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>> i guesstimate each one of my cost is probably $30 to $40. that is me buying screws and buying nails and i will buy a little bit of the glue and the casters to go underneath it, and there is also other costs like the gas for driving around and the electricity and what we not for running the tools, but it is low cost. >> this is so -- it seems so fascinating because you would think that this is an idea that lots of municipalities would be looking at or would have heard of by now and say, we cou...

Actual jobs for black americans. tanner, when i started reading this series, i thought, i dont know what to make about this. i felt a lot of angst about the sort of description of this period, which i think of as my lifetime, as a great failure of policy, because although we are not where we want to be, we are also not where we were. >> right. >> so tell me why you assess it as an era of failure. >> i think it comes down to, you go back to the argument of culture, we did a lot of, you know, lega...

But its completely brilliant. and its the kind of cultural critique that african-americans are known for, culturally, from the dozens, from toast, on down. >> but i also want to be clear that there is some eating of the self that occurs. you are part of what was one of the most painful things to watch over the course of the past year, something that michelle goldberg described in her "nation" piece as the toxic feminist twitter wars. and ill just read a piece from goldberg, who says, even as onl...

Past that has nothing to do with what youre going through right now and youre bringing that forward. bit intergenerational, be it in a pass life. when i had that incident, i was living in harlem. i was, i think, about six months removed from unemployment. i had just, you know, lost a job. i didnt have a job at that point, even when i was out there freelance writing. i was living in the environment where that would have been appropriate. it just so happened where i was working, it was clearly not...

Reactionary judgment, because of certain kind of things ive chosen to support in feminist movement build. and one of the reasons i wanted to participate in the nation piece, to say to women of color feminists, i dont want black and women of color feminists to look reactionary. that goes away when we do the emotional labor that cristina beltran talked about of being angry. people are perfectly comfortable with people of color being angry in social movements, right? but it becomes a way to discred...

African-american without a felony and a white applicant with a felony -- >> youre so sharp! you stated the study. thats why youre americas foremost intellectual. >> im just a nerd, right? so the idea that we see like decisions being made in employment right now, but when you say the piece about incarceration, thats the kind of data point that is simply a data point, right? so you have mass incarceration. but then, what happens is precisely this ability to have a conversation about, well, why, th...

Professor at new york university, khalil mohammad, and tanner colby, author of, "some of my best friends are black." let me start you here, khalil. when you look at the disinvestment in public goods that has occurred since 1964, do you read where we are right now, 50 years later, as the civil rights act having been successful or having failed? >> oh, well, from that vantage point, its failed miserably, partly because the civil rights act, although it was about access, ultimately, underneath it, ...

Its easy for us. others who are just jumping out into this space, whether it be about corn rows or other, theyre just learning to do that. in the international space, whats great about this, is it brings back this sort of harkening, and i hate to say that this is old school, but e-mail. when e-mail was prevalent in the 1980s, we all started to use it, thats the first time we realized, we have the ability to make effective ties to people that are across the world, but we still have the dangers of...

These emotions and recognize that that doesnt mean that folks are not interested in progress at the same time. >> so, i like this language about, that if youre just mad, and not mad about something, then i dont have to somehow address that thing that you might be mad about. the kind of content of what that anger is, the righteousness of it. so, help me to understand, chris t christina, what is standing in there about this notion of, i pray my friend comes back around to hope. this particular dis...

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