suckd into one of those machines in year. let's stop playing nanny here. i'll have more on this important decision later in the show with my guest professor peniel joseph. i hear he's black. nation, i don't pay attention to south america any more than i care about east america or west america or upsidedown america. but even i cannot help but notice that brazil is going through a major political upheaval or as they call it futbol. jim? >> nearly a million people spilled into the streets

she is the author of "the new jim crow: mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness."en we will come back to talk about a new study, african- americans killed by police or security guards just in the last year. stay with us. ♪ [music break] >> this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. >> we turn now to report that that examines how what happened to trayvon martin and the lack of punishment phase by his killer is not unique. in 2012,ey conducted the malcolm x grassroots movement found at least 136 unarmed african-american s were killed by police , security guards, and self- appointed vigilantes over the course of a single year. one black person killed every 28 hours. >> for more we're joined by kali , "let youror of motto be resistance: a handbook on organizing new afrikan and oppressed communities." his organization's report is ghetto storm,"on documenting the extradition of killing of 313 black people in 2012 read shall alexander still with us, author of "the new jim crow." , very quickly, just go through

what we have now and i said this on saturday, it's not just jim crow. it's james crow esquire.s a sophisticated form of jim crow. "look" magazine in 1963 had a series of editorials and op-ed pieces where seven elected officials said racism--get this, this is going to sound strange. racism wasn't the problem. segregation was. and you think wait a minute, what are you talking about? well, you know, the stand your grouped law is bad law because once again it's disproportionate disproportionately impacts a group of people. can you imagine if trayvon martin had shot george zimmerman, do you honestly think he would have been given his gun, it would have taken 45 days to arrest him? until there was a demonstration? not in the united states. >> john: we never would have heard of either of these gentlemen if that had been the case. >> no, no, we wouldn't have. by the way when the president says trayvon--i could have been trayvon martin 35 years ago here's the thing that i said to people on my show. trayvon martin could have been barack obama. >> john: joe madison host of the joe madison

jim crow was a 100 year fact of life. and what has come since the 1960s is a mix of bad and good that fails to offset all that came before. the results of which continue in the relations between white and black right up through the trial and its aftermath. it's all part of the context in which we live. second is the combination of facts that create the context of the actual tragedy down there in sanford, florida. this killing of an african-american teenager. this fact that he pursued, mr. zimmerman, a young man, acting like he was a police officer, armed as if he was one. deciding on the guilt of that young man as if he had the rights and duty of a police officer and very well perhaps because he was carrying that gun felt like a police officer. who knows? who knows? well, this combination of history and context are the box in which this case came in. though the jurors were asked to rule what happened when those two men met up with each other. i don't think it's easily possible to ignore the circumstances of history and ge

why hasn't the new jim crow been a priority for eric holder?f this is something they feel deeply, if this is something that they and their children have the same status as brother i have not not been a part of what they do to ensure fairness and justice? they read it as political. we do not want to identify with black vote because of fox news and the rest of the reactionary folk. no. ofthey are going to be part the legacy of martin luther king and the others, truth is a justice that you pursue the matter who is coming at you. this black liberal class has proven itself to be too morally bankrupt, a hypocritical, and indifferent to criminality. no serious talk about torture, wall street criminality, wiretappers. why? they do not want the subsequent administration to take into jail. any reference of the hunger strike of our brothers in california and other places, and dealing with torture, sustained solitary confinement is a form of torture, but we will not talk about guantanamo. mos def pointed that out. jay-z has a lot to learn from him. forceda

it did not establish these jim crow loss.o when you look at a voting rights case like we just got in the shelby and you look at some of the other decisions that are being made on the heels of shelby, we are in danger of reliving the same thing if we're not careful. >> now, i understand your leadership on this issue. but the president himself, as you know, spoke profoundly about race at the end of last week. but he said he does not want politicians to lead this particular conversation. take a listen to what he said. >> you know, there has been talk about should we convene a conversation on race. i haven't seen that be particularly productive when you know, politicians try to organize conversations. they end up being stilted and politicized and folks are locked into the positions they already have. >> what's your response to what the president said? >> well, i don't disagree with that at all. i don't know that i want to be the one leading anything. but i really believe that the president is appropriate to jump start a discussio

