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Then again, when is america not thinking about this? this day should remind us our faith in the future is well placed, that things have changed for the better and they will continue to change if people of good conscience fight for it. it is always a kind of back-and-forth process, isnt it? after all, the 13th amendment which banned slavery was ratified in december 1865, just months after the first juneteenth, but the supreme court mangled it with its ruling in plessy verses ferguson, establishin...

Systems that have ocho ppressed set individuals back for a period of time. weve been in this country for 401 year. there wasnt the fair housing act until 1968. i mean, my father literally, were talking about one generation, my mother desegregated schools in memphis, tennessee. were not talking about -- we still have people who are alive from black wall street in the tulsa massacre that people -- anderson, funny part is people didnt know black wall street existed until "watchman". >> bakari selle...

Order for them or anything around them to be racist. that is not the case. in fact, we are talking about systems that have oppressed and systems that have set generations of individuals back for a very long period of time. we have been in this country for 401 years. there wasnt the fair-housing act, until 1968. i mean, my -- my father. literally, were talking about one generation. my mother desegregated schools in memphis, tennessee. like, were not talking about -- we still have people who are a...

1968 was to the right wing base. >> the wave of crime is not going to be the wave of the future in america. >> fear, fear, fear. >> nixon used what was called the southern strategy. build the base by attracting more white support in the south with subtle appeals to racism. >> these cold words, these dog whistles -- law and order. these code words. these dog whistles. law and order. >> law and order is something that everybody wants. >> the right loved nixon until he began to run the country. to ...

Reported in "the new york times", and it suggested that emmas relationship to one of the co-founders of brian foods somehow had something to do with this. the suggestion is that a man that died in 1968 somehow from the grave influenced this. >> he left a legacy here. he did. forever, for years to come, the bryan name will be very honored here in west point, clay county, because of the industry. not him per se, but he had children. he had aunts, uncles, cousins, mothers, et cetera, so theres a le...

Agreement and right now their solution is a $1 trillion package without the tax increases, but then, also in the background is floating another $6 trillion in spending which would have tax increases with it and reports are the largest tax increase since 1968. so thats extremely troublesome given that weve seen the economy slow down. the economy was trying to take off as people got vaccinated. it was worrisome and i think you indicated the monmouth poll is showing the majority of people are conce...

Congress of the united states, everything were talking about with its infrastructure package has broad, popular support across party lines. its only when it gets inside washington its something that you might call partisan. >> well, let me ask you, it seems if congresswoman miller-meeks said what republicans are really worried about are tax increases, she said that the $6 trillion package floating behind the $1 trillion was what she said was the largest tax increase since 1968. are the democrats...

A little preparation will make you and your family safer in an emergency. a weeks worth of food and water, radio, flashlight, batteries and first aid kit are a good start to learn more, visit safetyactioncenter.pge.com the last time the u.s. got a new federal holiday was in 1983. >> the house of representatives today voted in favor of a 10th national holiday, the third monday of every january to commemorate the birth of martin luther king jr. this is as far as the legislation gotten in the 15 ...

Burglary. it was nuts. of course, it was the summer of the enemies list and all that, too. we think of watergate as being this separate thing, but you see when you look at the bar and the conduct of the war and the secrets involving that, including his own secret fiddling with the paris peace talks in 1968 in order to get elected that it was his crimes, his vietnam war crimes in that instance had begun well before he was elected and continued and what really, more than anything, led to watergate...

>> it was that decision, kurt, telling his people to go commit these crimes and then the one that really did it was when they got caught was when they were told to break into the democratic party headquarters. and that is when these people working for the nixon white house got caught. >> yeah, and the thing was, because it was never actually happening. the case, they try to get in -- they... chuck olson, one of the former nypd cops who have been working for him, headlined to set a fire as a dist...