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laid down and shed his blood, you have the unmitigated gall to beat your brother, chase im down and beat him some more. call for backup, and they take 20 minutes, and you watch him and you are too busy talking among each other, no empathy, no concern. if you read the story of joseph, when his brothers threw him in the pit, nobody came to help him. like nobody came to help tyre. waiting on ambulance service that didnt show up until its too late. what will happen to his dream. well just ...

this is "gps," the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the would. im fareed zakaria coming live to you from new york. today on the program, ill talk to "new york times" columnist tom friedman who points out not only is the united states involved in the largest war in europe since world war ii, but america has also entered a sort of tech war with china. and an energy struggle with saudi arabia. what in the world is going on? and chinas leaders, mo...

im fareed zakaria coming live to you from new york. today on the program, ill talk to "new york times" columnist tom friedman who points out not only is the united states involved in the largest war in europe since world war ii, but america has also entered a sort of tech war with china. and an energy struggle with saudi arabia. what in the world is going on? and chinas leaders, more than 2,000 of them, are gathering this week to make major decisions about the countrys decision for the...

>> were asking to be treated equal. and to be treated fair. and just like they marched and boycotted and went to jail for nine years from the 55 montgomery busboy cot to the 64th civil rights act, we going to pay the same dues to get this george floyd justice in policing act. [ applause ]. >> reverend, i dont know how long, they didnt know how long it would be when they boycotted. its not about a timetable. its about we cannot continue to live under these double standards and under these conditi...

Almost military level of organization and hierarchy. take one surprising example. the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s. as malcolm gladwell explained in 2010, that inspiring movement was not some spontaneous call for justice, but rather a challenge to the establishment, mounted with precision and discipline. central to its success was the black church, which gladwell notes had a very hierarchical structure and organized standing committees and other groups that reported to a central au...

Political work is like that, too. theres tough periods. >> this is one of them. i say to people, the last five years, we cant recover. the civil rights movement, if we start it from brown in 1954, and that is to ignore everything from before 1954, and thats e-will the, the last big civil rights period of the era is past. thats 15 years. were talking about the last five years. how long it felt in 1963? how do you think it felt when the four girls were blown up in the church? there are all these m...

How so? >> yeah. a lot of people when they think civil rights they rightly think of the courts, the judicial system. theyre probably thinking of the department of justice. but if you think about civil rights history for a minute, rosa parks, right? what touched off the montgomery busboy cot had to do with equitable access to transportation. go back further in our history in the late 19th century, that was about who gets to sit where on a train car and discrimination based on race. and what were ...

We saw the busboy cot. so much at that time. and he marched with dr. king at the time when blacks were not allowed to stay at a hotel off the interstate or go to a restaurant. and he marched against those injustices. he wanted equality. he was important to the shift in the atmosphere. the shift in the law. so we received the civil rights act and this group of young black men dared to be different. dared to go out and challenge the system. just after they received the civil rights act. john lewis...

Here in atlanta, a revered u.s. civil rights leader has died at the age of 87 years old. juanita abernathy was the wife of ralph abernathy sr., co-founder of the american civil rights movement. she was a force in her own way. her family called her the last remaining person who was actively involved from day one of the montgomery busboy cot and the civil rights movement. she and her husband worked side-by-side, with civil rights legend, dr. martin luther king jr. the fight for civil rights cont...

Boy, it called him son, it hearkens to language that is probably the most degrading term you can use to describe any african-american male. my father, my grandfather, my uncle, cornell west can tell you about it. even cory booker can tell you about the generations of african-american men who have been called down and been degraded by the term boy. for vice-president biden to not recognize that in context is a problem. but even more importantly, i think when you invoke someone like senator easter...