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theory. it's racism. >> these are systemic things. ignoring it perpetuates the problem by acknowledging it, we can find solutions and we can address the problems and inequality that exists in our country. i think teaching it this way actually does the opposite of what these people say it does. >> are you teaching children to hate america? >> no, i'm teaching children to question america and that's what makes a good patriot. >> don't force on our kids a particular world view. taking a wide brush and painting this country as structurally rais, it's insane. >> why is it insane, though? >> the lies. >> last year elana received an email from her kids school that students would learn more about the role of race in american society. she thought the materials were racist so she pulled her kids out of public school. then she created an advocacy group no left turn in education. to draw attention to her claims that crt is poisoning young
East of the River Artwork Reflects Her Transformative Awakening ByPhil Hutinet Post-independence Senegalese playwright Abdou Anta Kâ deftly wrote that “one had to find inspiration in myth to write today and tomorrow’s histories. Men have a tendency to change but not the gods–the gods are eternal.” It is within this framework of renewed interest about their cultural origins and ancestry that many writers and artists of African descent, whether living in post-colonial Africa or in the diaspora, have sought to rediscover and reexamine their identity. Artist and educator Asha Elana Casey connected with the following words of American playwright, poet and Black feminist Ntozake Shange so strongly that it has become the underlying theme of her artistic practice: “I found God in myself and I love her fiercely.”
country. >> joining me now is elana beverly, who worked for the obama administration. msnbc contributor adrienneadrie. elana, what was your reaction to that comparison to your former boss? >> it was just devastating. i'm not going to compare evils. i'm not going to compare osama bin laden to al baghdadi, but the difference between president obama and president trump is so stark. the idea that there are very few times when you can bring the nation together and unify us, when a president has an opportunity to unify the country and trump used this moment to dehumanize the enemy, to take credit, to claim that his -- that his victory today was bigger than the victory in taking down the man who led a terrorist attack that killed
really equalize the impeachment debate. then you have of course, a hearing that is set behind closed doors for later today, with mr. reeker, who is one of the top diplomatic officials with regards to europe affairs, testifying behind closed doors in the impeachment inquiry. so this thing is just continuing full speed ahead. >> you got the judge ruling when it comes to the grand jury, the secrets there. elana, anything outstanding that people might look for in the secret grand jury testimony, the evidence that will come out? >> a great opportunity for the house judiciary committee to get involved. right now all the attention on ukraine has been focused on the house intelligence committee. the house foreign affairs committee. and the judiciary is looking to piece some of the pieces together that robert mueller and the special counsel russia
waiting for the government to respond. jim. >> the government that is paranoid of that kind of change, the beijing government. ben wedeman, great to have you on the ground. joining me, a white house reporter for "the washington post," elana, for the atlantic. good to have you on. listen to the president with the hong kong protests, he seems to connect them to the trade negotiations. listen and i want to get your response. >> i think it would be very hard to deal if we do violence. if it's another tiananmen square, i think it's a very hard thing to do if there's violence. >> it's not the first time the president has tied an issue of pro democracy protesters, human rights to the ongoing trailed negotiations. elana, i wonder why is the president linking human rights, making it appear as something of a bargaining chip here. >> right.
the president's latest inflammatory moment, including beto o'rourke. >> this is another example of our president using this position of public trust to attack his political enemies with unfounded conspiracy theories and also to try to force you and me and all of us to focus on his bizarre behavior instead of the fact that we just lost 22 people in this community, 9 people in dayton, ohio. >> all right. let's talk about all of this. joining me right now is jeff mason, a white house correspondent for reuters, and elana plot, a white house correspondent for the atlantic. also both cnn political analysts. jeff, you first. so is his tweet the president's bizarre way of getting people to look the other way? what would be his motivation? what's behind him doing something like this? >> well, it's a tough question to answer, fred, to figure out the strategy if there is one behind president trump's
neither equinox or soul cycle have anything to do with the event later this week and do not support it. as it consistent with our policies, no company profits are used to fund politicians. i want to call the statement out a little bit. these people, again, don't even want to indirectly support president trump by frequenting and going to ross' gyms because they see that as indirect support. whether or not the direct profits from the company go to president trump or into hosting this fund-raiser is irrelevant to them. and i've asked the company -- i've asked the company whether or not gym memberships have declined. we have yet to hear back from them on that point. >> thank you for that report. elana, i'll go to you on this. we've seen this before. we don't know how this ends. we don't know if people are actually going to quit going to these gyms. what's your sense of this? >> certainly this is bad publicity for these brands
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