Would like to know how thats going to top of my lungs because i know so many black like i speak for every black man but for every one that i know know someone that has a friend a Family Member or a relative someone that from Police Brutality and you need to stop at fountain of praise church mourners pay their respects to the open casket inside some who knew him others inspired by the National Movement his death represents everyone should be so you can see what we need to do is so we dont have to do this again this should be the last and every day as they cantered. As they collect their home this will be the last to be in a room they came 15 at a time for up to 10 minutes with masks and social distancing to protect from coronavirus for which floyd tested positive in april and in his autopsy George Floyds body has traced the path of his life the 1st in a series of memorials began in many. Apple is where he died beneath a Police Officers need and never was held in the state of North Carolina where he was born both through thousands and now after this viewing in houston on tuesday there will be a funeral after which he is buried next to his mother. His death his inspired nearly 2 weeks of protests from washington d. C. To los angeles as mourners passed by floyds casket in houston the officer who knelt on his neck derek children appeared in court in minneapolis officer during. A couple of murder because what he did was meditated he knew what he was doing he should be treated like any other civilian would be treated if they would murder somebody like the way mr play with murder on tuesday his funeral will feature the reverend al sharpton civil rights lawyer Benjamin Crump in a video by former Vice President joe biden who met privately with floyds family on monday his death inspired a movement but his family says on tuesday they will celebrate his life which inspired them john hendren aljazeera houston democrats and the u. S. House of representatives have drafted legislation to change the way that Police Departments work the law seeks to ban chokehold 6 pound the use of body cameras and create a database of Police Misconduct but the legislation does not demand the defunding or dismantling of Police Departments as some protesters of called for. Israeli settler found guilty of murdering 3 members of a Palestinian Family and 2015 is expects to be sentenced by israeli course bell was convicted of 3 counts of murder 2 counts of attempted murder and 2 counts of arson he threw a fire bomb into the home of the family killing a married couple and their infant son the 4 year old son was the only survivor of. Libyas National Oil Corporation says an armed force which it didnt identify has entered an oil field in the south and demanded that workers shut it down the company says its employees its told its employees not to disobey not to a bay those waters but videos emerge from libya that appears to show military offices from the United Arab EmiratesTraining Forces loyal to the walled Khalifa Haftar russian listeners been instrumental in helping huffed us forces. The Afghan Government has released another 250. 00 taliban prisoners bringing the total now to more than 3000. 00 its part of the doha agreements the us taliban deal signed in february stipulated that the Afghan Taliban set free 1000. 00 Security Forces an exchange and swarms of locusts spreading across pakistan opposing a bigger threat to the economy than the coronavirus theyve been damaging crops in the orchard since april agriculture accounts for around 20 percent of pakistans economic output. Those are the headlines the news continues here on aljazeera correspondent next. See. Im james gannon a news editor for aljazeera. I grew up in this house in virginia in the Southern United States my childhood here was a happy one my family werent 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 mid 19th century. I was proud that this man considered one of virginias greatest heroes was a relative. I wasnt told 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 p. By my ancestors has had an impact on black lives in america today. What im told will at times make me deeply uncomfortable. But these conversations for me are long overdue. Now im broke. 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 citys 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. As you just. Told. Me to see. Lets remember too that after the Arlington County could to help reconcile and rebuild relationships between north and south how can anyone say this great leader is a symbol of hate and evil and White Supremacy is a question was vicious that you would you like to see well know by the end. More of its yeah yeah that was a it was all there for a long day or night leaving early this morning. I want to know why opinions in richmond are so deeply divided by just how are you ready to see you Martha Rawlins is also a cousin of robert e. Lee you know are you. Really do i go yeah. I dont have a horse really no. Mark that 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 people together dont go to the same. Shop in the same place live in the same neighborhood and dont look alike i say that when we even go out in public we are the marching pair here weve been on every civil rights and womans march there is even just seeing us to gather models what is possible that in itself i know some people say thats really small but i think its huge coming here is how you bowl which is to heal one of. The legacy things like martin you know hes now. Visiting our purpose 1st rack is uncovering and and teaching truth in history. And you will be a lot of homework even if. 