i keep my promises we did our job well while he made no mention of his impeachments there were several awkward moments between trump and house speaker nancy pelosi she was seen tearing up a copy of trump's speech as soon as he had finished trump brought in a surprise guest venezuelan opposition leader 1.0 and spoke about standing in solidarity with the venezuelan people but maduro's grip and theory will be smashed and broken here this evening so a very brave man. who carries with him the hopes dreams and aspirations of all venezuelans joining us in the gallery is the true illegitimate president of venezuela one glider mr president thank you very. well gretchen whitmer to live at the democratic party rebuttal to president trump states of the union she's the governor of michigan a key swing states in the upcoming presidential election with the senate's expected to acquit trump in the impeachment trial whitmer asked americans to judge senators on what they did as we witness the impeachment process in washington there are some things each of us no matter our party should demand the truth matters facts matter and no one should be above the law it's not what those senators say tomorrow it's about what they do that matters our white house correspondent kimberly hawkins has more. no matter how much the president tried to avoid impeachment and the fact that he has been impeached. it looms large in that chamber whether we saw it at the beginning with the house speaker nancy pelosi when he snubbed her. exchange the speech she extended her hand he rejected it to the tearing of the speech by nancy pelosi at the end it is all that people are talking about in this room right now you know the u.s. political news i would say an across a currency officials have a poll of joeys for near 24 hour delay in the release of caucus results citing a technical glitch with 71 percent of votes can see its peak but it judges march in the heads of bernie sanders and at least 490 people 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media platform also said it will remove contents that deliberately mislead and could result in threats to physical safety or widespread civil breasts stay with us out there correspondent is up next. see. i'm james gannon a news editor for al-jazeera. i grew up in this house in virginia in the southern united states my childhood here was a happy one my family weren't rich but we were comfortable. i was particularly close to my grandmother mary hamilton lee it was she the told me about my leave family history. my most famous ancestor general robert e. lee led the confederate army against the union during the american civil war in the 1900 centuries. i was proud that this man considered one of virginia's greatest heroes was a relative. i wasn't all that he fought to defend slavery. on the 12th of august 2017 these pictures of racial hatred in charlottesville in virginia were particularly shocking. because that white supremacists were rallying around was the preservation of a statue of my ancestor robert e. lee. i felt outraged that my family name was associated with the k.k.k. and neo nazis. what happened in charlottesville made me consider for the 1st time the true legacy of my slave owning ancestors. i want to know why people in my home state of virginia are so divided on the subject of confederate monuments and what they represent. and i want to find out how much the oppression of enslaved people by my ancestors. has had an impact on black lives in america today. what i'm told will at times make me deeply uncomfortable. but these conversations for me are long overdue. bro. richmond virginia is the former capital of the confederacy the 11 southern states the vote the union in the american civil war. the statue of my ancestor robert e. lee is one of the 5 confederate statues on monument avenue the grandest street in richmond it stands 18 meters tall and dominates the city's landscape. for over 100 years richmond has honored as one of its greatest heroes until recently. in 20159 black church goers in south carolina were shot by a white supremacist the killer was photographed with a confederate flag a symbol for racists of white supremacy and soon after the city council in new orleans voted for their confederate statues to be removed the state of louisiana was once a major center for the slave trade. and public consultations took place in virginia which once had the largest in slave population in america in richmond the debate over the monument avenue statues was heated now is the time for us to tearing down participation trophies for the losing side the war in the fast changing the story of the british the french the sea. let's remember too that after the are legion only trying to help britain found and rebuild relationships between north and south how can anyone say this great leader is a symbol of hate and evil and white supremacy. there's a question whether vision a statute would you like to see well known michael. moore and you know you said there was a lot of this well there are a lot of. early reviews from you know i was. i want to know why opinions in richmond are so deeply divided by just how are you glad to see you martha rawlins is also a cousin of robert e. lee you know you get look like only do i go yes i'm going to look at a lot of horse and they're going to really know where this. stuff. martha helps around the richmond chapter of an organization name coming to the table so it was set up to help realize one of the dreams of dr martin luther king jr that the children of former slaves and slave owners would one day sit down together at the same table just the action of bringing 2 people together. go to the same. shop in the same places live in the same neighborhood and don't look alike i say that when we even go out in public we have the marching pair here we've been on every civil rights and woman's march there is even just seeing us to gather models what is possible that in itself some people say that's really small but i think it's huge coming here is how evil which is to heal