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Andria McClellan releases first TV ad Published Wednesday, May. 12, 2021, 5:23 pm Join AFPs 100,000+ followers on Facebook Purchase a subscription to AFP Subscribe to AFP podcasts on iTunes and Spotify News, press releases, letters to the editor: augustafreepress2@gmail.com Norfolk Councilmember Andria McClellan, a candidate for the Democratic Party lieutenant governor nomination, has launched her first TV ad of the primary campaign, “Goes Back Generations.” The ad, which will run in Hamp...

I dont i think it is about individual privilege per se, but it is about how that all is rolled up into a government that treats some citizens as clients and some people as targets. >> so, robert, you had to contend with your familys history going back generations, your ancestor general robert e. lee fought for the continuing of enslavement of black people, and what dont people get about the reparations and white privilege, do you think? >> well, i think that one of the things that i dont think t...

Documented estimates of exactly how much was stolen from black people by slavery and by jim crow. we know that when black folks moved to chicago they lost between 2 to $3 billion just from contract buying and discriminatory housing. something on the order of 12 million acres of farmland was stolen from black farmers. these are things we can put on a ledger and say the united states government was actually part of the party that was responsible for doing this. i dont think its about individual pr...

Symbolic of him going through china, through chinese territory, paying respect to china on the way to this critical showdown with the leverage that china uniquely hold over whether any deal will ever be consummated or obeyed. and yet at the same time the cultive personality cultivated of course by kim jong-un and his entire dynasty going back generations. >> its a state and a cult really. >> and we have the president of somehow breaking through as no other president has with that shiny nobel pri...

Francisco. but i kid. 68 hours on a train in part because of the threat of assassination and in part because of the shortage of dependable aviation equipment in that country. that gives you the setting for these two guys to sit down. >> its a perfect metaphor. the economic need. the sanctions have hurt. but theres also cheating from china and russia, playing on both sides against the middle. and there is sort of a metaphor there, and it may be more than symbolic of him going through china, throu...

>> i mean it goes back generations, chris. >> where did they come from? were they the best? scientists, architects coming in with bags of gold? >> you know what, not everybody is a scientist and an architect, but the thing is we need to be able to decide. you dont go to sleep at night and leavior dooe your doors ope >> nobody is saying the doors shouldnt be locked. >> i have to show i.d. >> youre saying different things. niger, we should have only the best. we never have. we never have. weve giv...

We need to know who is coming in and going out of this country. we should only accept the best here, chris. why is that a problem. >> since when? >> who came over here in your family, how did you get here? >> the thing is -- >> no, no, no, who came in first for you? >> i mean it goes back generations, chris. >> where did they come from? were they the best? scientists, architects coming in with bags of gold? >> you know what, not everybody is a scientist and an architect, but the thing is we need...

Last year. you say it goes back generations, really prior to the founding of the nation. in the years since, has anything gotten better in your view? >> i do. i think people are more willing to talk about these issues. more willing to recognize that there are problems in places. ive known people, especially conservatives that for years that there was no racism anymore in america. and on the whole in some places and in some situations there is. i think events have taken place over the last year h...

The state. not just the individual kim but the entire family. going back generations. >> reporter: a system that, thanks to americas existing democratic system, no president of the united states could ever recreate. while the crime of not showing quite enough joy at a rally can be punishable by reeducation or jail time for the average north korean citizen, for top officials, that kind of thing can be deadly. a top education official in north korea was once executed by firing squad for showing a,...

Michael. >> two clarifications. on the signing statement broadly, are you saying that the president was not aware of that very law, of the details of that very long signing statement and it was just something done -- >> no, no, no thats not -- no. the president is obviously aware of what happened. the question that was asked is it is a process. it happened for administrations going back generations im sure. i dont have the precise nature of when signing statements came into being. this goes alon...