they put in united negro college fund, and getting involved in criminal justice reform.ut they started pouring money into making causes with the whole criminal justice reform network. . i have been watching them for five years now. i saw and listened to a tape that described their public relations people saying we need to look better and we're going to go to the black community to try and improve our image. i was very suspicious of it and i still am. whatever good they do for criminal justice reform, that move is doing better for coke. you're whitewashing their reputati reputation. it is a tough question. . they have not been friends to the black community. i am sorry. or to to the poor -- >> or the white community. >> or the poor white. they have plants that make chemicals in this counsel try that have been horrible polluters. >> you mentioned ronald reagan earlier in the conversation. in the 80s, he was given money by the gay republicans, and it became a huge -- it became a huge he has a smooth line. he said i took -- maybe i took money from them, but that just means t

last month i had on this show michael lomax, the president of the united negro college fund. it was on the same week he and other leaders met with president trump at the white house and asked him to increase funding for their institutions. many were skeptical about that meeting. but mr. lomax told me to wait until president trump's budget is out. well, the it's out, and we did some looking into it. the budget calls for, quote, maintaining money in proep rations for hpcus and minority serving institution, and that is below the spending for those schools right now at $577 million. for the record, there is no mention in the budget of any federal investment in scholarships, summer grants, technology, or campus infrastructure for his starkly black colleges that the leaders requested. here's mr. lomax's reaction. quote, president trump pledged to do more for hbcus than any other president has done before. however, this budget is not reflective of that sentiment. without strong federal investments, president trump's commitment to hbcus and the rebuilding of african american communit

the headline said, circus reu united states negro family, like the circus did it, brought them back together. and eight policemen came out, ringling traveled with lawyers, the manager didn't want to give them up. there's actually this exchange, that's accounted in the press where he claims they're his children, not hers. and in a scene, the brothers recounted till their death, george and willie didn't see very well. most people who have have albinism at first are. it was the back end blues, where african-american people were to sit. but circus experts that i interviewed said that the side show was one of the few places with are it broke down. as i said earlier, people stood up and they walked around so i imagine here, a photograph of her wearing thislong dress, somebody said, you know, like on a wagon train, and those oxford shoes with no laces in them and a hat, and she was very tall and dignified, very beautiful woman and i imagine her paying her quarter and going in there andmaking her way very slowly to sort of the front of the crowd. she would have had to have been pretty close up for t

those confirmations and then you see the 60s of course this generation like i said i just left the united negro college fund data st. louis. we talk about the campaign in south africa which started, you see the statute and the students, black, white, we need to be able to pay for her education. we need to have support. vision people who are sitting in st. louis and all of the country not only do about this but then they connected to concerns to the 1950s which was the university of missouri. these movements now have the potential to unsettle some things that people as ask her ce about in this country, like money. missouri is a great example. we talk about today. you all know about concerned students in the 1950s. university of missouri being integrated, the kinds of games,, nobody still know it happened. anyway, these students realized when the football players at missouri, and i'm from the south so you all know the sec's, sometimes we call it a slight economic conference are all the money to make up the black bodies. the spoils of integration. when you see the football players come out and say

this generation, like i said, i just left the gates of united negro college fund, that's who's meeting out in st. louis and we talked about the fees must fall campaign in south africa, which started with roads must fall. see the roads statute off the campus. these students, black, white, these must fall. we need to be able to pay for our education, we need to afford it. and these young people who were sitting in st. louis from all over the country not only knew about that, but connected it to 1950, of course, which was the university of missouri, mizzou. these movements now have the potential to unsettle some things that people actually care about this in country, like money. missouri's a great example of that. we talked about it today, you know, y'all know about concerns through 1950. yeah. of course, it was funny because talked about missouri and charles hampton houston and university of missouri being integrated, clarence gaines, nobody still knows what happened to him, right? what happened to clarence gaines? anyway, these students realized when the football players at missouri, an

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united states and setting up intervention. we need more social justice programs for poor people, and especially black people. we need a politics where removeication doesn't like people and become what inple called negroemoval the 1960's, but sets up communities were black, white, latino kids go to school together, families are actually neighbors, and we can see each other as human beings. the reason why black likes do not matter in the united states now or historically is because de-humanization, institutions, politics, and fellow citizens are all culpable in, and until we admit that and have policy transformation based on that, we will not move forward. neil joseph, university of texas professor and a contributor to the new republic whyauthor of the story, lack lives matters still matters. thank you for joining us today. coming up next, we go back to your calls about what are your environmental concerns. calllicans can 202-748-8001, democrats independents and 202-748-8002. we will be right back. ♪ announcer: this weekend, book tv is live from the 22nd los angeles times festival of books. our coverage starts today at 1:30 p.m. eastern. at 3:00 p.m., a look at the republican party with you hewitt, cor

when it comes to the negro, you're not a citizen of the state and you're not a citizen of the united states. now, why is that important? how does that link to baltimore? their obsession is to play a shell game with states' rights or the federal government as it suits them. there is no consistency in his legal argument. and a lot of these cities, the police chiefs are like, no. the police chiefs are like, no. is,,is going to happen they have to choose. am i going to jump in now and revealed to everybody that i don't care about the law. this is about me preserving my warped view of the world? i suspect that he will. and if he does that, then we can begin, in terms of what we can do, we can begin to reframe how we look at the law. because ralph said the negro is the special ward of the supreme court. we're always looking for the federal government to help intervene to help us. if we begin to look at law as something that we can buil consensus on at local levels, prosecutors like the late ken thompson in brooklyn, like the guy in dallas, johnson. carol harris probably should have been mo