carter specifically said for us to remind that racial isolation doesn't effect some communities as itoes others i want to remind the board to speak broadly about schools for racially isolated she said at the point meeting quote she's the expert and that she said that racial isolation effects some adversely and some not adversely she said she was showed me showing shocked we have schools that are racially isolated their academics rating is high she also said other facts and circumstances that make a great school and not just pure academics but other factors addressed and why opponent go to certain schools our think our language programs are a good example some don't rank as the highest el camino del mar with you most requested to what we're seeing here in that resolution i'm glad that people think that the bold and it needs to be bold eerie quite frankly wish people were bolder and make a choice to a say whether or not rerecognize racial isolation didn't serve community well, we shouldn't have schools that are racially isolated in san francisco we serve here in san francisco the majori

what we desired so i hope we'll consider doing some words smithing to get this thing right the no racial group is stricken tied on a suggestion we've got to be around certain folks to succeed thank you reverend brown public comment is closed comments or questions from my colleagues. >> commissioner fewer and commissioner wynns. >> thank you, dr. murase i urge my colleagues to voted for this resolution and i will say some things you've heard before it is kwoshth saying again, the choice some is hefrnt unequal by it's design if you can go visit 12 schools or 15 schools during october and december and you think at outdoor school get to our kids to school your choices if you don't, you don't have choice that's led us to we see a full choice system our school becomes rapidly racially segregated and what this resolution does i think a lot of people are wigged out what it does i want people to understand it dials down crisis look at not eliminate choice, in fact, those people eagle in the k tip area are preference to some of our most highly requested oliver and immersion our k through 8 that me

it is the racial motivation that is covered. while african-americans are a particularly dramatically affected group lots of other groups are affected. our federal hate crimes apply to religion as well. they have been used in response to attacks on christian churches, on mosques synagogues. fairly broadly. it is not create in special classes. john mcardle: in labeling a crime a hate crime, is it to bring awareness to the public so we can deal with the hate that is still out there? william yeomans: absolutely. hate crime laws are in or mislead important. what we as a society choose to say, we say that this form of violence is particularly heinous and we are going to punish it. i think that is an enormously important message and it is a message that was so important that southern senators felt it was necessary to block it for decades. even after the law was enacted it was very difficult to enforce it. it was very difficult to convince juries, particularly southern juries, that race was the motivating factor. we have made progress i

so among racial groups, blacks are definitely the most targeted. also see a fair amount of attacks based on gender towards gay men and also a fair amount of attacks based on religion towards jewish people primarily. >> sreenivasan: and what about the veracity of the numbers? is there a possibility for undercounting? you said there are multiple agencies that track this. >> absolutely. so the f.b.i.'s numbers, they provide the best breakdowns of individual racial and religious groups. but in terms of the actual numbers that they track, everyone agrees that those are pretty much a very serious undercount because the f.b.i. only tracks crimes that are specifically categorized as a hate crime by them. and so that means that they have to have specific concrete evidence of a racial bias. now, the interesting thing if you look at the bureau of justice statistics numbers, they show about five times more racially biased attacks than the f.b.i. does. and the way they do that is they just go out and they interview victims of all crimes and they ask the victims

we see it and racial shootings by police -- we see it in racial shootings by police. we are watching a country grappling with violence that has racial overtones. in the case of dylan roof, clearly racially motor -- motivated. so does raise matter? yes it does. john mcardle: michael is on the line. thanks for joining us. caller: thank you for having me. my father is in the u.s.. my mother is from here in the u.k.. i spent about 15 years of my life in the united states. i have spent more time on this side of the atlantic, hence my accent. the one thing i will say is that i feel in the u.k. safer because we have the necessary gun control laws. i go to the united states, i have dual citizenship, i have the right to bear arms and vote in presidential elections. i am registered in ohio. the one thing i really think the united states needs to do is put its hands up and say, look, and amendment is an amendment. it can be altered. i think it is mental that people start looking at things -- and when people bring things like race into it, i'm going to leave you on this, i really

that we have our public defender jeff dochey with staff and jackie wilson public defender from the racial justice committee. some of you have seen the cover story on public defender jeff dochey in the san francisco weekly newspaper. we also have the director of the office for citizens complaints ms. joyce hicks and deputy chief mckail alley and commander bob moser and city attorney alicia cabrera and district attorney george gas conand chonsey smith from california and angela chan, our former police commissioner and staff anding agent law office and kenneth freed box on the director on homelessness san francisco and francisco uggarte from sf island. lorena: a lead organizer for catholic arch diocese and lizey for cj for criminal and juvenile justice. the lawyers committee for civil rights coordinator and reverend smith and deacon wade from the episcopal church. this is to follow-up on to advance the racism and curriculum in police departments and other agencies and methods for officers to uphold civil rights and justice and free of conscious and unconscious bias. i also want to say the co

