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Statement like the statement that you started at the top of the show or the top of this segment of the show. i have that frustration of course too. but watch what we do. and we are beginning this friday, i'm assembling the other 11 democrats on the banking and housing committee and talking about the $300 billion commitment and investment we're going to do for first-time home buyers to really answer what's happened with jim crow and red lining in neighborhoods around this country, to deal with lead-based paint and lead in pipes in the water going into people's homes, what we do to reach broadba...

It the threat to human -- to the human rights of the predominantly black residents of the region, i wonder if you could briefly walk us through some of the history of this issue. why are black americans so much luckier and likelier, i should say, to be poisoned by their environments than others? >> thanks so much, rev. i think you hit the nail on the head. more people of color, black and brown people, live in the southeast united states than anywhere else. quite frankly, since 1619 we have been on the front lines of environmental injustices due to historic and systemic racist policies that hav...

Language and rhetoric around critical race theory and started talking about what it actually is to the american people directly. i think that's very important, critical race theory, which was asserted by derrick bell at harvard, all it is is the study of racism and how it has been embedded in america's laws and institutions for generations. and so, the prime example of that, you know, just to throw one out there would be redlining, in which essentially the government itself took out a map and said, because black people live in these neighborhoods, we will not give federal loans to allow americ...

25-year-old black man whose spinal cord was severed. and he ultimately died. and that happened in police custody. he was in a police transport van. >> yeah, i think when you look at baltimore, and you look at the untimely, unfortunate and unacceptable death of freddie gray. you can now look at our department being under the strictest consent decree in the country. many of the things that people are calling for nationally, use of force, all of those things are things that baltimore did years ago. through that effort of reform, while simultaneously doing what we haven't done in our city, and tha...

Who gave a few different explanations for why we're seeing this increase in segregation. he mentions that centuries-old policies such as redlining have had longlasting effects on these communities, despite us having fair housing policies and efforts to integrate communities. you know, these communities are so segregated. he also mentioned that some racial groups are simply choosing to live amongst people who look like them as opposed to integrating with other communities. he also makes one interesting point. as we know, asians and latinos are the fastest growing minority groups in the country....