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 so Jefferson Davis was the president of confederacy we need to weed whats written on his monument. Its a its 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 we say youre hardly that so it says to injure 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. You know what the rights mean here are they 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 its very painful to remember the legacy evidence right where my great grandmother was 2nd cousin or property. So its painful its painful to now 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 if he wants to show me a statue that he fought to get a rector in 2017 so this is business maggie laid 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 it is put on a on a literal pedestal that is a woman to be honored and that is a woman to be memorialized so thats 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 is no other country on the planet that honors in statuary the losers of a civil war itself that my ancestors who were burned be brutalized raped by a confederate a confederate thinkers 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 youre more head hanging to meet him yes or welcome to richmond and Hollywood Cemetery a man of told you im a relative of robert e. Lee absolutely and with the beard with the reddish beard you look more like jim stewart but thats excellent. Lets take a look at a few things and write. 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 those statues need to come down when you look at these monuments just on a pure abstract be theyre beautiful works of our beautiful works of art and then youve 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 theyre 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 theres a member of ones family that is doing something that you dont agree with you have a responsibility for them sure and were responsible for the legacy of our ancestors as far as telling the truth as we see it. Robert e. Lee didnt say im 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 were not going to agree on i appreciate your time and giving us your point of view absolutely. Andrews view that the civil war wasnt primarily fought to preserve slavery has been debunked by the vast majority of scholars. Im curious to find out why so many millions of virginians still believe that all of this to an end and situation doesnt seem to relate to Christie Coleman is an expert on the American Civil War and heads the museum in richmond specially devoted to the subject so kristie 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 spend 150 years lying to each other about what this war was about. We spent 150 years lying and trying to reinforce the lie and the truth is and it daughters of the confederacy and their historian of the organization of women by the name of Mildred Rutherford makes it her business to frame the narrative that must be in every school or textbook and if its not there she tells them you must reject it from your home and you must reject it from your school. And thats exactly what they do so we wonder why america has such a to urgent view about this so it was crafted that way the way i see it is that robert e. Lee fought for slavery and thats what the civil war was about but. Along the way in our ive heard an alternate opinion the reality is men women and children were bought and sold from their families by only ok at arlington. And in many other properties that he comes from a family that for generations has bought and sold human beings this way. But im 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 dont put up statues dont relive this lets just lets 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 its probably just beard maybe think there. See why people think i look like hes 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 didnt want any monuments to this dark period in our history. Its time for me to face up to the sins of my ancestors. This church in peters ville maryland was built by black people my ancestors and slaves. My grandmother used to bring me here as a child. Ive come to see 2 of her friends ive known them since i was young lord have mercy or he may almighty god have mercy on us to get us out but were 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 its not something my family ever discussed. But. I feel uncomfortable about bringing up the subject of enslavement i dont want to upset them. Clearly some im wondering if you could tell me about the picture on this book here this is my mom. Madeline. And im claire. And she was a nurse of this little girl and moms mother used to work for the lees so your moms 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 dont have to back down to nobody. See thats thats me in this present time and thats 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 dont start slipping backwards you should just try to make sure that you treat people right dont dont harbor thinking about what your great great grandfather did so i dont have no hard feelings with you but im proud that you want to do something. But make sure you do something i dont know what youre going to do. If. If you win the lottery you can give me a couple. I could do that. But other than that to have. To help you and in your endeavor if you really had it i hope i have because i think youve got a wonderful family. I feel humble that a sterling priest dont hold any grudge against my ancestors for what there is in dirt 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 grandfathers day. Baltimore the largest city in maryland is just one hour away. It has a population of 3000000 with a high proportion of black. 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 youre 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 and 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 havent 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 its 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. Ate 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 its written off up the street standing on a corner the police are there you know come out and disperse a crowd. Its calm right and theres nothing wrong with that the fact that this city is 63 percent black and the amount of people represented in certain communities like this arent right here. Ill take you to a part of baltimore. Pretty great grew up. Being once across the slightest sensually youll 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 stark 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. Now 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 him for. Much of youre born in this community youre stuck here. Most kids that grow up in poverty in Baltimore City dont have the chance