Hes 18. Hes in city hall in beaverton, oregon. And according to him, hes high on mushrooms. So he starts a fight with some cops. They all wrestle, and then jared grabs a cops gun and shoots it. More cops jump in. It ends up taking seven cops two full minutes to restrain jared, and he makes it out alive. This is white privilege. If that idea bothers you, then lets just call it benefit of the doubt. Those cops give jared the benefit of the doubt that his life matters, that his life is worth saving, even when he takes one of their guns and shoots it. Now, of course, when youre black, we rarely get that benefit of the doubt. Cops murdered Laquan Mcdonald in less than 30 seconds. Cops killed tamir rice in less than two seconds. But jared, he got probation and a fine and just a bump on the forehead. On this episode, were talking about the difference between two minutes and a few seconds. You want to call the police on him for having a barbecue on a sunday at the lake . Yes. Youve seen the videos. Im white and im hot. The last couple of years, theyve been sweeping the nation. Telling the blacks where they belong. Like a new beyonce album, they drop without warning and are all anybody can talk about for days after. I love that shes the selfappointed barbecue police. Which ones your favorite . Its illegal to have a Charcoal Grill in the park here. White lady calls the cops on black dudes for barbecuing in the park. Or white lady wont let black person into a pool. Get out. Get out. Or white lady wont let black person into a pool. I just showed you my key. Youre going to take my key out of my hand now. I know it sounds like im repeating myself, but im not. There have been this many black people kicked out of pools since mlk had that dream. But my personal favorite is illegally selling water without a permit. White lady calls the cops On A Little Black Girl for selling water on a hot day. What shes doing there, thats the opposite of white privilege. All of these videos have a few things in common. All the white people get twitter worthy nicknames. The white people harassing the black people end up looking properly ridiculous. And this is the key ingredient. None of the black people end up dead. Which is so different than the videos featuring eric garner, Philando Castile, and so many more. See, before these videos, people like me thought that just recording Cell Phone Footage of cops and people acting like cops doing clearly unjust things would lead to justice. But time and time again, we found out that it doesnt. Cops and people acting like cops get away with murdering black people all the time. So in these new videos, the people arent just recording and waiting for the cops to show up. Theyre getting involved. Do you seriously just call the police on a child . Fewer bystanders, more upstanders. So in many cases, the cops dont have to get involved. And if they do, sometimes its just to comfort the snowflakes. Im being harassed. Itll be okay, becky. And while the stuff in these videos might be new for some of you white folks, my people have been talking about these stories since that famous boat ride. So this episode, white folks, im inviting you to the conversation. Welcome to the black people meeting. Good morning please dont bring your potato salad with the raisins in it. Now if were talking racism, we can do this in any city in the united states. Kind of what we do best. But theres one place thats regularly named as the most segregated city in the country. But before you start guessing a bunch of cities below the masondixon line, ill just tell you. Milwaukee, wisconsin. See, milwaukee has the most amount of neighborhoods that are clearly defined by race. Yep, the home of happy days and harleydavidson is also the home to a whole lot of racism. Structural and hold up, another viral video just dropped right in our laps. Today is supposed to be the haunted park party. We pull up to start setting up. This lady walks right up to me and says, you dont have a permit for this today. Im going to need you to take this down. So we might have a problem here today. Thats the white people calling the police again, huh . Why do they all call the police when they stand there in a certain stance and they wait on you . But this one has an m. Night shyamalan twist. We were there just as it was going down. So cnn just rolled up. Funny how the universe works. If we need Cell Phone Footage, we can use these fancy cnn cameras. We need everybody on deck. I got a call i got sent out for. Do you have an i. D. That i could just put in your name and stuff . I never heard of such a thing. Theyre passing out candy. Im going to have to talk to my supervisor to see whats going on. I appreciate your cooperation. Hi, my names kamau bell. Were doing an episode about living while black in milwaukee. Its rough. Youre in the right spot. We stumbled into some living while black. What happened . Do you mind talking to us first of all . Sure. Okay. Yeah. Weve been working this park since 2016. For whatever reason, this lady shows up and tries to tell me i dont have a permit, and then she proceeds to walk over there and call the police. She right there, halloween helen. Halloween helen. Thats funny. Man, black folks, were undefeated. I was like, do we have a name yet . Halloween helen, okay, its already started. Are