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we bring in former virginia state center, richard black. thank you so much for joining us, sen. black. so i do be with you. hi. say this is such a hard, hard story. it's a scary story because the parents in that community had no idea that this predator was not only in the school the 1st time, but definitely when is transferred the 2nd time. so as we, as a society become so sensitive and politically correct that we are now protecting predators instead of actually protecting victims in this situation. you know, we but you know, the law that was put in place in virginia, that was, it was a law to provide certain privileges to transgender students. it was a breathtaking victory for, for various elements over decent, normal parents. it's really you sort of shifted the whole whole balance of, of authority. and what we have now we've got, we've got legal permissions that require a teacher to call boys girls to call girls boys. and if they demand that they, the teacher has to do it. and it has totally abolished girls, right? to intimate privacy in areas that they, they have a reasonable

a >> richard: i'm getting there, you talk to communities of color and black communities, what they tellatrols, 60% of them favor more money going through word form and training and you also have communities that say there is a fear and mistrust when it comes to police and police cannot be affected if the people who they need to be effective towards don't trust them, so what you have to do is have reform in place so that when you call 911 you are going to trust the person on the other end of the phone. and when communities don't trust who is on the other end of the phone who will show up when they call 911 we have a problem. and until we are willing to acknowledge that their problem exists, we will continue to have the circular conversation that gets us nowhere which is where we are right now. >> katie: i don't think that we are in a circular conversation? >> richard: that's exactly where we are, republicans believe one thing, democrats believe something else. >> greg: there are so many options on the table, but the moments that you defend the police at all, then you are considered a rac

fact that between 1870, 1877, two senators, senators were poynant. 16 black men go to congress and 14 to the house including richard cane who is a man and united states senate and despite and during reconstruction, 2,000 black men are elected or appointed state and local office according to eric, 2,000 despite the great gains there was a constant rollback, constant resistance to reconstruction. 1866 and 1876. eight major massacres of black people. 8 lynches and i would like to say the list because it's just so horrendous. maridian, lynchings in that ten-year period, intimidation fraud. ku kluz klan in first iteration. the 13th amendment in december 1865. the klan was born in december 1865 too. there's a parallel discourse and thesis simultaneously during the whole period of reconstruction. it wasn't like it was bliss and then rolled back. there was resistance at every moment to black political power and it was the ballot that was the contention. also cotton main export of the united states till the 1930's. somebody has to harvest it and taken away the source of free labor so what do they do? substitute it with slav

the virginia judge who convicted richard unlawful, almighty god created the racist white, black, yellow, red and placed them on separate cottons. he therefore ruled that god did not intend for the races to mix whether the supreme court has dealt with issues involving all these people and some people would call racist and so does justice differed from the 17th century in 2021 we cover slavery aftermath, reconstruction, jim crow, the dismantle of jim crow modern-day problems including criminal justice, voting rights and affirmative action. armand you want to pick up their. >> the supreme court people my age think of the supreme court of the segregation to protect the rights of free speech and so forth but it turns out as we look at it even to the supreme court ruling from a very short period from the early 1970s before that time the supreme court had a god-awful record and provoked jim crow even after the passage of the reconstruction to create equal rights et cetera. the court was moving backwards in the last decade rapidly rapidly backwards away the rest of the nation wants to go, it's

. >> richard: we saw democrats and republicans try to come together and get the better policing act done. had blackhe table and making progress. wasn'tly we know those otalks fell apart. police union came out and felt the talks were very productive. these bills are going to give us more money' and give us the ability to reform our police department. they were going to give us the ability to create a universal standard on how we do policing around the country, unfortunately tim scott walked away from that and that's really sad because we could have actually gotten something done for this country that would make crime go down and also make people trust police more because the problem we have in black communities to your point don. >> dan: dan. >> richard: my bad. i'm sorry. >> the problem we have break down in trust and break down in communication between police in communities of color so, yes. community of colors want police to be there to stop crime they don't trust police at 90 and find way to bridge that divide. this bill was a step in the right direction to do it. >> jesse: richard, you wanted t

richard allen. the lesson ranges widely into the ideas of black american thinkers from frederick douglass to angela davis. a lover of books and jazz music my father was without a paperback book in his back pocket and on stereo or better yet what we would call the record player. his philadelphia was filled reaching back to the era of easy gillaspie and the newly emerging sound of philadelphia. book collections included fiction biography and when he died, i inherited all his books and albums and the love of learning filtered through so much of the life that he bequeathed me. under the careful guidance of my mother, i lost myself in the pages. the inheritance with my legacy little did i know at the time that it would also become my life's work. this moment of loss, seeking and remembering constitutes the genesis of my own intellectual pursuit and starting point for my book that brings together a lifetime of reading and close to three decades of teaching but it also reflects on the shaping influences of my father and my philadelphia upbringing especially during the last decades of the 20th century. for

