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These same tweets, same support. you're telling texas and florida, we are never, ever going to leave you. there are still people in louisiana from katrina in 2005, in fact -- >> after sandy here in new york city. >> people in from the "wall street journal" a spokesman said thursday that the agency has personal at work in louisiana supporting efforts dating back to hurricane katrina in five and supporting new york and new jersey's recovery of superstorm sandy of 2012. people who are not critical of fema and the president in puerto rico are now getting fed up. >> right, no. this is on scene and ...

Extension of the same racist, colonialist, stereotypical thinking that america has had for puerto rico since it poll noised it in 1898. >> do you think -- do folks have hope that things are going to change in the short-term? or this sense that this -- adjustments we've made to eke out survival, which is food, water, electricity, diesel, that that is going to be the status quo for a while? >> some people have accepted that that will be the status quo for a while and are trying to build on it. with these community efforts. other people are sort of hanging on. one woman that i met, her mother who...

The spanish american war in 1898. since then, we've had various responsibilities for it. every president since harry truman, and according, they tried to assassinate him when he was looking across the street from the white house. every president has said, puerto rico has a right to opt for state independence by referendum. when ronald reagan announced his candidacy in 1979, he said in his announcement speech, i favor stayed hood for puerto rico. they are americans in a way. i was thinking today, and they are american citizens. 60 years ago last week, "westside story" opened on broadway about t...

Problems with all of us being lumped in one place and also the notion of the christian right, because i think so much of it is actually the christian wrong, but it's not new in american history. that's what we have to understand. there has always been this theological malpractice and hersy. there are preachers who justified slavery. the articles of secession from the union were signed in churches. kkk called themselves the christian knights. there were preachers who supported and blessed the return of white supremacy, 1898 in wilmington there were churches, pulpits who endorsed the riot, preac...

Georgia state representative stacy abrams, candidate for georgia, who received hate tweets after calling for the removal of monuments. there are 718 monday utilities, ten major u.s. military bases named in honor of confederate military leaders. is that about heritage or something else? some some of this history, people are misappropriating. somebody said you can't challenge what you are unless you really repent. let's talk about the charlottesville monument. 80% of these monuments were erected between 1898 and 1920. they were erected to celebrate the deconstruction of reconstruction. they were...