act to be passed at the plea of martin luther king that those practices are eradicated will know jim crow is not gone in fact he's quite alive in cyberspace and that's the problem we actually have a greater distance franchise and problem of black voters hispanic voters and by the way one group is really affected is american natives voters we're talking about maybe six million voters to nine million voters are going to lose their right to vote i want to repeat that six to nine million voters are going to lose their right to vote because of the supreme court's action section for pre-clearance what that's all about and it's a fancy term preclears what that means is if you're going to jack around with the voter rules if you're going to move and close down voting stations in black neighborhoods so that you have lines that are seven and eight hours long i saw this myself in the last election if you're going to run have these racist tactics then you're going to have to ask the justice department first if you can do this pull this stunt now no one will have to clear anything what that means is th

trial of george zimmerman was solidly in the legacy of slavery of jim crow segregation in planning terror and the reality to current day reality of the new jim crow it was america saying again that black people have no rights that white people are bound to respect the verdict was outrageous illegitimates you know good what's your response to people who say race isn't an issue because in this case zimmerman says spanish. i say that those people have no idea what they're talking about the question was a zimmerman's race trayvon some race zimmerman said as soon as he saw trayvon knowing nothing other than he was looking at a black you miss that trayvon was up to no good he must be on drugs or something. called him all kinds of names i mean only thing he knew was that he was black so race had everything to do with the defense was able to bring on witnesses who added nothing to do trial other them that they had been victimized by a black child meet that race had nothing to do with it and see the thing as we are in a white supremacist society and everybody is trained in the outlook of white pri

trial of george zimmerman was solidly in the legacy of slavery of jim crow segregation in planning terror and the reality to current day reality of the new jim crow it was america saying again that black people have no rights that white people are bound to respect the verdict was outrageous you know legitimate you know good what's your response to people who say race isn't an issue because in this case zimmerman says spanish. i say that those people have no idea what they're talking about the question was a zimmerman's race trayvon to race zimmerman said as soon as he saw trayvon knowing nothing other than he was looking at a black you miss that trayvon was up to no good he must be on drugs or something. all them all kinds of names i mean only thing he knew was that he was black so race had everything to do with the defense was able to bring on witnesses added nothing to do trial other them they had been victimized by a black child media race had nothing to do with it and see the thing is we are in a white supremacist society and everybody is trained in the outlook of white privilege and

well, for the policy piece, we've got a law professor and the author of "ghosts of jim crow." to talk about the politic, adam green, co-founder of the progressive change campaign committee. thank you, both, for being here. >> good to join you. >> michael, i want to start with you and look specifically at how you can react to what justice roberts held in this shelby decision. essentially, congress was using old data to conquer a modern problem. and it needs to update the data. one question here, and we'll put this occuup on the screen for y can congress, a, simply update some of the numbers and data in these sections? can they modernize what is accounted as a trigger? number two, sort of a 2.0 approach, can congress look at a formula that says, okay, forget the literacy tests of the '60s. let's look at where discrimination is happening today and let's patrol that. if it's happening in the north, so be it. let's then supervise the north as well. what do you think of those approaches? >> candidly, i think congress needs to do both of those approaches given the makeup of the court

there's no confronting what michelle alexander called the new jim crow, a mass incarceration. there's no confronting the condemnation of blackness and how that is connected to why black people are treated and dehumanized in the criminal justice system. the reason trayvon martin goes from victim to criminal is because of a cultural racism that infects the united states. i'll say that the contradictions we're talking about up here are not contradictions. they're part and parcel of race and democracy in america. what dr. king and malcolm x and -- 49 years ago, fanny lou hamer said is this america before the credentials committee at the convention. 44 years old from louisville, mississippi, being beaten for voting rights. the said, is this america? lyndon johnson organized the press conference to take her off of national television because he said, who is that exposing the lack of democracy in the united states? so the contradictions that we're saying that you can have a black president of the united states, and you can have 841,000 black males in jail, that's not a contradiction.