the lives of. the legacy things like mark who he is now who are visiting our purpose 1st rack is uncovering and and teaching truth in history. in your movie a lot of homework even though. this is monument avenue. martha wastes no time in starting her 1st lesson on the true history of the american civil war next when we come to is. jefferson davis jefferson davis was the president of confederacy we need to weed what's written on his monument. it's it's appalling. the words on the statue paid for by the daughters of the confederacy gives a now discredited view of history. that the civil war was not fought to defend slavery but a heroic struggle to preserve the southern way of life from northern interference. which is that once a year is hardly that so it says to insure any section of the country not even for our own security benefit. but the high and solemn motive of defending and protecting the rights we inherited which it is our duty to transmit unshorn to our children. and what the rights we inherited were the right to us right and i was taught in school that we were not defending slavery we were just defending our us now from the northern aggression the rest why. next we visit the statue of our common ancestor it's very painful to remember the legacy evidence right where my great grandmother was 2nd cousin or property. so it's painful it's painful to know cham is not perfect right our queen i would take them day on the defense of slavery was not. something to be honored. gary flowers is a local radio host and custodian of black history in richmond he wants to show me a statue that he fought to get a wrecked in in 2017 so this is mrs maggie cleaned out walker. born to an insulated mother maggie walker was the 1st black woman to charter a bank in the united states the st luke penny savings bank. statues say to the community and say to the world this is someone whose fault to put on a on a literal pedestal that is a woman to be honored and that is a woman to be memorialized so that's what is so disheartening and despicable about the confederate statues because they fought for slavery. sedition secession and racial segregation and so those are not honorable virtues for which to fight nor are they american there's no other country on the planet that honors and statuary the losers of a civil war and so for my ancestors who were burned be brutalized raped by a confederate a confederate bankers that is a constant symbol to me the confederate statue that we have now honoring a dishonorable man and a dishonorable cause and a dishonorable confederacy. statues mean so. there are others in richmond who are adamant the statue should remain the organization sons of confederate veterans has spent tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees to prevent the removal of statues in charlottesville and elsewhere. oh mr morehead mr gannon and you're more head handed to me yes or welcome to richmond and hollywood cemetery i'm at a told yeah i'm a relative of robert e. lee absolutely and with the beard with the reddish beard you look more like you have stuart but that's excellent. let's take a look at a few things you've read. these are the dead from gettysburg. we visit the confederate section of the cemetery with the graves of around 2000 soldiers who died in gettysburg a battle lost by robert e. lee in 1963 it was arguably the turning point in the war. heavy casualties. around 50000 soldiers from both sides died in that battle there are a lot of people that feel that the statues need to come down when you look at these monuments just on a pure abstract be they're beautiful works of art beautiful works of art and then you've got the military brilliance of robert e. lee which is still studied by military theorists today the passion for this issue we as the sins of confederate ancestors. there our family we revere the fact that we feel in our opinion they fought for a noble cause to overthrow it overbearing federal government would you want anybody to talk badly about your family. just the notion of family you know brings up a lot of emotions in me but at the same time if there's a member of one's family that is doing something that you don't agree with you have a responsibility for them to work and we're responsible for the legacy of our ancestors as far as telling the truth as we see it robert e. lee didn't say i'm going to fight for slavery no what he said is i cannot term us a word against virginia so that tells you that the war was not about slavery there are some things we're not going to agree on i appreciate your time and giving us your point of view absolutely. edgers view that the civil war wasn't primarily fought to preserve slavery has been debunked by the vast majority of scholars. i'm curious to find out why so many millions of virginians still believe that a lot of misting hand in its place you don't. really have a christie coleman is an expert on the american civil war and heads the museum in richmond specially devoted to the subject so christy here we are 150 years after the civil war it seems like a lot of the history and perspectives are still unsettled why is it still such a hot button to day. i think. part of the reason is that we've spent a 150 years lying to each other about what this war was about. we spent 150 years lying and trying to reinforce the law and the truth is and i did daughters of the confederacy and their historian of the organization a woman by the name of mildred rutherford makes it her business to frame the narrative that must be in every school or textbook and if it's not there she tells them you must be checked out from your home and you must reject it from your school . and that's exactly what they do so if you. i wonder why america has such a de urgent review about this so it was crafted that way the way i see it is that robert e. lee fought for slavery and that's what the civil war was about but. along the way and now i have heard an alternate opinion the reality is men women and children were bought and sold from their families by lee ok at arlington. and in