Backgrounds gender and race have come together to demand change i wanted him on a show march and make the necessary changes that make the Law Enforcement the solution after giving his testimony George Floyds brother joined a black lives matter protests in washington for his fight was with demonstrators who were marching in front of the white house protesters are promising to keep the rallies going until meaningful change happens. While democrats and republicans in Congress Work out a rival plans for Police Reform the white house says its finalizing its own mike hanna has more from washington d. C. Well the white house is still to inform any change in policy there has been discussions among Administration Officials for the president to make some kind of announcement to clarify exactly what the white houses position is on Police Reform now those discussions have been ongoing there is a possibility that the president may bring up some new policy when he meets with African American religious and Law Enforcement leaders in dallas and thursday his officials are saying that this might be an occasion for him to express exactly what he feels but what he has ruled out at this particular point is a central part of what the democrats are talking about in congress and that is things like moving the liability for police changing the statute under which they are given a qualified liability for acts of violence president has ruled that out already saying that that would be unfair to Police Officers so not very clear at this stage exactly how the impact of the last few weeks of protest has the impact it has had on the white house but we do expect and Administration Officials are saying that there will be some clarity there will be a firm a policy emerging in the next few days speaker of the house of representatives nancy pelosi who says confederate statues should be removed from the Capitol Building they honor men who took up arms in order to preserve slavery in the south during the American Civil War pelosi may be the most powerful woman in america but she lacks the Legal Authority to remove the 11 statues of confederate figures. In portsmouth virginia and protestors to matters into their own homes destroyed part of this monument to the. Federer saying one person has reportedly been injured after a statue fell on them and. Floods in some of these china have forced nearly 230000 people from their homes every rain swept across 4 regions rivers have been overflowing and mudslides have swept down hills say media is reporting dozens of people are dead or missing the bad weather has caused more than half a 1000000000. 00 worth of damage. Brazil now has more daily deaths from covert 1000. 00 than any other country in the world that despite the shops are reopening in sao paulo and Rio De Janeiro 2 of the worst hit areas nationwide more than 30 9000. 00 people have died italys Prime MinisterGiuseppe Conti is said to be questioned by prosecutors on friday over the handling of the pandemic youre looking at why restrictions werent enforced in february on the towns of member and outsider no regional officials on the government to blame each other for the failure. After a long delay dozens of parents have been a united with their babies in ukraine and children are being born to start at mothers but condemning border closures their parents couldnt collect them they had to go through ukraines human rights on boats woman and undergo a 2 week quarantine. And those are the headlines the news continues on aljazeera after correspondent ill see in about 25 minutes. 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 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 an so. If people 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. But 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 grand history of enrichment 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 and slave population in america in richmond the debate over the monument avenue statues was heated now is the time for us so tearing down participation trophies for the losing side the war in the fast changing the story the british the 3. Lets remember too that after the Arlington County come 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. Theres 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 im going to look at a lot of horses and it was really no regrets. Martha helps run the richmond chapter of an organization named 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 dont go to the same chairs that dont shop in the same places 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 some people say thats really small but i think its huge coming here is how evil which is to heal the wounds of the legacy of things like martin you know hes now our point visiting our purpose 1st reg is uncovering and and teaching truth in history. And you will be a lot of homework even if. This is monument avenue. Martha waste 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. You know what the rights we inherit a 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 just 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 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 and so for my ancestors who were burned be brutalized raped by a confederate and 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. Well mr morehead was again and Andrew Morehead had to meet him yes or welcome to richmond in Hollywood Cemetery a matter told him a relative of robert e. Lee absolutely with the beard with the reddish beard you look more like you have stewart but thats actually 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 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 spent 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 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 many 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 its very. 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. 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. Cleary 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 slavery 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 dead men have said. They had 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 and are 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 thats probably. 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 of the 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 have. I 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 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 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. 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 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 with them blocks of their. 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 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 their scent 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 of fells point. Will 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. Right. Ive 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 im ready to face more uncomfortable truths. From. People have come to expect a lot from aljazeera over the years reporting the commitment to on the reporter places the commitment to the human story. But its also the idea of challenging those in power if a politician comes on this channel they will be challenged and thats what people expect of us they want the questions that. That is what weve always done and thats what we will continue to do. National fullerton the debate on migration is polarized into. 2 strident position. And the headlines how do you define an indigenous person who they thought of isnt this more about living with difference and you in pieces and who do they contain people have the right to live anywhere in the world have a right to leave their country maybe his son get his head to head for the county on aljazeera. As protests rage over Police Brutality and coronavirus grips the nation campaigning on the election trail has been forced to take a back seat will the president ial candidates ever hit the road and so their brand of politics to americans before the vote follow the us elections on a just. The on. A robot ascent in doha the top stories on aljazeera the brother of george floyd has testified at a congressional hearing looking at racial inequality and Police Violence in the u. S. From his flight called his brothers death a lynching and our politicians to do more im here to ax you to make it stop stop the pain stop us being anti our joy is call for help and he was ignored please listen to the couch im making to you now to the cause of our family and the cons ringing out the streets across the world people of all backgrounds genders and races have come together to demand change on idiom on a joint and make the necessary changes that make Law Enforcement the solution. U. S. Tech giant amazon says its banning the police from using its facial recognition tool for a year and have been growing concerns the Technology May lead to unfair treatment of black people in the says it hopes this can give Congress Time to impose appropriate rules for the ethical use of facial recognition the tech company has long defended the polices use of real time surveillance technology. Brazil now has more daily deaths linked to corona virus than any country in the world despite this shops are reopening its largest city cell pollo as well as in Rio De Janeiro almost 40000 people have died across the country at least 7 people have been killed by land mines in the libyan capital tripoli they were left behind when forces loyal to warlord who for hostile withdrew 27. 00 people in total have been killed by the explosives in the past week. And 20 people have died in floods in southeast china nearly a quarter of a 1000000 people have been forced from their homes heavy rain has swept across 4 regions dozens of believed to be missing according to state media the bad weather has caused more than half a 1000000000. 00 worth of damage cleanup crews at the site of a Massive Oil Spill in Russias Arctic region say it could take years to get the job done more than 20000. 00 tons of diesel has leaked from a power plant its now seeped into an environmentally frontal lake the disaster started at the end of may when a fuel storage tank failed the director of the power plant has been arrested and thats the news and ologies in a will be back after aljazeera correspondent by. 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 had a saw story it was. Someone you know they called you know. This james davis a tough one of mr rich toughest soldiers. Some like 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 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 to the springs 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 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 the town and. You know i always see how you know you know the little thing that were 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 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 dont 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 dont. We endorse so much pain and have these moments where we didnt have anybody and its how 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 envisioning 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 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 and 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 trying to provide a way from. 0 sam a little brother but we were forced into this we dont have. The right to tell you. The forces on the street. No bedrooms for a 5th of our kids is there a pedophile with im not even a pussy. 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 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 going to 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 discovered 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 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. 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 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 we we think there is a giant. And we think it needs to be met because i think it is a 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 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. 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 for you 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 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 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 yeah yeah right now number down so thats what we do and i have a couple. But no to me joe i do think its the lowest 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 they 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 you no 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 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 grow up 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 throw dont look 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 mind that 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 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 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. Is. 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 and 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 you know 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 are 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. 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. I should. Feel like before of course society or staging a reenactment specially for coming to the table deli by. Africans captured traded dragged from their motherland and the odor after now im 10 weeks at sea so i felt 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. Know mouth yet no now lets go. Down. For over an hour i walk 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 descendents 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. 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