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That that asian-black tension can exist in such a toxic way. are there ways in which the media has perpetuated that asian-black divide that youve seen in the current era, the post 2020 era? >> absolutely. there is a period where i dont even remember last year where i was being inundated on social media and text, family, everybody i know sending videos of asian people being attacked by black people. so you had to think about that. why. why does the media keep showing us black people attacking asi...

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The millionaires are going to live there with all that free land. youre going to be stacked up in a storage facility and you cant leave your sector. as soon as you -- you cant go nowhere because literally you get two giant ai bulldozers on both sides, next group. dont fall for this, this is a trap. my blackness wont allow me to go in there. white people hear me, do not investigate this. this is a roach motel. you go in, youre not getting out. >> greg: when i first saw this i thought this was a g...

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Is blackness. >> the incredible work of "the fresh prince" at its most triumphant is when it was showing the ways that being black is always going to be a problem no matter what. >> vehicle registration, please. >> just a second. but the thing, officer, this isnt my car. >> theres the episode i remember where they get pulled over in a car. >> what? >> he is going to tell us to get out of the car. >> you watch too much tv. >> get out of the car. >> we have an interaction with the police officer t...

, one of them is not being served. you know what i mean? >> what we learned is that a lot of the issues of other intersections of oppression become more real here. we focus on race. yes, you can bring up that white people are problematic, but why we are to anti- blackness, black people play into that too. even you. so what does that mean in this space? >> just for the record, as i came in here, one of the preachers told me that you are related to sylvia liston. i am very proud of myself that i d...

Array. this map is from 1937. it is what they call a security map. we can call it a redlining map. >> okay. >> it is a series of maps that were produced by the federal government. they did these surveys and neighborhood appraisals to determine where they would actually issue home loans. the green areas are good loans, the red is basically areas that they say are on a decline. everybody black pretty much concentrated in this area. they made a decision about where black people lived. no other ethn...

Individuals of color and is the individual white people. that is just there m.o. it is nice to see that the stories are aggravating, because that kind of behavior, particularly white folks, i believe this black body does not belong in this coded white space, therefore, i feel threatened, and i know that i have the agency to call on some sort of authority figure to correct that. >> i have the agency to be the authority figure. >> that is a lot in milwaukee. >> everything we talked about may seem ...

Policies that are maintaining inequities, just as there are white people who are being anti—racist, and who are challenging racism. you are accused by some — im going to quote you one — some politicians of pitting whiteness and blackness, white people and black people against each other. he specifically — that is josh hawley in congress, speaking in the senate floor — he said, "dr ibrahim kendi is opposed to equality under the law. "hes opposed to our merit—based system in the us. "d...