many other properties that he owned he comes from a family that for generations has bought and sold human beings this way but i'm convinced that the weight of his choices. the death tolls and the casualties being so high i think weighed on his soul and i think that that is why he was so in his last years was so adamant. to tell others don't put up statues don't relive this let's just. let's just be you have the intensity that i see in his images with in your eyes a real ick ick i think that might be a family trait it's probably just beard maybe think there. see why people think i look like he's got. my own view is that the statue should be removed because it glorifies a shameful cause the fight to preserve slavery. over 700000 soldiers died in the american civil war the equivalent of 7000000 today. i guess it gives me some small comfort to know that my ancestor also didn't want any monuments to this dark period in our history. it's time for me to face up to the sins of my ancestors. this church in peter's ville maryland was built by black people my ancestors and slaves. my grandmother used to bring me here as a child. i've come to see 2 of her friends i've known them since i was young lord have mercy or he may almighty god have mercy on us to get us out but we're going to everlasting life. clarice in a stellar both descendants of the people my family enslaved i want to know how they feel about that it's not something my family ever discussed. but. i feel uncomfortable about bringing up the subject of enslavement i don't want to upset them. clearly some i'm wondering if you could tell me about the picture on this book here this is my. madeline. and i'm claire. and she was a nurse of this little girl and mom's mother used to work for the lees so your mom's mother was born in slave and yes. oh tell her how see he was a slave my great grandfather of the lead property i feel kind of strange about that someone earned how how you feel about that i just live in the present time and i know that i can go anywhere i want to go and do anything i want to do and i don't have to back down to nobody. see that's that's me in this present time and that's where i am what i wanted to do was go on you know a journey that where i figure out what i can do to make sure that you know we don't start slipping backwards you should just try to make sure that you treat people right don't don't harbor thinking about what your great great grandfather did so i don't have no hard feelings with you but i'm proud that you want to do something. but make sure you do something i don't know what you're going to do. if. if you win the lottery you can give me a couple. i could do that. but other than met you have. to go to help you and in your endeavor if you really had it i hope i have because i think you got a wonderful family. i feel humbled that a sterling priest don't hold any grudge against my ancestors for what theirs endured but i want to honor their call to action. i need to know how much closer we are to racial equality than in my great grandfather's day. baltimore the largest city in maryland is just one hour away. it has a population of 3000000 with a high proportion of blacks. to 2015 there were street protests in baltimore. triggered by the death of a 25 year old black man. freddie gray spine was severed while in police custody no officer was ever convicted. i meet up with kwame rose a young political activists who hit the headlines during the protest. kwame was filmed in a well known t.v. host for failing to report the underlying race related issues fueling the honor asked i want you and fox news to get out of baltimore city because you're not here warning about the boarded up exterior black right where you. think things are are better are they getting better we have a white supremacist in office now may be just as bad as robert e. lee was when donald trump promotes and preys on the races ideologies that exist inside of american society you know we black people built this country from on our hands our blood sweat tears and we haven't got one ounce of compensation. reparation or even acknowledgement of the contribution we did what is it that i should know about baltimore what people should know about baltimore is that we are majority black population. 63 percent black most of our elected officials are black but yet the disparity between income between white families and black families is still one of the highest in america this is fells point it's a very white neighborhood. kwame wants to show me that even after racial segregation officially ended baltimore is still divided into rich white and poor black areas. 8 here. you know drink here. actually that restaurant right there on opening day of the baseball season. i was actually called a nigger there. i come here knowing that me being here is. kind of a disruption to like the everyday whiteness i love doing and i love making people uncomfortable with my presence. you see the way the police patrol certain blocks of this neighborhood as a way to protect and you go up a couple blocks up the street the police are there to enforce yeah you can you tell the difference you can tell the difference because the police here this is a space where drunken why people are allowed to have a good tom be drunk and it's written off up the street standing on a corner the police are there you know come out and disperse a crowd. it's calm right and there's nothing wrong with that the fact that this city is 63 percent black and the amount of people represented in certain communities like this aren't right here. i'll take you to a part of baltimore. it's pretty great throughout. the months across the slightest sensually you'll be able to tell the difference from where we just came from. you notice all the vacant businesses vacant homes. there are over 30000 vacant homes in baltimore the majority concentrated in black neighborhoods. the inequality in wealthier stock 3 times more black people than white live below the poverty line and blacks are 4 times more likely to be unemployed. this is