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i think about my friends from places like youngstown ohio, where there are high populations of unemployed white americans. the meth epidemics i have covered myself tearing through america's heart land. it's part of the same cloth, the same despair you see in baltimore and winchester you see in kansas. >> absolutely. we have to tie it up. if you're talking about a pa p ma -- mamas' movement all races need to get involved. >> i love the point about being careful so we are not narrowing it. yet at the same time part of a growing of that is also what nina turner talked about earlier, the idea of a larger notion of mama. although you don't really have a head. you are not a pyramid structure, but as one of the adult members of the black youth project it feels you are in a mama role in an ella baker sense to say that
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on the ground are, working to put in play structural reform and the justice department as been in the community listening to people trying to come up with a process and procedure for the future. with respect to your comments about housing, i think i would tend to agree housing is the root of this. baltimore had the most segregated housing patterns. in some instances today. there is a lot of question about whether or not we'll look at things and i hope the party has done a lot. they can find a way to help in this situation by looking at what happened following the riots in 1968 and civil disturbances. i'm talking about urban development action grants urban policy. sort of a marshall plan that deals with the economic education and structural ral
crime and poverty like the baltimore neighborhood that both freddie gray and thur good marle shall called home. the same neighborhood where more than half of the households are less than $25,000 a year. a sign that we are a long way from the promise that marshall saw in the landmark supreme court ruling delivered on this day, may 3, 1948. (music) boys? stop less. go more. the passat tdi clean diesel with up to 814 hwy miles per tank. just one reason volkswagen is the #1 selling diesel car brand in america. there's only two of us... how much dirt can we manufacture? very little. more than you think. (doorbell) what's that? what's this?
children. this is a hat maker you may know from hgtv. she said i, as a white mom of two black children do not share baltimore's pain. instead i grieve request you. perhaps we could acknowledge the depth of pain within baltimore. fergie sob and the cry rising all over the country. oh do we have the courage to look beyond the symptoms to the devastating source? this will take monumental humility acknowledgment and repenre pen repen tense from the white community. we cannot friend 40 oh 0 years of terer error were erased 50 years ago. that statement by a white mother of black children to say you can't -- it can't be done -- you can't ache your child safe in a system that's unsafe and that fixing of the system is as much the responsibility of white americans as of black. >> absolutely. one of my favorite protest signs is white silence is violence. i know folks such as dr. king
gotten to know her over the last couple of years she's fair deliberate and a balanced person wo speaks justice, wants to do the right thing, who made a decision many years ago to buy a house in west baltimore in the hood and build it and raise her kid there is with her husband. she's been committed. what's interesting about this is she apparently didn't wait for the police department. she started conducting her own parallel investigation almost two weeks before her announcement. she's thinking ahead on things. the jury is out on what will happen with the officers. they deserve the sense of relief. off times it's just ice for people like us around the country. many feel the justice system is starting to work. it's a process and we'll all watch it play out. >> you made a point when you
freddie's family rented in his childhood. lead poisoning can cause dysfunction in the kidneys, liver, eyes and developmental, cognitive and behavioral problems in children. lead poisoning is one of the zip code problems i alluded to earlier. in baltimore as in other cities across the country it is the children in poor and black communities that bear the greatest burden of this environmental hazard. as a lawyer told the washington post this week that's a sad fact of life in the get to. only living conditions people can afford will likely poison their kids. i want to come out to you on this that it's one thing to get the public rallies, maybe riots around police violence or gun violence in general, but they are unlikely to emerge and long-term systemic inequities like injustices of lead affecting the lives of our kids. i wonder how we get
afterwards, marshall said the ruling gives thousands of prospective home buyers throughout the united states new courage and hope in the american form of government. one leading black newspaperer heralded the news with the headline live anywhere. that was nowhere near the reality for many african-american families. even after shelly versus kramer many were with met with hostility and violence when trying to integrate all white neighborhoods. whether through explicit government action or oh unwritten but understood restrictions the legacy of housing segregation is still evident today. a 2010 study of census data found that a typical african-american resident lives in a neighborhood that's only 35% white. a rate not much different than in 1940. and that imbalance is reflected in many american cities including baltimore. where the average black resident lives in an area that's 62% african-american. those segregated neighborhoods often become isolated pockets of
joining me now from baltimore are diamond samson and desmond campbell, youth leaders. the inner harbor project of baltimore. nice to see you both. >> nice to see you. >> diamond, inner harbor has been around since 2012 you were one of the first young people to be part of it. tell me about what you've been doing this week that is perhaps different than what you've been doing for the previous years. >> this week as a unit as a whole, we've been trying to work to spreading the message to the rest of the community in how we can promote positivity. i feel like this is what baltimore city needs this given point in time. >> desmont, in the work that you've been doing, what's the most surprising thing that you have actually learned about police officers? >> the most surprising thing that i've learned from police officers is that when we talk to them, we realize that they are people too. and besides them being in badges and having uniforms, if we look
accountability on that issue is this. >> absolutely. you're hitting the nail on the head. this is only one phase. the police force itself is only one phase of this. what policy makers do and i heard my sister talk about posturing poll oh technicians. some do posture, but there are some of us this the elected ministry who understand the it is important to push policies that lift people. so it is time. baltimore was the canary in coal mine calling on the nation that our state of emergency has been generations born. we need them to. it is time out for folk who is want to be comfortable in office. we need people to do something in the policy positions they have. this has been generational. this is generational poverty. there are places in bald more that haven't been rebuilt since