act to be passed at the plea of martin luther king that those practices are eradicated will know jim crow is not gone in fact he's quite alive in cyberspace and that's the problem we actually have a greater distance franchised and problem of black voters hispanic voters and by the way one group is really affected is american natives voters we're talking about maybe six million voters to nine million voters are going to lose their right to vote i want to repeat that six to nine million voters are going to lose their right to vote because of the supreme court's action section for pre-clearance what that's all about and it's a fancy term preclears what that means is if you're going to jack around with the voter rules if you're going to move and close down voting stations in black neighborhoods so that you have lines that are seven and eight hours long i saw this myself in the last election if you're going to run have these racist tactics then you're going to have to ask the justice department first if you can do this pull this stunt now no one will have to clear anything what that means is t

and indeed we still need to -- slavery and jim crow and indeed we still need to. there are many areas in the criminal justice system with racial profiling, more likelihood of being arrested, four times as much if you're african-american than white, for marijuana, and sentencing, given if you're african-american. the needs for public health and public education and for jobs are significant and a much less net worth of african-americans, all vestiges of jim crow and slavery. as we look toward the fifth anniversary of that resolution and the 50th anniversary of the march on washington, both sides of this aisle need to look toward the least of these, people who have been discriminated against and enslaved by our nation's laws and rectify those lingering consequences. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute, revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the

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and i think it is synonymous with the lesser form that it was used in in the jim crow era.nd i think that we really need to value our fellow human beings and not use derogatory words like that, because i don't think you can divorce the word even in its modern sense from its negative connotation that it definitely gained in the jim crow era. >> a lot of people said they didn't understand. and even the witness which was interviewed here on cnn said she didn't understand rachel jeantel and a lot of african-americans said yes, i understood her and a lot of the younger people said i understood her. did you understand, collin, what she was saying? is it a generation gap? >> yeah, i definitely understood when she was saying in the sense that our generation is definitely influenced by -- as shelby said, we're definitely influenced by awe pop culture, by a media addiction that's predicated on the use of these words. and i definitely think it may have come across to the jurors a little bit differently because they are so much older than our generation. but i think, you know, presiden

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in both fifty yes remember the first of all jim crow used to be a democratic trick it was democrats stopping black people from voting fifty years ago and now it's republicans and it's not because they dislike the color of black people skin their brown people or red people they don't like the color of their votes blue now is it only republicans who are stealing vote not a chance the fact that is why that is why the republicans are getting away with it because their people use these voter suppression tactics all over there was a state senator in illinois for example named barack obama whose career began when he challenged the right to vote the the signatures of black people in one of the poorest districts on the south side of chicago had his opponent removed so that there was he ran unopposed because not because not because he was elected but because he used a really smelly racial trick to remove his opponent from the ballot so you know so look that's how the machines work both parties do it right now the big machines and the big threats are coming from the republicans but i saw democrats do i

local laws on the books that says it's okay for african-americans to own property but we know from jim crow it was hard to own property. we know that the legal courts are set up to handle any kinds of a change. and the turning the prop 8 as well as don't ask don't tell. and the fight in congress about sexual harassment in the military. yes. i agree there are businesses that do handle their business in an honor and integral way don't use fear and intimation on their workers we have businesses in this country that doughnut carry themselves in this high responsibility. we have a responsibility to push people out of their comfort zone. why the ballot and not the democratic process they've both democratic either way they're still public comment and a an up to the present time to take anna piece of legislation that is put forth and make amendments to it. this is the process. this is how we begin to resolve some of the issues and i want to call your attention supervisor breed in the presentation that president chiu present there's 3 steps; right? an employee makes a request the employer can grant