america. richest nation in the world right. this is going more homes this is where freddie great lived. so this is a neighborhood. flooded with poverty and adequate public housing lack of opportunity and jobs for pretty much of your born in this community you're stuck here. most kids that grow up in poverty. baltimore city don't have the chance to leave with them blocks of their. where they were born to really 5 blocks what's the situation with the police here you can be someone like philander castille who had a weapon that was legally purchased and still killed even though he followed all the rules you can be afraid of gray who ran away as so many examples of black people who did nothing wrong but just were killed because they like ice cube said their skin was the same. in the united states black people are 3 times more likely than whites to be killed by the police. how do we make sure these people in your homes have the same access to quality of life that the people fells point. well it seems to me like before we can fix anything we have to acknowledge the truth of the situation more than acknowledgement there has to be some type of compensation is of which surely the greatest nation on earth when the people who made the greatest contribution should have access to a quality of life for those who oppressed and slave those. are right. i've never really taken the idea of reparations seriously before that meeting with kwame has made me reconsider. i need to learn more about the inequalities that black people continue to experience i'm ready to face more uncomfortable truths. separate on al-jazeera. and make tension with the u.s. and protests over a plane down to iran's 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given his 3rd state of the union address he used the occasion to concentrate on health care the economy and trade contract unfair trade is perhaps the single biggest reason that i decided to run for president following nafta as adoption our nation lost one in 4 manufacturing jobs many politicians came and went pledging to change or replace nafta only to do so and then absolutely nothing happened but unlike so many ok before may i keep my promises we did our job well he made no mention of his impeachment there were several awkward moments the scene trump and house speaker nancy pelosi she was seen tearing up a copy of trump's speech as soon as he had finished the white house correspondents can buy the whole kits has more. no matter how much the president tried to avoid impeachment and the fact that he has been impeached. it looms large in that chamber whether we saw it at the beginning with the house speaker nancy pelosi when he snubbed her. exchange the speech he extended her hand he rejected it to the tearing of the speech by nancy pelosi at the end it is all that people are talking about in this room right now at least 490 people have died in china from the coronavirus nearly 25000 are known infected that includes 10 new cases on a cruise ship under logs r n n japan a 2nd cruise ship that was denied entry in taiwan as the adults in hong kong were 30 crew members said they have symptoms of fever turkey's president wretch of type early one says his attacks on his soldiers in syria damage wider peace efforts in the region he's warned his russian counterpart vladimir putin that turkey will defend itself against any future attacks turkey's military hit dozens of syrian government targets on monday a stampede at a school in kenya has killed at least 14 children it happens in a western region and students were leaving the building to go home for 2 of the students were injured in the crush police say there is no clear cause for the panic those are the headlines now it's back soon al jazeera correspondent stay with us. in baltimore maryland black people are 3 times more likely than white to be living in poverty. i want to know what that means for the people living here. rick fontayne works for the city he grew up in a public housing project and has been helping disadvantaged youths in baltimore for over 10 years. among. the housing projects is primarily black ok out of you know thousands of people maybe like 10 white people that live in up to the projects. is no resources you have to sit and you have a saw story it was. someone you know they called you know. i saw. this thing i have this time it's offered not one of us the rich toughest soldiers. some of the kids squeegee and they earn money that way but a lot of kids on they sell bottled waters and bottled drinks for a dollar i mean on the bottom yes thank you thank you he he with the legal houses are right and you know leave them and sometimes i just pull kids off corners i mentor them help them get. rick takes me to the parking lot where de'monte howard a youth he mentored was shot dead just 2 months before. a lot of the drugs and activity happens right here and is this parking lot and this is where unfortunately a lot of the homicides are robberies to please you see r.p. diesel baby that was the a monster his nickname his mother was struggling as a single mom 3 children by ourself and he did the fastest thing to help her and that was get involved in drugs for a year he was just good enough to help his mom and some guys from another neighborhood came here to rob them and ended up killing a really good kid though man always is trying to do better we got him in wilberforce college and the day we were supposed to present him with his certificate to go to college he was he was murdered right here really sorry to hear . this is depressing. with the books we've been a man i miss my homeboy good to just rob lowe. what would you like for this community all these kids take them out trips sprays more stuff that's all you know right here so. it was all of. those. were. a lot of problems a lot of these kids feel like they're forced to do that to survive they're not doing it to be driving a mercedes in bentleys and things like that they're doing it because if i don't do this. people in these neighborhoods are not asking for anything but opportunity