Away my faith. The South Carolina state legislature. And the youngest black elected i love this country the same, if official in the country. Not more, than anybody else he is a political commentator, because the blood of my family lawyer any author at 35. Runs through the soil of this country, trying to make it be a more perfect union. His new memoir begins with the i think about my children all story years before he was born. The time, and they do not deserve to grow up in a country the massacre at South Carolina like this one in which there is a large segment of the population that doesnt give them the benefit of their university, Highway Patrol opened fire and civil rights humanity. I will not be jaded by humanity protesters who wanted to desegregate a bowling alley. In my 38 years of great wisdom, a killed three people and but i still believe in hope, wounded dozens more. One of the wounded was cleveland just as, and piece. Sellers, bukhari sellers father soledad i am often asked, and i and was accused of inciting a ride. He was parted decades later. Know every single black person that i know and you know, are i spoke to bukhari sellers about asked by white people, how do i why he said that day, 16 years before his birth is the most help . Tell me what to do. Important day of his life. Black lives matter is not enough. What advice do you give to so nice to talk to you. We have been on panels and had people to want to do something, and not just post something lots of conversations, never hopeful on instagram . This conversation. My first caveat is that it is you talk about your dads story is the most important in your not on black people to cure life. Racism in this country. Why . I want white folks to protest that massacre left mothers with us, get out in the streets without their sons and left with us because those visuals, history stained with blood. Blue, black, yellow, pink, etc. My sister was born without her is good to see. Father. My sister was born while my the most important thing is talk father was in prison, and so, my to your racist friends. Frame of reference in the way i they may not know they are evaluate things culturally and racist. Politically is the son of a this is the most important thing moving, and that trauma from the for viewers to understand. This country, you can either be massacre to the trust of massacre at both ends of my life racist or antiracist. Those of the only two choices we have. , it highlights being black in america. You cannot sit on the sofa and soledad you talk about that say, im not racist, but no. Trauma, not just personally, but you have to root out this cancer how it affects lots of black racism in the country. Men, black women, black soledad always nice to chat families, their children. I dont think people necessarily with you. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for having understand how trauma moves to me. Soledad coming up next generations. Can you explain that . Most white folk look andriese this officer tells me, are you some type of tough guy . Through the lens of their lifetime. One of the things i try to do in then he punches me in the face the way that i have learned and screams, he is resisting arrest. Im scared for my kids. About looking at race is through every time they step out the the context of history. Door. Every time they step out the door. My father got involved in the puberty means personal space. So sports clothes sit around growing odors. Thats why we graduated to tide pods sport. Finally something more powerful than the funk. Tide sport removes even weekold sweat odor. Its got to be tide. Babys skin is absorbent. Her skin could actually soak up wetness that her diaper doesnt. Thats why i use pampers. Pampers traps and locks wetness away keeping babys skin drier and healthier. The health of your babys skin starts with the pampers theyre in. What if your clothes could stay fresh for weeks . T smell clean . Now they can this towel has already been used and it still smells fresh. Pour a cap of downy unstopables into your washing machine before each load and enjoy fresher smelling laundry for up to 12weeks. Been a journalist, i reported on too many deaths, like george floyds. Black man who was killed when a Police Officer kneeled on his neck. In 2008, i embarked on a series called black in america in 2014 by documentary called black and blue about Aggressive Police practices and its impact on africanamericans. Harley has never been in legal trouble. But he says police have stopped him more than 100 times. I first got stopped in first when i was 13. They say i fit the description. I would say nine times out of 10, that is the excuse they give me. What is the description . A young, block male black male 18 to 20 times. It does blur together at some point, but there are those extreme instances, where it is kind of hard to forget. Soledad keyshawn is a south more in college and lives with his mother. A cop slams me against the wall, called me derogatory terms like and. And he even let me pull out my welcome to show him i go to this school right here. It messes with you psychologically. It messes up it messes with you emotionally. I do not sleep until he comes home. Were you ok this weekend when you went out . You did not end up in a cop car like last time . No, i didnt. The fact that it happens every, single days overwhelming, and can lead you to lose your head, but then, your future ends. It is hard to stay calm when you have someone slamming your face against the wall. What is the alternative, baby . What is the alternative . Youre going to punch the cop back . It is like, you want me to stay calm . How am i supposed to stay calm . Because that is what you duke harry because that is what you do. The way he had to stay calm when his house was on fire. Soledad mplicit bias training for Police Departments, writes about policing in america. Thank you for talking with me. Is it as simple as a generational divide, where you have people of the older generation talk about malcolm, and they talk about mlk and people who are younger say, that has not worked, they need a new strategy. As i look at keyshawns story and think about the similarities and i have a little cousin named keyshawn around the same age keyshawn was in that segment, and he had been stopped over 100 times, and i also think about keyshawn pot mothers help, and how Research Highlights that black women often times have to deal with the collateral damages that are left over from police violence. But what i think it highlights from a generational perspective as i hear a lot of young people saying that i am not my ancestors. That is a slogan i see on social media a lot. Mlk, even though he was for nonviolence, he understood that riots meant something, that it means when people try to kneel, when people have tried to sit peacefully, like colin kaepernick, kneeling on one knee and not saying anything, they peout and expressing that anger because they are hurt. Soledad what do the protesters want, and how do you bridge that gap between what they say they want, and what exists right now . For a lot of people, they wanted to see