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The whole country. and its possible that its going to create a permanent underclass, period. it will include white people, too. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. but there will be a lot of us in it. but the fact that we have all these white men taking care of us, thats progress. im hopeful for sure, but there is going to be a lot of suffering in order to get to this shining city on the hill. >> didnt expect a rain quote. i guess it is a hip-hop city. if you got a good bar, you got a good bar. ♪ living in h...

Its 2021. we got a brand-new old white guy in the white house, the first ever black woman, indian woman and oakland woman as the vice president. its morning in america. damn it, another reagan quote. he really did have some good lines. one sure way to know were dealing with 2020 and its aftermath is as i write this one out of every 645 african-americans have died of covid-19 and more are dying every day. yet another reason we need more black folks in stem. people like dr. appellate, georgia tech...

Operations, with the power of nation states. but the corporations will come in and say, oh, stem education is so important because we need a workforce. so thats fine, but its so workforce-driven, especially for black people. were trained and not educated. well shortchange history. well shortchange art. wheel shortchange foreign language, overlooking the need to have fully educated people. losing sight of that, i think, would be to our detriment. >> trained and not educated. thats the whole damn ...

>> this is now a learning ground. >> im always going to remember the time i learned what not to play and when not to play. >> hopefully every five years or ten years, there will be another version of "whats going on" by another artist. ♪ there is far too many of you dying ♪ ♪ you know youve got to find a way ♪ ♪ to bring some love ♪ >> michael mcdonalds version of it, john legend did the whole album live. ♪ whats going on, hey, whats going on ♪ >> tell me whats going on, ooh ♪ ...

Has. if you dont press anything, give us any information, this is who we presume you to be and were saying this is okay. we have all lived and understand the premise of jim crow. but the new idea is this thing called jim code. were creating technology that is going to disenfranchise people, particularly black and brown people who simply arent in the room when these things are being thought of. were trying to go for that star trek future. >> look at your cell phone. but it doesnt get nearly enoug...

And she invited me to work in her lab. >> i see you trying to leave. im not going to let that happen. what i want to do here is just be like, you could be a scientist just as you are. you dont have to change how you look. you dont have to change how you act or what kind of music you listen to. youre a scientist. it is not a weird thing to have a black scientist with my hair or yours walking around. >> so 20, 30, 40 years ago, somebody created something that allowed for me now to be where i am. >...

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Just that old stereotypes. >> we ended up developing a course that i think shows students a way to really use math to think about the real world. i had been reading a lot about 1890 to 1901, he was here at atlanta university. he collected data with his students to show the world what black america looked like. he set up visual immanls. >> i have seen some of those. >> yeah. and the students replicate those using census data. using math to think about voting, gerrymandering, looking at their own ...

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♪ strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees. >> what do you think, the similarities you see between marvin gaye? >> i think it was revelatory then. it was revelatory when i was young listening to it. >> so you listened to this album growing up. >> yeah, of course. but i wasnt super aware of the lyrics. it wasnt until i got older and i heard one of my favorite songs on the album, which is save the children ♪ ♪ oh, who really cares ♪ whos willing to try. >> its a journey. when you realiz...