And for human equality. But the notice was very much at this moment. Enforces to confront challenges in our society that weve had trouble with in recent years. This is a time that makes us wonder how strong our institutions are going to prove to be. How we are going to rise to the challenge like this. I think you cant help but to see it as a time of crisis. Because it is a time of testing is also time for us to think about what americas strengths are and what were good at is a country and how we can build on that to confront these enormous problems. See 500 we get there. Our country has always tried to strike a balance between the dignity and equality of individuals in one hand and some form of strength of community on the other. Every free Society Faces that in our society think is in the past halfcentury really emphasize the individual. Yuval emphasize liberty and freedom. And also diversity. That is brought some enormous advances and benefits. But there is another side to the coin.
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A healthy confrontation with the past but an attempt to eradicate history altogether today were talking to professor tom device and scotlands leading historian to ask how the nation should confront the c. B. L. Sides of his own history and how the Mainstream Media been covering this controversial issue we asked professor Jordan Robertson costs us get to go lie over much of the plotting all of this coming up later in the show but 1st the glass going to smita with your tweet your emails and your messages. Thank you alex last week sure focused on the impact of corbett 19 on black asian and minority ethnic communities where we spoke with dr managed to lottie who lost his father to coronavirus pierre byron this month and 100 year old fundraiser charging louisa says i live in africa and the numbers getting covered 1000. 00 are exceptionally low we have less than 200. 00 deaths in kenya under less says how is it any governments fault that some people are more susceptible to corporate 19 than
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Of course the words reverberate starkly today because of the use of the word gas chamber in the state of california. Still has a gas chamber which is ok its that quick prison the site of many demonstrations over the last few years precisely because of the fact that prisons and and courage. The spread of covert 19 to oakland where your speaking to me from known quite pretty as a progressive place around the world spends an enormous proportion of its budget on police and Police Activities what do you think baldwin may meant when he said he could gauge a Nations Health we can all by examining those people that elected to represent are protected what is the health of your nation right now i think the world is able to see that this nation is far from healthy that our Police Departments are the most dramatic expression of Structural Racism that our prisons are full of black people and latinos that. That we have to have an abolitionist imagination if we want to guarantee a future for our city