to leave within 5 blocks of there. Where they were born to really. Whats the situation with the police and 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 a great 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 their center 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 gilmore homes have the same access to quality of life that the people. Well it seems to me like before we can fix anything we have to acknowledge the truth of the situation more than acknowledgment 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. Ive never really taken the idea of reparations seriously before but meeting with kwame has made me reconsider. I need to learn more about the inequalities that black people continue to experience im ready to face more uncomfortable truths. I care about how the u. S. Engages with the rest of the world i cover Foreign PolicyNational Security this is very much a political impasse heres the paul flick how do we illustrate it are we telling a good story will people get what were trying to think here theyre living outside and make it tough this is not the way any family want to raise their children where will it fit in taking you into a place that you might not visit otherwise and to actually feel as if you were there to scarcity has become a major issue the demand is going straight up and the supply is going straight down tending in essential Natural Resources into a commodity traded for profit just because its life doesnt mean its cannot be priced what about the guy that can afford it guys tell me is water in a new 2 part series aljazeera examines the social financial and Environmental Impact of water privatized loads of water on aljazeera. Cosmetic companies around the world rely on mica to make their products cooler but who pays the price for making the beauty business should rejoice. When i went east investigate. On aljazeera. Hello again everyone said again here in doha the headlines on aljazeera thousands of mourners of pay their respects to george floyd at a memorial in Houston Texas where he grew up his family says that it will continue its fight for justice floyds funeral will take place later on tuesday his death in custody spark more than 2 weeks of protests across the u. S. And the rest of the world democrats in the u. S. House of representatives have drafted legislation to change the way Police Departments work some members knelt 8 minutes and 46 seconds before announcing the proposal thats how long george floyd was pinned to the ground the law seeks to ban chokeholds to expand the use of body cameras and create a database of Police Misconduct but the legislation doesnt demand the defunding or dismantling of Police Departments some protesters of called for President Donald Trump says that he would never allow that to happen. And im very proud of them. They wont be defining that wont be dismantling of our police and theyre not going to be any disbanding of our police our police have been letting us live in peace and we want to make sure we dont have any bad actors in there and sometimes youll see some horrible things like we witnessed recently but 99 i say 99. 9 but lets go with 99 percent of them are great great people and theyve done jobs that are record setting record setting out israeli settler found guilty of murdering 3 members of a Palestinian Family and 2015 is expected to be sentenced by this really clueless about ben you leo was convicted of 3 counts of murder 2 counts of attempted murder and 2 counts of ostend he threw a fire bomb into the home of the family killing a married couple and in fun song the 4 year old son was the only survivor of libyas national oil coal Corporation Says the force which didnt identify as end to the oil fields in the south and demanded that workers shut it down the company says its told its employees not to obey those orders and videos emerge from libya that appears to show military officers from the United Arab EmiratesTraining Forces loyal to the ward Khalifa Haftar question must merissa been instrumental in helping forces. Those are the headlines now lets get you back to aljazeera correspondent. 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. 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 the projects. Its no resources you have to say you have a saw story it. Someone you know they call it you know. I saw. This jane this time its over to one of mr rich toughest soldiers. Some of the kids we 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 hassles are right and you know lieberman sometimes i just pull kids off corners i mentor them i help them get. Rick takes me to the parking lot where Demonte Howard a youth he mentored was shot dead just 2 months before. A lot of the drugs and activity happens right here and its this parking lot and this is where unfortunately a lot of the homicides are robberies to please you c. R. P. Diesel baby that was the amount of his nickname his mother was struggling as a single mom 3 children by itself and he did the fastest thing to help her and that was get involved in drugs or here 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 old man always is trying to do better we got. Im 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 started here he says as the president. Was the boss weve been to and i miss my homeboy and i. Just. What would you like for this community all these kids to take them out trips and sprays more stuff thats all you know right here so. It goes all of. The data for each. Of those. Were. A lot of problems a lot of these kids feel like theyre forced to do that to survive theyre not doing it to be driving a mercedes in bentleys and things like that theyre doing it because if i dont do this i wont eat tonight people in these neighborhoods are not asking for anything but opportunity the same equal Playing Field that the rest of america gets i dont. This is mine. Which i need to come and see how you don so this is this is james to lose that sound and. You know i always see how you know you know the little thing that you doing and how you know theyve everybody feel so safe a passer because they beat you especially to the streets and then now here i am i one of