Of African American history and culture. We will have live coverage during the course of the morning here on cspan. It is saturday, september 24. Congress returns on monday with a looming deadline. Lawmakers have until the end of the week to pass what is known as a continuing resolution or cr to keep the governmentfunded after october 1. Democrats in both the house and senate demanding money for flint, michigan in the agreement. They deal with issues surrounding lead in their water. We will have live coverage on cspan, the senate on cspan 2. We begin on this saturday morning with the state of Race Relations in america. This has the nation prepares to open the africanamerican museum on the mall and washington, d. C. Headlines in charlotte indicating another night of some unrest. What do you think as we look at this time lapse photography of the building of this museum . Our lines are open at 202 7488000 for democrats. Republicans, 202 7488001. If you are an independent, 202 7488002. Coming up 10 00 eastern time dedication ceremony of the museum. The president will be among those commemorating this event. They want to begin with whats been happening in charlotte, North Carolina, and race issues in general. Your thoughts on the state of Race Relations. Lets go to the headlines pointing out a night of unrest, but more calm after three days of some intense moments in charlotte, North Carolina. Staggered by protests, city regained its footing. It points out the city is trying to resume. People went to restaurants, walked their dogs in the streets, ratcheting down attention that came in the wave of a Police Shooting on tuesday. Even a recording released by the attorneys of the family of the dead man. He did not appear to race it did not appear to raise the level of anger in the citys urban core. National guard troops maintain a visible presence throughout the downtown area. In this morning, this piece in the New York Times leaving black lives matter. He points out the museum today helps to restore the slavery, and with the opening of this museum and a speech by the president at the National Museum another chapter in the state of Race Relations in america. Here is more the president yesterday at the white house. [video clip] president obama part of the reason im so happy the museums becausethis weekend is it allows all of us as americans to put our current circumstances and in historical context. We may set back and say i understand. I sympathize. I empathize. I can see why folks might feel angry, and i want to be part of the solution. As opposed to resisting change. That black folks watching the same images on , and then seeing the history represented at this theum can say to themselves struggles we are going through today are connected to the past, and yet all that progress we have made tells me i cannot and will not sink into despair. Hands and if join we do things right, if we maintain our dignity, and we continue to appeal to the better angels of this nation, progress will be made. [applause] host the president yesterday at a ceremony at the white house commemorating the start of the weekend of celebrations for the africanamerican museum on the mall in washington, d. C. Let me go back to this piece proving lack lives matter, also Available Online at nytimes. Com. The museum can claim another equally important achievement helping resolve the protracted debate about the contributions of black people to American History and about whether they had a history with preserving at all. Those questions for a heart of the nations original debate about whether and how black lives matter. For years the issue was whether black people were fit to be more than slaves. And this from Thomas Jefferson, never could i find a black cat uttered a above the level of play narration, never see an elementary trait of painting or sculpture, he went on to say i advance it, therefore, as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct racer made this aint my time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowment about the mind and body. That is from tougher Jefferson Thomas jefferson. Its Available Online at nytimes. Com. The real problem is black lives dont want racial equality, the believe they are entitled to racial favoritism. This from carol who says the state of Race Relationships has not been this bad in decades. I blame much of the Democratic Leaders you still get to keep their black support. The state of Race Relations in the u. S. . How would you assess it, bob . Caller im glad we have any Museum Opening up an in d. C. , but i think its going to challenging to erase the eight years of wages driven between the races by our president. It seems like every time there a there is somebody there was a confrontation between police and someone who got shot, you have the president automatically taking one side before the facts come out. And all the other people are whipped up into a frenzy. We have to let things take its course. He doesnt help matters by throwing gasoline on the fire. Weve been seeing that ever since trayvon martin. Host so far saying they will not release the police video of the events unfolding on tuesday. The video that was shot by his wife has been available on a number of sites, including nbcnews. Com. Withdrew from california . Woodrow from california . Caller i traced my race using national geographics. Dna. Com,et a familytree you can trace her father or mothers lineage. Host carl in tuscaloosa, alabama on the democrats line. Caller good morning. A