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About social justice and equity and all these other things. the people actually falling behind being hurt the most by government response to this pandemic are people who are in our communities who are black and hispanic who are trying to make ends meet and try to get ahead need to be able to go out and work. bill de blasio and the teachers unions seem to be of the opposite mind though in terms of preventing their ability to do so. >> i agree 1,000%. these people really dont care but. they dont c...

Quite sobering. in addition to the overall learning loss that you talked about, five months in math and four months in reading, we found that the effects are not equitable. so students who are black and hispanic have suffered disproportionately. black students are six months behind in math where they have would have been absent the pandemic and low income students are about seven months behind in math. so as we go forward, what im really concerned about is that the pandemic has not only cast all...

Greg abbott ordered state troopers to pull over vehicles with migrants blaming them for rise in covid infections. the doj has since sued the state over the move. its this type of anti-immigrant scapegoating that can lead to dangerous consequences. "the dallas morning news" writes two years after the alleged shooter drove ten hours from allen to el paso, to quote, stop the hispanic invasion of texas, conditions and red rhetoric have titaned. this is especially the case in texas where once-contrit...

How would you figure that out in a fair and reasonable way? so what its basically done is opened up the possibility that people can be stopped if they have brown skin and other folks in the car for no reason at all and its shameless. its completely irresponsible, and youre right, it harkens back to two years ago when a mad man drove ten hours and killed 23 people because he considered them, quote, unquote, hispanic invaders to texas, and that invasion language by state officials, whether its geo...

What do you make of that? instead of put it back on the person to interpret the wrong information, thats another technique that seems to be effective with people who are highly react ant, as we say. >> and before i have to let you go, how have you seen this work on covid-19? this is not just some kind of like hopeful theory. this is actually being used by clinicians now to get more people vaccinated, right? >> yes, were in the middle of several randomized trials in the state of michigan working ...

Person to interpret the wrong information. thats another attempt to get people react and, as you say. >> how have you seen this work on covid-19? this is not just some kind of like, hopeful theory. this is actually being used by clinicians now to get more people vaccinated, right? >> yes. we are in the middle of several randomized trials in the state of michigan, working for black and hispanic churches and working with federally qualified health centers where we provide some training material so...

The -- the americans during the pandemic with the covid-19. there are americans who must use cash to pay for their daily necessities. and african-americans as other minorities, as well as the elderly and disabled use cash the most. so we cannot reject them and their needs because they dont have a credit card or apple pay. >> now, in 2019, there was a survey that found that most unbanked households were lower income, less educated households of color, specifically black and hispanic. so if a busi...

Urging congress to pass the eliminating, quantifiably unjust application of the law act, or equal act, which seeks to raise the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine, but will enough republicans support it? joining me now to discuss is holly harris, the president and executive director of the justice action network. holly, great to see you. thank you for coming to the saturday show. >> thanks so much for having me, jonathan. i hope ive got some good news for you this morning. >> ...

County judges, commissioners, cities, mayors, sheriffs and you heard -- laredo, you heard the mayor is very passionate, and other folks. i want people to hear from the local communities. look, i emphasize these are mainly south texas, hispanic, democratic elected officials saying we need a pause and we need some help down here at the border. we are very compassionate and understand most of us come from families from mexico. my father was a legal born in mexican and became a legal resident, becam...

Especially when the vaccine is so easy to get now. >> our panel is here to discuss. it is a difficult sales message. you have americans for different reasons saying no. some saying hell no. with the information about the delta variant, if you have it infected, you can infect eight or nine people. lets look at people who say maybe. half of them are black or hispanic. this is an effort the white house has said were going to get into communities and knock on doors and find influential people. >> th...