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Statement like the statement that you started at the top of the show or the top of this segment of the show. i have that frustration of course too. but watch what we do. and we are beginning this friday, im assembling the other 11 democrats on the banking and housing committee and talking about the $300 billion commitment and investment were going to do for first-time home buyers to really answer whats happened with jim crow and red lining in neighborhoods around this country, to deal with lead-...

It the threat to human -- to the human rights of the predominantly black residents of the region, i wonder if you could briefly walk us through some of the history of this issue. why are black americans so much luckier and likelier, i should say, to be poisoned by their environments than others? >> thanks so much, rev. i think you hit the nail on the head. more people of color, black and brown people, live in the southeast united states than anywhere else. quite frankly, since 1619 we have been ...

Language and rhetoric around critical race theory and started talking about what it actually is to the american people directly. i think thats very important, critical race theory, which was asserted by derrick bell at harvard, all it is is the study of racism and how it has been embedded in americas laws and institutions for generations. and so, the prime example of that, you know, just to throw one out there would be redlining, in which essentially the government itself took out a map and said...

25-year-old black man whose spinal cord was severed. and he ultimately died. and that happened in police custody. he was in a police transport van. >> yeah, i think when you look at baltimore, and you look at the untimely, unfortunate and unacceptable death of freddie gray. you can now look at our department being under the strictest consent decree in the country. many of the things that people are calling for nationally, use of force, all of those things are things that baltimore did years ago....

Who gave a few different explanations for why were seeing this increase in segregation. he mentions that centuries-old policies such as redlining have had longlasting effects on these communities, despite us having fair housing policies and efforts to integrate communities. you know, these communities are so segregated. he also mentioned that some racial groups are simply choosing to live amongst people who look like them as opposed to integrating with other communities. he also makes one intere...

It a little bit because what do you do when the economy is roaring like your uncle steve at a jimmy buffett concert when biden is popular and americans are back? you create a wedge issue. this is what the right has done. it is being mobilized. they want to divide people on the basis of race. what is critical race theory? acknowledging our history. not just slavery that were acknowledging today. >> harris: arent we already doing that in our schools? you think black kids dont know the history. >> ...

Counterparts in europe and north america. but the racial imbalance isnt limited to international inequities. right here in the united states, the worst effects of climate change are already falling most heavily on black, brown, and indigenous communities. studies show that people of color are twice as likely to experience increased heat stress in their neighborhoods and an ugly legacy of the history of redlining. black people are also more likely to live in flood prone areas and even when govern...

Experience increased heat stress in their neighborhoods, an ugly legacy from the history of redlining. black people are also most likely to live in flood-prone areas, and even when government agencies like fema come in to help, studies show people of color are often left behind. meanwhile the face of the climate movement is often portrayed as mostly white, even as black, brown and indigenous activists have been fighting for recognition of this issue for generations. but todays environmental move...

Thanks. >> listen, a lot of it depends on what the word "reparations" means. what does the word "reparations" mean at this point to most people because its gotten caught up in a larger division in our politics as just about anything to do with race does. >> well, the idea is to repair, but i think more specifically because words tend to become more specific in their actual meaning, we think about making up for slavery and jim crow and more recently we also think about redlining as something that...

The tulsa race massacre 100 years later. lets discuss. the author of nine nasty words. it has been a minute and good to have you back on. i am hoping everything is going okay. >> good to be here, thanks. >> a lot of it depends on what the word reparations mean. what does the word reparation mean at this point to most people because it has gotten caught up in a larger division in the politics. >> the idea is to repair. more specifically, because words tend to become more specific in their meaning...