jim crow never really went away. what to push back your thoughts about that and how are you trying to make sure that the pos is not being repeated in the presence as well, is absolutely right. racism and sexism for that matter really found very fertile land here in this. so i know that, you know, the rest of the country uh, outside of oregon, realize that and we're talking about you damaged years today, but that is just one example of how racism is baked into the system. there are a number of other situations and circumstances in which people have ever had a promises broken in terms of play deals, folks notice can sixers or or the forgotten then there's the over use of very visual vendor law and predominately black parishes. so he is absolutely right. uh, the racism and sexism is in the system by design. it is designed that there is a protection and, and service to one demographic and controlling over policing, and olga prosecuting for another demographic. this is, it is very american, but it is up to us to begin to

the jim crow convictions. because i want you to tell us the story of brandon jackson, because this is not a c reca cool legal situation that we're talking about really lies to being impacted. what do we know about need to know about branding? so yeah, brandon jackson was convicted of armed robbery in 1997 and his trial at his trial he was, he was convicted by a non unanimous jury. so 1010 people voted to convict him. and 2 people voted not to convict. so in any other state except for oregon, this would have resulted in a missed trial and he would have had the right to a new trial in louisiana that he was convicted. he was sentenced initially to life in prison, although no one was, was injured during this armed robbery. and that's ends of it was later reduced to 40 years, but he remains in prison now, you know, 25 years later. um, so that, that sort of the, the, the short the short version of brandon story. yeah. i, i live in and brandon jackson here because in the fort lines documentary that you worked without

jim crow, but to factor -- de facto. where people live, the schools people attend, the networks people have access to. that is the jim crow junior. we are talking about not losing sight of the humanity. you are right. immigrants are not monolithic but they are very different. culture makes a difference, strong institutions make a difference. but when you have deep institutions that are racist and white supremacist in terms of how they connect, relate, perceive black folks, especially black folks who have been here for a long time, then you have something going else. keep in mind, we are never solely victims. i come from a black people who have produced some of the greatest warriors and freedom fighters in the face of overwhelming trauma, overwhelming terror. every community has its thugs. i have a lot of gangster in me. i work on it every day. host: here is joseph in compton, california. democrats line. caller: good morning. it is an honor to talk to you, mr. cornel west. i read your books. i also come from the streets o

and then there was like jim crow, but nothing happens in an instant. there was a period of transition in between and. when i realized my grandmother's grandfather had run for office in 1880 and reconstruction ended in 1876, and the terror of the klan had been unleashed for four years. and when he would run for reelection, six people would be killed in that election by white supremacists. i realized i'd stumbled into this kind of like i've been taught a fiction. i've been told he was a reconstruction statesman. he was a statesman after reconstruction. and then the only thing i've been taught about him is that he helped start virginia state university. and so as i dug in, i what i realized was a it was after reconstruct action b he led blacks out of the republican party. c they he, he went into partnership with a former confed at general. i just kept getting weirder to create a third party called the re adjusters and they took over the virginia government for about four or five years. the governorship, both houses, both us senators and i was like, well,

the court and the acp both thought that this be the death of jim crow. would be the end of housing segregation. and yet it persists. decades beyond shelly versus kramer. decades beyond the 1968 fair housing act. so why is there housing segregation in the absence of racially restrictive covenants? entire metropolitan areas, right? cities, suburbs were built around racial segregation. you know, see, for example, atlanta. right. and whole economic ecosystems developed out of it. right. from realtors to landlords. and the explicit legally sanctioned racism might go away. but incentives to maintain the status quo are ever present. right. the cultural habits and norms of white homeowners fleeing black neighbors don't go away. fair housing investigators keep finding realtors who steer black and white buyers to different neighborhoods. mortgage practices from appraisal ads to credit terms maintain racial inequality. and even people at the bottom of the market are stuck. financing with installment contracts with few of the usual protections that the law guarantee