you surprised this would happen . Absolutely not. Growing up in mississippi, i can probably still count on one hand, probably maybe two or three incidents at the most that were racial. Here, i was here not even a year, and i had my first racial runin at 14 or 15. So, if you dont know, youre going to know right away where youre not wanted at or where youre not welcome at. Wow, we just rolled up. Hey, lets see if we can find some living while black. Here it is. You aint got to travel too far. Now we can get back to why we came to this park in the first place. I came here to speak to reggie jackson. Not that one or that one, this one, an historian who dont play games. Its sort of crazy we walked over here and walked right into that. Man, its amazing. We joke about it and we give it a hashtag, whatever. Yeah. Its not funny, though. No, no, no. Especially here in milwaukee, the relationship between the Police Department and black people in the city, its always been a bad relationship. Theres been a history of things, incidents of unarmed blacks being killed by the police. Even this neighborhood, the sherman park neighborhood, one of the things that happened is Seville Smith was shot about two blocks away from the gas station. And then later that evening, basically it just got crazy. On august 13, 2016, the police shot and killed 23yearold Seville Smith. That night, around 100 protesters came to sherman park to be near the site of Seville Smiths killing, and things got hectic. A local gas station, an auto parts store, and a bank were all burned down. Everyone is kind of aware of what happened with the civil unrest, but people dont know what led up to that. That wasnt about Seville Smith being shot. That was just a precipitating act that led to this explosion. But there were underlying causes that led to people being very upset. So from 1963 until 2015, the city of milwaukee lost 91,000 Manufacturing Jobs. 91,000 good jobs left. Yeah. But a lot of the Manufacturing Jobs now are out in the suburbs or even the exurbs, and people dont have access to get out to where those jobs are. And as a result of that, you have high rates of poverty, you have higher rates of crime, you have schools that arent very effective. And the underlying cause was directly related to the history of segregation in milwaukee. So, you know, were surrounded by 18 suburbs that surround the city of milwaukee, and 86 of the people who live in those suburbs are white. Only 6. 4 of black people in Milwaukee County live outside of the city of milwaukee. Thats the lowest of any of the most highly segregated cities in the country, especially since 40 of the residents are black. Hold up. Now, a lot of you out there are probably shocked right now because you didnt even know there were black people in milwaukee. But at 40 , milwaukee is blacker than chicago, oakland, and blacker than the city of compton. So what you have is a very diverse city, a very diverse city, surrounded by communities that are not diverse at all. When you look at what segregation has done to milwaukee in terms of relationships between the Police Department and the black community, is that black people feel as if theyre surveilled everywhere they go in milwaukee. Theres one district where i think blacks make up like 3 of the population in that district, but they make up 67 of the people stopped by police. Just look at the incident with Milwaukee Bucks player Sterling Brown, who was accosted for parking in a handicapped spot. Take your hands out of your pockets now i got stuff in my hand. Taser, taser, taser you know, theres sort of this idea that you can achieve your way out of these situations. It doesnt matter if you go to college, it doesnt matter if you get a good job, it doesnt matter any of those things. Right. The police will still see you as someone whos up to no good. All of these things kind of Work Together to create a perfect storm in milwaukee. Ive heard people coming from the south and going, man, milwaukee is more like i feel racism deeper in milwaukee than i did in the south. Yeah, i often refer to our state as wississippi. Wississippi. Thats good. I dont know if im allowed to say that, but thats good. Wississippi. This rental car is so boring to drive. Lets be honest. The rentacar industry is the definition of boring. And the reason can be found in the name itself. 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Com to get started. Powered by Innovation Refunds. What did they get called for . Because there are two black guys sitting here meeting me . Yes. One of the biggest viral videos from 2018 is from a philadelphia starbucks, where a manager called The Cops On Two Black Men that were waiting for their Business Partner to arrive. What did they do . Someone tell me what they did. They didnt do anything. I saw the entire thing. Now, you might have been shocked when you first heard about this, but i wasnt, because i also have some experience of a coffee shop not wanting me to be in their coffee shop. Kamau came here to the elmwood cafe in berkeley. He met up with his wife, who was sitting at an outdoor table. He says he was showing her a book when an employee knocked on the window and told him to go away. I went straight to the internet and told everyone. After those things happened, i think a lot about where i get my