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>> oh, man. >> you are a legend there. >> morehouse is not ivory tower. >> it's a great school. >> as a student of history though -- appreciate that. as a student of history, one of the things i see as one of the most dangerous combinations to thwart american progress is the combination of those who are explicitly bigoted and those who are worried about going too far. you can have someone actually co-write, co-author the 13th amendment, but think the 15th amendment goes too far. >> right. >> you can have someone actually support desegregation in the south but actually think, right, fair housin...

Yeah, that's probably the biggest one. >> it's like you're not getting fully seen? >> right. yeah. >> reconstruction has been the most contested question in americas historical memory. reconstruction is a period of time that begins immediately after the war. 10 to 12 years, when america had to truly reinvent itself. 14th amendment puts equal protection of the law into the u.s. constitution. and the right to vote for black men and the 15th amendment, was a constitutional and illegal revolution. and some black spokesman by the 1890s, in the turn of the 20th

That are really on the front lines saying, well, we don't need the 13th, 14th, 15th amendment. we need to do away with everything. that's easy for them to say in theory. that's what i'm saying. tomorrow, i'm going to minneapolis to do the eulogy of a funeral of a young man. 2 years old, killed in a no knock gun warrant. no knock warrant, right? we're saying you have to change the law. you've got others that claim they're more woke than us and say, we don't need no law at all. then how do we protect that family? i agree, there's the extreme on this side. but there's the extreme on the other sid...

This country plays out today. and i think it's really difficult to talk about race. how do you actually help kids to be different than us, our generation, who doesn't really know how to do this very well? how do you -- the only way you do that is by having them do it. >> okay. i want to know what went into place after reconstruction. look at integration of schools, fair treatment by juries, right? those are the kinds of things. how are we doing now? we'll put the school segregation folks in that corner. we'll put the jury selection folks in the back corner. >> with the black voting rights, i f...

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