On it but weve got to be remembered everybodys going to remember him around the world hes going to change the world and his unit the civil rights leader reverend al sharpton directed his anger at the highest levels of government you see it now trying to figure out how you will stop the protests rather than how you want to stop the brutality you calling your cabinet in trying to figure out how its going to affect field wont read it and hows it going to affect our lives you know on how you can spend a starring rather than you can achieve justice wickedness and high place. Meanwhile President Donald Trump is accused to subdue a 5 year old who was left bleeding from his head after being pushed by police of being set up new yorks Governor Andrew Cuomo is among politicians from both sides who criticized president obama called the tweets reprehensible. How reckless how irresponsible al mean how crude i mean if there was ever a reprehensible dumb comment and from the president of United States at this moment of anger anguish and anger what does he do forced gasoline on the fire if there was ever if he ever feels a moment of decency he should apologize for that tweet because it is wholly unacceptable. Protests have continued in new york aljazeera as Gabriel Elizondo is that. These are truly extra ordinary scenes thousands of protesters that are right now walking over the Brooklyn Bridge theyre doing it on or of black lives matter and also one of the life of george floyd these are protesters that are quiet obviously very very peaceful and theyre really sending a message a message to new york a message to the United States and they say a message to the world that they will continue to fight for justice for george floyd and black lives matter they were also fighting over the last 2 weeks here in new york for a justice of people that have been victims of Police Brutality by the new York Police Department and on tuesday 2 things happened one is a new York Police Department officer was. Short with assault for pushing a peaceful protest or in the very early weeks of the protest in new york and also new york state lawmakers have voted for a series of bills that would in theory make the n. Y. P. D. More accountable but what youre seeing here is very much a message a message that is being sent that they want justice and they will not leave until they get it. George fired stathis resonated across the world thousands of people gathered in central paris to pay tribute to express solidarity with u. S. Protesters as well as announcing racism and Police Brutality in france the belgian city of and has removed a statue of a colonial era king a week after the sat on file activists of long petition to remove statues of king leopold the 2nd millions of people were killed on the his brutal reign over a vast region of africa that includes modern day democratic republic of congo. Those are the headlines the news continues here on aljazeera after correspondent the moral death is 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 least 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 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 people by my ancestor. 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. 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 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 the war the us the story told british the kids to see. Lets remember too that after the war legion only 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. Its a question whether vision a statute would you like to see well known michael. Moore 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 look like a really do i do yeah im a little bit of a horse really know where this. Martha helps run the richmond chapter of an Organization Name coming to the table. 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 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 evil which is to heal. The legacy of things like mark where he is 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 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. And what the rights we inherit a were the right to us right now 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 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 rectangle in 2017 so this is mrs magdalene 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 and statuary the losers of a civil war itself that my ancestors who were burned be brutalized raped by a confederate and 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. Well mr morehead was again and Andrew Morehead had to meet you yes or welcome to richmond and Hollywood Cemetery im at it told you im a relative of robert e. Lee absolutely and with the beard with the reddish beard you look more like you have stuart 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 art 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 is the sins of confederate ancestors. Theyre our family we really are 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 to work 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 its pleasure to see you. Really live in Christie Coleman is an expert on the American Civil War and heads the museum in richmond specially devoted to the subject so christie 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 law and the truth is and i did 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 virgin 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 and now ive 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 the other properties that he and 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 the beard i. 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 president you want to do something. Make sure you do something i dont know what youre going to do. It if you win the lottery you can give me a couple ok i could do that. Sort of the met you have. To help you in 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 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 for 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 berating a well known t. V. Host for failing to report the underlying race related issues fueling the honor asked i want you and boxers to get off because youre not here warning about the border with syria like right. Think things are are better they can. Even better we have a white supremacist in office now may be just as bad as robert e. Lee was 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. 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 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 throughout. These months 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 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 youre stuck here. Most kids that grow up in poverty. 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 your homes have the same access to quality a life that the people. Would 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 are oppressed and slave those. Are right. 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. When youre from a neighborhood known as a hotbed of radicalism. You have to fight to defy stereotypes. But in the meeting hall chunks join the stories we dont often hear told by the people who live them you know money join men when they. Can make. Some of the books us this is year that. On aljazeera i want to have is on the other lest the working in asia and africa there be days where id be choosing editing my own stories in a refugee camp with no electricity and right now were confronting some of the greatest challenges that humanity has ever faced and i really believe that the only way we can do that is with compassion and generosity and compromise because of the only way we can try to solve any of these problems is together thats why al jazeera so important we make those connections. Because maybe companies around the world rely on market to make their products good but who pays the price for making the beauty business she originally. When i went east investigates. On aljazeera. Hello again everyone from going to hear all the top stories when i was in syria well in 2 weeks after his death george floyd the man whose killing has inspired protests across the u. S. Has been laid to rest in a Funeral Service in his hometown of houston floridas been remembered as a loved Family Member a mentor a symbol of change. Offices show no remorse watch