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Arguing for the definition to only include people who check off either just the black box or both black and white. it is a neat trick. as if by magic a bunch of black voters would dus appear. the cynicism is breath taking. lets not forget much of history, blake spern developed by the one drop rule. if you had any black ancestors amounting to one drop of blood then youre black. there is a very specific person for using this blood map to define them as white and preserve white wealth and while pol...

Georgia will be a black man, something that walker did point to earlier in the debate is his own race and his own blackness. there is a lot of ways to be a black person in america as i think you and i can attest to and many people, viewers watching. now at the end of the day law enforcement and the experiences of black folks are an important issue to come up in a debate. i dont know if that helped move the debate forward at all. but to be clear none of this is to say race is off the table becaus...

Communities because of the way in which its embedded within latin american and caribbean cultures. this is not a product made in the united states. its not an off-shoot of u.s. racism within latin america and the caribbean where 65% to 90% of the african slave trade was brought. the recurring legacy of slavery and the negative stereotypes and attitudes about blackness are still with us. >> in other words, you see it flat out as racism, and not as, i guess, a jockeying for power between different...

Apologized but anti black sentiment is much bigger than just this latest news now is what we want to talk about today, joining me now is karen perez jordan, ceo of the gathering for justice. tanya hernandez is a law professor at florida university and author on racial ill in less. unmasking latino anti black bias and the ceo of the national association of latino elected and appointed officials educational fund. carmen, i want to start with you because i think the most disappointing thing about a...

A new poll out today shows that latinos support for the gop is surging over the past four years alone, up a whooping 10 points and oh boy is this making liberals angry. charles blow hard at the new york times writing, i have a theory about the future of america that i dont want to come true. that with the browning of america, white supremacy could simply be replaced by a form of light supremacy in which fairer skinned people perpetuate a modified anti blackness. modified anti blackness? really? ...

Twitter. this is the kind of blackness that works for the republican party one that is going the other way. i think until the truth alicia. these folks dont want democracy is what they want as white rule they want white power and unfortunately because of how we understand history in this country for a very long time folks could have white power and call it democracy while it was excluding black folks, latino folks from the body politics and now because we have tools at our disposal we are able t...

Wondering why jackson is not as forthright as they want her to be, on issues important to them. to questions about her blackness altogether. when you hit certain heights, it is bound to happen and it will be painful. an apple tv plus documentary -- oprah winfrey were catholic teaching advice that she received when she received -- that she wasnt black enough. poitier, sydney patel who went through the same swing in black public sentiment, said, quote, its always a challenge when youre carrying ot...

Natasha Marin asked people across the African Diaspora, "When do you feel most powerful?" Heres what she found. 

The united stateswas looking for model communitieshere, in america that they couldpresent as models of democracy to therest of the world. so they came to teaneck. (music) reporter: this is teaneck,our hometown. these pictures have been shownthroughout the world to demonstrate,to people everywhere, a fine example of americandemocracy in action, (music) gervonn: my grandfather ownedhis own business, in jersey city, and i previouslyhave been in new york, butwanted something more suburban,and teanec...

Thats a big part of your documentary on sydney posterior. it is also a big part of another documentary on arthur ashe. it seems like, when there is the black first, they go through the cycle, you were just talking about it, yeah, we watch the heroes, we put them up, theres always this question of, well, who are you really? >> well, a couple of things, one, i forgot who said it, but there is a great line, any definition of blackness that excludes -- is invalid. the second part is, so much of the ...