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And we saw this with jobs we saw this with housing, alex where 20% less homes were shown to african-americans. now yes, it has improved where the overt clearly blacks can sit at lunch counters and people can't obviously discriminate against homes but if you're not shown ohms it reduces -- homes it reduces the possibility of you getting the homes you want. it was the studies, the academics and it was firm proof that racism continues today different ways different forms but it's sadly alive and well. >> yeah. sadly indeed. a question is posed to virs at end of your film about racism is. what are...

Question, it is not possible to have a mass demonstration or movement without that door to door organizing and door to door organization. that's what it would take at this point. really organizing. i see young people now in the a few years ago in the occupy movement and now in the hands up movement and i say they are on the right track. we citizens of the country had better not leave what needs to be done up to elected officials because they will not do it. citizens need to take the interest of this country into. our own hands, learn how to use nonviolence and do it. i like to say suppose we h...

Consider heroes of the civil rights movement. and, you know people took offense to my photo. i would have been the first guy sitting at those lunch counters protecting those people who were being discriminated against for basic human rights. i think it's disrespectful to them to compare their struggle to what i think are a bunch of rich college kids. and a lot of the protesters i see are white, asian, hispanic. not necessarily african-american. but to compare them to people who weren't allowed to eat in those restaurants is to me a silly comparison. >> what's demeaning is, actually posting a p...

Restaurants. quite frankly i think it's demeaning to what i consider heroes of the civil rights movement and, you know people took offense to my photo. i would have been the first guy sitting at those lunch counters protecting those people who were being discriminated against for basic human rights. i think it's quite disrespectful to them to compare their struggle to a bunch of what i think many are rich college kids. and a lot of the protesters i see are white, asian, light-skinned hispanic. most of the protesters that i've seen aren't necessarily african-american. but to compare them to peo...

Somehow untoward. but you do these things because that's what you get. that's what you get when you have an organized struggle. you have discomfort. right now what we're attempting to do in a movement to declare black lives matter is to create social discomfort. not unrest to the point of killing people or violating humanistic principle bus you have to challenge the authorities of the state. sometimes that means you violate through thats that are not appropriate. that's why you sit in. that's why dr. king integrated lunch counters. that wasn't legal. trying to walk into a public library that w...