couple of things. Hearing ia grand jury would like the Supreme Court to the secrettopping grand jury hearing they have. And the other thing is when you give when you see a police a Police Officer is in fear of their life they can use deadly force, you are giving the Police Officer the power of god. Telling the Police Officer that lifen take an individual fearr some reason he may because the person is black or because he has a mother phobia concerning the individual, that he can take the individuals life. Ministers inof the the black community should speak on that because nobody should have that absolute power. That has to be changed. Those are my two comments. Thank you. Host thank you for your call. Another viewer says wonder why no protest in tulsa, oklahoma. The scene of another shooting by a white officer. The democrats need a North Carolina vote. This is from sandy. There is no doubt the black lives matter Music Movement is about decriminalizing criminalizing black crime and obama is the facilitator. Washington post, more from that video released yesterday by the familys attorney. The first public look at the charlotte death in that recording. His wife pleading for his life, saying he suffered from traumatic brain industry injury. From the Washington Post, the majority of americans think Race Relations are getting worse. Pessimism is higher than its been in nearly a generation according to this New Washington post and abc news poll. In the aftermath of shootings in dallas and the highprofile shooting death of two Baton Rouge Louisiana men and st. Paul, minnesota. Six in 10 say Race Relations are bad and the majority think its getting worse. The full details Available Online. Joins uss us omari on the independent line. Caller my belief is that Race Relationships are getting better. I have no problem with that. What i have a problem with his government Race Relationships and media Race Relationships. Americans have no problem with race. White americans, which is totally different from regular americans have a problem with race. What seemsing andous to the low standard, what i mean by that is its obvious there is a problem with policemen shooting black people. Thats been going on ever since weve had Police Departments set up in the United States. Had before that when you fugitive slave acts, slave chasers, etc. We have always had a problem with socalled Law Enforcement and black people in the United States. A lot of us have fought for the flag. Every race on this planet has fought for this flag because america is a melting pot. Likeyou get athletes protesting during the National Anthem because a makef our blood has helped the sacrifice for this country. The flag is a representation of that sacrifice. Host let me ask you because you brought up kapernick. They are calling it the perilous fight. What is your reaction that he is on the cover . Kapernick he is making a great attempt to not only call attention to the problem, but we mustnt forget if his money is not put into the problem, obviously there is going to have to be a change of heart. We know we are not going to have a change of heart because, like i said, its the its not the working people, it is certain levels of people in government. A lot of the government was made up a slave owners for a long time. And then segregationists for a long time. , they haveolice always had a problem with black people because black people were the only ones underneath the irish people politically. When i first when the irish first came here, they had a problem. They looked at us and said we are not as bad as them. What kaepernick is doing is to let people that are hardcore know america is on our side. All that little small minority with a big mouth and the big money, just realize is going to happen and dont be violent about it. Host thanks for that call. A lot of tweets coming in. Anwj. Them with us at csp black livestock matter to obama when he leaves office. He got his Goldman Sachs filling his pocket just like hillary. The front row seat to the ceremony on the mall and washington, d. C. Extremely tight security. The washington monument. Museumhe smithsonians of African American history and culture. We will give you an inside look in the our leading up to the dedication ceremony. Check out cspan. Org as we take you behind the scenes for the work involved in the museum dating back to george w. Bush signing the village rated the funding for it. A groundbreaking ceremony and a look inside the building of the museum, which is symbolizing a threetiered crown. That is the outside symbol, and inside the auditorium. Jeff from pennsylvania. You are next. Caller can you hear me ok . Host welcome to the program. Caller thank you. I would like to say that minnesota shooting was a hispanic cop, a mexican cop. And the story goes away. Maybe im wrong, but the charlotte shooting i believe was an africanamerican officer who shot another black person. Its funny how the every debate they wont talk about that. The media is the problem, not americans. Most americans are civil to each other. We get along. The media stirs this up. Couldveeat thing that been done with the mayor was have a press conference and have that block officer black officer talk to the people in say this is what happened. I am a black man and i shot one of my fellow black people. Sorry but it had to be done, people the gun on the. They didnt do that. The other thing is the media doesnt report about all the whites that were attacked during the socalled protests. There