The last 7 days. This is in the United States of America Today 200000 bedroom coburg 19 over 6000000. 00 more at just over 26. 00 trillion dollars but yet this is supposedly the greatest country in the world according to our elected officials at our meat ball of a president. A country where today 9 to 14 percent of adults with children reported that their children sometimes or often didnt eat anough in the last 7 days why is that because my friends honestly they couldnt afford it. You see this is were neo liberalism has has brought us this is what unbridled an unregulated capitalist system has wrought. This is what political hacks and Corporate Party yes men like Chuck SchumerMitch Mcconnell jim jordan and nancy pelosi as congress has done to the American People this without a doubt as Donald Trumps america. A country a one time leaders fought for the greater good of the people not the greater good of themselves and their next election. United states of america is starving morally and financially and now even physically which means its time to start watching the homes. On a cd. Player so you can see the prices joyce see. Graves see this least systemic dissent says so which. Brings up the old. Welcome everyone to watching the hard. Time of the. You know i didnt i didnt like circle this story on the map because i want to kind of slow what was a look at how the United States has become because theres a lot of countries around the world that deal with problems like these and with sometimes and sometimes theyre a lot worse than what were dealing with but its the kind of point out the we are. This shining beacon beacon on the hill with the word nor and some pretty major things here in this country like you know child starvation and shocking and its horrible we absolutely are and id like that you pointed out because its a story that goes on told over and over and over again and there are Certain Party action groups i was a member of the Child Poverty action group here in d. C. And the problem that we have is that the American Media by and large ignores these stories so people dont know that they need to be advocates of these things because there are a lot of folks who honestly dont know that its a problem or think that its a lot smaller problem than it actually is when we talk about children and not being able to eat or not having healthy food or not even having access to food in america we are a nation that is the that has the largest chart Child Poverty rate and hunger rate in the western world in the developed world which. Its really sad considering that were also the richest nation on earth thats what really gets me i mean it it it breaks my heart when you look at the according the the partner of agriculture in recent years 31 percent of the u. S. Food supply at the retail and consumer level has been thrown out in one way or level one way or another thats 31 percent that doesnt mean it went bad it just means it was thrown out we didnt use it. Thats roughly 133000000000. 00 pounds of food with a value of 161000000000. 00 which is twice as much as the bedroom government spends on programs like snap or other food programs thats twice as much as all of the government to produce combined thats just an amazing number in a crazy amount of food to throw away i wonder what that looks like during you know the pandemic time where folks are still you know trying to figure out what to do and how to feed their families especially when cash is really strapped at this point but even outside of the pandemic we have so many families across this country that are trying to make ends meet and just put food on the table and to have a country that decides that you know when they have the access to food that its not even worth trying to find people to help and it would be too hard because there are people in communities across america they need this beat every day and you know this this crosses you know it crosses a lot of you know racial lines and things like the black and latino households are affected by those significantly higher than white households others 19 to 70 percent respectively but it does cross racial lines you could have you know poor white you know children unable to eat why to build something of the poor black children by goes on able so it does cross all those lines in it just it breaks my heart to like you said the media doesnt cover it no one really wants to talk about it when they do talk about it its usually you know casted like a political infighting between the 2 sides as opposed to saying why our brothers and sisters arent good enough to hasten a political infighting and just this disappointing rhetoric around snap benefits and we know that snap fraud which you know republicans like to claim happens more often than it does its. The one percent we know that the majority of people actually qualify for snap and this goes back to your point about there being so many it crossing racial lines and Everything Else the majority of people who qualify for snap in the appalachian for instance are White Americans they live below the poverty line and they dont actually take those benefits and that you know their children are really suffering i think that we have so many people in this country who need to wisen up to the devastation of poverty especially the one of the children and that hunger exists right here again in the richest nation on earth there are people every day who dont know where their next meal is going to come from exactly and you know what dont be ashamed of you know thats one of the things i remember growing up you know people some of our food stamps you know theyre kind of ridiculed and things like that just let them to be ashamed of your eating but you know providing for your family food whether youre getting help from the government or words coming from a job and youre proud of what doesnt matter youre providing for your family whether thats through help or through your hard work its the same difference you put your child sage words. White america continues to spread the theory that pulling yourself up by your bootstraps good Decision Making education and simply being a good citizen will lead to a prosperous life and well if that sounds like balti logic well it is but lets not operate under a veil of ignorance facts are facts and numbers reveal a story many across america just refuse to accept according to the Brookings Institution the net worth of the typical white family in 2016 was 171000. 