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It is throughout the country. and so it is about what i commit to do in terms of affordable housing. for example, for example part of what i plan to do is address through the tax code so that if anyone is spending more than 30% of their income in rent plus utilities you get a tax credit. it is about what we need to do around black families in america and understanding that historically, based on everything from red lining and to institutional racism, there has been an exclusion of black families to own homes and then that creates intergenerational wealth or lack of, and so part of my plan is t...

Continues to drill in, targeting messages to african-american, will be the candidate who will prevail in the primary. >> if i were an adviser to any number of candidates, i would want to be watching you, saying what's the clue you're giving me. who is working at this? i'm not asking to you endorse candidates, i'm saying who has shown the hard work of developing policies that would go down that road? because it seems to me that african-americans and other groups have been frustrated over the years, that democratic candidates show up to their events, assume they're coming out to vote, but do not...

Reverse identity politics. >> juan: michael, jesse picked up on this thing about his eyes seeming to fill with blood and i think to myself, gosh, somebody had a blood vessel break. >> jedediah: it happens to every human. >> juan: it happens to human beings, but now it is like evidence he is too old? what do you think? >> michael: it feels like he is redlining. like his brain is working so hard, scrambling to get so much information from every hard drive that there are pieces that are just going to go. he is a likable guy, a likable guy, but the democratic party cruise ship has sailed without h...

A million african-americans incarcerated. red lining, sponsored by the federal government, that specifically indicated don't provide african-americans with the loans they need to move into good housing. the educational discrimination. voting discrimination that warranted the 1965 voting rights act, the 1964 civil rights act. so i think the commission seriously appointed with leaders of this nation can look at the pain of slavery and to analyze its lasting effect and to begin to look at systemic responses, systemic changes. what part of it is an actual, official apology that has never been give...

White supremacist violence. >> how much does it matter the leadership at the top? i know it matters a tremendous amount in civil rights enforcement areas you work in, what the education department's doing and what we're doing about red lining and the enforcement of laws already in the books. how much does it matter to have this president or to have a president who very clearly doesn't care about this? >> well, it's interesting, chris. you know your colleague rachel maddow always says don't just listen to the word, listen to what he does. in this area the words align very closely with the polic...