conversations. to one side it means being aware of the issues of our injustices in the society, being aware of the struggles that other people have and working to correct them. to the other side it s a per yore tiff. it means whatever it has to. last week it meant woke. when we re talking about canceling math classes, canceling honor classes in the name of equality nobody is canceling math. there s schools in oregon and california that you can look it up yourself. the problem is we hear these phrases. we hear these terms about, oh, well, the s.a.t.s acanceled. realize when you dig down to it, none of it is happening. it sounds terrible. nobody is canceling these things. these things are simply being re-evaluated as they should because our kids deserve the best. this month governor desantis canceled the proposed ap course on african american studies. as we understand it, there were specific topics that governor desantis did not want covered, black queer study, bl
all three major industries are down double digits for the years. the mounting losses will deal a blow to your retirement funds and your pension fund and we could go lower, dana. dana: a bitter pill to swallow as the cost of living is skyrocketing. the average price of gas now $4.58 a gallon up more than $1.50 from a year ago. bill: making matters worse the cost of rent hitting a record high in april. landlords asking for more than 1900 a month on average. dana: demand for mortgages is plummetings with average rates at a high. the new york post calling it joe s train wreck. bill: aishah hosni with a lot to cover from the white house on the north lawn. good morning. america is waking up and breaking all sorts of records in all the wrong ways. as of this morning the white house coming up with no new solutions outside of what it has already done and tried. take a look. let s start with gas prices here. shot up another 2 cents overnight to a new record high of $4.58
to see if you can maintain your ecuador muddy in the midst of whatever the mind coughs up in these extreme circumstances. which when you then return to the world, would help you with whatever moments where you re ambushed by anger or desire to eat a sleeve of oreos or whatever it is. the point is, if you can deal with your mind in these extreme circumstances, you can be better in real life. is attempting to you? very tempting. a probably do it. seven days of darkness? yes. why not just take iowa s good? i ll probably do that too. didn t aaron rodgers also take iowa? i had a meditation practice for almost 30 years, i m a deep believer in people doing inner work. this one it makes me very nervous when high-profile public figures start putting out there when they re doing things that are potentially dangerous. and unproven. is it dangerous? i don t know. i don t like solitary confinement. this is an ancient practice.
say, i did this on my own. that feels great. it feels great but i cover inequality for a living and this is not a problem of people who just didn t believe in the american dream. this is not a problem of people who just didn t believe in themselves. these are factors like redlining and all these other systemic inequalities, it s not just i didn t believe in the american dream so therefore i m living in poverty. intergenerational trauma. there are a lot of factors that play into this. i think one of the things interesting to me is we were talking about being comfortable with discomfort. it feels like there is an uncomfortable paradox that i think most americans can live with but seems like people on the fringes can t which is that this is a great country. our founders did incredible things and they did unspeakably horrible things too and have a painful history. both things can be true at the same time and feels like most people can wrap their heads around it but people on the edges
as we understand it, there were specific topics that governor desantis did not want covered, black queer study, black lives matter, black feminism and reparations. what difference is blm from the, you know, 1 million march or from the march that led on selma? it s all history. it s a part of our history, so it needs to be taught. you know, the reason why they don t want to have this taught is because it makes people feel uncomfortable. the kids can handle it. i promise you. they re going to be all right. it s uncomfortable but we need to be having these hard conversations. look, you have one semester, you have one semester to learn about this huge history, one semester so you have to prioritize what s most important. blm didn t make it because blm is not history yet. absolutely 50 years from now, 40 years from now, blm is going to be in the ap textbook. it will be there. history books, it s been 40 years. hold on.