my uncles soap leave his body he begged him pleaded many times just for you to get but you just its harder why must the system because look him proclaim last night what africanamericans. They. Need love to be changed no more hate crimes. So much that make America Great again but when has america ever been great. I wont justice for my brother my big brother. Thats big flaw and everybody i know will be floored is now. 3rd watch kunal death was born there but weve got to be remembered everybodys going to remember him around the world hes going to change the world meanwhile president obama trump has accused the 75 year old who was left bleeding from his head off to being pushed by police but being an empty 1st set up new york Governor Andrew Cuomo is among politicians from both sides who criticized him como called the treats reprehensible and dumb. Protesters have taken to the streets in new york to honor george floyd demonstrators have been calling for cuts to Police Budgets and an end to systemic racism the citys legislature has passed a bill to release Police Officers disciplinary records George Floyds death has resonated across the world thousands of people gathered in central paris to pay tribute they expressed solidarity with us protesters as well as denouncing racism and Police Brutality in fronts the belgian city of am to or has removed a statue of a colonial era king the king a week after the set on fire activists of long petition to remove statues of king leopold the 2nd was belgiums longest serving more millions of people were killed on the his brutal reign over a vast region of africa that includes modern day democratic republic of congo is the headlines now lets get you back to aljazeera correspondent a mold that the legacy of slavery in the usa. 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. 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 saw a story it was. Someone you know they called you know. This james davis a tough one of mr rich toughest soldiers. Some of his 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 hassles all right and you know lieberman sometimes i just pull kids off corners i mentor them i help them get to. 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 see our baby that was the a monster 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 a bush 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 was all of. The good 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 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 and. You know i always see how you know you know the little thing that we doing and how you know theyve everybody feel so safe a passer because theyve been 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 a black man and i have the photograph printed ready give it to them they. Now have the sound i went back to go give him a copy but he dont. We endorse 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 talk about the injustice. What can i do what can white people do to kind of shift the way that they think 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 help 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 punish them we still live on the street. Does many quoting have served time in prison one in 3 black men in the us its a felony conviction. Just over 7. Dollars going to. What i was forced to come out of this is trying to. Provide a way for. 0 sam a little brother where we were forced into this we dont have. The right to tell you. The forces on the street. You know bedrooms for a 5th of our kids is there a pay phone with im 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 as i might be was mommy just because youre white you should never bet up there and to me i dont think so but thats just like him and then think about his fall from his father it always was this event so for a black person pieces whos really. True i give Something 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 hope and then but i was determined what we will do with the help we dont weigh it out that suit some over so scar weve askey to speak out because the surprise that we portrayed him is as if we cool with it but were not we so scarred that we dont even want to speak out because were 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 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 matter we dont really talk about it because it happens so my just not news is not new. Quality i know he didnt want to say that stuff for a long time he 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 bombed 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 has 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 up this was 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 whos 90 years old now and most of my life is her full name. Her name is. Sorry im blanking on her last name stella. 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 negative and maybe not to put it that it. 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 fairly 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 by gum i grew up in virginia so yeah yeah ive shot count of the right yet i dont 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 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 and all 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 those that. You know do anything 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 we have a number yeah youre right my 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 us 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 all 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. Take this is an open carry state laws dont have any 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 a 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 not 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 throne but to start 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 the idea of both want to live separate do you think will i totally out of my own will you think we can all get along. I 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 doesnt change at some point its not going to be pretty its going good. To a point where we begin to some point to race wars when we end up breaking up and just a point that was thought to get to now is give me hope because nothing is changing 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 thing you thanks 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. 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 the 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 when 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 night 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 same. Thing. Ha. Ha. Oh my oh shoot what shall. You. Hear no mouth yet no bear 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. Hello the remnants of what was Tropical Storm cristobal still working its way through the Central Plains the United States in the meantime along these coastal areas of the gulf it is all about the clear and of course you get with these waters these flood waters those come all sorts of hidden dangers but also it really was about the storm surge along these coastal areas of course the roadways are covered and that water came a long way inland not just water of course it brings with it huge amounts of sounds of the kid it will continue theres a storm system working its way. Quite rapidly up towards the midwest meanwhile out across the west a very different story it is hot it is dry the winds have been particularly strong and in fact this and all the way from Southern California across towards texas but this brush fire is one theyve been fighting very hard over sea trying to keep it under control so as i say it will stay like that for the next couple days itll be halted will be dry we will see showers pushing in across the Pacific Northwest and just want to scattered throughout the Mountain Region but this is really the main area of weather christopher will get caught up in this front which is sliding through that she will merge itll be a powerful storm system working its way across the great lakes and pushing up into eastern areas of canada we could have some very strong winds of this storm at about 10115 kilometers an hour and of course the same amount of time a huge amount of rains we could have some flooding. 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