when you don t have water, water is everything. an estimated 2.2 million people in this country without safe drinking water. meanwhiles, lawmakers are playing politics when it comes to agreeing to a new infrastructure bill. next i m going to talk to d.l. hughley about his new book survival guide to being black in america . first, a reminder, velshi, available as a podcast. you can listen to the show on the go, any time. listen to your free podcast wherever you get the podcasts from. [sfx: rainstorm] comfort in the extreme. the lincoln family of luxury suvs. [sizzling] i may not be able to tell time,
the warehouse, oftentimes serviced by people who don t have that much care for them, and there is a attend aens for society to kind of write them off. if you re in prison, people have more or less forgotten about you, if you live in the projects and urban parts of the area, people have forgotten about you. if you live in an old folks home, people have kind of forgotten about you. and even some of the statements by the president was that this is happening in blue states or happening in these places, happening here. so there was a tendency in america to believe that that was happening to us wasn t striking our national treasure, it was striking at the thing we have an abundance of, poor, black, brown and old people. d.l., let s talk about vaccine hesitancy. i want to put up a chart of fully vaccinated americans and you can see that asians are very low in the group, blacks are also very low, latinos are higher, white people are almost at 62%.
move your xfinity services without breaking a sweat. xfinity makes moving easy. go online to transfer your services in about a minute. get started today. welcome back to velshi. before the break i told you about actor and comedian d.l. hughley s new book, how to survive america . he exposes racism and inequity that minorities encounter on a day-to-day basis and explains how deeply ingrained it is in our society. unfortunately, obama was not the end of racism in america because all the obamacare in the world couldn t fix america s main pre-existing condition, racism. racism is america s chronic illness and white supremacy, not black inferiority, is the cause. joining me is my old friend, d.l. hughley, actor, activist and the original king of comedy. it is great to see you.
trump made juneteenth famous, not the thousands of black scholars who have been teaching about this day and it s meaning for more than a century. it was him, the man who referred to black and brown nations as s-hole countries and constantly argued against taking down confederate statues, which are physical representations of slavery times. we ve come a long way from those trump days, but some things remain exactly the same. now there s a survival guide for that. actor, comedian, activist and author d.l. hughley has written one and it is in stores now. he joins me next to discuss how to survive america. more velshi in a moment.
goal of 70% of americans being vaccinated. and later, actor, comedian, d.l. hughley joins me to discuss his new back how to survive america . a timely guide to help navigate our world. that and more coming up on velshi. [tv announcer] come on down to our appliance superstore where we ve got the best deals on refrigerators, microwaves, gas ranges and grills. and if you re looking for.