host: tell the viewers what unite america is and what unite america does.america is an organization working to enact nonpartisan electoral and congressional reforms in order to foster a more functional and representative government so we can solve the big challenges facing the country. we are building a cross-partisan philanthropic community to support the work. we support campaigns that are doing the work. we are leading that work in several states. host: what exactly does unite america -- where exactly does unite america get your funding? guest: we disclose all donors on the website. they are philanthropists who understand we need a functional government to solve any of the problems we care about. our donors may not agree on politics and policies by the agree we have to have a healthy democracy. the u.s. government spends more than 20 times the amount of every charitable contribution on an annual basis in the country. there is a large return on investment to making sure government is functional to solve other issues that for a lamp of his -- that philanth

basically what that would be doing is declaring war on the united states of america and at this point, i'm great britain had no intention of declaring war unless they could win and really win big and they weren't going to make the decision at fort myers to do that. so what ends up happening then is the native americans now see that the british were not going to fight with them and they leave very disheartened and very betrayed. so this battle has then forced the native americans to reevaluate their alliances with the british and how they're going to withstand the onslaught of the settlers who are going to continue to push into their lands the battle of fallen. has lasted approximately two hours with the heaviest losses taking place in about 45 minutes from what we can glean. we're seeing that between 30 and 50 were lost on each side. although the losses were a little bit lower than we would expect to see when we say that the americans definitively won the battle of fallen timbers what we're seeing happen. is that disillusionment taking place with the native americans with the british

takes place on august 20th 1794 and it's a convergence of anthony wayne's legion of the united states of america in the western confederacy of native americans who are here protecting their tribal homelands. so the battle of fallen timbers was the last battle in president, washington's indian war. so this effectively stopped the native american and the american settlers confrontations in the northwest territory opening the area up for settlement. so after the american revolution and the signing of the treaty of paris in 1783, the united states had gained its sovereignty in lands from great britain what we're standing in now was the northwest territory or the mommy river valley and this is what the americans actually gained from the treaty of paris. unfortunately, however, the native americans who had been living in this land we're not the negotiations and they'd been here farming hunting fishing for hundreds of years. when you have people who are moving into what you believe is your land, you're bound to have problems with what you see as invaders into your homeland now during this point in time

he talked about the united klans of america head, robert shelton.f the face of michael donald, and you could see on the photograph a boot print because when they put the rope around his neck, they put the boot against both sides of his face, pulled on it until there was no breath left in him. and i know ms. donald couldn't have helped but have seen that picture when it was passed on to the jury. at the end of the trial, he looked over at ms. donald. he looked at her sitting there at that table. >> he said that his own family had turned against him, and he also said he didn't have a family. and to know that somebody cares about someone, it made him have a deep feeling in his heart that he felt sorry. >> i told her that i was sorry and that -- and if i could, i would take her son's place. >> that's when he asked me would i forgive him. >> what did you say? >> oh, yes, i had already did that. >> you had already forgiven him. >> yes, sir. i had already asked the lord to take it in his hands. >> i don't think there was a dry eye in that courtroom. i know

>> often they do not know their history in the united states of america because if you look at a map before 1848 you will see one third of the united states was mexico. if they think we don't belong here it was before the united states was the united states of america. we have to and and not the time to do it. >> a place for you are born in new mexico it is in the those that say we need to do something we have talked about this before you say you are okay but you should remember the miners killed in this town. why is that? why should we remember that labor history? >> new mexico was one of the biggest coal mining towns in the united states of america. their own list of counsel, hospital, theater and many people like myself that don't have that heritage and then remembering them miners that were killed my uncle who was only 18 years old at the time was killed my grandfather my dad side is also very their we need to remember the service they gave to our country. as a monument to them but also in for the united states of america because those workers sacrifice their lives as many do toda

at least, that is what they are recommending in the united states of america. m: the history of this goes back to 1960, and there is a significant distinction stated by washington and by the fda, the cdc, and all of the institutions that the united states will be different. this was codified in the thalidomide crisis of the late 1950's, culminating in frances kelsey's work at the fda in 1960, where we said we will be more cautious. with us now, the ever cautious jack fitzpatrick of bloomberg government. jack, the heritage here of a cautious washington and a cautious institutional medical washington is tangible. what a shift from the trump administration to the biden adminstration. describe that shift. jack: i think one of the biggest public shifts, aside from getting the vaccines out in the numbers we have seen, one of the biggest public shifts has been updated rolling deadlines or goals. when biden talked about wanting people in a hesitant way to go to a fourth of july barbecue, they set enough flexible deadlines while warning that things could potentially go b