all of the officers charged. That has happened. Another group of people actually want to see Police Departments defund it. There are other people who want to see the militaristic ways that lawenforcement has become, they want to see the separation, so people have very specific goals. Two days make these protests different. First is the racial diversity. We have not seen that when it comes to these movements related to black lives matter. That is a good thing. A stat that highlights that is over 50 of white people now say these incidents, like the one we see with george floyd, sport of something bigger. That something bigger structural racism. Soledad people want change, but policy change is incredibly slow. Can it happen under the congress that we have in the president that we have . The research that i have done from a policy perspective shows we are in a moment that we saw that we call a policy window. You have an opportunity to make change, and we have to make that change in this moment in order to do that now. To your point, maybe that is not under this administration, but do you know what . In november, that can change drastically. That change in policing ob a comprehensive data reporting system at the federal level. That will be federal legislation to ensure offices terminated for police conductthere will be adoe state and local level to make a because that is something that taxpayers can demand. We pole Police Officers salary. Disparities in the middle of a pandemic. Soledad thank you thank you fo. Coming up, wholice . Plus, as covid19 races through this ruralworkers gain the truss residents . We are not here to deport you. Undocumented farmworkers. Do you have concerns about mild memory loss related to aging . Prevagen is the number one pharmacistrecommended memory support brand. You can find it in the vitamin aisle in stores everywhere. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. Soledad asked the country which disproportionally effects vulnerable and minority communities remains a threat. Take a look at this map of florida, the areas in red highlight growing clusters of covid19 cases. One of the hardest hit monopoly is americas tomato capital. The town is roughly 25,000 people, mostly migrant workers, who are deemed essential, yet living below the poverty line. As cases spread around them, many stay on the job because they cannot afford to get sick. After just a few days of testing back in may, our correspondent reports cases have now nearly tripled. Take a deep breath. Let go. Two weeks after being diagnosed with a coronavirus, he is back for another test. I had a shortness of breath and the nasty cough that comes with it. Hey crew leader at a tomato farm, he i nsick leave, the days without pay are adding up. Have been doing this for over 30 years now, so its time to go to work. Jess for many farm workers here in immokolee, the day begins early, boarding crowded busses, busses that head to form fields across the region. There, many spend long, hot days harvesting the majority of the nations winter tomatoes. Deemed essential during the pandemic, their work never stopped, and the virus, while slow to crop up here, is now spreading. Right now over the last few weeks, we have seen an significant increase. For weeks now, the coalition of workers, Nonprofit Group dedicated to protecting farmworkers, has been sounding the alarm about covid19, and asking the state for more help. E mocha lee is like immokalee is like dry tinder on the path of a wildfire. Covid19 is that wildfire, and there is a need to move fast. This is your part of reducing the spread of coronavirus. Jess Sheriffs Department vance getting the message out in english, spanish, and creole. And some area farms have set up handwashing stations around town. The coalition says, it is not enough. All of the recommendations that come out, those are things that make no sense when you are a farmer. Jess many here are migrants on temporary visas are undocumented, with no paid sick leave, and little access to health care. Diosili salazar, helping her migrant parents while home from college. People cant get sick here. You have to work. If you dont work, how are you going to pay your bills, feature kids . Just for those who do get sick, isolating here is difficult. Many live in crowded housing with other farmworkers. Only a handful of the in hundreds immokalee whove tested positive, have used the states free noncongregate housing carried it is over 40 miles away. The Florida Department of health mind ease concerns. We are not here to deport you. We are not here to ask for your identification, or asked for any papers. We are here to protect your health or wellbeing and wellbeing. Know people are scared and they will not want to leave their area. At the request of the coalition, doctors without borders, now on the ground in immokalee. Its rare that the humanitarian Organization Works on u. S. Soil. The idea you can get tested in walking distance of your home, where somebody speaks your language, really alleviates a lot of the fear, helps educate people, decreases the stigma. But until now, there were not enough tests to go around. With from doctors without borders, the Florida Department of health, just this week, announcing regular testing will begin for anyone who wants one. Symptoms or not. By the end of may, fewer than 10 of people here had been tested, and not before thousands more migrant farmworkers left following harvesting jobs in northern states. If there are no workers in the fields because people get sick and all of these farms, then, who was going to produce the food . And the impact of the virus spreading any further likely being felt far beyond the sunshine state. Soledad still ahead, some pictures are worth a thousand words. And some tell one truth. Words. And some tell one truth. Somtimes we all need help. And sometimes the person who helps us isnt wearing a badge or a helmet. They wear a headset. At genesys we celebrate moments of Amazing Customer Service and the people who deliver it. They are here for you. Soledad welcome back to matter of fact. Who polices the police . We wanted to take a look at qualified immunity. The Supreme Court created this doctrine 40 years ago, and critics say it Shields Police and government officials from accountability. Supporters say it protects any officers ability to make a snap decision during a potentially dangerous situation. Qualified immunity sets a high bar and civil cases and victims or their families try to sue for a violation of civil rights. But even convicting officers on criminal charges is an exception, not the rule. There is no comprehensive official database to track police violence. But one Research Group called Mapping Police violence reports police intentionally are accidentally killed 1000 civilians each year. Between 2005 and 2019 officers were found guilty of murder, and saw their convictions stand. Coming up, some are peaceful, some are chaotic but all are constant. Portraits of protests from constant. Portraits of protests from around the world. My skin gets so tired. 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