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It a little bit because what do you do when the economy is roaring like your uncle steve at a jimmy buffett concert when biden is popular and americans are back? you create a wedge issue. this is what the right has done. it is being mobilized. they want to divide people on the basis of race. what is critical race theory? acknowledging our history. not just slavery that we're acknowledging today. >> harris: aren't we already doing that in our schools? you think black kids don't know the history. >> we have to teach redlining and about the tulsa race massacre and how the health systems have diff...

Counterparts in europe and north america. but the racial imbalance isn't limited to international inequities. right here in the united states, the worst effects of climate change are already falling most heavily on black, brown, and indigenous communities. studies show that people of color are twice as likely to experience increased heat stress in their neighborhoods and an ugly legacy of the history of redlining. black people are also more likely to live in flood prone areas and even when government agents like fema come in and help, studies show that people of color are often left behind. me...

Experience increased heat stress in their neighborhoods, an ugly legacy from the history of redlining. black people are also most likely to live in flood-prone areas, and even when government agencies like fema come in to help, studies show people of color are often left behind. meanwhile the face of the climate movement is often portrayed as mostly white, even as black, brown and indigenous activists have been fighting for recognition of this issue for generations. but today's environmental movement is finally starting to reflect the young people. they are starting to fight

Thanks. >> listen, a lot of it depends on what the word "reparations" means. what does the word "reparations" mean at this point to most people because it's gotten caught up in a larger division in our politics as just about anything to do with race does. >> well, the idea is to repair, but i think more specifically because words tend to become more specific in their actual meaning, we think about making up for slavery and jim crow and more recently we also think about redlining as something that black americans need repair for. and i think that's a great thing in itself. >> yeah. so let's get...

The tulsa race massacre 100 years later. let's discuss. the author of nine nasty words. it has been a minute and good to have you back on. i am hoping everything is going okay. >> good to be here, thanks. >> a lot of it depends on what the word reparations mean. what does the word reparation mean at this point to most people because it has gotten caught up in a larger division in the politics. >> the idea is to repair. more specifically, because words tend to become more specific in their meaning, we think of making up for slavery and jim crow and red lining as something black america needs re...