the same playing field that the rest of america gets i don't. this is. what you need to see how you don so this is this is james to lose that and. you know i always see how you know you know the little thing that we don't know how you know they've everybody feel so sad for passing because they beat us to the streets and then now here i am i one of them. i'm so sorry for your loss thank you so much thank you thank you after the shooting. there were 343 homicides in baltimore in 2017 more than 90 percent of these people were black . chan wallace is a baltimore photographer who uses her craft to combat racial stereotyping so i use photography as a form of activism my black lives matter and this what we are this is what we are outside of the gaze of whiteness. this guy right here i see black men all the time but i see how the world continues to perpetuate that these moments moments like this don't happen sometimes i photograph a black man and by the time i have the photograph printed and ready to give it to them they. now have the sound i went back to go give him a copy but he don't. we endorse so much pain and have these moments where we didn't have anybody to tell you no but a lot of people tell me about those moments when i take their photograph and talk about our trauma talk about the injustice. what can i do what can white people do to kind of shift the way that they think and i think that for white people it starts with just simply care about black people and envision in more equal society allies i don't think that an ally job is to go in and dictate and tell people what to do and give directions listen and take notes. she has arranged a photo shoot in the area of baltimore where she grew up. she photographs her brother does many cousin quoting in front of. 2 generations running spam we still live on the street. does many quoting have served time in prison one in 3 black men in the u.s. it's a felony conviction. over 76 year prison. i was forced to come out of this trying to. provide a way for. him over 0 sam a little brother but we were forced into this we don't have. the right to tell you . the forces on the street. nobody ever got rid of our kid is there a pedophile with i'm not even. it was darker bring my son. is community my family my whole family stuck in this community when you look back across the generations the advantages that white people have put in position for themselves and all black people and yeah the disadvantage is i might be too small and just because you're white you should never bet up there and to me i don't think so but that's just like him and then think about his fall from his father it always was this event so for a black person pieces who is very. true i give something back about a child and i think about it we just want to push for some our to put the spotlight on us and give us a little bit of hope and then but i was determined what we will do with the help we don't weigh it out that suit some over so scar we've askey to speak out because the surprise that we portrayed him is as if we would but we're not we so scarred that we don't even want to speak out because we're afraid of the next person who look at . you guys are going to take this with me you know trying trying to spread the message. i mean i came here to listen and to learn you know and it seems like such a small thing. just to hear these stories. is it's not small because quality he got emotional and even my brother got emotional because they have people listening to him you know people really fight it down matter we don't really talk about it because it happens so my just not news is not new. quality i know he didn't want to say that stuff for a long time we got kids he got a family you know and they all live in poverty it is the as still living in poverty these this is not the dream for us. i later discover that the continuing existence and bring. white neighborhood some poor black neighborhoods in baltimore it is not accidental but a legacy of decades of deliberate racial discrimination. in the mid 1930 s. the u.s. government was encouraging people to buy their own homes by offering federal loans however most black people were systematically refused mortgages. in addition government and financial institutions to up maps disqualifying some areas for subsidies redlined zones usually defined as neighborhoods where black people in. this deliberate denial of equal opportunities for black people to buy real estate is a major reason for the wealth gap between blacks and whites that exist today. my efforts to educate myself and america's hidden history lead me to 2 academics who have spent years researching the racial wealth gap in america and the reasons for it hello i am james say have a good nature person what does that inequality look like in the aftermath of the civil war blacks may have all the less than one person of the american wealth. what's particularly striking and disturbing about that figure is that if we look at the comparable measure to the it's about 2 percent so we have a wealth position for black americans today that in a relative is not very different from what it was at the end of slavery is there an unpaid debt that is still to to black people in america yes the estimates can run as high as 17 trillion dollars there was an opportunity to reverse the consequences of slavery instead for really enslaved folks never received the 40 acres and a mule that they were promised if that type of land reform it actually taken place it would have completely altered the trajectory of wealth inequality by race in the united states we got the destruction of black communities that had developed some measure of prosperity through white massacres that took place from the period of about 880 through about 1940. the midwestern community of greenwood in tulsa oklahoma was the most affluent black community in america with over 300 black owned businesses known as black wall street. in main 1921 the whole 35 block neighborhood was obliterated by a white mob triggered by a false rumor that a black man had raped