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It is throughout the country. and so it is about what i commit to do in terms of affordable housing. for example, for example part of what i plan to do is address through the tax code so that if anyone is spending more than 30% of their income in rent plus utilities you get a tax credit. it is about what we need to do around black families in america and understanding that historically, based on everything from red lining and to institutional racism, there has been an exclusion of black families...

Continues to drill in, targeting messages to african-american, will be the candidate who will prevail in the primary. >> if i were an adviser to any number of candidates, i would want to be watching you, saying whats the clue youre giving me. who is working at this? im not asking to you endorse candidates, im saying who has shown the hard work of developing policies that would go down that road? because it seems to me that african-americans and other groups have been frustrated over the years, t...

Reverse identity politics. >> juan: michael, jesse picked up on this thing about his eyes seeming to fill with blood and i think to myself, gosh, somebody had a blood vessel break. >> jedediah: it happens to every human. >> juan: it happens to human beings, but now it is like evidence he is too old? what do you think? >> michael: it feels like he is redlining. like his brain is working so hard, scrambling to get so much information from every hard drive that there are pieces that are just going ...

A million african-americans incarcerated. red lining, sponsored by the federal government, that specifically indicated dont provide african-americans with the loans they need to move into good housing. the educational discrimination. voting discrimination that warranted the 1965 voting rights act, the 1964 civil rights act. so i think the commission seriously appointed with leaders of this nation can look at the pain of slavery and to analyze its lasting effect and to begin to look at systemic r...

White supremacist violence. >> how much does it matter the leadership at the top? i know it matters a tremendous amount in civil rights enforcement areas you work in, what the education departments doing and what were doing about red lining and the enforcement of laws already in the books. how much does it matter to have this president or to have a president who very clearly doesnt care about this? >> well, its interesting, chris. you know your colleague rachel maddow always says dont just liste...

Once again showing a targeted intention of the federal government in the justice department. what we do not have at this moment despite everything you described at the top of the hour, chris, and the moment that were in, is we have no concerted plan. we have no concerted articulation. we have no sense of urgency that has been communicated to the public about the department of justice and the need to lean in to this white supremacist violence. >> how much does it matter, the leadership at the top...

Florida. but then once lincoln was assassinated, johnson comes into presidency and turned that land back over to white slave owners. from that moment on, after reconstruction ended, there was a campaign of terror and plunder. when you look at the generations of blood shed where across this country hundreds of april can-american people in clips of hundreds at a time were after murdered forced off their land, never to get their land returned to them. the heirs of the rightful property never receiv...

Quality of life but a lower one. white nationalist, white supremacist, western civilization, how did that language become offensive? and how about this one? profiling has always been an important component of legitimate law enforcement. if you cant profile someone, you can use those common sense indicators that are before your very eyes. he also said this about dreamers back in 2013. >> they arent all valedictorians. they werent all brought in by their parents. for every one who is a valedictori...

I think also the tone he set in terms of el paso, this is not something thats happened overnight. this has been consistently happening over time. i think personally speaking coming from queens myself, knowing the presidents background, red lining, race-baiting, central park five, many believe his father was actually a member of the ku klux klan at one point, all those things kind of lead towards his person has been nurtured in this way. hes very comfortable in saying things that met with the lig...

Because we know hes about fear. fear, to him, is power, and if you want to know what hes really about, its not the prepared speeches that he gives from the oval office, somewhere around the white house, you go to his rallies and listen and watch his rallies, you read his tweets. you listen to what he says. and you watch what he does. and what he does is all about fear. >> and its -- you know, i hear people all the time, and you know because, here, because youre here, and you watch. when -- it di...