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Their resources for transportation projects. one thing listeners should know about race in america is that 30 states in this country do not allow gas tax revenue to go to public transit projects and that is actually a vestage of states deciding not to allow public transit to fight racial integration so now this is not something that necessarily states are continuing to think about but the impacts of these laws that were adopted in the 50s are very much getting in the way of innovation and creati...

An issue there and its an ongoing one and its not just in detroit. >> i cant let that go because i wrote a little couple things down in the "wall street journal." look, number one, do not miss the point. it used to be the most segregated city, area, in the united states. its not like that anymore. black middle class and white middle class live together in the detroit metropolitan region. what you have is a sore of poverty. thats a fact. two, eight mile is a conflict from a long time ago. were ta...

Car. >> they cannot be armed. they have flight times of an hour or less. >> they would use it for mission such as finding a loss person or more monitoring traffic or crowd control. >> they are a tool for generalized masseur violence for the government. >> critics warp about the not steppial tsunami of drones. dej tall wild west that -- digital wild west. >> there is a case law about aerial surveillance but its not encouraging to protect privacy. the supreme court ruled the police can look in you...

Society, they say, stands to benefit from accepting people whose brains work differently." >> well, the principles behind a public education that weve always claimed to in this country is every kid should be able to go to school, get an education, and rise to their god-given promise. we excluded lots of people over the years from schools. we are slowly making progress in this arena, and kids who otherwise would have been shunted off to special schools in different buildings are now being in the ...

Rosa parks that brought dr. king to the floor as a civil rights leader. >> yeah, i think its important to recognize in the world that was defined by colonialism, black and brown people didnt have to read each others works to come to a common understanding that humanity was being oppressed. it took certain moments, con tect individuals to muster the courage to learn from around the world and test the ideas. so, before king, james farmer had studys gandhis efforts and were actually kings tutors on...

Tough thing and sent the troops in, and we had the first modern civil rights act. it wasnt great, it wasnt what lbj gave us, but it was something. not one republican voted against that bill. think about it, whats happened. ill tell you what happened, the conservative movement was born right then, and they decided the road not taken, they were not going to be pro-civil rights. they were not going to defend the rights of citizenship and economic justice and integration of african-americans in the ...

Something. not one republican voted against that bill. think about it, whats happened. ill tell you what happened, the conservative movement was born right then, and they decided the road not taken, they were not going to be pro-civil rights. they were not going to defend the rights of citizenship and economic justice and integration of african-americans in the south. no, they were going to side with the southern oppressors, and who was the great philosopher king of that argument? john c. calhou...

Think about it, whats happened. ill tell you what happened, the conservative movement was born right then, and they decided the road not taken, they were not going to be pro-civil rights. they were not going to defend the rights of citizenship and economic justice and integration of african-americans in the south. no, they were going to side with the southern oppressors, and who was the great philosopher king of that argument? john c. calhoun. what happened? two things. first of all, the party w...

We dont have to segregate. we dont have problems. even when we have instances where whites have had problems with blacks and blacks have problems with whites, we can usually work it out and get it talked out so it doesnt escalate into something where we end up having to take a whole cell house and turn it into all whites and then all blacks. we just dont have that problem. >> theres another form of integration at indiana state that goes beyond race. in the residential treatment unit, selected in...

Voting rights act. second is opposition to integration and forced bussing. and then he starting talking about how at the time -- this is 84 ronald reagans brand would be the fiscal southern strategy because for many people, the idea of cutting government spending means cutting service, cutting investment, cutting the public to a public that does not look like me. the eye of the -- look like the person being targeted with this speech. so its this great thing where you talk about being moved from ...