coffee. And in milwaukee, theres a place that if i get kicked out, i know it wont be because of the color of my skin. Itll be because of the content of my character. Coffee makes you black is a blackowned coffee shop that serves coffee to black people and people who are nervous being near black people. Milwaukee in the 60s was the 11th largest city in the united states. Really . Yeah. Isnt that strange . This is sarita mcfadden, a milwaukee native, writer, and New York City English professor. And she knows all about the racial history of this city. People believe that black people moved out of the south to escape racism. And then they moved to these northern cities where there was no racism. There was so much racism. Yeah, exactly. Its hilarisad, if i can hilarisad . Im like, i dont know if that can be a word, but it means to me. I dont think ive ever heard that, but i knew exactly what you meant. Or sadlarious. Sadlarious. Yeah. The north, or definitely the middle west north, buys into this narrative that they are somehow far more superior in terms of character and tolerance. You know, we call it, what, midwest nice . Yeah, see, i was going to say that. Yeah. But theres this veneer of, like, im not in my heart racist. But youre doing [bleep] thats racist af. Lets just go with why this city has the shape that it does. All right, so this map is from 1937. Its what they call a security map, but, like, its in common parlance, we can call it a redlining map. Ok. It was a series of maps that were produced by the federal government. They did these surveys and kind of like Neighborhood Appraisals to determine where they would actually issue home loans. The green areas are, like, good loans. The red is basically areas that they say are on a decline and are blighted. Everybody black pretty much concentrated in this area. They made a distinction about where the black people live. No other ethnic group. You mean to say that the very existence of blackness will devalue this space. Therefore, blackness should be prohibited from being in this space. That is what youre saying. Its by design. This was intentional. So we can point to a legacy of, like, systemic inequality. When you see this on a map like this, racism is not just, like, a feeling. Its also an institutional structure. So after more than three seasons of this show, this seems like as good a time as any to define the word racism. In my experience, most people define racism as simply hating someone based on their skin color. Occasionally, i use that definition, too. I have black relatives who are racist. But every antiracist activist and academic that i know believes that hating someone or just treating someone poorly because of their skin color, thats just prejudice. To get to racism being racist is not just prejudice. Its prejudice plus power. Think of prejudice as just one cop. But racism is the entire Police Department that has that cops back. If an individual banker doesnt give a black person a home loan, that might be prejudice. But if that banker has the tacit approval of the bank, well, that is racism at work. And in america, racism gets a lot of work. Its embedded in all the structures and institutions of this country because of how this country was founded. And its why you cant just hire black people into racist institutions and expect the institution to not be racist anymore. And in white people, if thats making your head swim right now, imagine all of that going through your head every time you apply for a job, talk to a police officer, or walk outside. No offense to my white crew members. Heres the problem with white people. Except for these one, two, three, four, five. Yeah, five, yeah. Hes from alabama, so i dont even think of him as being white. As a black man, every video of michael brown, eric garner, Philando Castile, im seeing myself in that. Even if ive never been in that situation. So when eric garner is on the ground being choked out by cops and saying, i cant breathe, and i find out he has asthma, and people say hes a 64 black man with asthma, im like, im a 64 black man with asthma. White people dont see white people in these videos and see themselves. Weve had enough of these videos now of white, you know, white women, that you feel like you must have seen the other videos. Like, you would think in that moment youd be like, wait a minute, am i about to get a hashtag with a name thats not mine . No, they dont. White people always see groups with people of color, and they see individuals with white people. Thats just their mo. But its nice to see that these stories are aggregated because that kind of behavior, particularly white folks calling, like, you know, i believe that this black body does not belong in this coded white space. Therefore, i feel threatened. And i know that i have the agency to call some sort of Authority Figure to correct that. Or even i have the authority, the agency to be the Authority Figure. And that is how it feels to be in milwaukee. Everything me and sarita talked about may seem impossible and too big to dismantle. But theres actually a workshop across town thats trying to do just that. Complete with powerpoint. Were defining antiblackness as the distance between black people and your, your acceptance of their dignity. Its put on by university of milwaukee, wisconsin, professor