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Left, and insisting upon showcasing people with politics, whose politics agree with his, so they are making it political, which just goes to the truth that plaque history has always been politicized, black people have always been politicized, and were seeing more of that. as a whole, do the views of kimberly crenshaw reflect more accurately the views of most black americans or do black conservatives who have been hand picked by idealogues in the republican party of florida? clearly, i would thin...

Existence of blackness will devalue this space. therefore, blackness should be prohibited from being in this space. that is what youre saying. its by design. this was intentional. so we can point to a legacy of, like, systemic inequality. >> when you see this on a map like this, racism is not just, like, a feeling. its also an institutional structure. >> so after more than three seasons of this show, this seems like as good a time as any to define the word racism. in my experience, most people d...

The last couple of days, you had the release of that video, the brutal beating of tyre nichols. what ive been talking about on the show for the last couple of hours, right? racism in this country, police brutality against black americans. what needs to change, this has been an ongoing conversation. and yet, they are trying to make sure that kids in florida are not being taught african american studies at a college level. what does that mean to you in this conversation? >> what it means to me in ...

About the idea that five police officers charged are black and the victims black, you and i have been talking for three years about police violence and brutality but it has been white police and black victims, what do you glean from what we know about this story? >> that is so sad, in our community way talk about internalized racism, meaning black people who hate their blackness. i am not sure if that is the case here or if they were just overwhelmed with the power that they had been given as po...

That could be talked about, particularly when talking about blackness in this country. you can talk about the contributions that blacks have made to our military. it was henrietta blackberry that invented the underwater cannon work or garrett morgan who invented the gas mask and save lives during the war and invented the traffic signal. look at the industrial area and the industrial revolution. andrew beard invented the automatic railroad card. elijah mccoy the automatic lubrication system for l...

So bakari, what do you say to governor desantis in his defense of blocking this course in florida? >> i would say to governor desantis, if he were in front of me, i would say your blatant ignorance is showing. he asked the question who would care about black queer studies? i would say the king of rock n roll, little richard was a black gay man. i would say that the architect of the march on washington, ruston, a black gay man. i would say one of the greatest minds of our generation, of our lifet...

Florida. i have to defend my blackness and my being. and that frustrates me. and the audacity of someone like governor desantis, to come out and tell me what my history is and what can be taught to my children i believe is wholly unacceptable. these culture wars is where we are in american politics. >> eric, that is something that desantis is well aware of, right? and making these sorts of statements and doing these sorts of things has worked for him. thats certainly what he is thinking it will ...

Times. but for me, its a duality of not just reflecting the times, but also using your imagination to see beyond who we are, to see whats beyond us, to see hopefully a better and brighter future. i think creatives have this kenow billet-y to lean into the radical imagination. so ideally in the space, you see this juxtaposition of the past as well as the possibilities for the future. so, thats the goal. >> the thing is, what were doing tonight, were talking about this sort of racial healing dynam...

Youre in thissen credible space. i hope people get the conversations that trymaine had, the conversations chris, our wonderful friend chris hayes and i are going to have with nicole hannah jones and with the former mayor of this city, mitch landrieu and with others just about the first steps, i guess, that we can take to try to have some sort of racial healing in a country that often is quite resistant to it. its a difficult conversation. this is clearly not a solution to it, but were going to t...

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