. >> reporter: part of the branch of the naacp often leading rallies for racial equality. in march she spoke out against hate mail that she received. >> it's not just something targeting me. it's starting the larger black community. >> but her credibility is now in question, with family members saying that she has been living a lie for nearly a decade. she provided these pictures to the media confirming what public reports already show. she's white. and her mother told a local paper that it's disturbing that she has become so dishonest. the hate crimes that she has reported over the year, she described several of them in detail but didn't know what to say when asked point-blank about her race. >> are you african-american? >> i don't understand the question. i can tell you that yes that's my dad and he was unable to come in january. >> are your parents are they are they white? >> some are tweeting, will her salary rise from 65 to 75 cents on the white man's pay now that she's white? and only a white person could get this much attention for being black. some tweeting, she wa

thus it's imperative that the police act collaboratively with the community to prevent racial bias andbetter protect the people they serve. institutionalizing critical training for police officers as we have done in the past for communities united against violence in this city. but we need to develop new systems now and i hope that we can ultimately address disparities in bias in jails and thefts and bails and to jury composition as well. we need to also discuss and identify possible solutions such as more effective disciplining of officers who exhibit racial and other biases on-the-job and much better training systems as well as those in related legal professions for racial and unconscious bias in our work. lastly we will hear from not only the 10 point program from our public defenders office who analyze data and racial disparities on more outcomes within our criminal justice in this city. i wanted to say now that we are now going to hear from a number of speakers but before that i wanted to let my colleagues give their opening remarks as well. supervisor campos? >>supervisor david c

animus racial hate. this was not just mayorly a gun shooting but a hate crime. >> naacp leader car nell brooks today. councilman gregory represents charleston's sixth districts he's also on the board of trussees of the emmanuel ame church. thank you for joining us tonight. where is charleston, how is charleston coping? >> charleston is healing tonight, and at mother emmanuel we're in a state of getting ready to bury our dead and go through the healing process. we are one charleston. this kind of racial motivated terrorism only draws us closer together as a people in this city of charleston. >> sometimes i think we forget our history or maybe i'm guilty of that when i watched del walters' piece tonight and he talked about the slave market that is now a tourist attraction in the city of charleston. you can't get away from--go ahead. >> yes, we do have a market, but that market that you're probably referring to is really not the slave market. the slave market is on queen street. but more importantly as we m

crime was racial animus.r by name. the church is embossed,'m blazed ed enned with "emmanuel baptist church." the shooter said he had to do this he came to kill black people. the pint here isoint is it is a hate crime in which not merely african-americans are victims, america is a victim because we our values were the subject of this crime. this was a crime that occurred in moments but be clear, the crime in a sense was planned, formed over some longer period of time in some atmosphere of racial animus. and so this is a hate crime. let's be clear. this is not merely a mass shooting but some deranged gunman. this was a shooting inside of a church in which african-americans were targeted and a crime in which all of america was hit. that's what it is and we can't deny it. >> cornell, we're decades after the civil rights movement as all of us know. we now have an african-american president in the white house. the first family in the white house, african-american and african-american attorney general secretary of h

nation still views racial identity?n the strong response to stories this got. >> racial identity in this country is still incredibly binary, a strong divide between black and white. >> in the whack ofake of the controversy, the naacp is standing by their leader one's racial identity is not a qualifying criteria or disqualifying standard for naacp leadership. as for rachel dolezal she has not spoken with abc news on the record about the situation. she maintains to the "seattle times" that we are all from the african continent. >> next virgin empire. how richard branson is bimding the brand with the new hotel chain catering to a different kind of professional. >> whoo! ah! ike to deal with high... and low blood sugar. januvia (sitagliptin) is a once-daily pill that, along with diet and exercise helps lower blood sugar. januvia works when your blood sugar is high and works less when your blood sugar is low, because it works by enhancing your body's own ability to lower blood sugar. plus januvia, by itself, is not likely to