monique liston. So todays workshop is focused on understanding dignity and antiblackness. And so we focus on understanding dignity as sort of our responsibility to interrupt systems of oppression. Dignity resonates with folks so deeply because were talking about every single individual can talk about how their dignity hasnt been affirmed. And this is sort of a deepening, a Practical Application of how do we connect on the human level. It seems like this work is really important in cities that are going through what the real estate people and the politicians call a renaissance. Yeah. And i was just going through the milwaukee downtown and you can see construction around it. Im sure formerly that was just like buildings or warehouses or whatever. Its like, oh, this is going to be like high end real estate. And that changes literally the complexion of the city. Yeah, i think as milwaukee gains this kind of reputation of being a place for Young Professionals to be, its like you have to understand what youre coming into. Its good for white, young, upper class, educated professionals. Its not good for everybody else. And so what does it mean for us to actually be in a position to interrupt it . What does it mean to be in a position to say, i have this privilege, i have this power, i knowhow, i run in these circles. We got to change something about this city. So youre like, maybe i need to turn this into a workshop. So talk a little bit more about the history. Yeah. So theres a couple of steps. So i entered grad school and i was in the Classroom Space and im like, yall got me messed up. Yall got black people messed up. Like youre not thinking about what it means to be black in this city. And youre getting the same degree as me. Youll be credentialed and you dont even know how to treat black people. And thats kind of the impetus of this. So did you get your ph. D. . Yes. Oh, so i should call you doctor . I mean, you know. My wife has a ph. D. So i know thats a real serious thing. So she makes me call her doctor around the house. Oh, see. I mean, im not going to fight. So when these workshops happen, sort of antiblackness workshops, it feels like its either black people showing up who are kind of like, yeah, i already know this. You know what i mean . Or its like white people showing up who are like, oh, my god, i never had any of these thoughts. And it feels like if those people are living together, one of them is not being served sometimes. You know what i mean . What weve learned is that a lot of the issues of other intersections of oppression become more real here. So we focus on race. Yeah, you can bring up that white people are problematic. But while were talking about antiblackness, black people play into that, too. Even you. Oh, yeah. So what does that mean in this space . Okay, and just for the record, as i came in here, one of the producers told me that youre related to sunny liston. Im pretty proud of myself that i didnt ask any sunny liston questions. Oh, yeah, thats my great uncle. Yeah, thats cool. Im not going to ask any questions because thats not what were here to talk about. Ok, well, i represent, though. I like that. That detail. Will be big. Try the new toasted baguettes from panera. One dollar delivery fee on our app. As a business owner, your bottom line is always top of mind. So start saving by switching to the mobile service designed for Small BusinessComcast Business mobile. Flexible data plans mean you can get unlimited data or pay by the gig. All on the most reliable 5g network. With no Line Activation Fees or term contracts. Saving you up to 60 a year. And its only available to comcast Business Internet customers. So boost your bottom line by switching today. Comcast business. Powering possibilities. One of the things ive always heard about milwaukee is that its a city where people are from, meaning that if youre from here and got something going on or if you want to get something going on, you head to chicago or new york or anywhere, not milwaukee. According to a study by the university of wisconsin, madison, the state lost an average of 14,000 College Graduates per year between 2008 and 2012. Thats called brain drain. Brain drain hurts milwaukees ability to innovate or even grow economically over the years. But there are those people who are doing their part to try to keep all the brains here. People like lisa caesar, a harvard educated entrepreneur, and her brother, john ridley, a hollywood writer, director and producer with a packed resume, whos mostly known for winning an oscar for writing this. Do you believe, sir, in justice, as you said . I do. Slavery is an evil that should befall none. The feel good movie of the summer. The things that i had to learn about slavery to even begin to execute 12 years is that there is a system thats put in place that becomes mass psychosis. Right. Because to make it work, you have to get so many people involved in it. And thats the thing that hurts the most is that we see it still happening. They grew up in milwaukee, but like many people, they left for careers in new york and los angeles. But now theyve come home and converted part of a defunct brewery that closed over 20 years ago into no studios, an Artist Collective that takes peoples dreams of Show Business and shows how they can be a reality. I