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In and stay stem education is so important because we need a workforce. so thats fine. but it is so workforce driven, especially for black people. we are trained and not educated. well shortchange history. well shortchange fine 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 thing. the best way to envision a new tomorrow is to take in as much as you can and then you have to ha...

>> it wasnt accusatory of anyone. it wasnt praeachy. >> he believed the listener was smart enough to come up with their own conclusions. how do i feel about this. >> if he was writing, he would say, god is writing this album. ♪ father, father ♪ we dont need to escalate. ♪ oh, for only love. >> war is not the only. for only love can conquer hate. hes speaking to god on one level, but hes speaking to the fathers of our country, the leadership of our country to deal with the vietnam war but a...

To be black. >> williams. >> derek johnson is not eligible to vote because hes currently inc incar incarcerated. with exact match, theres an algorithm and it pulls all the derek johnsons. it says we dont know which one it is, so all of them get kicked out of the voter rolls. >> kamau is like what? thats what i was talking about. it is racism at scale because once you have an era rigror rig here, that error gets compounded over and over and over again. >> although many parts of exact match were s...

Every day. yet another reason we need more black folks in stem. people like dr. manu ply, georgia tech professor, and so smart and charming im worried hell take my job. what is it like to be a black person who knows the science in the midst of -- i dont know -- maybe the dumbest period for science in america since, i dont know, ever? >> america is anti-scientist. >> thats for sure. >> just as a people, we need to know we are at increased risk of this. let us just wear masks, period. then we as a...

Future. representation is so damn important. >> if there is robots policing people, it becomes super key who has programmed those robots. >> artificial intelligence is now used for things like predictive policing. its already out there. >> predictive policing. collected from a long racist history, like the fact that black folks are twice as likely to be arrested as black folks and you get a racist system as the truth. >> cooperate. do not make me destroy you. >> thats crazy. >> dont be racist, p...

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Infrastructure includes everyone. this is something that ense says all the time. if you do not have the imagine ari of black technological genius, dont you dare come and tell me that it doesnt exist. any child that has seen black panther and has had like that doorway to afro futurism opened, you are in this too. >> exactly. >> how we address thats problems now will play a huge role in determining how apocalyptic our future continues to look. we need to inspire this generation of tech savvy kids ...

As i did. but when i came to morehouse and was around a bunch of other black men and you could be cool and a nerd at the same time. >> over 700 alumni have gone on to college, 75% of whom graduate with stem degrees. whats different here? i cant seem to put my black finger on it. >> now you get to be around people who look like you heading in the direction where youre headed without having to worry about being judged. you can bring your full self to that space and imagine what you want the future...

Makes it seem, you can create new technology that makes the world a better place all while securing the bag. meet this doctor. she keeps a check on machinemaz. before all that, though, she was the chief technology officer at a startup here in atlanta that was eventually bought by amazon. >> so how did you first get interested in tech? >> im from jackson, mississippi. and i lived with my grandmothers. so we would fix everything. i only got electrocuted one time. you learn after that. but nobody i...