them. Im so sorry for your loss thank you so much thank you thank you after the shooting. There were 343 homicides in baltimore and 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 dont happen sometimes i photograph black men and by the time i have to photograph printed and ready to give it to them they block now. I went back to go give them a copy but you dont. Weave and doors so much pain and have these moments where we didnt have anybody to tell you know but a lot of people tell me about those moments when i take their photograph and talk about our trauma and talk about the injustices we go through 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 dont think that an ally job is to go in and dig and tell people what to do and give directions this is listen and to 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 which still live on the street. Does many quoting have served time in prison one in 3 black men in the u. S. Its a felony conviction. Over serve a 6 year prison brought up in this community. I was forced to come outside of the surviving trying to. Forbad away from my grandmother my mother seal sam a little brother that i we we forced into this we dont have the option. Of either to tell you that you really miss me. But. The forces of industry and basically you know what every effort for a 5th marquis is going without pay if i went back im not even in the position of wisdom i could 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 in the end the disadvantaged as i might be was small and just as the white you should never bet out there and to me. I dont think so but it was like him and then think about his fall and then his fall would always was this event right so for a black person pieces us was really. True i get some time back about a child not to think about it we just want to push for some are the put the spotlight on us and give us a little bit of help and then but i was determined what we will do with the help we dont wear it out its to come over so scar we even scared to speak out because a surprise but we portrayed him is as if we would but were not we so scarred that we dont even want to speak out because were afraid of the next person wholl 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 so its not small because quality he got emotional and even my brother got emotional because now i have people listening to him you know people really fight it down mad and we dont really talk about it because it happens so my just not news is not new. I know he didnt want to say that stuff over a long time weve got kids the guy family you know and they all live in poverty it is the as though living in poverty is this is not the dream for us. I later discover that the continuing existence of rich white neighborhoods and poor black neighborhoods in baltimore is not accidental but a legacy of decades of deliberate racial discrimination. In the mid 1930 s. The Us 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 true 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 in americas Hidden History lead me to 2 academics who have spent years researching the racial wealth gap in america and the reasons for it hello. Im james. Person what does that inequality look like in the aftermath of the civil war blacks may have less than one person of the american wealth. Whats particularly striking and disturbing about that figure is that if we look at the comparable measure to the its 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. 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 formerly 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 in a 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 just response to americas history my familys. You know status and wealth as 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 it would have at least half at least half the states well probably 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 whos 90 years old now most of my life is her full name. Her name is. Sorry im blanking on her last name stella. Well its telling you know that shes many years your senior and yet you refer to her by her 1st name right. There it is right there i mean i dont mean any disrespect. To check. Well apparently no one else in their family has referred to her by any other in the affair but were direct about yeah yeah yeah no youre absolutely right i think it probably made both of us uncomfortable you know free for you to call me out there. Maybe even to me that 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 id like to understand black separatists have to have that. Thing but i think. The new black Panther Party has been described as a very racist organization whose leaders have encouraged violence against whites and police. Yacking and binya one of its former leaders is now chairman of a new organization the peoples new black Panther Party that claims to disavow hatred. Is that right here. You you should not just know one thing back then i grew up as virginia oh yeah yeah ive shot count of the right yeah i dont own any myself right really and you know any 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 dont like the police come to town i would neighborhoods patrol and i would neighborhood and so we should give an example of how we can be self determining. The polies out here killing our you know people on the home and we were patrolling our own neighborhoods we wouldnt have these situations occur so. We have a message of separation we dont want to continue to live with White America hating boyd hasnt worked out weve tried everything weve worked weve served weve been you know for equal rights and we continue to be in the same situation all right so this is the group for tonight by you both of. You know that a thing is going on without people who will want to call the police on one another stuff like that when we deal with young boys these days in the households will single mothers and things like that you have a mom yeah youre right number down so thats what we do and i have a couple. But no to me joe i do think its a level of 0 but it seems like when you come out here people are pretty interested in what youre doing we come out in the community and