slurs were endless. this anonymous hate letter, years into his career threatening to lynch him if he played. upon retiring from the game, robinson entered the public affairs and corporate world. fire hoses and police dogs were unleashed on young black people protest in segregation, jackie robinson felt the call to do something about it. i do not like these big teeth that i see on the dogs. i don t like to see the expressions of the police in birmingham, alabama. i do not like to read about pregnant women being poked in the stomach by ice sticks. i do like to see young kids of nine years old being thrown across the street by the force of a fire hose. i believe that i must go down and say to the people, thank you for what you re doing, not only for me but for america. jackie decided he was going to make one of his platforms on his civil rights route economic empowerment. he often said the ballot in the book are the two most important things for advancement of my
transition and december. john lewis even in his 70s wasn t tired. i got no excuses i can t be tired. if the men and women who had to endure the sting of discrimination, the smack of billy clubs work tired. if the folks who had to fight those early fights, those were the tough fights for union rights and voting rights and gay rights and women s rights if they didn t get tired you can t beat tired. tucker: barack obama is sick and tired of being sick and tired. it was the smack of the billy clubs in honolulu that did it, it was the fire hoses and snarling german shepherds at harvard law school. at some point he crossed the edmund pettus bridge of his mind and transitioned into ralph abernathy instead of an atheist and much thinner.
thoughts? thoughts? yes, thanks for havinu thoughts? yes, thanks for having me- thoughts? yes, thanks for having me. absolutely. i thoughts? yes, thanks for i having me. absolutely. this week and the following weeks are going to be very, very important, especially on the back of the inflation data, and of course as you correctly pointed out, this turmoil that we have seen in the back of the fallout of s vb. central banks are in a tough spot what to do, because they are bringing up their fire hoses to put out the fire, in terms of inflation, and at the same time the tightening of the financial conditions, the liquidity trap that we see in the market is creating a fire in another place. so yes, there is a calm among investors and traders, especially when we speak to our investors, because of what happened in the market, because of some of the assurances provided by the lawmakers, but traders are still immensely concerned of the systematic default which could be coming. well, what is t
guys remember them from that one class that folks took during black history month, where the fire hoses are being turned against schoolchildren. the police dogs are being dropped. those same kind of things, all of a sudden, we are seeing for the first time, wow, they re really doing terrible things to black folks. that s the first time we see it, the second time we see it, 1982, now, there is great outrage about it. but as we re moving to think about what congress can do, i think it s important, though it has those terrible disgusting routes, and it s absolutely ideologically on principle i think we have to get rid of, it is not going to solve all of these problems. it is been named as the sticking point for the justice in policing act, i don t know if that s real rather than politics. and of the cases that qualify for qualified immunity, the best research we have, only about 30% of the cases actually end up and even a little bit. it s not even clear how many of those cases hinge or
justice for people. and quickly between 1961 and 1967 qualified immunity crop up to basically protect people who are doing wrongs against the weakest of society or against the most marginalized if you will. that s not a consistence dns, is it? that s right. essentially it gets codified in 1967, expanded in 1982, and those are periods of time you have particularly aggressive forces making sure there s a carve out so law enforcement doing dirty work that really appears bad by the way they didn t have home video cameras in 1967 but the shock to the conscience of the nation was photographs in nuclear weapons. there was new media showing pictures of things. you guys remember them where the fire hoses are being turned against school children, the police dogs, those same kind of things where all of a sudden we re seeing as if for the first time, wow, they re really doing terrible things to black folks.