just remember as a kid, you know, to be a young black guy in milwaukee thinking about, well, i want to be a writer. I want to be an artist, i want to work in film, and it just seemed like a million miles away. And then, you know, 30 years later, to actually accomplish those things and realize that there are other young kids, you know, black, hispanic, asian, gay, straight, queer, whatever, who are feeling that same thing. There are people who could actually do the things that they love, but do it from milwaukee. Do it from milwaukee without having to, oh, i have a little bit of talent. I better get out of here as quickly as possible. What if we were to embrace all of that talent instead of systematically suppressing it . You know, we grew up in mequon. Its a suburb of milwaukee, not exactly in milwaukee. There were no black folks where we grew up, virtually none. Even when we moved into that neighborhood, as few black people that were in mequon, we all lived on that block. Yeah. We all lived on that block. That block was the black section. And they called it you know, kids there, back in the day, theyd call it inward row. Yeah. You always had the sense that you were, you know, treated as not quite american, you know, not quite as american as everyone else. When youre a child, you begin to internalize that. And trust me, we had it good by comparison. Yeah. Our father was a Practicing Doctor here for a long time. Our mother was a teacher. He is a serviceman. He volunteered, you know, and he was in the air force. And he just tells a story about coming up to milwaukee and stopping in a restaurant. And when he came back out of the car, it was with our mom. You were a baby and he had you in arms. And he was just accosted by this gang of young white kids. And he thought if he didnt have you in his arms as a baby, that they would have beaten him and beaten my mother. He talks about when he got a house, you know, on the phone, it was like all good. And then he would go to check on the house and theyre like, whos moving in here . Yeah. And he would talk often, you know, that he would end up on this board and he was like, well, im the first black man who was on this board. And i was the first black man as part of this committee. And he wasnt saying in a bragging way, he was just talking about his experiences. And i was like, wow, isnt that amazing that you did that . He says, it wasnt amazing, but when youre black and particularly black in milwaukee, if you did something, you became that first person, you led by example. Yeah. We are a byproduct of our parents. Our parents fought. They stood up. And i think the thing that we wanted to do was just create a space and let people know that its not these things arent accidental. So part of what we want to do is make people realize you can be comfortable with anybody. What are the things that we have in common . What are the things that we enjoy . Youve got to get people working together. Yeah. And thats really the thing. I like this. I want to come back here. Ok, now im gonna get you on camera. So when this episode is ready to air, can we come back here and do a screening of it here in your room . Yes. Absolutely. I think we could make that work. Absolutely. Ok. All right. We got to go happen. Got it on camera. Its a binding contract. Verbal agreement. Verbal agreement. People in hollywood never lie. 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Theyre part of leaders igniting transformation or lit for short, which takes on issues of race in milwaukees education system. Down goes frazier. Down goes frazier. After i passed the Concussion Protocol and took a hit from my buffer, it was time for the people of color meeting. I think our organization is filling a need that combines black and brown young people. And thats the need i think we feel in milwaukee, is bringing together young people to not only like make our city better, but hopefully ease racial tensions amongst people of color. And in milwaukee, its a big deal. Very big deal. Very big deal. Something that i love about lit is that were all people of color, people in public education. We want to bring black and brown youth together, but they have white staff. How are you going to do that . We need to throw the whole thing away and start all over. And when you say the whole thing, whats the thing . The whole concept of public education. Okay, all right, okay. Tearing it down might not be a bad idea. Last year, lit and the center for popular democracy released a report that showed milwaukees black High School Students made up 53 of the student body, but accounted for 80 of the over 10,000 suspensions during the 20152016 school year. Thats double the national rate. And not only that, more than 100 black students were expelled for things white students were just suspended over. Worst of all, students of color were nearly 85 of students turned over to the police. Thats the schooltoprison pipeline in action. And while the system is obviously racist, often what affects students more is the subtle ways in which educators cross their boundaries when it comes to race. Last year, we had to pick an organization to work with for the semester, and my teacher told me that she wanted me to help out a foster home. And i was like, oh, why . And she was like, oh, dont you come for foster