. >> as we mentioned, you were the third and last black woman nasa sent into space. richardirgin atlantic successfully sent the fourth african-american into space this summer. do you think commercializing space travel will make it more accessible for folks? >> at some point maybe it will. but right now you still have to have a few dollars in the bank to go. so maybe it will go the way of aircraft, where, you know, just about everyone has access to flying on an airplane right now. so at some point, maybe ten years down the road, it will become more accessible to more people. but right now, it's still only accessible to that select few. >> would you hop on one of these private flights if you had the chance? >> if it would go up a little bit more than three minutes. you know, i've been up for 13 days so going up for three minutes is kind of like a cool joke. if they sent me up for a week, i would actually go. >> joan higginbotham, thanks for joining us. >>> after two years the u.s. is opening its northern and southern borders but only to some. >>> and it's called the one shot h

the culprits have been exposed, and that's exactly who black lives matter leaders warned about. but my colleague richard lui with today's top news stories. richard? >> good saturday to you. stories we're watching this hour, former president bill clinton remains in a southern california hospital for a an infection. the 75-year-old former president is responding well to antibodies and could be released today or tomorrow. >>> a source close to two entertainment unions says a deal is in sight to avert a hollywood strike. if there's no deal, productions halt monday. the source told nbc news both sides have made progress, but more than one agreement must be addressed, and nothing is settled. >>> the hunt is on in texas for the man who opened fire on police this morning outside a bar in houston. one deputy was killed and two were injured. authorities say deputies may have interrupted a robbery and were ambushed from behind while trying to make an arrest. one person of interest was detained. more "politicsnation" with reverend al sharpton right after this short break. ♪ ♪ ♪ bar in houston. this short break. bar

in the spirit of jones of the free african society richard allen of the ame church, softball strike to. of the fifth pan african congress 1945, black political convention, okay, so the question here is where you present, if a specific date, monday, october, 1995 in washington, d.c.? what are your thoughts about the resilience of african people in america? what thoughts can you clean from these? i think there's a lot of questions in here. >> not altogether sure what the question is. i mean, the references were to, i guess a version of the black nationalist tradition, and in my essay on optimism and pessimism i talk about the black nationalists strain within the pessimistic tradition. .. destructive reaction that throws black people back. but black people get it together and are able to husband their resources, organize and build a movement that leads to a second reconstruction. .. a desire for decency, for the realization for everyone. there are so many things that are part of american life that are attributable to black people's struggles. let me talk about another essay in my book, one that i had a lot of funwriting . the six essa

led to a really disturbing traffic stop and ended with a disabled black man being dragged and thrown to the ground by police. msnbc's richarder offered clifford owensby to get out of the car. asking him to get out of the car this is what had happened. in response he said he was a paraplegic. that he could not as well even exit the vehicle because he was unable to use his legs. take a listen. >> get out of the car. i'm a paraplegic. >> help you get out. i'm helping you get out. >> excuse me? >> get out. >> i don't think that's going to happen, sir. i don't think that's going to happen. >> get out of the vehicle, sir. >> asked you. i will assist you. >> you are not. you are not going to touch me. you're not touching me. i'll get somebody on the line because i will -- there will be a lawsuit if you put your hands on me for no reason. >> the reason is -- >> no, no, no. we're not going to go there. a witness what's going on. i cannot step out. i'm a paraplegic. >> that audio is a way to receive it from the police department. officers then ordered him to get out saying in the tape it was to inspect it for drugs. they also offered

richard has been open cans of paint. build back better has not been a success. blackout of the workforce for that's why the workforce is lower than it used to be in the fact of the matter is joe biden has not been the savior of america as people predicted, including you, mr. richard fowler. so you can miss me without. you can't pass on my leg and call it rain. >> shannon: i know richard is going to want to reply to that. but we are out of time. going to take that another way and have you guys back. thank you both. we have new details tonight about that fatal shooting on a movie set in new mexico. in which actor alec baldwin discharged what he believed to be an unloaded prop gun killing a cinematographer and wounding the film director. she corresponded jonathan has the latest tonight from los angeles. good evening. >> according to the director of the movie "rust" and other crew members, at least to go people likely handled the gun that killed cinematographer halyna hutchins before that gun was handed to alec baldwin. as it series of visuals were held over the weekend,

republican senator march shah black burn saying: changing facebook's name doesn't change what you've done, mark. senators richardsled on with criticism been piled on, but it was mark zuckerberg the ceo of facebook, now meant that, who was defiant -- meta, who was defiant saying he is not trying to deflect criticism. he said this: even though i think some people might want to make that connection, i think that's sort of a ridiculous thing. if anything, i think that this is not the environment that you would want to introduce a new brand in. that was mark zuckerberg to his critic. now, the new name, made public yesterday at the company's annual connect conference, zuckerberg describing the company's land to pivot to building a virtual reality universe that he says was transformed gaming, entertainment and even work. look at these pictures. this is his vision right here. but the cost of this are enormous if, and it's expected to reduce the company's operating profits by $10 billion in the short term. as you can see, that stock is higher today. but i have one question as i send it back to you, neil, is this: what ha