but the threat of violence also looms directly over the jewish community like never before in recent american history. attacks on jewish institutions, they are up 61% from 2020 according to the anti-defamation league. just yesterday, the fbi warned of what it describes as a broad threat to synagogues in new jersey. the new york times reports that as a result of a warning, the new york police department immediately announced it had stepped up its monitoring to ensure the safety of every area that encompasses our jewish citizens and synagogues. of course, we all know that none of this is happening in a having vacuum. it s bubbling through sports, culture and our politics. they re the anti-semitic outbursts on social media by kanye west. there s the refusal by kyrie irving to disavow a post he made linking to a documentary filled with conspiracy theorys about jewish people. he s been suspended for at least five games. a statement from the team reads in part kyrie irvin
the face? you want me to try to fix it up? i said, no. let the people see what i see. i said, i want the world to see this. extraordinary, extraordinary woman. so, the men who conducted an interview with mamie was documentary filmmaker keith bow shont. he along with whoopi goldberg willed this film into being. he joins me now. also joining us the reverend al sharpton, host of politics nation and president of the national action network. keith, i said this to whoopi yesterday. i ll say it to you. the film is a masterpiece. it wrecks me to watch the film and then to see mamie. just tell me your story of how you came to make the movie. well, the movie itself has taken me 29 years, close to 20 years with fred, zolo, barbara,
people would just cop to the fact that, yes, this exists, yes, we can do something about it, and yes, i understand that you re equal to me. those three things. that s it? yes, it exists. yes, we can do something about it. and yes, you are my equal and thus want to be treated as such. i want you to treat me the way you want to be treated. we do those three things, we would be flying. do you have a sense of what you sort of what you ve done with this film? well, i think we all the director and barbara broccoli and fred zolo and keith and michael, we all know we know what we wanted to do and we feel like we ve gotten that done. it is my hope that enough people see it and also see the movie aspect of it because the young lady that plays his mother, her