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To put more police presence out. were going to have community safety coalitions, community members of different ethic backgrounds joining together to patrol streets and inhibit this kind of violence. and were focusing on our young people and schools, adding to our curriculum immediately to teach young people that any act of hate ultimately comes back to hurt everyone, every community. so i dont see this as just isolated incidents. i see this as a growing crisis that needs to be addressed right d...

Was -- but yeah. ill tell you why i think it can get better. you know new york city. crown heights, 1991. we had a horrible, painful conflict between communities. we had riots. back then, it would have been hard to believe that would heal. for decades now, we have seen people of all the different parts of that community, all the different ethnic backgrounds, come together. and weve seen a community that got more and more peaceful, more and more unified. we have been to those bad times and we fou...

Number, it means you have to rely on some blunt instruments like tests and grades. many criticize the reliance on these kinds of objective indices but few have been able to propose a workable alternative to them. that means they should live up to their ideals. they should focus on finding bright children from poor backgrounds who have great potential but dont score as well on these testing measures. many elite colleges today take in more students from the top 1% of the income distribution than f...

Students of different cultures, races and backgrounds may be. >> but heres what happens when only academic merit is considered in admissions. stiverson high school in new york city, it is one of the nations top public high schools. graduate from there, you might get in. how do you get in? take a single test. it might sound fair but this is the outcome. in a city that is 15 perfection percent asian, stiverson is almost 75% asian. these demographics raise the question, can and should a standardize...

From across the generations, who had been through this. who had fought in other tough times and figured out a way to move forward. to make change. and so one of the great things about the book is that you have activists who are in their 90s, civil rights leaders, all the way down to young people in their 20s. so figuring out different ways to come together and make change and push through some of the -- some of the stalemate. >> one of the things that -- that really captivated me is i read about...

Communicate that but youre also seeing this as an opportunity to present an idea what the democratic party is and looks like compared to what the republican party looks like. we heard mccarthy say jim jordan and john ratcliffe and doug collins. >> that would be very good for us. you look at the party. 200 republican senator members of the house right now, only 13 women. thats about to drop to less than 10. on the other hand, our party is incredibly diverse. it does give us a chance to show off s...

If called to duty, you do it, of course. >> yes. >> i mean, im a former prosecutor. but you do want to know the proceedings. its like if you are going to play baseball, you want to know the rules before you get in there. and what nancy wants to be clear about is, is this legitimate? is this real? are we going to really try to get to the facts to the truth. or are we -- >> did she ask your advice -- if she would ask your advice on what type of person, what type of number you would recommend to be...

>> in the new testament gospels, jesus starts his mission traveling through galilee and judea gathering followers. from them, he chooses 12 to be his closest disciples. >> the term disciple simply means learner or student, so when jesus is calling disciples, hes simply gathering a group of students round to learn from him. >> the disciples come from a wide range of backgrounds from fishermen to tax collectors. >> there was recruitment by jesus, deliberate recruitment, and he wanted a diverse gro...

Think there is -- you know, part of what we see is there is when you have people from different backgrounds and life experiences, people arent going to agree on whats happening today. >> i think, though, weve had identity politics this whole time. >> of course, yes. >> and thats what weve been playing. weve been centering whiteness and maleness as essentially the only thing we cared about in politic and this moment were saying, okay, were going to open up the doors a bit and talk about your expe...

Part of what we see is that there is -- when you have people from different backgrounds and life experiences, people arent going to agree on whats happening today. >> i think, though, that weve had identity politics this whole time. >> of course. yes. >> its just been white identity politics and thats what weve been playing. weve been centering whiteness and maleness essentially as the only thing we cared about in politics. and this moment is the moment were saying, okay, were going to open up t...