local laws on the books that says it's okay for african-americans to own property but we know from jim crow it was hard to own property. we know that the legal courts are set up to handle any kinds of a change. and the turning the prop 8 as well as don't ask don't tell. and the fight in congress about sexual harassment in the military. yes. i agree there are businesses that do handle their business in an honor and integral way don't use fear and intimation on their workers we have businesses in this country that doughnut carry themselves in this high responsibility. we have a responsibility to push people out of their comfort zone. why the ballot and not the democratic process they've

the jim crow of our parents' generation it is james crow esquire it is it is far more sophisticated it is far more subtle and i will it will be interesting to see what those six jurors once they start talking what went through their mind and i suspect that they were convinced that trayvon martin was to be feared. as many young african-americans are stereotyped and profiled it look we all do it it's part of our cultural conditioning is as i call it so. i think these protests are honest they are spontaneous i would warn people to be careful of provocative words who would try to turn it into a violent situation that would only bring sympathy to zimmerman and right now he doesn't need the sympathy and it would bring disgrace to trayvon martin. on my radio show today i had a white caller who talked about a black person following him for a block or so in a neighborhood and i said what were you thinking and he said i was afraid i might get robbed or beating up and later on i was talking with an african-american and who had talked about being followed by a white person so what were you thin

the criminal justice system operates as a new jim crow system. everybody to read that book and continue to support ground troop like the dream defenders. >> the young people are the key, are not they in. >> they are. in every movement, it was all about young people pushing change. >> all right. our second topic, in light of last month's supreme court decisions. striking down a key provision of the voting rights act. attorney general eric holer is taking texas to court. >> based on the evidence of intentional racial discrimination that was presented just last year in the recase of texas v. holder as well as the history of pervasive voting-related discrimination against racial minorities, that the supreme court itself has recognized, we believe that the state of texas should be required to go through a preclearance process whenever it changes its voting laws and practices. this is the department's first action. to protect voting rights, following the shelby county decision. but it will not be our last. >> what does that mean? >> that the attorney g

we shall pursue our own 'scorched earth' policy and burn jim crow to the ground!"> john lewis, you also said a part that didn't get included was, "in good conscience, we cannot support the administration's civil rights bill, for it's too little, too late. there's not one thing in the bill that will protect our people from police brutality." >> i thought, and i believe, that the proposed civil rights bill was not enough. president kennedy took the position that if a person had a sixth grade education, that person should be considered literate and should able to register to vote. those of us in the student nonviolent coordinating committee took the position that the only qualification for being able to register to vote in america should be that of age and residency, nothing more or anything less. we wanted a much stronger bill. but the whole idea of the march was not to support a particular piece of legislation. it was a march for jobs and freedom. it was a coalition of conscience to say to the congress and say to the president of the united states, "you must act." w

it took 100 years for the civil rights movement to send jim crow packing.s we faced in america have changed over time, just as the country has changed. but today there are still deep injustices that we must address. our criminal justice system too often treats millions of americans differently because of the color of their skin. right here in new york city, under the stop and frisk policy, the police stop more than half a million people last year. 87% of those that were stopped were minorities. but 89% of the stops resulted in no arrests, no summons. they were just people whose rights were violated for no legal reason. the night trayvon martin was killed. they let his shooter walk free without even conducting an investigation. they just took his word for it. if the police in sanford had acted justly, maybe trayvon martin's parents wouldn't have had a grievance and called me and others to come publicize their demands for the arrest and a proper investigation. i know even the president of the united states wants the stand your ground laws reexamined. >> for t

author of the book "the new jim crow." michelle, you and i have spoken before and your book transformed the way i think about race and criminal justice. do you see an opening right now in the very rare public conversation we're having about race and criminal justice to really get at the root of the problem here? >> well, i'm hopeful in part because of groups like the dream defenders, which have so inspired me in the past week. you know, i think, you know, immediately following the verdict, there was great reason to be discouraged. there seemed to be a media circus and a lot of punditry. >> i hate that. >> but it wasn't clear a meaningful movement might emerge. what we see with the dream defenders is young people standing up, standing there ground courageously and nonviolently, taking matters in their own hand, not trusting that politicians who have done so little in the past decades to stand up for the rights of black and brown men, in particular, and poor people of all colors, not trusting them to somehow solve this probl

