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System, but at the same time, it addresses, again, a lot of imperfections in americas past and present. >> right. affirmative action is or was the system that we were allowed to use to try to address some of the inequities of the past. a frank and honest attempt at remediation was never allowed. you had 350 years of slavery, jim crow segregation, discrimination, red lining, wage theft, you name it, and then you had the great civil rights legislation of the 1960s. you had, beginning in the nixon ...

Theres some 43 million people who are in dire need of this life-changing relief. educators who took on this debt because they want to teach our babies and they cant afford to raise their own children and meet the monthly minimums. senior citizens on fixed incomes who have had their wages garnished because they still owe. in fact, they owe more now than they took out. a whole generation of millennial and gen z who cant start a family or grow a business, and black and brown borrowers. black borrow...

It includes people in red states, right? but because abortion bans target red states, those are also states where a lot of red lining happens, where people dont have access to the vote in ways that other people do. so they may want to vote for a pro-abortion candidate, but they dont have access to that, they cant. so i think its more that, you know, i think theres an idea that we are maybe more conservative or we lean into those catholic ideals, but the reality is that just as rachel said, what ...

>> thats right. often we cover these stories, it can be hard to visualize them. to show people how people are affected by things like red lining. thats not the case here. in memphis, you can walk into these e1calls, many over 100 yes old. water is leakingq out of the ceiling. in case%ct one school, theçó libpn(ys roofe1 caved in and why. every mornind lunch for her daughter and niece. typically theyd all ride over to the school where she works, but in august, the routine turned upside down whe...

How do you distinguish the original sin when other groups say, wait a minute, we were discriminated against as well? >> so, i mean, obviously discrimination requires individuals to pursue legal action and there are many different groups, many different types of people that experience discrimination. but reparations is not exclusively about discrimination. its specifically about government practices that were enacted and enforced that includes things like red lining and racially restrictive coven...

Has an updated take on red lining, this time targeting a new racial demographic. a new bill filed in a state senate aims to ban citizens, governments, and entities of china from purchasing any property in texas, including residential property. unsurprisingly, texas governor greg abbott has already unequivocal-y said that he will sign the bill. as republicans point to the geopolitical tension between the united states and china after the u.s. military shot down a suspected chinese spy balloon ove...

Dispute at the college board. this is what they wrote. in light of the conservative criticism, the college board seems to opt out. slavery, reconstruction of the civil rights movement, red lining, as well as stories of individual achievement and heroism. but the study of contemporary issues including black lives matter, incarceration, queer life, and the debate over reparations is downgraded. the subjects are no longer part of the exam and are simply offered as a list of options for a required r...

Politicians who provided input into what should or should not be in the course. the framework was complete before that. and our framework is actually available. if people want to gee to our website and download it. when i look at page 218 of the framework, i see topics listed in a research project, a research project which is more than just a survey. it allows you to go very deeply into a topic. those topics include affirmative action, black lives matter, reparations debates in the u.s., the leg...

>> 404 years later, the united states is still a land of subjects and citizens. its more subtle, of course, but the basic structure is still the same. white americans unless you were poor or disabled, enjoy the full benefits of citizenship. you can generally vote without impediment as long as youre not a woke student who prefers the convenience of a drop box. your fam alhes nev faced violent reprisals for trying to go to school or work. you can live wherever you want without fear of red lining a...

Made money off of the slave trade. so, those are things that since 2006, the city and the county is trying to look at and understand what financial institutions, what insurance companies, who are the folks that have been able to benefit and prosper off of this, and perhaps thats something that the committee could look at. >> john, it sounds like this is very much a work in progress and a conversation in the making and it relies on a number of stakeholder, does that change your perception of wher...