a white girl homes businesses schools and churches were burned and by and over 100 people died. while a massacre after another and you sort of rolled across the country all of these riots where thousands of black people were killed if you study history you see that this is been a continuous. a continuous assault on black people yeah we we think there is a giant. and we think it needs to be met because i think it is a just response to america's history my family's. you know status and wealth as has been has benefited from from their choice to enslave people the total number is staggering of whites who owned at least one black body you know would have at least half at least probably a good white population i actually met recently the descent descendants of one of the people my family enslaved and found out that i had actually known this this woman a stellar who's 90 years old now and most of my life is her full name. her name is. sorry i'm blanking on her last name stella. telling you know that she's many years your senior and yet you refer to her by her 1st name and. there it is right there i mean i don't mean any disrespect. to check. well apparently no one else in your family has referred to her by any other in the affair that were correct about yeah yeah yeah no you're absolutely right i think it probably made both of us uncomfortable you know for you for you to call me out there. maybe negative and maybe not to protest. i had no idea that the wealth gap between whites and blacks is still so huge today . sandy and kirsten have convinced me that the case for reparations is overwhelming . i wonder if more white americans would agree with me if they knew how much of their wealth advantage is stalling and honor and. i mean houston texas to meet a group of people whose views i'd like to understand black separatists have. not been the thing that i think. the new black panther party has been described as a purely racist organization whose leaders have encouraged violence against whites and police. yakin in binya one of its former leaders is now chairman of a new organization the people's new black panther party that claims to disavow hatred. is that right here. you you should not just know one thing by going i grew up as virginia oh yeah yeah i've shot counts of the right yeah i don't own any myself right really and you know and a gun for 10 years. with the panthers are planning a patrol in the southwest of the city where there have been some recent shootings you read a road map. we don't like the police come to town i would neighborhoods patrol and i would neighborhoods and so we should give an example of how we can be self-determined in. the polies out here killing our you know people and all and we were patrolling our own neighborhoods we wouldn't have these situations occur so. we have a message of separation we don't want to continue to live with white america hating boyd hasn't worked out we've tried everything we've worked we've served we've been you know for equal rights and we continue to be in the same situation all right so this is the group fritz and i know you both those that. you know do anything is going on without people who will want to call the police on one another and stuff like that when we deal with young boys these days in the households will single mothers and things like that we have a number yeah yeah yeah right number down so that's what we do and i have a couple. but no to me joe i do think it's a level of 0 but it seems like when you come out here people are pretty interested in what you're doing we come out in the community and people see us it excites us and of course you go to police now yeah yeah we got a call in here so we are just there would always help but they never thought all we told would be not legal rights we're not going to be at peace and all right you have a good day all right all right. we're going to do a quick safety check. take this is an open carry state laws don't have in a felonies on your record or anything like that it's ok for you to open carry is legal . the huey p. newton gun club is the defense arm of the party there's a lot of different ways to fight racial injustice why do you think you know armed patrols this is is the way to go we had bustling black towns and we were very strong economically but what happened was we lacked a weapon and we're going to have to defend ourselves and this that's the bottom line self-defense what role do you think white people have been. in working towards more equality a lot of people who are afraid to say this word reparations is a bad word is going to be associated with things like welfare and government handouts and stuff like that is not a government handout i think reparations as well overdue let's go ahead and move out. a few weeks ago materials call for compensation may have surprised me but i'm starting to notice a pattern amongst a diverse range of activists soft 3 students but no let up but. not as a white person i'm way out of my comfort zone but. i don't agree with their separatist message in armed patrols but i don't feel any hatred from black to throw don't look too strong suggest to be clear those those views hate against whites and tyson anti-semitism you don't identify with that no no no we're different organization we want a different leadership we're not a hate group we don't hate anybody our way actions show we don't hate anybody so how do you feel about the idea of us want to live separate do you think we're like totally out of our mind that you think we can all get along. i have got hope that we can get along you know especially if white people are going to come around to the idea of reparations and you know trying to make a more fair and equal society because if this doesn't change at some point it's not going to be pretty it's going good. to a point where we begin to some point to race wars when we end up breaking up and just a point i will start to get to now is give me hope because nothing is change and hopefully you see that i'm coming from a good place and i just want what's