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That may be less savory. instead, you chose to write about your parents incarceration writing, quote, my parents unconsciously chased whiteness for most of their lives. prison made them realize they were always closer to blackness. what did your parents struggle teach you about your own identity and why the decision to keep that in the book? >> yes, so first and foremost happy 68th birthday to my mom whos watching, and my parents were interesting. a lot of immigrants theyd call them fresh off th...

Murdered. you talk about how people tend to associate criminality with blackness. i think that has to be a part of this conversation when we reimagine public safety. talk a bit if you will about that. >> yeah, it absolutely does because if were thinking were going to solve the problems we see with the tragic headlines involving racism and policing by just going to the police department, boy are we kidding ourselves, right? because we remember how many times weve had these exact conversations. ay...

Of their restricted mansion in st. louis, glocks in tow, pulling their guns out on unarmed black protestors. to people like them, black skin is weapon enough, and this is precisely the problem. this is what this bill is designed to do, to legitimize seeing blackness as a weapon in and of itself and justify our murders. it is meant to terrorize us and frighten us away from using our voices. i want to set the historical contest. back in 1950, missouri had the second highest number of lynchings out...

Lets talk about the subject. what -- hey, im talking about the issue! to answer your question, this sean hannity show is color-blind. but what gives behar at the right to question clarence thomas blackness. this is nothing more than pandering and it is insulting to black americans. what they are telling us is, if you are black, you have to be a democrat. tell that the herschel walker, tell that to condoleezza rice, candace owens, larry elder, and leo terrel. it is insulting. it is insulting beca...

Can explain doctor suess drawings and put them into proper context. just to be clear here, in their minds, racist imagery is a-okay in school libraries. but books about a young black boy who is proud of his blackness or a pair of gay teens falling in love, apparently those are obscene. falling in love, apparently falling in love, apparently those are obscene. i brought in ensure max protein, with thirty grams of protein. those who tried me felt more energy in just two weeks! (sighs wearily) here...

Saying exactly that. yes, we should have a black woman judge on our highest court in the nation. and, no, that justice will not render judgments based solely on her blackness, but then the right wing knows that. thats not why theyre acting so upset this week. that in responding to supreme court justice stephen breyers pending retirement, president biden has insisted he will keep his campaign promise to nominate a black woman to replace him, which offers the right-wing vote for midterm election y...

World problems like depression, gender politics and racial injustice, history like the holocaust or slavery. but to conservatives these novels apparently represent an existential threat to their children. i mean, how much of a snowflake do you have to be to be scared of a childrens book, god forbid a 14-year-old learned about racism or trans people before they go off to college. the irony in all of this right wings and republicans, the pinnacle of cancel culture and censorship they called it. th...

So hopefully, we did okay. but i want to get your impressions of everything that you saw last night. i was in inglewood watching the super bowl watch party in the heart of inglewood at the miracle theater and the blackness of the whole experience was actually really big for me. but it was very different in terms of what the nfl allowed to happen during the half time show. i still think they were surprised by the moment by eminem but what do you think? >> sure, they were surprised by the moment b...

That. has the partnership with jay-z made any end roads on social justice, i havent seen anything but perhaps there are things happening behind the scenes that you know about. >> nothing that i know of. theyre raising money and giving out grants and those sort of things, but i believe that one thing that jay-z im sure understood when he kind of embarked on his collaboration was part of what they are buying is the goodwill that he had, that he possesses and as far as black people are concerned. l...

To have a fight about something and basically racial bullies, right? we get it, we get that its an issue but this guy is said can we just move on, can the whole country move on? >> that article, you really thought you had something there and just reading it with the corrections, you think about what does that mean about the authors point? that he hath deserves it? if you follow the premise, it sounds ridiculous but thats exactly what he is saying. >> greg: you identify as a half veteran. be mike...