united klans of america, part of robert shelton's empire.gy was used to tie the local folks actions on to the national klan organization. >> you don't have to show that the head of the united klan said kyle michael donald. all you have to do with this corporation, and it was a corporation, was show some of his top officials were behind and promoted the killing. >> some of the conspirators were high ranking officers. in fact, bennie hayes was the second or third highest ranking officer in that klan at the time of the murder. >> bennie, he gave the orders. he manipulated these young people. >> tiger knowles was 17 years old at the time. bennie hayes was just as culpable and should have been held accountable. >> around the time that the michael donald lynching took place. >> i had tiger knowles testify, i got hope from the attorney general rat of the united states at the time and they broke every rule you could break to get him down to mobile. i concentrate on information that he could give me about who was involved in this planning session dow

southern border with guatemala, which is the key transit point for people coming from central america to the unitedtates. they cross central america, come through guatemala, and come across the border in southern mexico and make it to the united states. there has been a great deal of cooperation with the mexican government, not only in this administration, but with the trump administration, to try to deal with slowing or stopping the migrant flows coming to the united states. host: cynthia arnson, what are you watching for next from the biden administration? guest: i guess i'm watching to see what the actual focus of a dutch aid will be -- need will be. -- aid will be. candidate biden -- addressing issues in the northern triangle, and the amount being requested this year is slightly below that, somewhere in the $860 million range. but to see what specific programs there are, how that money will be allocated, and also what congress is going to insist on, because we have a system of government where the administration, the executive branch proposes the aid levels but it is congress that has to review

>> rule number one, often they do not know the history of the united states of america because if you look at a map of the united states between 1848 you will see that the united states was mexico and when they think that we don't belong here we were here before the united states of america and so we have to and that disco nation that we have against latinos and against other people of color and not in now is the time to do it. >> here in new mexico a place where you are born it's an abandoned lot and there have been many activists that say we need to do something and you and i have talked about this before and you said you are okay but you feel that they should remember the miners killed at this town so why is that and why should we remember that labor history? >> new mexico was one of the biggest coal mining towns in the united states of america and they had their own accident counsel and hospital in a theater and many people, like myself, who had that heritage want to see if it is remembered and remembering the minors that were killed there are my own uncle who was only 18 years ol

africans and indigenous in the americas not least in terms of developing and arms industry to a degree that has been bequeathed to its revolting spohn now known as the unitedstates of america. and then this construction of whiteness whereby -- warring on the shores of europe and a maneuver that would make madison avenue blush, they are magically transformed into quote whiteness once they land in north america. this has boundless expansionist tendencies. for example, british had been warned against germans. germans had been warring against the pulse. the pulse have been warring against russians. serbs have been warring against croats. croats had been warring against -- all of a sudden when across the atlantic they are transmuted into white. it creates a broader base for settler colonialism, and it also by casting to a site south of purgatory those who were not inducted into the hall of whiteness, speaking of people of african descent, indigenous population, it creates this marker in terms of -- which makes them readily and easily identifiable. unlike religion, for example. there can be a mystery as to who is actually a believer and, in fact, people didn't t

this city was set up by the founders to be the capital seat of the united states of america. it was not set up to be a state. and when my friends said that every other state has been added by statute, none of those had been specifically set up as the capital seat of the united states of america. this should be rejected. it is unconstitutional. d.c. has never been a state. it shouldn't be a state. and it's not going to be a state. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from kentucky reserves. the gentlewoman from new york is recognized. mrs. maloney: i now yield two minutes to the distinguished gentleman from illinois, congressman danny davis. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from illinois is recognized for two minutes. mr. davis: thank you, mr. chairman. let me thank you for yielding to me. and also, i want to commend you, chairman maloney, on your outstanding leadership on this committee. i also want to take a moment and commend my colleague, who has been championing d.c. statehood before i even came to congress. you know, i listen intently t