00 meanwhile that of a black family stood and lee has nearly hint times the wealth of the average black family and over the past 3 decades white house hold well far exceeds blacks were garlits of the recessions or economic of people in fact not only do white households require recover quicker after recessions are downturns they also tend to gain even more wealth. And if all things remain constant black wealth could actually drop to a net 0 nada zilch by the year 2053 according to a report by the nonprofit prosperity now 2 of the nations leading civil rights leaders recently sat down with Business Insider to dispel the myths about the racial wealth gap and what it will take to close it. Marc morial president c. E. O. Of the National Urban league and former president and c. E. O. Of been jealous had a lot to say. Morial shut down the idea that the racial wealth gap could be eliminated by race neutral policies he said quote we saw the value of this most recently in the club in 1000 federal relief package which failed to reach the black communities that were hardest hit. And ben jealous added a note on the myth of individual behavior being the reason the wealth gap exists saying quote weve all heard it argued that if black and brown communities simply worked harder or took more personal responsibility then inequality would go away thats just false it ignores the fact that the wealth gap is the product of centuries of inequality brought about by slavery segregation and Government Policies that lock generations of people of color out of economic opportunity. What we know is that changes in the economy disproportionately affect blacks discriminatory housing policies and wage inequality persist and if we really want to reduce the racial wealth gap we have to target policies to the inequities that cause the gaps to begin with specifically hiring compensation and lending to the big 3 glad you pointed that out because you know if you can saw if you can fix that then you wouldnt have the problem we have but i think the big question is is why now 2020 the supposedly enlightened times that we live why do these myths about how to rise up and beat in their quality why do they still persist why is it that you know good person get a good education try real hard everyone keeps talking about bootstraps a little bit more boots or straps on them for a very long time theyre like italian you just slip money it was a so hard for White America come to grips with this issue because the american story there and the story that america likes to share with everybody is a Horatio Alger story people came here they were able to create for themselves they were able to establish and you know of a man become wealthy it only eradicates the fact that the majority of folks who left the british colonies and came to america were actually wealthy themselves they werent you know poor and broke you know meandering around and they took advantage of the people who were already here being the native. Merican but also a pilfered from africa and stole people basically to come here and work and work the fields if they didnt want to work and make money for them so i think that part of the story of the of america is one in which a lot of White Americans feel comfortable telling a tale of pulling themselves up for their bootstraps when they are visual settlers they really do that either and its part of the american eat those around how great this country happens to be in the american story and its a story thats factually incorrect but one that many people find hard to grapple with because it means that theyll have to face other ugly truths that they dont want to talk about and its because look youre facing the truth about your history or who you are whether youre a little was like your direct immediate family im dealing with those secrets family secrets always worse but also theres a broader sort of your society your culture secrets those are good because thats what you have to learn embrace those secrets you have to work because otherwise you cannot move into the future. You when youve talked about before too and weve talked about on the show that one of the biggest issues thats not about trying to create wealth with them black communities in the us is black owned businesses black banks mortgage and you know giving getting those deals getting those things that hold true that it absolutely does so what we know about kobe 19 is that it totally ravaged the American Economy in general but when we talk about the recovery and some of the the modes of people moving back into the workforce today versus what we saw in early march it has been a lot swifter for white businesses a lot of poor white workers poor black workers the story has been largely different specifically when we talk about the relief packages because the relief packages afforded cash funds to less than 10 percent of black businesses whereas when it came to white owned businesses you saw that upwards of 60 so a lot of the black business were businesses were denied these basic you know savior type loans and they quickly went under then that cope at 19 trials are still facing you