Conscience, advocates to see the interlocking injustices of systemic racism, systemic poverty, militarism and the war economy, and this distorted world narrative eating away at our society, saying we can do , what are the roots of so let this economic and racial injustice. We live in a nation that has 140 Million People who are poor. White americans who make up 67 million poor and lowincome people. We are living in a time when we have the capacity to actually address these issues, but right lack the political will. Country was founded on and we stillice need to overcome these injustices and in equities and in equities and we need to build a movement from the bottom up. We spend very little on education and health care and a living wage for anyone, especially people of color. Host what changes are you calling for . Guest we are putting forth a moral agenda. Universal singlepayer health that talks about public free, college education, ending the resegregation of school. We are talking ab
Conscience, advocates to see the interlocking injustices of systemic racism, systemic poverty, militarism and the war economy, and this distorted world narrative eating away at our society, saying we can do , what are the roots of so let this economic and racial injustice. We live in a nation that has 140 Million People who are poor. White americans who make up 67 million poor and lowincome people. We are living in a time when we have the capacity to actually address these issues, but right lack the political will. Country was founded on and we stillice need to overcome these injustices and in equities and in equities and we need to build a movement from the bottom up. We spend very little on education and health care and a living wage for anyone, especially people of color. Host what changes are you calling for . Guest we are putting forth a moral agenda. Universal singlepayer health that talks about public free, college education, ending the resegregation of school. We are talking ab
We want to get your thoughts on it this morning. Republicans, 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Ndependents, 202 7488002 if you are a Daca Recipients, 202 7488003. Us at thatcan text number, 202 7488003, or go to cspanwj and facebook. Com cspan to post your comments there. Ning us on the phone excuse me, joining us he is him is Robert Barnes with the Washington Post, here to talk about this decision. Robert barnes, what did the chief justice right about the rationale for not allowing the Trump Administration to end this program . He said that the Trump Administration can end the program if it wants to, but its got to follow the law in order to do that. There are various justifications that have to go through, go along with ending a program such and there was no indication that the department of Homeland Security, the agency in charge, really looked at all the aspects of this. That is a program now hundreds of thousands of people effectse forward, it undocumented workers who were bro
Community here in tulsa was started by a realestate person from arkansas. W. Gurley. E was o. In thist 40plus acres area in early 2o century and 20began to developth century and he began to develop this area selling the state to individual lacks who wanted to blackspertyindividual who wanted to own property. The historic greenwood area is the area where he brought this bought this property. It became known as the black wall street because of the number of Business Developers to entrepreneurs that came the greenwood area to start a business. There was a lot of promise here because although blacks were not allowed to work in the oil fields, there was a lot of opportunity for those people who worked for the wealthier people who were in the oil business, and so there was a lot of promise there. Jobs, and good paying the people took advantage of it. And in the greenwood area you have doctors, lawyers, pharmacists, educators. Anything that went into lifeining our quality of could be found in
Poverty line in 2018. A number that surely grown with unemployment skyrocketing to as almost as 15 . The lower end of the income scale of jobs loss. April, 40 of lowwage workers had been laid off or furloughed. More likely to live in close quarters where the disease could easily spread. As thomas freedan had said the pandemic attacks the poor. Joining me now is Bishop William barber and author of the book we are called to be a movement. Bishop barber, this issue predates the covid19 pandemic, how has the pandemic made it worse . Well, the fact the matter is pandemic lives in the wounds of society and we have certainly great wounds when it comes to systematic racism and systematic poverty. Two things you cant separate even though we have to look at it across the board and how it impacts everybody. Before the pandemic we had 140 Million People who were poor and low income. Poverty under the census are less than 30 million. Actual number is 140 Million People, thats 43 of this nation. 700