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Criminal justice system filled with racial bias. those laws were having that negative racial out come. solving these things, putting forward common sense solutions. whether its baby bonds. or reform to the criminal justice system. would help balance the playing field. im open. as we should be. to the best ideas to get the country to the point where we are nation of liberty and justice for all. that doesnt help black folks, it makes us all wealthier as nation. and again, i started my testimony by...

Its establishing a commission to study reparation proposals. what does a committee do? it brings together the appointees appointed by the president, the speaker, the leader of the senate and six other scholars and activists who have been engaged in this journey for a very long time and you begin to assess what would be the best practices, the best approach. and i think in the hearing today we talked about the impact on contract home purchases that was done in chicago. we talked about redlining. ...

Reparations for slavery. and all other injustice since. that is makes up for that. explain that? >> i dont disagree with the idea of reparations. if somebody said should there be reparations /sin terms of jim crow, even in terms of red lining, i would say, yeah. and i honestly believe. this is not some debate team think. it happened. if anybody wants to say im just a linguist and i dont know my history, well, frankly, i do know my history. if anyone wants to look at one example, what happened du...

Issue of slavery and reparations. it does not call for reparations and does not have a specific dollar figure. some opponents say while slavery was wrong, the people that supported it and the people impacted by it are no longer alive. supporters say the effects of slavery, the systematic racism kept going long after emancipation. listen to those arguments. >> the people that are owed for slavery are not longer here. were not entitled to collect on their debts. reparations by definition are given...

People were promised 40 acres and a mule. andrew johnson overturned the agreement. instead compensating former slaveholders. reconstruction that period right after the war was ended prematurely in 1877. and throughout the 20th century, black people were denied voting rights through jim crow laws. black veterans were denied full g.i. bill benefits. black homeowners were denied equal housing through something called redlining. and black americans were terrorized. more than 4,400 people were lynche...

American to another falls far short of the importance of this is conversation and what i believe we will truly talk about. >> joining me now is that senator and presidential candidate, cory booker. thank you for being here. you sounded quite strong in what you had to say there in your testimony. why are you doing this and why now? >> look, 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, o...

Most of his will be targeted to women and minorities. >> through segregation and jim crow and red lining and voter suppression that is alive and well today in 2019 and it is not just expressed in the criminal justice system, it is in education and health care where african-american women are three times as likely to die from the consequences of ma turn mortality as white women. it is in our environment where we are on the front lines of pollution and health care change? it is systematic. you can...

Started, they need that equity capital, the kind that lets you ride out the tough times. they dont need something thats creating a big debt burden. >> orourke proposing his own multi-billion dollar plan to invest in small businesses. much of that cash would be targeted at openers who are women or minorities. >> through segregation and jim crow and red lining and voter suppression that is alive and well today in 2019 and it is not just expressed in the criminal justice system, it is in education,...

Public land in exchange for a filing fee or promise to stay on the land for five years. youre focusing this on cities, and specific and low income areas. >> so the idea of the homestead act, i want to be clear, the first homestead act wasnt perfect. it displaced native americans from their land. this is different. it is meant to be the same spirit but hopefully doesnt have the same effect. you have certain areas of the country due to history of segregation and red lining where the housing market...

Bit of what we saw when barack obama got elected. weve elected a black president. were in a post racial america and so theres this sort of overreaction in a sense to what trump is saying just as we saw an overreaction to the election of barack obama. the underlying root causes are still there. they were there from the 1960s. they have not changed. a black child today still has the same problem that a black child in 1960s had with his encounter with the police. red lining still occurs in black ne...