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>> we had a very clear mandate when the united states of america went into afghanistan after the 9/11e who gave safe harbor to the perpetrators of 9/11. and ultimately we took on, we the united states of america, we took on years worth of efforts to undo this the strong holds that had given birth to al qaeda, safe harr harbor to al qaeda and allow for the creation of the organizations that would ultimately attack us on 9/11. and so we have achieved the goals that we set out to -- to follow hitting at the heart of al qaeda, killing osama bin laden, going after those who gave safe harbor to the perpetrators of 9/11 and certainly those who perpetrated that horrific attack and that was the goal set forth, clearly outlined in the 2001 authorization of use of military force and that effort and the thousands of service members who have lost their lives in support of that effort, that effort is one that we achieved and so at this time it is a challenging decision for the president to make, but the decision to bring home and end our military engagement in afghanistan is a decision that has bee

united states of america. >> senator tim scott from south carolina. you see why he is a republican star. he had a tremendous speech at the republican convention which he used that line about his grandfather going from cotton to congress in one lifetime. and he told his personal story with his single mother and talking how much his life affected his upbringing, saying president biden is a nice guy, seems like a nice guy he said that packaged as a unifier, as a moderate but he is anything but. on infrastructure saying about democrats they won't even build bridges to build bridges. one of the biggest things he did was focus on the police reform, the bill that he had bipartisan support for the democrats killed before the election using the filibuster, the democrats now call a racist tool, he says they wanted the issue, they didn't want solutions and went on to talk about what republicans want, packaging that in his own story.

america handling all this? let's bring in our guest w. camel bell, host of cnn's "uniteds of america" along with alfi breeland noble. let me start with you, camel, the mass shootings and deadly shootings, are these moments that will inspire change, or just where were as a country right now? >> you know, i think that we are -- they are not going to inspire change if we keep looking at them as separate acts, if we keep looking at them as individual acts and not as systemic failure of policing then they won't inspire change and that's what a lot of people are feeling. a lot of white people are like i didn't know. we have been known, as i say. we knew this was happening and we have to worry about getting away from the bad apples. at trevia noah said this week the tree is rotten. system of policing in america is rotten tree built on top of black people and against black people. >> on an emotional level, not the political sociological level that kamal was talking about, but on an emotional level how do we process this? >> i don't know that there's any one way to process it. for

america first. it is on conservative judges, and it is a movement that is built on upholding all of the god-given liberties enshrined in the constitution of the united america. [applause] the first amendment freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the second amendment right to keep and bear arms, the tent the moment, limited government -- 10th amendment, limited government and letting states lead on issues most important to our families. our movement in the spirit of the 10th commandment that if given parents the right to choose where their students go to school, public, private, parochial, or homeschool. [applause] it is our movement that recognizes that election integrity is a national imperative, and election integrity and reform belongs at the state level. [applause] elections are a state responsibility. the founders of our constitution crafted that way. we need to reject any democrat attempt to nationalize our elections as you heard president biden speak about less than. we need to defend state-based reforms, support voter id and work every day to restore the confidence of every american in every vote. [applause] and with our agenda and our mov

going to allow that to happen so it's very subjective these people want to see strife in the united states of america but they're so busy looking at the speck in the eye of the united states of america that they're going to ignore the plank in the eye of so much of the rest of the world. all we inevitably moving towards the wild west politics in vain for everything culture education. that's what it appears to be. that's where it is right now and we're it seems to be going a direction most definitely and it's really tragic i am a huge sports fan but i don't think i'm out of watch the super bowl that's probably the only football game i watched all season i haven't watched any bass must stop watching basketball several years ago because of the way that the culture acts the way that they're not focused on simply being the best you can take guys like michael jordan and he was criticized back in the 1990 s. because he didn't take a political stand but you know michael jordan is regarded as being the greatest of all time see as opposed to le bron james running around telling everybody that he should be rega

this is the united states of america for god's sake. building the infrastructure of tomorrow requires investments today. i am open to ideas about how to pay for this plan with one exception. i will not impose any tax increases on anyone making less than $400,000 a year. if others have ideas out there on how to pay for this investment without violating that rule, they should come forward. there are all kinds of opportunities. there are tax breaks i find difficult to explain. wealthy deductions, $360 billion, a top rate of 39%, which it used to be for years, all the way to the bush administration almost a quarter , of a trillion dollars. corporate minimum tax and the fossil fuel giveaways, $40 billion, etc. i could go on. let me tell you what i proposed to do. we are going to raise the corporate tax rate. it was 35% for the longest time, which was too high. barack and i thought it was too high. we agreed five years ago it should come down somewhat, but the previous administration reduced it down to 21%. what i am proposing is that we meet