best for my children and my grandchildren that's common after me well look at me and i think there's a couple things that we don't agree on but i think upstart understand where you're coming from or how we both learned some things always try to take things away from a conversation. that broke. not far from houston is where the last american slaves were finally freed in 865. it's depressing to realize that after 150 years some black people feel so let down that they think separation is their only option. making a difference seems almost impossible. but i'm determined to do something and. pay the need. for it it gives me more. than a little thing you thanks for coming to need invites me to the national gathering of coming to the table where this year's theme is reparations. over the next 2 days i attend several discussions on what white people can do to help. these range from scholarship funds for african-americans. to tips on how to talk to other white people about racial inequality. the conference gives me a lot of good ideas to take away. there's someone from the coming to the table gathering that i want to meet again. i need to apologize for something thoughtless i said earlier i meet up with stephen at a historic house in harrisonburg virginia stevens trying to raise the funds to save it of the hands that constructed his hall or hands the will formally held in bondage. we were talking and you said you know that's what it's like being a black man in virginia and i said i could imagine. and mediately felt pretty foolish for saying that and i don't think you could even imagine what it's like to be a black man in the state of virginia i have to be mindful of every single thing that i say every single place that i go every single thing that i do my body language my you know your mannerisms my tone arm i mean you know it's it's not lost upon me that i have never experienced with a truly means to be free black people in the united states of america or anywhere near free. when you consider. that with one force more. that with one. violation of the fragility of the feelings of white people. very lives could be taken away from us and ended in an instant what else can you know a white person like me do i want you to see. that despite the best efforts of your ancestors. despite. the most cunning in conniving and destructive of plots and plans that were devised by your ancestors my ancestors overcame what i'm saying as i'm hoping that you can recognize then that we are equal. because there was a time not that long ago but where your people didn't see mine that way i think it's up to people such as yourself and myself us together to try to do whatever is necessary to make sure we don't perpetuate these lies. would you agree absolutely cannot agree more. could you follow us please. on the last night of the national gathering do need to ask me to join her at the james river in richmond to watch the same trail as her enslaved ancestors. lived in the south. i should. feel like before of course society are staging a reenactment specially for coming to the table deli by. africans capturing traded drag from their motherland and the odor after now i'm 10 weeks at sea so if it fit this concealed cargo disembarked only at night to the crack of the whip in the shadows and say. i. ha. ha. oh my oh shoot what shall. you. hear no mouth yes no now. let's go out now. for over an hour i walked the same dirt path that hundreds of thousands of the slave driver cans were forced to follow. as i think about the magnitude of their suffering and sacrifice i feel a deep in sense of shame and sorrow that their descendants have never received a formal apology or a penny in compensation from the u.s. government. so that was really intense. it was absolutely humbling. and i just kept thinking about everything that had been taken away from the people that arrived on the shores. and how there's no way that that could ever be given back to them. i decided to join the fight for reparations. not just because of my ancestors. but because morally it's the right thing to do. all of us must take responsibility for repaying the vast debt owed to black people so that future generations can finally have an equal share of the opportunities and wealth of this nation it works. but. how i once again welcome to look at the international focuses of looking pretty quiet across the middle east at the moment look further north i've got lots of cloud that's just piling it's way out cysts move out of the way here you can see because i'm a very choppy waters through that eastern side of the mediterranean sea grace turkey cyprus seeing some very wet some very windy and at times some wintry weather over the next day or 7 that will gradually ease over towards the levant as we push on through the remainder of this weeks of us says the same for what's going to coming through as we go on through the weekend ahead of that is not a bad at all you might just catch your chance to central parts of saudi arabia calm without the possibility of the odd shot of central and southern areas of the red sea and across the other side of the red sea as well you might catch the odd shower little puffs of clout there coming into the west the weather is going to be across central parts of africa through the tropics as a ship basis and big downpours there possibility into uganda maybe western parts of kenya could see some ladish as northern areas of tanzania set me with a chance of seeing some a rather lively showers and i shall see trash all the way across into angola still a child so they are shown to the northern parts of madagascar over the next couple of days to the south of that is dry. america's future is blazing bright. the years of economic to k. are over. the u.s. president donald trump boasts of a great american comeback in a state of the union address that underlines the political division is. watching al-jazeera live from a headquarters in doha. also ahead the democrats' opinion was clear house speaker nancy pelosi tearing up the trump speech after he appeared to refer.