. >> sodas after emancipation in the jim crow education no matter how much industrial training or howh they are able to become, they are not accepted in are not going toou be so despite having livedmi here for millenn, it plays central to their identity. georgians of united states president and federal government decided they needed to benm removed in the 1830s. >> an idea goes back further so thomas jefferson talks about the ability of forcing or convincing native americans to migrate to purchase louisiana territory is like a byproduct so the idea is pretty old by the 30s. it becomes a central goal of americans and most tag to andrew jackson selection and they make an official policy and make it their primary goal so an old idea that becomes his focus so increases mechanism and as far as georgia is concerned, it's george's founders established which when you look at the map, most of the lamb in georgia claims the territory and cherokee territory, it creates this drive to possess close lands. encouraged by economic changes and marker revolution and early 19th century. there is incredi

and the laws that struck down jim crow were not a magic wand that erased those impacts. as more and more people who lived during jim crow are dying, we need to tell their stories. we need to teach the good, the bad and the ugly of our history, to show how it shaped us as a nation and show that we can heal from it -- and so that we can heal from it. this amendment teaches a delusional and irresponsible history. i yield -- i reserve my time. the chair: the gentlewoman reserves. the gentleman is recognized. mr. roy: article written by the spouse of a member of our military in the federalist and the mother of a former department of defense education student talked about the training that she discovered when she dove into what their students were being taught. and she saw that there would be an equity and access summit, knowing that equity means different things to different people, she says, i wanted to get a sense of what it meant. and i was floored, she said. they released a video of summit clips in which a principal talks about a student who felt like he'd done something

. >> joey: premise of the argument, post-jim crow, not post-civil rights, post-jim crow through civilights and where we are today. commonalities affected the african american community and they don't have the opportunity to learn at early age things necessary to impress college application, but have intellect and when given the opportunity merit. i'm going, what risk do you have in taking race out and still looking at other things? background and socio-economic position, i don't know this cases you can't take those factors into play, unless you support a poor appalach ian, wh wants to educate one of those folks? it is more class divide than race divide and college probably should look at where they can lift people up. isn't that what education is supposed to do? have work ethic and didn't have the circumstance. i'm behind that. aoc is right, get rid of preferential treatment, you might want to sue before you ask to do it, not pull out of thin air. >> asian students got together to sue because they were being discri discriminated against. >> tom: hotep, you shy away from racial issues,

during that time i did not know anything about jim crow. i thought jim crow was a person.along, i went into the navy. when i got out, i got -- i could not even get a job. here i am a veteran. the guys in my classroom got the jobs, and they were white. they would not even hire me, and this was in the 80's. if you want to trace the jim crow era, black people were labeled negroes. i did newman know i had a country until i left my country -- i didn't even know i had a country until i left my country. abroad, i was called in american. at home i was called everything but an american. guest 1: i'm sorry that happened to you. i can believe that, that happened to you, and the trauma and everything from that. i think that is what people are wrestling with, with all of this. there was a century f jim cro -- century of jim crow after reconstruction. we know about vagrancy laws. we know about pretty much trying to prevent people from voting. we know about lynching. that is what this addresses. you cannot detrimental -- you cannot get away from all of this, how detrimental it has been.

during that time i did not know anything about jim crow. i thought jim crow was a person.along, i went into the navy. when i got out, i got -- i could not even get a job. here i am a veteran. the guys in my classroom got the jobs, and they were white. they would not even hire me, and this was in the 80's. if you want to trace the jim crow era, black people were labeled negroes. i did newman know i had a country until i left my country -- i didn't even know i had a country until i left my country. abroad, i was called in american. at home i was called everything but an american. guest 1: i'm sorry that happened to you. i can believe that, that happened to you, and the trauma and everything from that. i think that is what people are wrestling with, with all of this. there was a century f jim cro -- century of jim crow after reconstruction. we know about vagrancy laws. we know about pretty much trying to prevent people from voting. we know about lynching. that is what this addresses. you cannot detrimental -- you cannot get away from all of this, how detrimental it has been.