into place by policies policies that he supported and so now he is the president of the united states of america and this provides him a spectacular opportunity through public policy to undo some of that damage and some of that especially on the crime bill had generational impacts so this is a great time to be able to undo some of those things but a pushing for family paid medical leave and leave and medical leave for up to 12 weeks when we had 0 and other industrialized nations are ahead of us on that is a good thing talking about infrastructure is that all of those things are a good thing but when you are on the path to good you've got to keep going and in some cases we've got to run like our last opinion on it so this is a star process is not in it hence the 1st 100 days we've got many more days to go you mention last night of course you're referencing a time of this interview to president biden's speech before the joint session of the u.s. congress he talked about his agenda one of the things that came up in that was his american families plan he talked about his plan for the economy he took

mexico's southern border with guatemala which is a key transit point for people coming to central america to the unitedates. they cross central america, they come through guatemala and come across the border in southern mexico and make it up to the united states. there has been a great deal of cooperation with the mexican government, not only in this administration than under the trump administration to try to deal with slowing or stopping the migrant flows coming to the united states. >> cynthia arnson, what are you watching for next from the biden administration? >> i guess i am watching to see what the actual focus of aid will be. their candidate biden pledged to spend four billion dollars over a four-year period of time in addressing the root causes of migration in the northern triangle. and the amount that is being requested for this year, i think it's slightly below that. it's somewhere in the 860 million range. but to see what specific programs there are, how that money is going to be allocated, but also when congress is going to insist on. this is -- we have a system of government where the adm

we're down to about 34,000 active coal miners in the united states of america. we need more jobs but those jobs be good paying jobs. that's why it's so important for this country to pass the pro-act, align people who want to join in unions to have that opportunity. that's one of the basic freedoms we have. the third piece we would like to suggest is these coalfield communities across appalachia and west virginia, southwestern virginia and eastern kentucky, all those places we are familiar with lost so much. i was looking at statistics and it's so days sad the number of children who are no longer enrolled in school and west virginia and other places inthe coalfields . that's because their parents have packed up and gone somewhere else. we need to support our teachers in the coalfields and we need the best education we can have but we can't have it when our tax basecontinues to be eroded so as we move forward from this place we are for existing supporting jobs , creatingnew jobs . wherefore carbon rbcapture and sequestration, good healthcare and pensions in these

someone will develop this technology and it ought to be the united states of america. we should not be at the mercy of china solar panels and for all technology related to energy. by the way, they are still using about 4 billion tons of coal in china as we continue to reduce the amount of coalwe have in the united states. i will take questions. >> senator manchin, what do you say to that, with all of that going over to china, with china making the point president roberts just made about the carbon capture and sequestration in china possibly becoming the lead in that? sen. manchin: it is ridiculous that we have allowed this to happen over the last 20 or 30 years. west virginia, when you go back to the old nafta, we started seeing immigration and usually after that and it has continued since. we have to look at the laws and how we enforce them. with carbon capture and sequestration, cecil is absolutely correct on that. i am for innovation, not elimination. many of our lawmakers in washington, we have many people who believe, just quit using fossil fuels. that will take c

number of police killings given the number of individuals going shooting rampage is the united states of america you would have thoughts there are rather more pressing needs for national security in the united states that this. russia says it's going to respond hasn't said exactly how it will but what do you anticipate well i suspect there will be a response because it russians can't seem to be going don't mean to use accounts in going back to the sanctions of so for me about individuals perhaps will see individuals being sanctioned by the nicest by russia oh absolutely explosion of a difference but i'm sure a response will come this is what happens in any such that situation there is a tit for tat but nor no power can be seen to let you know what its rivals get away with and scarce i think that's going to happen yeah 10 exactly what will happen will have to wait and say no that will come over the next few hours or days or say chris we'll leave it agatha told you that with our political analyst chris bambery . a controversial global security bill has been passed by the french parliament it grant

let me just tell you, that's going to cut job creation in the united states of america. it's the very reason we lowered those tax rates in 2017. it's a plan that worked and if the president wants a bipartisan plan, how can he possibly try to get something passed that every single -- that repeals the bill that every single republican in the senate voted for in 2017. to me, i don't see the bipartisan gesture there. >> one last question here. did you guys blow it? you had four years to do an infrastructure bill? you had the presidency, you had the senate and the house for a bit, did you blow it? >> no as a matter of fact, we passed infrastructure bills, the fast act on two occasions. but, yes, i would love to have passed a larger infrastructure bill and i certainly hope we can do that, but i don't want to do it by raising taxes and cutting jobs for americans. >> senator roger wicker, republican for mississippi. i really appreciate you coming on and sharing your perspective. happy easter. >> thank you, chuck. >>>. >>> ahead, can the rising state of the virus get ahead host v