know the Africanamerican Community at much higher rates because there are no other Employment Opportunities when the largest employers of black people are of. Black people and black businesses and those just arent looking like theyre going but it reminds me a lot of the good response to turkey and katrina where you had george bush out there saying oh were going to rebuild this you know rebuild this old white rich congressmans house and yeah those communities sought help in katrina but there was a whole ton of communities that still left people hanging 5 states away never even got morning been able to get home you know its pretty ridiculous and thats what ends up happening and even the places where were seeing some levels of recovery or places where there has been some Great Depression level you know foreclosures and other things ironically allow those are in black communities we saw it happened you know after the fall of 08 that crisis and we saw what happened in detroit guess who moved in later im immediately after that young ambitious white people came in and took the land the property that used to belong to a lot of the black families and black businesses and were watching that happen all over again now with the backdrop of coping. Well. All right as we go to break remember that you could also start watching the marks on them through the brand new portable t. V. Ad which is available of all platforms so you have no excuse to download it now coming up r. T. America is trying to be chavez as the latest louisville kentucky is that people continue to protest the lack of charges murder on the table or stay to watch. As a cold war consumes american politics during this election cycle the economy and of the curious state. Of the margins the only constant for them is insecurity economists debate and eventual recovery you know. Is the reality. For many. Cas calendar is darn alfonzo mongering and theres change from page change dard servo or. His 1st words were out along a c. Or a challenging post youve got 2 years to live. I have no doubt that what happened was criminal. Defense concentrate market is a 1000000000. 00 industry these things how does huge financial motivation to sow these problems there are numerous showing that doctors were keen to test facts or a concentrates for infectivity on the patients wont give them doctors the wrong place to play golf term system why they would get me to secure those years. And people still die and im always question yourself arent being hard to live where so many have. Its going to be hard to reclaim freedom and were going to have to work at it but as people recognize from examples like. What repression Digital Systems need to. I hope people will start fighting men saying we wont tolerate systems in our streets in our homes that cant possibly track what were doing. Protests and outrage of stretched across the country once again this week after not one not one of the Police Officers who shot and killed taylor would be charged for killing from louisville to new york city washington d. C. To Chicago Police clashed with u. S. Citizens protesting this decision or lack thereof overnight movie bill 2 officers were shot during the height of these protests today theyre said to be recovering another suspect has been arrested artsy americans to be chavez as the latest developments in these protests. Today louisville kentucky still reeling from the night of chaos and destruction hundreds of demonstrators taking to the streets setting multiple fires and clashing with Police Officers arresting more than 100. 00 people at least 2 louisville officer shot one undergoing surgery after being struck in his abdomen the other shot in the thought i should make i. Dont look those Kentucky Governor and deploying the National Guard to the city after the mayor declared a state of emergency ordering a 72 hour overnight curfew. There were demonstrations unfolding in San Francisco chicago washington d. C. And important organ you could see a demonstrator here throwing a molotov cocktail at police. And a new york city thousands gathered outside of the Barclays Center in brooklyn where they staged a die and before marching over the Manhattan Bridge into the city where tensions grew. The protests come after a grand jury declined to charge 3 Police Officers with directly killing Briana Taylor on march 13th the officers broke down the door to her apartment while executing a no knock warrant looking for suspected drug dealer. Briannas boyfriend fearing an intruder was breaking in shot one of the officers in the leg and thats when the officers fired multiple shots killing briana former officer Brett Hankinson has been charged with 3 counts of one ton endangerment in the 1st degree this charge does not charge him with briannas death but for recklessly shooting into a neighboring apartment and endangering the lives of others hankinson quickly booked and released and 15000. 00 bail and Instagram Post from briana sister reading sr i am so sorry protesters on the ground reacting to the decision to not charge anyone for briannas death with anger and disappointment. Thank you. Again thank god for. Pouring. Rain so you could stop its not filing any other sites want is against the Radio Network just that morning Briana Taylor brianas family settled a civil suit with the city last week saying the charges fall short of what constitutes justice President Trump and joe biden reacting to the announcement with a very different responses bring the juror who is. Really brilliant and jokey journey general. Cameron is doing a fantastic. Protest peacefully meantime there is an ongoing federal investigation to determine if the warrant that was used in this case was properly obtained and if briana civil rights were violated reporting in new york Trinity Chavez our t