on the other side, you ve got georgetown law professor, paul butler, who had this response to a caller on npr who descended from confederate veterans. i think we need to focus on gun control and not be sidetracked by this. i m not somebody who thinks the battle flag should stay there, but i certainly honor my ancestors. i have no respect for your ancestors. as far as your ancestors are concerned, i shouldn t be a law professor at georgetown, i should be a slave. that s why they fought that war. i don t understand what it means to be proud of a legacy of terrorism and violence. last week at this time, i was in israel. the idea that a german would say, you know, that thing we did called the holocaust, that was wrong, but i respect the courage of my nazi ancestors, that wouldn t happen. the reason people can say what you said in the united states is because, again, black life just doesn t matter, to a lot of people. joining me now is paul
georgetown law professor, paul butler, who had this response to a caller on npr who descended from confederate veterans. i think we need to focus on gun control and not be sidetracked by this. i m not somebody who thinks the battle flag should stay there, but i certainly honor my ancestors. i have no respect for your ancestors. as far as your ancestors are concerned, i shouldn t be a law professor at georgetown i should be a slave. that s why they fought that war. i don t understand what it means to be proud of a legacy of terrorism and violence. last week at this time i was in israel. the idea that a german would say, you know, that thing we did called the holocaust, that was wrong, but i respect the courage of my nazi ancestors, that wouldn t happen. the reason people can say what you said in the united states is because, again, black life just doesn t matter to a lot of people. joining me now is paul
act, based solely on the disparate impact that a given policy might have as opposed to reading some kind of racially biased intent, right? and they upheld that you could just look at the doesn t matter what the intent is you could look at the impact and find the violation. why is that so important? so it s not actually quite that simple. i should explain it a little bit. the fair housing act was passed in 1968 the week that martin luther king jr. was killed cities were burning all over the country. and responsible leaders recognized that housing segregation really had to fall. that perp turning into these two societies, one white, one plaque, separate and unequal that the current commission talked about. and justice kennedy cited that language in his majority opinion today. we all know the housing administration of the sourt that donald sterling engaged in. a developer or an owner who refuses to rent their apartments to african-americans or to mexican-americans or to people of a di
gun control and not be sidetracked by this. i m not somebody who thinks the battle flag should stay there, but i certainly honor my ancestors. i have no respect for your ancestors. as far as your ancestors are concerned, i shouldn t be a law professor at georgetown, i should be a slave. that s why they fought that war. i don t understand what it means to be proud of a legacy of terrorism and violence. last week at this time, i was in israel. the idea that a german would say, you know, that thing we did called the holocaust, that was wrong, but i respect the courage of my nazi ancestors, that wouldn t happen. the reason people can say what you said in the united states is because, again, black life just doesn t matter, to a lot of people. joining me now is paul butler, georgetown professor of law at georgetown university. and paul, i was really struck by the kind of frank honesty of that response, but it gets to