kamau bell and in this episode of "united shades of america" we're talking about reparations. in november of 2019, months before the covid-19 pandemic spread across the united states, and before the protests following the killing of george floyd at the hands of police in minneapolis. but even without those events you can clearly see how the effects of enslavement and all that followed continues with the black community of new orleans

especially my area, also have to say looking at issue more broadly, it's embarrassing that the united states of americauntry on earth, is basically the only industrialized country not to have high-speed rail. japan has had this for 55 years. would be a real game change, i believe for the united states. it's about time we catch up with the rest of the world and take advantage of something that frankly is pretty commonplace most other areas. >> taking a turn to capitol hill security in light of the news this past week, retired lieutenant general outlined what congress should doe in wake of the latest attack on capitol hill police officers. >> corps is standing by to reinforce the out of grounds of the capitol, with contractors coming in to put advanced fencing that could come out of the ground as required. given them the plan, worked it hard, now time for congress to work the plan. >> congressman, do you agree with these recommendations? >> first, i'm heartbroken we've lost the life of yet another u.s. capitol police officer, and more injured. this is a tough balance to strike, right? our only concern is

it's a tax increase on small businesses, on job creators in the united states of america. chuck, you made a statement that i just have to wonder about. you said it seems the administration is more eager to have bipartisanship than members of congress are. how can the president expect to have bipartisanship when the proposal is a repeal of one of our signature issues in 2017 where we cut the tax rate and made the united states finally more competitive when it comes to the way we treat job creators. he reverses all that. i'll tell you what -- he says no one will pay extra taxes if they make less than $400,000 a year. that may be true. we'll have to see the details there. but under this tax increase bill, a lot of people making $100,000 and $50,000 are going to lose their jobs because of the extra burden this plan would put on job creators. >> look, what they're talking about, though, is lowering -- is basically finding a middle ground between where the corporate tax rate was in 2017 and hat the corporate tax rate is today. they would like to move it to 28%. i am curious. thi

i rep resented the highest per capita incomes zip code in the united states of america the time, palm beach island. rush limbaugh was one of my constituents. i share the stage with you on countless times and now i'm the chairman of the largest state republican party in the united states of america, the republican party of texas. mine is not a story being a victim but that's exactly what the democrat party wants to perpetuate out there. when you want to talk about systemic racism of the united states of america, that's the history of the democrat party. they are the ones and their policies that destroyed and decimated the black family. they're the ones in their policies that have turned over the inner cities to the teachers unions and we don't have the quality education schools that are needed for our kids to have equality of opportunity. when i hear the ramblings about systemic racism, we talked about this before, it's a new marxism. it's not about class warfare. it's about racial warfare and the neighborhood that i grew up in was the same neighborhood that produced dr. king. we have

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it is attempt to harm the united states of america and create power across the world. l for the united states of america or his own people, either. this is an authoritarian regime. marxist in its economic approach and they have big designs on displacing the united states of america as the world's leading super power. >> bill: you think about when you came under the trump administration, north korea was the biggest concern. we can admit that. i think president obama would admit the same, right? and now you have russia and ukraine. you have china and taiwan and iran in the nuclear deal. what do you rate as the biggest challenge facing us as a country and this administration among them? >> what is taking place in the negotiations between the united states and the other chinese, russians, iranians, french and brits press real risk to the united states and our arab friends and israeli friends that have joined the abraham a cords that have extended peace in the middle east. that we might lift terror -- it puts risk on our soldiers and marines around the world and those of us

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there ended up being literally thousands of people who had gathered at the shame on the united states of america. the people who came that day all had some documentation. they had visas. first, even, people with green cards were being held and oppressed. who are we? who are we as the united states of america? and i know that the president finally -- this president, president biden has said, no muslim ban. but we want to make it the law of the land so no other president can do such a thing. that based on religion, based on religion that people would be banned from the united states of america. i want to tell you, i take this personally as a jew myself. you know, i am a first generation american. neither of my parents was born in this country. they were able to immigrate to the united states. but i also remember the story of our history as jews. when the st. louis boat that came to protect people from annihilation was turned away from the american shores, who was told to go back to where it came from, and many of those people then perished in the holocaust. who are we? this bill is about who we ar

