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Is talking about the nitty-gritty of it? >> listen, there will be -- when i wrote the case of reparations, one of the most shocking things was the sheer number of white people throughout the country who either came up to me or wrote me and said i didn't know about red lining. i legit didn't know. as a writer, my job is to tell you the truth. i have no idea what comes after that. at that point i probably did not view myself -- i would have looked at the possibility of me testifying before congress and so one of the things that shocked me was the ignorance. the people legit don't want to know. y...

The same infractions in schedule schools. blacks are more likely to have an out of school suspension and black kids being shot by police because they were perceived as a threat. we have real racial problems in this country and even in health care. black women almost four times more likely to die in childbirth, maternal mortality rates are so much higher based along racial lines. you can go through income, health care, housing. you can see how implicit racial bias and scars and policies of the past that walled off communities like the one i live in. red lining and disinvestment. we have real ch...

The fact is we haven't had the discussions that we actually had yesterday. i think to the extent that we can push this forward and have serious conversations like we did yesterday, i would expect that polling to change. >> do you think that one thing that would change that polling is talking about the nitty-gritty of it? >> listen, there will be -- when i wrote the case of reparations, one of the most shocking things was the sheer number of white people throughout the country who either came up to me or wrote me and said i didn't know about red lining. i legit didn't know. as a writer, my job ...

That's why i felt the need to speak out. we have real issues that are related to what we are about to talk about. we have a criminal justice ds system that is no different for blacks and whites, but blacks are more likely to be criminalized for it and even for our children. the same infractions in schedule schools. blacks are more likely to have an out of school suspension and black kids being shot by police because they were perceived as a threat. we have real racial problems in this country and even in health care. black women almost four times more likely to die in childbirth, maternal mort...

>> well, how it would work is it's establishing a commission to study reparation proposals. what does a commission do? it brings together the appointees appointed by the president, the speaker, the leader of the senate and six other scholars and activists who have been engaged in this journey for a very long time and you begin to assess what would be the best practices, the best approach. and i think in the hearing today we talked about the impact on contract home purchases that was done in chicago. we talked about redlining. we talked about ensuring that historically black colleges wouldn't h...