bravery to nine public safety officers including two who died in the line of duty. the ceremony is underway, let s listen in. we re incredibly proud of all of you, skpi mean that, incredibly proud of all of you, and we re going to have your back as long as we need to, as long as you re engaged. in just the past two weeks, our nation has observed a national fallen firefighters memorial weekend, national police weekend, national peace memorial officers day. and i ve also hosted this event several times as president and vice president and cosponsored a bill that created the medal of freedom when i was a u.s. senator, the medal of valor when i was a u.s. senator. these are the same these are some of the most meaningful things that i do as president because knowing you, meeting your families, looking in your eyes, seeing your courage gives me so much hope for the country. this is not hyperbole, you represent the very best of us, you represent the best of who we are as american
New York Times best-selling authors Regina Jackson and Saira Rao have a distinct mission to confront white women across the country about their role in upholding a complicity to white supremacy and to help them realize the part they can play in dismantling systems of oppression.
that, one, you don t matter. your stories don t matter, and your existent doesn t matter. two, you are not allowing them to have the road map that they need specifically for the things that they are going to go through that the student who sits to the right of them and the left of may never experience. and so once we start to remove those type of resources, we also remove the truth. the truth about how to navigate these systems of oppression, the truth about what the forefathers actually were versus what was originally taught in american history and we remove the ability for them to become adults who then operate in a world with empathy for people who don t look like them and for people who don t come from the same places as them. well, thank you so much for joining us to have this conversation. i really appreciate your time, your perspective. george m. johnson and antonia hylton. now back to our breaking news on prince harry and his wife meghan reportedly being involved in a, quot
and others about what s going on with voting rights and the need to do something, because democracy is at risk. also, senator alex padilla. i knew there was someone i left out. ali, as always, a jam-packed show. so jam-packed, i m forgetting guests who are going to be on. you re going to have a lot of stuff to talk about. these are two parallel, major issues. for a lot of people, they want the build back better bill done to get america back on track, but there are a whole lot of people who came out in that election, because of things like voting rights and some of these policies that have left a lot of americans out. it s a packed show. i m looking forward to see it. thank you. stay tuned for more of jonathan right after velshi, the sunday show airs at 10:00 a.m. eastern. coming up next, she was a pioneer force and critical theory, whose work impacted the life of racism and sexism on black women. we remember the life, the legacy, and the words of bell hooks. legacy, and the words o
quote from bell hooks, i ll read that one now. as long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized. this was another big theme for bell hooks, that all feminism is not equal, and all feminism is not all encompassing and all inclusive. yeah, that s exactly right, ali. thank you for taking a few minutes to reflect on the tremendous legacy of bell hooks, the seismic loss that so many of us as black women are experiencing this week. yeah, i mean, bell hooks is the one that made it clear for me that anybody can be part of the patriarchy, and feminism is for everybody. that s why you re not just you re ali, you re an ally, because you re part of the effort that bell hooks spent her life trying to champion, dismantling systems of sexism, systems of oppression, and yes it was bell hooks that gave us that language, that really fused