care . Wow. And i was like and i asked her, i said, whered you get that from . She was like, well, i just and i was like, you just what . I got it from racism . I just got it its almost like what she was just talking about. Actually, this just happened this year. It was actually wacky tacky wednesday. I already know where youre going. Its all right. I was all crazy. My hair was crazy. And it was all in these, like, ponytails and stuff. And so one of the faculty came into my classroom to give me, like, this College Letter or something. But then she continues to say, you know what you remind me of . A Picaninny Doll. I didnt know what it was, so i went to google. So i googled what i thought what, like, how it was spelled. What she said, yeah. And she said, no, thats not how you spell it. And she retyped it in and searched it. She called you, then. Let me direct you more effectively to the racism. Yeah. This is what a Picaninny Doll looks like. And nope, she doesnt look like one. Because nobody does. If i gave you all the power over time and space and harry potter magic or whatever you want, what would you do to fix these problems . I was thinking, like, when you meet someone, you see a glimpse of their past. It would, like, make us, like, take a step back and then think about what were i like that one. Yeah, no, thats good, yeah. That was deep, deep. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So admit it, you knew it was only a matter of time before we talked about the criminal justice system. And milwaukee has black folks so caught up in the system that it has the most incarcerated zip code in the country. With 62 of the black men there in prison by 34 years old, 62 . And in Milwaukee County as a whole, more than half of all black men in their 30s and early 40s have at some point been behind bars. This pipeline to prison can partly be traced to the milwaukee Police Departments stop and frisk policy. Luckily, the Wisconsin Chapter of the aclu took notice, sued the city, and won the case. Im meeting with some of the plaintiffs, gregory chambers, stephen jansen, and Wisconsin State Representative david crowley, along with their aclu rep, jared english, at the wisconsin black historical society. Theres sort of a general perception of the midwest, specifically with wisconsin, that black people dont live here. Is that it . Have you heard that . I hear it everywhere i go. I went to new york, and when i told people that i was from wisconsin, they literally had their eyes wide open. What part of wisconsin . Do you guys really have cows . Im like, aint no cows in milwaukee, bro. This black people meeting is kind of an inside job. See, im the aclu celebrity ambassador for racial justice, and i had the same reaction you just had. Im a celebrity . So talk about why the aclu gets involved in this, and specifically around including stories that arent about black people being killed by cops. Therefore, theyre harder to tell and harder for people to understand the racism. Its absolutely, completely pervasive, and not just in cities like milwaukee, but especially milwaukee, but other cities as well. And so what we ended up finding out, with the city of milwaukee, milwaukee Police Departments own data, we found that they stopped Something Like 350,000 people unconstitutionally. Wow. The numbers are ridiculous, but whats harder to measure is the emotional toll when youre not doing anything wrong, and you could end up dead for nothing. Listen to steven, who was walking home from class and randomly accused of marijuana possession. I said, well, i dont smoke marijuana, and he just kind of stopped and just stared at me. It was kind of in that moment where you realize, if something happens to you, if you make any sudden movements, you could be on the pavement. Its his word against nobodys. So what if he did smell like weed . Right. He didnt smell like a bank robbery, you know what i mean . And then theres the state rep, who was just trying to avoid walking through an area where gunshots were heard. Because if i was a white man walking through that field, i guarantee you, i probably wouldnt have been stopped. Maybe asked if youre all right. Yeah. Maybe giving you a ride home. It was a sunday afternoon, and i was driving home, and i noticed that there was a squad car behind me. Sirens went off. I rolled down the window. Both officers get out the car, and they approach. Basically told me that, for whatever reason, my plates didnt match the car. So the cop that was on the drivers side goes, checks my information, takes my id. The other cop is still staring in the car. He starts playing with his holster on his gun. Now, mind you, this is just fresh after Sterling Brown was murdered and Philando Castile was killed in the car, right in front of his girlfriend and his child. And i keep telling myself, dont say anything. Dont get enraged, dont get mad, because it could all turn bad. Finally, the cop does come back, the other officer. Hes like, well, everything seems to be checked out. Im like, ok, thats cool. They walk away, get in the car, and i literally turned around to wait for them to pull off. The rage and anger that i immediately felt in that moment, you know, to know that your life can be on a thread like that. Its a fine line, and to them its just like a snip, and thats it. There are