the same people who were instructing them and directing them to racially profile were calling them racialnatory and offensive language towards them. all of our clients complained to h.r. complained to their managers to a variety of different places and after that the discriminatory treatment only increased. there was increased scrutiny on their work and most important is that nothing was done to change the situation. these practices were not remedied in any way. >> leetch read this from cvs, denying the allegations telling cnn, cvs health has firm non-discrimination policies it rigorously enforces and serve all communities and do not tolerate any policy or practice that discriminates against any group." what evidence do you have to prove your case beyond the testimony of your clients? >> i'm happy you raised that quote, jake, because one thing that's interesting about it is, you know, cvs certainly has you know the best p.r. firm money can by, i'm sure and even though they may have a policy not to discriminate and a policy to tolerate people of all races, cvs has not deny the allegations

this chime is paired with positive racial images. this is tied to gender. ♪ >> we wanted to influence one bias during sleep and leave the other one alone as a comparison so we could find out how effective our sleep manipulation was. >> in leonardo's case, the chime paired with positive racial images, the idea of sleep manipulation makes some edgy about neuroscience discoveries creeping beyond the lab. >> there are a number of different neuroethical issues that may be generated by studies like this. most fundamental is are we practicing some form of mind control? i think the quickest answer is well yes. >> james giordano is the head of neuroethics at northwestern. >> it is very exciting because it opens up some new vistas, affecting positive construct such as bias but the same could be used as a potential tool to develop the type of control of thought and activities that could be used by a terrorist organization or some other subversive cause. >> professor acknowledges the ethical issues. >> there are some issues that people don't kno

-- huge racial components.nversation slips over into poverty and things like that. we've overly mixed race and poverty. most poor people in america is white. the family breakdown crosses racial lines, high school dropouts. but because of the flow of events, we've confused racial issues which are trans-racial. >> this is the challenge for political leaders. it may go to the fact that the president is -- he went guns not race in his immediate aftermath. i talked to people close to him. the president is self-aware, when he talks about race he think it's it polarizes the conversation and defeats the purpose he wants to have. >> this is the irony in the first african-american president. he finds it difficult to talk about race because he's not seen as a neutral observer. he's not having much effect. i think you see the frustration when he talks about these things on either front, the racial front or guns front. you can tell that bothers him. >> helene i had long conversations with aides, why guns not race? they said

i mean, we need to understand that race--racial problems that the racial divide that persist in this country is a problem that we need to address on every level at every time. and i think that's something that may sound like it requires a lot of effort. it may sound very tiring. i think if we have people invest themselves in the problems of marginalized people of color on a daily basis they will understand the struggle a little bit closely. i think we've seen a lot of that in the last year. >> did you see the comments from jon stewart where he talked about this gaping wound and you know, we try to cover it over but it never heels heals and here we are again and nothing will be done with it. >> i think that's true both in terms of race and in terms of guns, takerly in terms of guns. if a school of connecticut school children being shut up does not move-- >> if that does not move the need needle at all. >> people in a movie theater does not move the needle at all. kids being shot in chicago you saw the nra today putting the blame on the late reverend pinckney himself for voting against

i call it racial terrorism. do you think it's so hard like when i watch all this fox news stuff try to make it about religion it is a horrible thing. we have no-- it is clearly a raiing thing y do you think it's so hard for people to make it about race. >> because if people allow themselves to make it about race then they are acknowledging that we have some raise challenges that we have installed in this country. and people don't want to acknowledge that. we would rather say it's the lone gunman sin dom or it's just about miss mental health as opposed to pointing to a broader culture of division and too often of hate that feeds into stuff like this. that is why people don't want to admit it. because it sometimes points back to things they don't want to point back to. >> i think also it's hard for people to talk about race and racism in the present tense. because i think it's something that the country-- we often talk about it in the past because i think the country wants o to feel like we moved on from it. i thi

racial violence directed against us. racial violence directed against our church.f performance. you can't pull this out of your hat on any given sunday. it has to be a deeply rooted part of your faith and experience and theology and tradition. i am proud of the black church today to show that we cannot be driven to hatred even by these acts. >> one of the most remarkable things i think we saw last week when family members of the nine innocent souls taken from us wednesday night spoke at the judicial hearing, at the -- at the bond hearing or whatever it was of this evil racist whose name i'm not going to use. and for gave him. >> yeah. >> told them that they for gave him. hours, hours after their loved ones were killed. >> that was shocking even within the black church because it showed a level of grace that is very hard to understand and very very hard to comprehend. i think, for me you know when you saw the african-american police officer standing behind the racist terrorist, and the look on his face as he heard those words too. he heard the words at the same time