laws, lowbacks to jim crowe, saying the civil rights -- voting rights act of 1965, every as peck of it, is still relevant today. if you don't think so you are a racist. of continuing to -- racial preferences and high education. this president and house attorney general and this administration has not hesitated to drag race in the issues and divide the country along racial lines when it serves their political agenda. >> thanks very much. glad to have you here for this. when we come back, cincinnati strikes back. one of those rogue agents in the irs scandal testifies before congress. could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. mmmhmmm...everybody knows that. well, did you know that old macdonald was a really bad speller? your word is...cow. cow. cow. c...o...w... ...e...i...e...i...o. [buzzer] dangnabbit. geico. fifteen minutes could save you...well, you know. she was a picky eater. we now i'm her dietitian... ...anlast year, she wasn'tating so well. so i recommended boost complete nutritional drink to help her get the nutrition she was missing. and now she drinks it every d

when they say that, they mean this old-fashioned jim crow version of white man from south says you lieemember what the president was saying just before the "you lie" comment is he was talking about the upcoming passage of the affordable care act. he was saying undocumented immigrants would not be covered under it. the thing that caused it wasn't the old-fashioned jim crow racism, this black/white divide we typically think of race as operating but this anxiety about who is in the social safety net and who is out of it. particularly, this anxiety about immigration from mexico and latin america. >> well, that's interesting. i hadn't thought of it that way. it was an attempt to win over people. >> right, exactly. don't worry, i'm not going to let those people be part of it. >> when we talk about the politics of the immigration debate we're talking about the republican party getting a very low share of the latino vote last year and needing to improve that in a america that's getting more diverse and there's this empathy gap when you ask which party shows more care for them. i wonder -- this

the caller mentioned jim crow laws.here was a time when the majority of americans supported segregation in our public accommodations. majority supported segregation in the schools. certainly in the south where i of the the majority people supported the jim crow laws. it was the courts who came in. it was not public opinion at first. it was the courts that said those are unconstitutional. regardless of the fact that over half the people support them. because theytand are a violation of equal protection. let's bear that in mind. i am glad jim crow is way behind us. --was not necessary necessarily the majority rule that got us there. the president announced he would deploy the mandate for larger companies for one year. what happens next? i want the whole wall permanently delayed. it is a train wreck. it is not going to work. the idea that it was called the affordable care act and has increase premiums to the extent it has. it is causing small businesses to make decisions not to hire their and to cut back on air -- ours. it

eighty five percent of all the jim crow ups. don't die from. so brady soil. is designed to die from road genetic engineering is on the coat tail of conventional industrial agriculture that is characterized by the proliferation of chemicals fertilizers pesticides herbicides fungicides all of these chemicals. costs on in on energy production they have cost in environmental cleanup this is self-propagating genetic pollution we have no technology today to fully clean up the damaged gene pool maybe we will in the future but we're not feeding the products of good food science to the entire market wasted and release even to the environment where they can never be recall. any scientists who tells you they know that g m o's are safe and not to worry about it is either ignorant of the history of science or is deliberately lying nobody knows what the long term effects will be geneticists dr david suzuki genetically engineered foods go through a rigorous review before they are approved the review includes analysis of the trams sharing plant versus its parent.

wealth of the jim crow era from the federal law enforcement of 2013. eric holder made the statement accusing the jury of racism r feinstein george zimmerman not guilty. >> of unimaginable ogress we have travelled a long way to quality in opportunity. as we ha seen our work is far from over. lou: network involved with the department of justice active involvement to promoting anti-zimmerman protest last year after is of herman's arrest. a division of the department of justice called the community relations service actually spend thousands of taxpayer dollars to organize to train protesters with civil-rights activist. with the 100 city tour to raise tensions in nationwide. we have asked the justice department but we're still waiting for their a answer. you would not kn but much of america respects the jury decision that there was reasonable doubt to convicted of murder or manslaughter. hundreds n thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in sacramento a oakld and in new yorkity was hard to tell the difference between the demonstrators in the tourist