Social media to the morning news, has been Bubba Wallace, nascar, and the noose. Now, if you missed the story, heres how it all went down Bubba Wallace, the only black nascar driver, has been promoting the black lives Matter Movement and pushing nascar to ban the Confederate Flag from its races. Nascar agreed, and Bubba Wallace immediately faced a huge firestorm from people who felt like he was blocking their Southern Heritage and racism. Then, a week after the flag was banned from the races, one of wallaces crew members found a noose hanging in the garage where wallaces car was parked. And so, immediately, everybody was on edge, especially black people. I mean, its a noose. A noose is like the n word of ropes. In fact, i dont even like to say the word moose because its too close to noose. I just call it a canadian cow. So, anyway, after the noose was found, nascar called in the f. B. I. To investigate if this was, indeed, a hate crime, and last night, the f. B. I. Announced their find
Policies and antiracist behavior. You are either with us and with the black community or you are against. There is no way you can straddle this. Allies in action. A bay area conversation. Thank you so very much for joining us for this special edition of abc7 news. Im dan ashley. Over the past several weeks, the issue of Race Relations shas exploded into the headlines, into the streets and into the national consciousness. It has. Instead of our 4 00 p. M. Newscast, well spent an hour engaging experts and you in an abc7 listens virtual town hall on allies and racism. This has been on the backs of our friends of color and it is time to step up. Well have a very frank conversation including questions from you. This is a very important onehour virtual town hall airing on tv. You might be watching it right now on youtube and facebook. Were glad youre here. If alliship is a new term for you, it is someone who cannot fully understand what oppression fels like but can tea that struggle as their
Mr. Terra, there seems to be a good amount of dispute as to what life is like in the chaz. The gentle lady from washington says it is like a peaceful Poetry Community garden and yet we see these reports of rapes and delayed Response Time and videos of people assaulting each other and demanding raised based payments racebased payments. I would ask would you be willing to host a congressional allegation in the chaz so we might also be able to go there and show the country what is happening, observe it in real time, and if the chaz is something majority would like to have spread across the country, perhaps you can make that case in vivid color but i will yield to tell whether he would be willing to yield lead a delegation to the chaz. The time is expired. Moved to strike the last word. Chair the gentleman is recognized. I rise in opposition to the amendment for a couple of reasons. I thank the gentle lady from washington for sharing with committee what is happening in her own district. Th
Now, Senate Democrats just sent a very clear signal that the Senate Republican justice act lacks the substance and the strong desperately needed reforms to stop Police Brutality against black americans. This bill lost because it was woefully inadequate. It never would have passed. And mcconnell provided no path to improve it. So it was going to lose. The minute he put it together and the more cynical among us would say that is why he did it. And we were overwhelmingly supported by the entire civil rights community. I have a letter here signed by 136 civil rights organizations. And i want to read you what they how they characterize the bill that leader mcconnell put on the floor. This bill woefully falls short of the comprehensive reform needed to address the current policing crisis and achieve meaningful Law Enforcement accountability. It is a deeply problem it is deeply problematic to meet this moment with a menial incremental approach that offers more funding to police and few polici
They will be american citizens. I have met so many of these beautiful children and their families. Now many have been grown up. They came to america as little kids and all they want to be is americans americans. They work hard. I met some of them during the covid crisis in new york, risking their lives to deal with the healthcare crisis we had. Ive seen enlist in the armed forces and go to college and some of our best colleges and law schools and climb that american ladder that has been around for so many years that some people want to rip away. So this is a wonderful, wonderful day for the daca kids, for their families, and for the american dream. Weve always believed in immigration in america. Weve had some dark forces oppose it in recent years, but we believe in it. It is part of our soul. Every one of us cares about immigrants and so many of us are descendants of immigrants. Wow, what a decision. And let me say this, in these very difficult times, the Supreme Court provided a brigh