it was a recognition of where i am in the context of this long legacy of racial appropriation and racialimicry that i think we can respect. >> it's all about giving credit where credit is due. >> there is such a thing as cultural foot noting. not all forms of appropriation are the same. >> now, the country is debating whether rachel appropriated, stole or borrowed a black identity. >> this is going to be good. let's talk about it. mark is here. the commentator. mr. perez hillton is here, as well. perez, you physically gasped when that commentator talked about iggie azaela and it sort of being racial appropriation. >> azaela may be a lot of things, but she's not passing herself as being black. and i don't think she's passing herself off as being a hip hop artist. she is making music that historically has been made by a black artist. i think she's smart. she can't sing, so she figured out a way to make music and profit off of it without having to. >> if you look at britany spears. to me, they're great entertain e taners. >> she's been criticized so much. she does her own hair and i think i

it has been over 200 years of terror here because of racial inequality and racial violence. >> one of the point you make in your article, you talk about racial hatred and white supremacy which continues to pervade our society. help us understand, from the side of the atlantic, is that a feeling that you think really does apply across the board in the united states, or are we just talking about pockets? >> think about this for a minute. this will help you understand. in the state of south carolina, a confederate flag, a flag that meant that they seceded from the union, still flies over the state capital. the judge said in the court that we need to feel sorry for dylann roof's family. i submit his family is probably the ones that talking this racial violence and talking to hate black people. we have a television network fox news, which spews racist statements 24/7. this is not in pockets. people like to think that this is a southern thing but we have what supremacists all over the nation. the uptick in violence and hate crimes has increased since president obama took office in 2008. it

this is racial. no incident so far has been more racial than this one. republican and democrat say we have a problem. there's something going on where too many of our young people still are caught by these ideas. and if you can have honesty on that side then we can have honesty on the other side to say everything wrong in the community, the black community, is not racial and you can begin to have a little more honest dialogue about what's actually happening. so i think there's an opportunity here where you have someone clearly identified with racist ideas do a despicable racist act of violence against completely blameless black people. if you can't step forward now and say that's racial and not acceptable then i'm very very concerned about where's the moral leadership. stop asking me where's dr. king. i have to start asking where's bobby kennedy. where are all those great leaders we had in the past that are willing to speak from the white side to bring us together. >> van jones, thanks so much coming to us from charleston today. >>> meantime we're also w

situation, you have to respond according to your racial background. if i'm standing next to this man here and he's suddenly attacked by another racial group, even if i don't know him, he's black. i'm obligated by myself to assist this man. you know what i'm saying? >> it's a white thing, then you get in it. if it's with the whites and another race or something, then you got to be a part of it. but if it's something else, i just turn my head. i don't even want to see it, you know? >> we found that violence does not only occur between racially segregated rivals, sometimes gang violence erupts from within. >> i've stabbed people because of what i've had to do. you can't go against the program. >> at california state prison corcoran, we met one young inmate was ordered to attack an older, weaker gang member simply to thin out the herd. he asked that we not use his name. >> i accepted that because that's the way it is. you know i didn't question it. some things i was against but i just dealt with it and accepted it because that's the law of the land in her

animus and racial hate.as not merely a mass shooting, not merely a matter of gun violence, this was a racial hate crime and must be confronted as such. [ applause ] we say this not because we're trying to sow division, but rather because we're trying to sow unity, a unity of purpose, a unity of commitment, a unity of resolve so that we can confront racism in our midst. and that means certainly symbolically we can't have the confederate flag waving in the state capital. [ applause ] >> that's right. got go. >> some will assert that the confederate flag is merely a symbol of years gone by, a symbol of heritage and not hate. but where we see that symbol lifted up as an emblem of hate, as a tool of hate, as an inspiration for hate, as an inspiration for violence, that symbol has to come down, that symbol must be removed from our state capital. and where we have some of our leading policymakers in washington, in columbia and in charleston very much aware of the heritage of the confederate flag, but coming to the