people who are going to hear you tell that story and go, whats the big deal . Nothing happened. You know what i mean . Why are you so angry . Yeah, and i think thats the crazy part. I mean, i remember telling that story to people, and it was like, you see a scary movie, and the killer is toying with his victim. You know, twisting life around as he has his victim gagged. Imagine having somebody who has a weapon right in front of you and they are toying with the very thing that has been responsible for the neutralization of peoples lives. If you dont see the fear in that, i dont know what else to tell you. Yeah, yeah. One lady, one white woman came in and she actually said, do you get tired of having these conversations as a black man . And its like, you know what . Yes. But at the same time, understand that this the only way that im gonna make sure that my children see something different. Right. We are the ones whove got to come up with the solution. We are the solution to this. And understanding that we just need some partners. Thats why we did this. It was entirely about changing, changing the community, changing the way that policing takes place. But also the george soros money youre being paid to do this, right . You all got the soros check, right . Ok, i havent got mine either. I keep trying to find somebody who got that soros check. 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While the aclu plaintiff stories werent violent, those men stood up because they know that those same situations can end up in violence. Take the story of maria hamiltons son, dontre. I feel his spirit here. I very seldom go to the cemetery because dontres blood and life is in this park. In 2014, the manager of this starbucks called the police on 31yearold dontre, who was waiting for his brother on a park bench. The police were actually called on three occasions. The first time they went and spoke with him, they came to the conclusion that he wasnt doing anything wrong, he wasnt bothering anybody, and so they left. Unsatisfied with the response to her calls, the manager called a personal friend on the force to the scene, officer christopher manny. Officer manny confronted dontre, who was unarmed and hadnt been bothering anybody. He stood over dontres head. Dontre was startled, jumped up, and he tried to do an illegal pat down, and dontre resisted. Officer manny unloaded 14 bullets into dontre, killing him. And again, dontre hadnt been bothering anyone, even according to other cops whod been at the scene. And his life was taken for that because of a manager at starbucks profiling him as a homeless man and felt as though his presence stopped them from making money. Warranted 14 bullets in broad daylight, unimaginable. Following the shooting, the Milwaukee Police said that dontre had a prior history of arrests, and they claim that the arrests were directly connected to dontres Mental Health issues. Was any of that none of it was true. None of it was true. Dontre hadnt robbed nobody. But dontre, in 2016, was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and dontre never tried to hurt anybody. Theres an assumption that everybody with Mental Health issues can turn violent. Yep, that theyre violent. Thats not the case, overwhelmingly. No, its not. The bigger question here is, why are the cops the First Responders to so many things that dont involve crime . Too often, the presence of police criminalizes people who may just be hanging out on a park bench or just having a bad day or may just be in crisis. In 2017, Mental Illness was a factor in 25 of police shootings. This was a couple of weeks before he died. Wow. You know, the thing i noticed in all these pictures, hes smiling. That was his uniqueness. Yeah. Dontre smiled all the time, and when his life was taken from us, we didnt know what to do. Us, we didnt know what to do. Adding to marias grief, the police didnt even file criminal charges against officer manny. They said that his use of deadly force, 14 shots into dontre, was justifiable. Weve heard that way too many times before. It was like, am i in a movie . And my fight, even to this day, is the truth. All i ever wanted was the truth. So i was pulled into a fight trying to get the truth. Whenever a black youth or a black person is murdered by a police officer, often we see the moms step up. If we dont save our babies, theyre not going to save us. Maria and the mothers of eric garner, trayvon martin, jordan davis, michael brown, hadiyah pendleton, sandra bland, and Tamir Rice Have joined forces and formed mothers of the movement to support each other and to fight for police reform. Maria has also started her own group, mothers for justice united, to support all of the moms whose families have been devastated by police violence. Its an indictment of our entire country that we even need these groups. I wish you didnt have to do that work, and i wish you didnt feel compelled to do that work, but i thank you for doing that work. Thank you. Whoevers voice i have to be, i will be that voice until their parents or their loved ones are Strong Enough to fight for them. Well, thank you. I screwed up. Mhm. I got us tmobile home internet. Now Cell Phone Users have priority over us. And your marriage survived that . You can almost feel the drag when people walk by with their phones. Oh