. >> a lot of people worrying about things like, jim crow, can somebody decide they want black folks to come in the back door, because they don't want them in their store. >> clearly, the court in my judgment, stuck a dagger in the back of many of us. donald trump shows supreme court justices, expanding supreme court, we need supreme court ethics reform, and we need term limits. >> this is a legitimacy crisis for the supreme court. >> this is an extreme court, doing extreme things. >> public schools and universities, if the same nonsense. the next generation doesn't learn about our history, or the constitution. they are being trained to see the worst in america. there are real life consequences to this. military equipment dried up, the army, air force and navy are all short of their equipment goals this year. but why would young men and women fight for a country that they were taught to hate? serving in the military, means you're part of something bigger than yourself. gave young men and women purpose, something to be proud of. today, the army doesn't want you to be part of your coun

>> senator tuberville is using a jim crow era tradition of the senate which is a blue slip, to uphold confirmation of hundreds, hundreds of military nominees who are essential to our national security. these are highly qualified people. these are people who should be in their position. this is the first time in 164 years that the marine corps has not had a commandant confirmed by the senate. we currently have an acting person in that role. unfortunately, this is why the congressional black caucus had to call on chairman durbin to reform the blue slip process. not only for the military but for federal judges and other important positions. it is past time, it is long past time for these times of traditions which had a history in segregation and jim crow to still be used in the united states senate in 2023. we've called for that to end or to be drastically reformed, and we're hoping that chairman durbin will take us up on that request. >> and this defense bill has been described as dead on arrival in the senate. it goes to the senate where democrats are expected to strip out these hot bu

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the murder highlighted the racism in the jim crow south.he proclamation was signed on what would have been till's 82nd birthday. >> well, it seems president biden's dog has been biting off more than he should be chewing at the white house. here's abc's andrea fujii. >> it's been a rough go at the white house with another presidential pet in the doghouse . commander president biden's nearly two year old german shepherd has bit or attacked secret service personnel at least ten times between october and january of this year. that's according to records obtained by judicial watch. one agent described commander charles bing at me. the first lady couldn't regain control of commander, and he continued to circle me in november, an attack sent an agent to the hospital after he was bit twice. my leg and arm still hurts, he wrote. this photo shows a secret service employee attacked at the biden's delaware home. the white house says the first lady's office is partnering with the secret service to address the dog's behavior. >> additional leashing proto

s push to abolish the jim crow era blue slip process. do you agree that dick durbin should do away with the process? mr. jeffries: i agree the senate should do away with the process. reporter: good morning. obviously you're concerned about this right tilt on the abortion issue and transgender issue in the armed services. how do democrats -- [indiscernible] -- from a political stance? obviously democrats were very successful in running on the dobbs decision last year. seeing a vote like that and seeing some of these efforts to get woke policies out of the military, how do you then turn that around against the republicans? mr. jeffries: it was shocking to me that the so-called moderates from new york and all across the country, like anthony d'esposito, nick lalota, molinaro and of course george santos, among others, who do all that they can to project moderation, we're reasonable, we're not part of team extreme, but every single opportunity they have to vote with the american people, to vote with the women of this country, to vote with tea

you can go through slavery and jim crow and the ku klux klan and a whole bunch of different things. we have a history of incredible discrimination against women. i cited this before but it came out during debate, women joining the military i think have a very strong understanding. they are going to work twice as hard, basically, to get the same opportunities that a man gets in the military. that's sort of understood. and because of that historical discrimination, you also have to wonder if you are a person of color, if you are going to get a fair shake in the military. now i will admit, there are a lot of people even faced with those odds even know they're going to have to work twice as hard and face that discrimination, they will join. but some will not. so again, there's another group of people that we've now taken off the table. i want to take a special moment to recognize on that last point of the willingness of people to join the military even if they're facing discrimination. where i live in the seattle-belvieu area, we have a lot of veterans. particularly compelling story. th

