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to women. >> there were just as many people sending me stories about how barbie made them feel less than or inferior or gave them body image issues as there were people who felt that she was empowering to them. >> reporter: even some of the movie's stars didn't see barbie as influential at first. >> i was not a barbie girl. >> reporter: but the new movie puts barbie in the real world. >> you have to go to the real world. >> reporter: with real problems and identity crisis. and president barbie is the first female president. >> turn to the barbie next to you and tell her how much you love her. >> reporter: she's been around since 1992 but she wasn't always embraced. here she was on "snl" in 2016, the first time a woman claimed a nomination for president. >> the first barbie commander in chief. >> oh, me. >> reporter: now seven years later barbie is back in the political arena and being
humanization. >> i can't say i'm aware of the phrase. i'm aware of the viewpoint. >> can you share what you believe that to mean when it comes to black people? >> sadly and unfortunately we have a history in this country where black people were both by law and by social view viewed as inferior and sub human. and that stereotypes attached to that that includes all kinds of myth about the ability to disregard both the health needs, health conditions and disparities that exist for black people and in black communities to the detriment not only of the health of people who are black but also to public health by not taking good sound. >> in chattel slavery you don't have to feed them the same way because they can take it, they
proclamation. these racial disparities are rooted in a two-tiered view on race. the belief that black people are inferior. was created to enjustify the en enslif -- enslavement of black people. white people defended the torture and murder of black people as necessary to protect property, families and a way of life from black criminals. in 1980s, nixon's war on crime evolved into reagan's war on drugs and we saw more frequent punishments and the start of mass incarceration. it was black people that were targeted and suffered under those policies. there's a reason that crack cocaine which carries a stereotype of being used by black people was punished more harshly than powder cocaine. that ratio was 100 to 1. meaning something convicted of
first batch of displaced persons -- >> reporter: but he could not get rid of the race-based immigration system. president eisenhower was also not a fan of the old laws. >> the calculated pressures of aggressive communism -- >> reporter: for him they damaged america's image as it fought the cold war. >> soviet russia parades its military strength -- >> you had communist governments that were saying to their peoples, look, the united states is a racist country and we were very concerned about sort of losing a propaganda advantage. >> reporter: what's more, early immigrant group like italian americans, once said to be racially inferior, were becoming part of the american family. >> we in america are immigrants. >> reporter: a new idea was born. >> a people welded from many nations and races. >> reporter: america, the land
saying to their peoples, look, the united states is a racist people and we were very concerned about losing a propaganda mention. >> and groups once said to be racially inferior were becoming part of the american family. >> we in america are immigrants. >> a new idea was born. >> a people welded from many nations. >> america, the land of immigrants. >> we take it for granted that that's how we always imagined ourselves. that's new at this time. >> my country welcomed so many sons and daughters of so many countries and gave them a fair chance and a fair opportunity. >> one of the early champions of that new idea was john f. kennedy. he was part of the immigration story. i mean, the kennedys, irish
quite orientalist is that the people who are moving that boat, they're made to seem quite subservient. so the underlying idea is that the islamic peoples it depicts are seen as somehow being inferior. this othering by western artists can be insidious, and it often occurred unconsciously. the special collection at the pera museum allows us to trace the evolution of this world view, and i've been excited for a while about coming face—to—face with this sumptuous, pastel portrait which has been taken out of storage for me. it's by a wonderful 18th century swiss artist who i think deserves to be much better known, jean—etienne liotard. looking at it with me is pera museum curator, baris kibris. baris, i'm really happy that you could bring this out of the stores for us, because it's stunning. it's such a ravishing work of art. tell me a little bit about the artist. he was a swiss artist. he was one of the first masters of pastel painting in the 18th century.
as somehow being inferior. this othering by western artists can be insidious, and it often occurred unconsciously. the special collection at the pera museum allows us to trace the evolution of this world view, and i've been excited for a while about coming face—to—face with this sumptuous, pastel portrait which has been taken out of storage for me. it's by a wonderful 18th century swiss artist who i think deserves to be much better known, jean—etienne liotard. looking at it with me is pera museum curator, baris kibris. baris, i'm really happy that you could bring this out of the stores for us, because it's stunning. it's such a ravishing work of art. tell me a little bit about the artist. he was a swiss artist. he was one of the first masters of pastel painting in the 18th century. he lived here in turkey for four years.
and in the foreground, you have this boat where a well—to—do young lady is being rowed along the golden horn. and i think to me, why it feels quite orientalist is that the people who are moving that boat, they're made to seem quite subservient. so the underlying idea is that the islamic peoples it depicts are seen as somehow being inferior. baris kibris. this othering by western artists can be insidious, and it often occurred unconsciously. the special collection at the pera museum allows us to trace the evolution of this world view, and i've been excited for a while about coming face—to—face with this sumptuous, pastel portrait which has been taken out of storage for me. it's by a wonderful 18th century swiss artist who i think deserves to be much better known, jean—etienne liotard. looking at it with me is pera museum curator,
who are moving that boat, they're made to seem quite subservient. so the underlying idea is that the islamic peoples it depicts are seen as somehow being inferior. this othering by western artists can be insidious, and it often occurred unconsciously. the special collection at the pera museum allows us to trace the evolution of this world view, and i've been excited for a while about coming face—to—face with this sumptuous, pastel portrait which has been taken out of storage for me. it's by a wonderful 18th century swiss artist who i think deserves to be much better known, jean—etienne liotard. looking at it with me is pera museum curator, baris kibris. baris, i'm really happy that you could bring this out of the stores for us, because its stunning. it's such a ravishing work of art. tell me a little bit about the artist. he was a swiss artist.
lot of name-calling on both sides in the last eight years or so, politics, but a lot of the name-calling was based in truth, and some of it was based on lies. when people call someone in white nationalist, because they believe in racist policies, many of which donald trump and some of which senator tuberville believes in. we have to be able to call it out, when you think that a racist inferior to another one with a white nationalist says, you can't acknowledge that one thing, when i think we have a problem and our politics, and be in general. >> well, i agree, with you but i would challenge you to tell me what republican policies are racist, or based on racist ideologies, because i do think this conflation have been on the left all the time. if you're republican beliefs, acts they therefore racist. if you vote for a politician i think is, racist you then become racist. republicans hate it. >> that was not a distinction he was, making i think you can debate, that but that is the