people see us it excites them and of course you go to police now yeah yeah we got a call on here so we are just there would always help but they never thought oh we told would be not legal rights were not going to have peace and all right you have a good day all right all right. Were going to do a quick safety check. Takes is an open carry state laws dont have been a felonies on your record or anything like that its ok for you to open carry is legal. The huey p. Newton gun club is the defense arm of the party theres 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 were going to have to defend ourselves and this thats the bottom line selfdefense 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 lets go ahead and move out. A few weeks ago materials call for compensation may have surprised me but im starting to notice a pattern amongst a diverse range of activists. Softly. But. But. Not as a white person im way out of my comfort zone but. I dont agree with their separatist message in armed patrols but i dont feel any hatred from black to thrown not too strong suggest to be clear those those views hate against whites and tyson antisemitism you dont identify with that no no no were Different Organization we want a different leadership were not a hate group we dont hate anybody our way actions show we dont hate anybody so how do you feel about that how do you want to live separate do you think will i totally out of my own will 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 and you know trying to make a more fair and equal society because if this doesnt change just some point is not going to be pretty its going good bad to a point where we begin to some point to race wars when we end up breaking up and just a point that will start to get to now is give me hope because nothing is change and hopefully you see that im coming from a good place and i just want whats best for my children and my grandchildren thats common after me well look im and i think theres a couple things that we dont agree on but i think upstart understand where youre 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. Its 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 im determined to do something and. Pay the need. For it it gives me more. Than a little thank you thank you for coming to need invites me to the National Gathering of coming to the table where this years 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 africanamericans. 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. And. Theres 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 that will formally held in bondage. We were talking and you said you know thats what its like being a black man in virginia and i said i could imagine. And mediately felt pretty foolish for saying that you know i dont think you could even imagine what its 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 its its 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 im saying as im hoping that you can recognize then that we are equal. Because there was a time not that long ago but where your people didnt see mind that way i think its up to people such as yourself and myself us together to try to do whatever is necessary to make sure we dont 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 walk the same trail as her enslaved ancestors. Lived in the south of the. Us to. Feel like the Folk Lore Society are staging a reenactment specially for coming to the table dolly by. Africans capturing traded dragged from their motherland and the odor after now my 10 weeks at sea so i felt that this concealed cargo disembarked only at night to the crack of the whip in the shadows and same. Name. Ha. Ha. Oh my oh what shall. You. Know mouth yes. No now lets 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 theres 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 its 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. The weather slushy fought and dry across a good part opposite to clear skies for the time being the pop called cloud does 0 up there was you can see through the heat of the day but further south we got this low cloud thats going to bring some very heavy infantry showers just out of that a suicide apparent pushing down towards the southeast of brazil as we go on through the next couple of days they will be heavy that could be some extent as well could lead to a little lot of flash flooding as well as we go through the next couple of days south of that is essentially they settled in sunny 18 celsius in one of sarah santiago 13 degrees just notice some rather heavy rain there to central parts of chile for a time have another little further north as to whether gathering once more as we go on through wednesday north of that it is generate dry than the usual across northern brazil pushing up towards guyana pushing up towards venezuela and up towards panama extending into the caribbean where its this essentially sunshine and showers lots of sunshine looking pretty good for the most part i think a little more the way of wet weather now starting to push into the aides insist we go through the next couple of days particularly around the leeward as we go on into wednesday further north into the u. S. So we still have the flooding problems just around the alabama tropical depression is making its way further north. The british iraqi journalist whos visualizing complex statistics in a simple art form i think youre off as a summary sites of opportunities to break apart from those systems of power and so you collect data in a way that makes a represents Different Community challenging mainstream misconceptions the pie creates and handle ministrations it doesnt alienate people it doesnt make people feel like im not smart enough to understand this truth is that any way. Every generation has higher purpose. Hours. Or more. This is aljazeera. Other welcome to the news hour im adrian figure in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes we will and. We will not go up close George Floyds brother says that the fight is far from over as thousands pay their respects more than 2 weeks after his death in Police Custody. 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