was a white cnn reporter thrown onto a fire. They try to burn him alive. They try to make it out to be some kind of protest when it was just an excuse for looting. The other point i wanted to make is we talked about the africanamerican museum. That is a good thing. Am i stillair . On the air . Host we are listening. [laughter] caller cspan doesnt talk about they talk about generic white people. It would be wonderful if you can talk about october 6 i come from a pennsylvania dutch area. October 6 is national germanamerican day. There are 62 million americans of german descent. It would be wonderful if there was a german museum, if there was an italian museum, or a talk on cspan about the experience of polish americans or hungarians who broke their backs in the coal mines and things like that. But there is only a generic white people, when every Single Person from your team through unbelievable struggles. My ancestors lived in caves until they built germantown from the ground up. They were fiercely antislave. The mennonites, the quakers, the brethren. They have the very first late protests, the mennonite germans in 1687. Long before the king was quakers. And the germans across Middle America were antislave because of their work ethic and their religious beliefs. If black people would know about this, which they dont. We are told we dont know about black people, but his black people that dont know anything about us. Host thank you for that call. Where are you in minnesota . He left us. This is from april. They are not any protests in tulsa because the video was released and the officer has been charged. Another tweet from another viewer says Race Relations never been fair or balanced in this country. Stop acting like the problem is brandnew in 2016. A shooting took place in Washington State at a macys in a mall. This is the story from nbc news. The cascade goal shooting. Death toll has increased from four to five. At this hour the police are looking for a suspect, although there are pictures of him inside. A hispanic individual. Five People Killed in a mall overnight in Washington State. Lets go to beth in illinois. The state of Race Relations in the u. S. What is it like today . Caller i just wanted to comment. Watched yesterday the tolls a video that was released. Tulsa video that was released. I dont know anybody who could watch that and not be upset by it. Police they were four officers approaching this person. Helicopter, the comments from the helicopter pilot were biased and me, without any knowledge of who this person was. I never heard an ambulance being called after this person was shot. My heart broke for this whole situation. It breaks every time this happens. Although this officer is being charged, the problem is that, yes, these officers are being charged but then they are acquitted or there is no trial at all. I would also advise people to watch dr. Gates who did a six part series on pbs with a history of africanamericans in this country. We as white people do not have a knowledge. That former caller, there is plenty of history about white people in america. There is not enough attention paid to africanAmerican History. If they watch this six part series, maybe they will understand the terrible things that happened to the africanamerican race. And this current stuff, i support the protesters. I support this being discussed in america because it is chilling killing. It is not good, it is not justified. Those are my comments. Host mr. Gates has a piece this morning in the New York Times. Is Available Online at nytimes. Com. Frank from west virginia, good morning. Caller good morning. How are you . To the question on Race Relations, i would say the fact we have a black president says that Race Relations have improved a lot over a long period of time. I think we h they have gotten worse since we had a black president in office. Possibly the cops were acquitted because they are innocent. I have a question. Who is paying the professional protesters that are down there in charlotte and all over the country, wherever there is a protest going on, who is paying them . Who benefits from what they are doing . Getting the black people agitated and angry and more likely to come out and vote in november. Thank you. Host thank you for your call. Washington weekly series at huffingtonpost. Com. President. He next here is what it looks like. [video clip] we are not really discussing the power and privileges afforded to nonblack bodies. You cant ignore the fact the criminal element within the black community and Hispanic Community is quite high. The Africanamerican Community has high rates of poverty. This is the senate systemic of the american culture. We will give you money to build prisons if you increase her sentencing laws to match the federal guidelines in these cases. The color green should not be part of the conversation of what is or is not just. That web video in a memo to the next president. In the final year of Barack Obamas presidency the urgency has been never hire to reform the criminal justice system, in relation to committees of color. Found thatsa today criminal Justice Reform has now become as important to millennials under the age of 35 as jobs and the economy, student loan reform and foreign policy. Nearly a quarter of the millennials believe the issue was should be a priority for the next president. They found a growing number of millennials believe Police Violence against African Americans is a problem. 72 of millennials say it is a big proble