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Passage of the fair housing act, supposed to integrate our neighborhood, we still arent making friends. from popular culture that shows no shame in presenting all white buddy cohorts who rarely bump into a black person even in new york city to our racially homogeneous facebook pages, we may or may not be a nation of cowards but were certainly a country of strangers. here to discuss this poll and figure what we can do are some of our friends, hilarious host september 4th nightly on fxs. next to h...

Policies. assuming you have the right policies in place, the constructive act of integrating, desegregation is the removal of barriers. integration is a constructive act. that requires people to make voluntary choices about who they associate with and what they want to do. it does have huge socioeconomic impacts. what happened in the book, i looked at the advertising industry. if youve seen madmen, thats why i didnt know black people. i worked at nine ad agencies and the number of black people i...

I feel like anything that separates you from the norm, which is white, straight myth in america is harder. i feel like me and my wife have regular relationship stuff. shes white. and theres also the race stuff that comes in. >> tanner, i think this is an interesting point. the idea, i dont need you to be my friend, just dont shoot. >> i dont want to go to george zimmermans house and say, hey, man, can we be friends. >> dont be friends. tanner when ilgt und got under cover of your book, "some of ...

I didnt want to pick on current dunbar, because its like so many schools that struggle with all the difficulties. its just because of what it was that makes it a sad story. once integration happened, was sauce do so clumsily. if you read the notes, you can feel the panic on the page, and i think the story is less about that dunbar stopped being a segregated school, it stopped being a magnet school, because there were only a few choices for black students. it became a neighborhood school and abso...

David brock said on msnbc that this is a huge victory for progressive radio. youre in progressive radio. when you look at this, do you view the fact they might get dropped by these 40 cumulus stations as a victory for progressive radio? >> no, i agree with michael that it is just a business deal. in fact i can take it a step further. it is the further vertical integration of the radio industry. clear channel owns premiere, the syndicating company that runs rush and seans shows. and so theyre mov...

Peace deal he makes. todays negotiations will just be talks about talking. like where and when future talks will be held. it is a very, very, very, very first step frankly. the effort to restart the stalled peace talks comes as so many other parts of the middle east frankly are on fire. literally and figuratively. from syria to iraq to egypt. where more than 80 people, mostly supporters of the muslim brotherhood, were killed in clashes with police. i thought the weekends events acknowledgement t...

And some in my community left as recently as today. what we have is -- we share common goals toward immigration reform. why do we have those goals? at the same time, we face discrimination, both lateeno lad jewish communities here in this wonderful country. and at the same time, we try to assimilate, become part of the american society, while tai., maintaining our cult and you are our roots. thats what we want to do with this immigration reform is bring commonsense thoughts into this process so ...

The president reaches out to them and tries to find common ground now were seeing a progressive voice in the left in congress trying to pull the president maybe slightly more to the left. i think in general theres a broad agreement among democrats when it comes to things like investments in health care and infrastructure and energy but at the same time well see interparty strike a little bit among democrats as we start to see maybe elizabeth warren pulling the president to left on banking and to...

You know, how in 1964 when the song cale out, the whole argument of black power was that you know, you can have integration but it doesnt mean that blacks and whites are equal, it doesnt mean theyll be treated equal or that theyll have equal rights. and you know, this country has become quite integrated but black and white people still dont have equal opportunities and equal rights. >> thats absolutely right. mark, thanks for your book and thank you for that. now from detroits music to its art c...

Ambiguous words that meant a lot to people and continue to mean things to people. >> well, and that meaning is such an important question. you mention that some folks didnt feel that it was overtly political. political. others did. some law enforcement definitely did. tell us about alabamaen freed and sort of the legal and law enforcement pushback on the distribution of this music and its relation to integration. >> yeah, well, you know, it used to be, back in the early 50s, black music and whit...