is it hard to write about these who have lived through segregation and jim crow? uh.d if gets me down and i think the that keeps going is that the people who i have about have all also had a ferocious wit a ferocious wit wit. adam clayton powell jr. he was a minister for and before he got to the new york city or to the u.s. congress. he would travel to churches all around the country when he was 30 years old. he in north carolina, he was at a train station. he was a black man. but as you can see in the picture on, the wall, he was very light of skin to the oountry and i he might look white. but he had such pride pride in bravado. somebody at this train. told the conductor. hey, i think i saw a black man man walking into the first class compartment. it's a 1930. he wasn't supposed to be in the first class compartment. the person went and got a train official. adam clayton powell was he was comfortably seated. in the first class compartment. the train official and a police officer dash in to the dash into the first class compartment and say, hey. we think there might. a

on the cover of "jet" magazine and around the country where people saw what was happening in the jim crowor the first time. folks in the north had no idea how terrible things were for black americans in the south. it's a big moment, the fact it's happening where you have the first black woman who is vice president, a president who has promised to be a friend to black americans and who was the vice president for the first black president in the country. all of these things are tied together as an important aspect of what's going to happen today. more importantly, the fact it's happening when we as a country are continuing to argue about how do we tell the correct story, the true story about what's happened in this country when it comes to race relations? this is the white house making it clear where they stand on that. >> peter, this is happening as some states are beingping away teaching of black americans. the second biggest song in the country right now is "try that in a small town" by jason aldean whose music video was filmed outside a courthouse where a black teenager was lynched and

the justices also rejected a challenge this week to a jim crow law jim crow era law aimed at preventing from voting in mississippi. and the court kept on disappointing, after letting down students and people of color, the court made it easier to discriminate against lgbtq americans, ruling in favor of a web designer who denied services to a same-sex couple. all made possible by decades of republican efforts to submit the courts, and ultimately, the result of donald trump's victory in 2016. this week's ruling is made possible because of the three justices he was allowed to appoint. democrats, hitting home that reality heading to 24. >> the root cause of this is -- >> elections. had hillary clinton for example gotten elected, it we wouldn't be talking about any of this. that's what we need to look at, and who would we putting in at the supreme court. that's how we fix this. that's how we need to make sure that we are full throttle on this when we look at the elections 2024. >> with us now, nbc news supreme court reporter, lawrence hurly. lawrence, thank you for joining me. let's start wit

it was one of the nation's first ever jim crow laws. and while parts of the constitution were dunaway but the civil rights era, other parts remained in place. they continue to disenfranchise black voters in mississippi. there was one amendment in that constitution that had a rule, barring people convicted of certain crimes from. voting crimes that black citizens were disproportionately convicted of having committed. flash forward to -- brought a challenge to that law. a challenge that basically wound its way all the way up to the u.s. supreme court. all the way up to today. the conservative majority of the supreme court. the super majority of the supreme court, decided that they would actually not hear the challenge to that law. they decided to allow it to remain on the books. in a blistering dissent, justice ketanji brown jackson quoted one of the authors of that 1890 jim crow law, justice jackson writes the president of the 1890 mississippi constitutional convention said it plain, let us tell the truth if it bursts the bottom of the u

they protected the union in the civil war only to face disunion under jim crow.hey sacrificed during two world wars, fighting against autocracy only to be denied the freedom of their own democracy. they are patriots, like buffalo soldiers: legends for their valor in combat. the tuskegee airmen, flying more than 15,000 sorties into battle. native americans serving in our military at the highest rate of any demographic, at nearly five times the national average. hispanic americans, like those in the 65th regiment -- infantry regiment helping liberate a nazi concentration camp and protect allied roads and airfields and posts. asian americans, native hawaiians, pacific islanders, like the 442nd regimental combat team liberating europe -- a team that included one of my dearest and closest friends and a mentor of mine when i got here as a 29-year-old kid: the late senator danny inouye, who served in the senate with another friend -- a great hawaiian veteran: the late senator daniel akaka. the list goes on, including rank-and-file cooks, custodians, secretaries, mailmen

