let me ask you a question. if we don t have time to sit down and work out our issues, what is the issue answer? we have to start thinking, i m not mad brothers keeper, i am my brother s keeper. yeah. the challenge is, would you define as your brother? i think a lot of black folks would not define a klansman as their brother, you know what i mean? the entire country as my community. whether it is a black or a white neighborhood, a jewish neighborhood, i am an american. i see humanity in everybody. by darrell s count, he has been directly or indirectly responsible for the conversion of 200 white supremacist. he has brought four of them here to tell their stories. none of these guys are from pittsburgh. these are x white supremacist. i hope. i m not trying to make a sequel. i want to start off by going around the table, saying your name, how long you ve been out
about racism and activism. she was playing martin king junior records in the house. at the time i was like, why? can we put some temptations on or something? to stand here and realize that she was building the bridge for me to be here talking to you. honor your mother by doing the same thing to your kids. yes. thank you. thank you. [ laughter ] i knew i get emotional. thank you, father. i m glad you came to pittsburgh. today the sun is shining. it is a good day .
that showed how pittsburgh broadcast news depicted african-americans as athletes or criminals a mind-blowing 72 % o the time. damn. how do you find your own voice when it feels like your city bases your entire tackle on how you break tackles or how you break laws? one hood media teaches young people in pittsburgh how to work in media and take charge of their own narratives. do you accept the life of jesus christ? so when my friend, rapper and founder of one hood media, asked me to talk to the students, i did. face the cross. we re god! we re god! we re country! we re country! we re kentucky! they claim this is a symbol of god s love. holy shit.
everywhere in the country, but in pittsburgh, they re more stark. there s two cities happening here. yeah. while black communities in pittsburgh deal with huge racial disparities and quickly gentrifying neighborhoods, predominantly black black neighborhoods like braddock, just outside of the city, are grappling with a common experience for black people in cities across the entire nation. the compound effects of industrial pollution and long term systemic white supremacy. this is the town that steel built. this is where mostly a lot of the black folks lived back in the day, but all of this area was occupied. and this is the steel mill. so they literally just worked right there. i can see smoke coming out of there. they say it s steam. i ve heard that before. yeah, so, folks used to live on top of it.
so all day, all night, this is the sound that they heard. a lot of people look at this town and they ll ask, why would anybody want to stay here? but we re talking about people who have their social networks here. in fact, that right there is the school that my mom went to when she was in junior high. so a lot of the folks who have lived here, they ve been here for generations. pittsburgh born but raised in braddock. she is the state rep for the 34th district. this is the place where so many of our family members spent all their days. the town used to run by the schedule at u.s. steel. so the bell would ring. once shift would come out, the next shift would go in, and that s how the town ran. and that s how everybody knew what time of day it was. wow. so the town is run by the company. oh, definitely. this is u.s. steel s town. by the 1960s and 70s,