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and may god bless the united states of america. thank you.as he approaches his 100th day in office, president biden will get his first address to join congress. wednesday night our coverage begins at 9 pm on c-span. online at c-span.org. listen live on the c-span radio app. coming up on american history tv a look back at presidential economic addresses. on the eve of president biden's first address to a joint session of congress will feature speeches from four of his predecessors. president ronald reagan, bill clinton, george w. bush, and barack obama. we'll start with president reagan in 1981 talking about inflation and interest rates. two important economic issues 40 years ago. weeknights this month we're featuring american history tv programs as a preview of what's available every weekend on c-span 3. wednesday, eighth evening of gardens, parks, and landscapes. every spring thousands of people visit the washington d.c. tidal basin to visit the cherry blossoms. memorials to -- and martin luther king junior stand on its banks. the tidal basi

ladies and gentlemen, i am proud to introduce the president of the united states of america, mr. joe biden. [applause] >> hello, everyone. great to be back in philly. great to be back at 30th street station. blake. don't treat each other at family. please sit down, sit down. your dad greg is here too. as far as i am concerned, the weavers are family. speaking of family, your father and i thought a lot of fights together, take those fights to amtrak on philly, i'd not come all the way to philly. it is a wonderful tribute to the station to bear its name. bill flynn, thank you for having me. governor wolf, mayor kenney, unger's and evans, thank you for the passport into the city. i appreciate it. i'll know if they are all here still, but i met a lot of important friends that were here for this occasion. i understand that the senator is here. there you go. the great senate ins. former attorney general. thank you very much. also dwight evans, what is here. you can't miss him. come on, stand up here and. a good friend of mine and worked like a devil to get me elected, and in boil. and

i want every american to know this we will rebuild we will recover and the united states of america will emerge stronger than before. the weight of this crisis will not determine the destiny of this nation. the answers to our problems don't lie beyond our reach. they exist in our laboratories and our universities. in our fields and our factories. in the imaginations of our entrepreneurs and the pride of the hardest working people on earth. those qualities that have made america the greatest force of progress and prosperity in human history. we still possess in ample measure. what is required now is for this country to pull together confront boldly the challenges we face and take responsibility for our future once more. now if we're honest with ourselves, we'll admit that for too long. we have not always met these responsibilities as a government or as a people. i say this not to lay blame or to look backwards, but because it is only by understanding how we arrived at this moment that we'll be able to lift ourselves out of this predicament. the fact is our economy did not fall into declin

we just have to remember, this is the united states of america. i have said it a thousand times. there is nothing beyond our capacity if we act together. it's time to move together. thank you, and i hope i get to come back to see you folks after this plan is passed. and the question is, you have to attract even more apprentices, more people, because we are building so much. god bless you all, and may god protect our troops. [applause] >> high school students particed

kamau bell and in this episode of "united shades of america" we're talking about reparations. do it than new orleans. we went to new orleans in november of 2019, months before the covid-19 pandemic spread across the united states, and before the protests following the killing of george floyd at the hands of police in minneapolis. but even without those events you can clearly see how the effects of enslavement and all that followed continues with the black community of new orleans. in a near impossible position to succeed. and the pandemic has further exposed the racial disparities. black folks are getting the covid-19 virus at a much higher rate than white folks. if you don't see how the killing of george floyd and the protests that followed are tied to reparations, well, then you may need to go back and watch every single episode of "united shades of america." then you'll discover we are way past time for reparations. ♪ >> did you just get naked for beads? it's not even mardi gras. most people coming to new orleans, they come for this. music, party. weirdly colored drinks loa

i started looking at who's the number one teacher of poverty in the united states of america and the answer that i found was the media so what's the average person going to know about poverty and the people who live. then it is probably going to be things like whether getting rich off welfare with a kid in high school is thinking it's not that big a deal as long as i have kids i'll be fine i'll be getting well for all the good cash well for will be covered by medicaid i can get housing and so. it doesn't happen that way in 1906 my welfare check this $408.00 jennifer was 6 daniels to my 15 year old homeless guys that was living with me and they said we won't help her because she's not yours we'll give you $400.00 my rent in a neighborhood. in portland oregon was 390. that can do the math a welfare check today her family of 3 national average or 78 that's 196-2000 17 the average rent according to had a modest apartment 750. the average disability check is $0.75 it's almost impossible to get out of poverty based just on public been. our labor statistics if you take a minimum wage job an