you a letter i believe this week asking you to get rid of blue slips, saying it's a vestige of the jim crow era and attempts to restrict black judges from being confirmed or nominated or getting a hearing. what is your stance on blue slips at this point? are you going to keep this tradition? >> i support the blue slip process, but i said to the republicans that unless they engage in this process in good faith, i'm not going to be held to that standard. what it boils down to, you're right, in history the blue slip process has been used for nefarious purposes for my point of view, for racial purposes for those who wanted to exclude certain democratic appointments in states, southern states usually, individuals who would be open to changes to race, consideration, but they've been uses for the blue slips for totally different purposes, it really means an individual senator has the right to decide whether or not someone is going to get a lifetime appointment to the federal judiciary in their state. i will tell you as an example, during the trump administration, what i did was to engage with the

after slavery southern states enacted the jim crow era of segregation to deny african-americans their rights. institutions used the term colored to identify bathrooms, water fountains and other facilities, as i stated. and these facilities were always inferior and usually unsafe. but the arizona republican and his colleagues do not want to talk about the past. this past. they want to live in a fantasy where such discrimination never happened. it didn't exist. but it did happen. and discrimination like it is still happening to me, my colleagues in the congressional black caucus, and millions of african-americans nationwide. even the floor of the u.s. house of representatives is not safe from it. this is why diversity programs are so vital to our national interests and, mr. speaker, i can continue on, my colleague from imril, i could go -- illinois, i could go on forever but i know there are other members who would like to express their outrage on this issue. we cannot go back, we're not going back, and to people who live in that space, just know you need to be very careful because that

and he doesn't really show any particular sense of outrage what he's encountering in the jim crow south. and even worse than that, he sort of plays into it. he he he, you know, will he he writes a column for a while for the local newspaper where he says these sort of gross semi racist things and some towards japanese-american overtly racist things. and, you know, and some people might be inclined to excuse it by saying, although lots of privileged liberals in the 1920s had not yet had enlightenment on civil rights, which is true, but ultimate sort of argument against that, as you say, john, is eleanor roosevelt the first time that she goes to warm springs with franklin? they're being driven around and they're shown a nice school for poor white children. and the person is showing them around and showing them all the wonderful things they're doing for these poor white children. and eleanor's question, what about the poor black children? and i think that she you know, she's she's far ahead of her husband on civil rights at that point. and she will be for the rest of his life. and it's beca

oh, now the federal government owns jim crow on rail cartwright and people said, well, we can surely the federal government is not going to continue doing what the southern states doing and the federal government persisted. so the notion that the way to achieve the result is to put the federal government in charge was not an automatic winner for calvin coolidge. he thought it was important that serve society whether they were running a corporation or whether they were running a government. and it a moral duty of being a citizen but he did not think that ought automatically if you put this responsibility in in the hands of the government that now the problem is solved. thank you. thank you very much. oh, sorry. my name is mike jacobson. i think you're all of your comments have made me reflect on how central race has been to politics for, you know, ever basically since the country's founding and i'm curious dr. nash. you talked a little bit about oneness. and i think a lot of you commented on how to create unity, how to think about solving problems rather than issues. and i'm wondering

it is true about later on during jim crow, when black women demanded more, such as voting rights, such as a quality, that the mississippi appendectomies, coercive sterilization, it was introduced. and it's worth threading the needle because the person who helped us learn about that was fannie lou hamer. she threaded together the lack of bodily autonomy, the lack of voting rights, and especially as there are those that say take this to the democratic process, what does that mean in states where black people have historically been disenfranchised from voting, including mississippi, georgia, and other states with abortion bans. >> thank you. >> dr. pharma, i've been working on maternal mortality issues that they came to the senate. since i discovered how stunning the numbers are in our nation, relative to other countries, how many women are dying in childbirth. the fact that women, black women are three and half times more likely is stunning. and wondering the data that i'm looking at from, you know, nonpartisan, i should say, independent science-based research, the really predicting that