i cant hear you. Youre froze ladies, please you put it on Airplane Mode when you pass our house. I was trying to work. Were workin it too. Yeah work it girl woo i want to hear you say it out loud. Well, i could switch us to xfinity. Those smiles. Thats why i do what i do. That and the paycheck. From the videos to the conversation so far, its clear that at the heart of all these issues is prejudice, but more specifically, racial bias. And while some of you out there may point to extreme examples like the klan or the altright and say, hey, thats not me, pal, i got some bad news. Everybody acts on their racial biases all the time without even thinking about it. We just dont all have racism to back us up. Acting on your racial bias if you dont realize it is called Implicit Bias. Implicit bias is like a white lady in the park seeing a person of color and immediately seeing a threat or a criminal and not giving that person the benefit of the doubt as a human who likes to barbecue and might have some extra, if youre friendly. You know, a lot of the research out there is focused on sort of Racial Attitudes and ask people on surveys, are you racist . And people basically say no. 100 of people arent racist. Right. So im having one last black people meeting with university of wisconsinmadison Professor John diamond, an expert on the subject. I was not familiar with the term Implicit Bias until about four years ago. Okay. Because something happened to me and it was later described to me as Implicit Bias. I was just calling it racism. Right. Can you talk about what that means and even where that comes from . Yeah. So Marjorie Benaji and Tony Greenwald established project implicit about 20 years ago. So what they were trying to figure out is whats going on in peoples minds before theyre able to think about whats the socially responsible answer. Right. And so the way to think about Implicit Bias is you dont have to necessarily dislike people of other races to be affected by it. Right. Its in everything that you do. Somebody walks through a door and its a man, you have some assumptions about what that means. And weve also been conditioned to not talk about it. Right. Researchers from harvard and the University Of Virginia have created a test that can measure a persons Implicit Bias. The idea being that if we can measure it, maybe we can dismantle it. And what they find is that people have a hard time associating good characteristics with black faces. Is that everybody . Its about 80 of white people. Yeah. And what about for black people . For black people, were less likely to favor white people, but we still tend to favor white people slightly. Right . And so, the challenge is thinking about not just what peoples intentions are, but like, how do you grow up in a world where White Supremacy is sort of embedded in everything and you breathe it in in a way that gets into your subconscious . So theres a test, right . There is. I mean, i feel like im pretty hip to this stuff. Is it smarter than me, i guess yeah, the way that its set up, i think it is. Okay. Now we answer the question many of you had for more than three seasons. How racist is kamau . I would accept an invitation to a new Years Eve Party given by a white couple in their home. If i didnt do that, i wouldnt be able to hang out with my inlaws. So i would say strongly agree. The first part of the test is situational questions around race that arent yes or no. You have to pick the level to which you agree or disagree. Most likely, you cant be trusted to be honest with black people. Lets cover this from cnns eyes. I dont mean my bosses at cnn. You guys are great with black tv hosts. The second part of the test is a little more tricky. I had to quickly pick Black And White faces and decide if certain words are good or bad. Just so were clear, this is what the test looks like. You can find it here. But this is what the test feels like. I dont like this. I dont like this at all. Your data suggests a moderate automatic preference for African Americans over europeans. Oh. Moderate preference for black people. Thats my brand. Whether you agree with what the results were, its the conversations they have after the results. What does it mean . What are the implications of that . And it does mean stuff. And you connect it to, you know, how people react in school, discipline, policing, all those things. It matters. I think well make everybody on the crew take it. I already know who on the crew is going to have a strong preference for black people. Whats up, dwayne . This week in milwaukee has featured a bunch of great black people meetings and one people of color meeting. And hopefully gives you white people out there a sense of what were going through and what people of color talk about regularly. And even though the shows coming to an end, this week, we all have a homework assignment. Go and take the Implicit Bias test, because whether you think youre biased or not, racism is a part of your life with or without you knowing it. But if we measure it, hopefully we can dismantle it. And white folks, if you dont think about your own bias, then theres a chance youre going to end up in one of those videos harassing people who dont deserve it. Or even worse, getting someone killed. Because we aint all jared steven leone. Announcer the followin