kamau bell.a comedian i've made a living finding humor in the parts of america i don't understand. and now i'm challenging myself to dig deeper. i'm on a mission to reach out and experience all the cultures and beliefs that add color to this crazy country. this is "the united shades of america." ♪ >>> learning about america means sometimes reaching across the aisle. and this week i'm reaching way across the aisle to the ku klux klan. hopefully, when i'm done reaching i still have my hand. my first stop in this what the hell am i thinking tour is to meet with an arkansas leader of the kkk. according to kkk rhetoric, there's a new klan in town. they're no longer anti-black. they're just pro-white. and nothing says new klan like hanging out with a black dude. for those of you tuning in to racism late, here's a quick refresher. the klan was initially founded after the civil war by a group of confederate soldiers who were all like, dang, but we wasn't finishing oppressing black folks yet. since then,

kamau bell. as a comedian, i've made a living finding humor in the parts of america i don't understand. now i'm challenging myself to dig deeper. i'm on a mission to reach out and experience all the cultures and beliefs that add color to this crazy country. this is the "united shades of america." to explore the vast topic that is latinos in america, i'm in los angeles. los angeles has a population of 3.8 million people, and nearly half of them are of latino descent, and the rest of them are kardashians or married to a kardashian or waiting for a kardashian to get divorced so they can marry them. i'm looking at you, khloe. normally when i go to l.a. i go to hollywood or beverly hills for my big-time show business meetings with my big-time show business agents who never return my calls. big-time. but this week i'm going east, east l.a. and boyle heights. those neighborhoods are just slightly more latino than the rest of l.a. by slightly, i mean they're both well over 90% latino. east l.a. and boyle

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. >> my name's kamau bell. yeah, yeah, yeah. doing an episode about living while black in milwaukee. >> that's right. >> it's rough. >> you're in the right spot. >> we stumbled into some living while black. so what happened? do you mind talking to us first of all? >> yeah. we've been doing work in this park since 2016. for what whatever reason this lady shows up and tries to tell me i don't have a permit and then she proceeds to walk over there and call the police. >> she right there, halloween helen. >> halloween helen? man, black folks, do we have a name yet? halloween helen. it's already started. are you surprised this one happened? >> absolutely not. growing up in mississippi i can probably still count on one hand probably maybe two or three incidents at the most that were racial. here? i was here not even a year and had my first racial run-in at 14 or 15. if you don't know, you are going to know right away where you are not wanted at or where you're not welcome at. >> wow. we just rolled up. hey, let's see if we can find so

arrested local politicians let's go now to suffer a bad in pakistan controlled kashmir al-jazeera is kamau hyder is there come on tell us more. yes indeed the jungle because you mean liberation front this is a political party which has support on both sides of the line of control that separates indian and pakistani administered kashmir a marching to the line of control today said they're going to cross said they said they want to go do it in aga but they also stress that this is a peaceful march now the leader of the j k l f you have seen malia get in jail in india is headed did a good considerably and did have fears for his life because of the poor state of health daddy and then by their supporters numbering thousands we are doored about 3 to 5000 are already on the march to the line of control not very far from way we are they are going to be stopped by the security forces because pakistan does not want these people to cross because anything can happen if they do cross that line of control let's not forget that thousands and thousands of indian troops along the line of control and almost

but kamau might die.ng to be edgy and get the job. and i thought we'd negotiate it down to like the rodeo.