anmouse, and racial hate. this was not merely a matter of gun violence this was a racial hate crime and must be confronted as such. [ applause ] >> we say this not because we're trying to sew division but rather because we're trying sew unity, a unity of commit and resolve so we confront the racism in our midst, and that means certainly symbolically we cannot have the confederate flag waving in this city's capitol. [ applause ] >> some will assert that the confederate flag is merely a symbol -- >> we apparently have lost our signal from south carolina. in that was the ceo of the naacp, cornell william brooks and we have jonathan martin live with us from charleston south carolina, who is listening in on those remarks. and one of the things that struck me was it was very inclusive. he took i think great care not to say that we as black people won't be moved by racism he said we as americans, we as people of every color, race and creed, will all be in church on sunday. i think that that was a point he really trie

your racial identity and not like your black cultural identity, but your racial identity is imposed.n't walk into a room and say, i am actually a white man. >> so hannah this is part of -- and yet, aren't our gender identities imposed in a similar way? isn't there also a thing that has to happen not in one's lived experience internally but how the world sees -- so that idea of i can't walk into a room and say i'm a white man, it's also true that until there are some physical manifestations of identity for example for kaitlyn jenner bruce jenner couldn't walk into a room and say these things without also being rid kuldiculed and have that sense of expression. >> but i think it's okay to borrow the languages as long as we're not confounding the experiences. there is a lot of parallels you can make with anything. the idea of taking hormones i take estrogen to enhance myself and bruce jenner could take hormones. we don't call that trans human, we call that doping. it doesn't mean it's the same thing. i think what scares me is this #wrongskin, that people are trying to imply there is a wr

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the president using the racial epithet as if his use of the word would somehow support his insistence that racism is alive and well in america. the president's use of the racial epithet came during an interview taped last week with the los angeles comedian but it is not the last time certainly he's used it. fox news white house correspondent kevin court with our report. >> reporter: his candor has caused an uproar. when the president told a podcast audience that the united states had not overcome its history of racism he used the "n" word to make the case. >> racism we are not cured of, clearly. and it's not just a matter of it not being polite to say [ bleep ] in public that's not the measure of whether racism still exists or not. >> reporter: a broader discussion on race and followed the deadly attack in south carolina that saw alleged white supremacist murder nine blacks at a church bible study. race relations have vastly improved. >> it is incontrovertible that race relations have improved significantly during my lifetime and yours. >> reporter: the uproar caught the white house o

what happened wednesday was an act of racial terror. as dr. martin luther king jr. spoke over the bodies of four martyred girls, he insisted they say to us that we must be concerned not merely about who murdered them but about the system the way of life the philosophy which produced the murderers. they say to us that we must be concerned not merely about who murdered them but about the system, the way of life and the philosophy which produced the murderer. joining me here in new york is jonathan medzel. director of the medicine for society. yolanda pierce associate professor of african-american religion. a new york city licensed clinical psychologist and founder of eye-opening enterprises and joe watkins, a republican strategist and former white house aide to president george h.w. bush. but first back to south carolina to talk to dot scott, president of the charleston branch of the naacp. dot, you have talked with survivors of this horror. what have they said to you? >> i have actually talked with family members of the survivors. what are they saying? the family mem

there's a deep racial divide in south carolina. just weeks ago we passed a body camera bill in recognition of more accountability and transparency of police officers who have shot unarmed african-american men. so we need to have a serious dialogue in this state about what divides us and embrace those issues so we can move forward. i am particularly interested in economic empowerment. here in charleston i have asked many major municipalities and publicly funded projects how much of that money is spread along with minority contractors and other people of color. until we include everyone in the process, particularly with our publicly funded projects then we can't bring all south carolinan s along. economics will certainly be on the agenda. then we need to have a further dialogue on race relations. i think we're getting prepared to do so. the flag is just the start. but very symbolic. >> certainly is. senator, i want you to stand by. we have more to discuss. i'm also going to be speaking with cornell william brooks the president of the

maybe we now realize the way racial bias can infect us even when we don't realize it. so that we're guarding against not just racial slurs but we're also guarding against this subtle impulse to call johnny back for a job interview but not jamal . >> we search our hearts when we consider laws to make it harder for some of our fellow citizens to vote. by recognizing our common humanity by treating every child as important regardless of the color of their skin or the station into which they were born and to do what's necessary to make opportunity real for every american. by doing that we express god's grace. (applause) >> for too long-- for too long we've been blind to the unique mayhem that gun violence inflicts upon this nation. sporadically our eyes are open. when eight of our brothers and sisters are cut down in a church basement 12 in a movie theater, 26 in an elementary school but i hope we also see that 30 precious lives cut short by gun violence in this country every single day. the countless more whose lives are forever changed the survivors crippled. the childre