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>> i do. listen. when i wrote the case in 2014, one of the things that shocked me the most was the sheer number of white people throughout the country who either came up to me or wrote me and said i didnt know about red lining. >> right. >> actually, i just legit didnt know. as a writer, my perspective is listen, my job is to tell you the truth. i have no idea what comes after that. at that point, i probably did not view myself -- i would have looked askance at the possibility of me testifying b...

Testified on the controversial argument for reparations, something that many democrats have shied away from in years past. hes cosponsoring the bill that would provide a way for congress to fund and study the issue and in our recent interview, i just asked him why now. >> ive lived and worked most of my life in low income communities, black and brown communities and have been dealing with historical headwinds of segregation, of red lining of health disparities of public policies being stemmed fr...

Yesterday. so i think, to the extent we can push this forward, have serious substantive conversations, like we did yesterday, i would expect that polling to change actually. >> yeah. do you think that the sort of -- do you think the one thing that would change a polling is actually talking about some of the nitty-gritty of it? >> i do. listen. when i wrote the case in 2014, one of the things that shocked me the most was the sheer number of white people throughout the country who either came up t...

And just one more i want to mention all out of the same two cents. we can cancel student loan debt for 95% of the kids who got it. >> we can start to close that wealth gap and its not just that. i have a housing plan to build 3.2 million new housing units in this country and to address the generational impact of red lining that our government used to discriminate against black citizens. [ applause ] i have a plan to deal with the maternal health crisis in this country that black women are dying ...

Regardless of the ethnicities, i think it is essentially important to understand how capital works and how you utilize it. im not saying black or brown or we dont know how to utilize capital. im simply saying understanding what you can do with it, understanding wealth and the ability to be able to make things happen. >> absolutely. and i think the problem, joel, has been, and that was the spirit of the question i raised is that people, because of institutional bias, have been on one end denied j...

Something that many democrats have shied away from in years past. hes cosponsoring the bill that would provide a way for congress to fund and study the issue and in our recent interview, i just asked him why now. >> ive lived and worked most of my life in low income communities, black and brown communities and have been dealing with historical headwinds of segregation, of red lining of health disparities of public policies being stemmed from washington like the gi bill and social security that w...

Why not be straight about it and move on? >> theres three pieces. i was for voluntary bussing, in one. i was for bussing where the court showed that in fact a legislative body took an action preventing black folks from going to a school. that is the du jure segregation. the difficult part, the third one, do you have an administration through their non-elected officials department decide every school should be equally balanced across the board. thats a different issue. the way to deal with that p...

In favor of the feds coming in and mandating bussing as a remedy. but if the bussing came from the fact that it was a all white county or parish and african american kids couldnt go, he was more in favor of fixing the root causes of that organic segregation. that meant ending red lining, integrating neighborhoods. fair housing. its really nuance. where the state the school board the local government pushed it, or had a policy, he was in favor of the federal government coming in and addressing th...

It is, if there were a natural practice of people living among those who looked like them then they didnt think it was the governments role to interrupt those housing patterns and bus kids away from their domicile. but if there were shenanigans being played here then quote/unquote, he would have spent the money himself for the helicopters to move the kids. >> yes, but the problem with that explanation is it doesnt speak to the fact that there are shenanigans and strategies for segregation that t...

Address root causes segregation in the school and community. including taking on banks and red lining and neighborhoods were segregated. i have always been in favor of using federal authority to over come state initiated segregation. >> congressman is here. the national co-chairman of the biden campaign. thank you so much. i appreciate you joining us. thank you. i know its been a busy time. lets talk about the comments from biden earlier today. hes threading a fine needle because while he did su...