for property and for person. but these stories undermine everything that could happen in those relationships. that s right. i mean, i think these stories and we know there are many more where they came from they speak to the multiple ways in which the criminal justice system is broken right now. these are events that should not happen to any human being anywhere in the world. it s also simultaneously unsellable that they only happen to low-income people of color or certainly broadly disproportionately. and then they don t keep us safe. so when you think about the goals of any justice system to actually be just, right, equal protection of the laws but also public safety and prevention, all of those goals are undermined as well as the trust certainly of communities of color but really of everyone. these are not practices that are geared towards human dignity or public safety. i m reminded, valerie, that, you know, so we ve been talking about this ark of lbj and of course it ends
65 and older paid three times as much for hash. he did two things that were really important. one was he said that there is a relationship between race discrimination and poverty. and we re actually going to recognize that link and we re going to see not just the civil rights act and the voting rights act is important, we re going to see it needing to be coupled with give, and i quote, the full blessings of america to black people. what s important is i think your point is right. the war on poverty wasn t just the community action program which people know about. he had a very holistic vision as all democrat who is supported this did about how you eradicate poverty. and the one area they agreed with, ryan, the war on poverty was to make people ultimately self-sufficient. yes. it was a conservative idea. yes. but it included eradicating
the country is democrats do better when more people get to the polls. republicans do better when fewer people get to the polls. and it is deeply troubling to me that this has become a partisan battle, that the right to cast your vote is a moral imperative, it s sacred to what makes our country s democracy work. my family is celebrating 100 years in america this year. our centennial year. thank you. it s remarkable when i think about my grandfather who sailed by steamship from india, arrived in california wearing a turban and beard as part of his sikh faith. he faced laws that prevented asian-americans from becoming american citizens, from casting their vote, as alongside african-americans because of the color of his skin. he waited for decades to win that right. once he won that right, he never missed an election, even when he was old and frail. so it s come down to me as the sacred right and the fact that my generation still needs to
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power was the beginning of something big because as president, lyndon johnson would go on to implement a policy agenda of social reform that he called the great society. and it would become the most sweeping transformation of american domestic policy since president franklin roosevelt s new deal. johnson laid out his vision of a great society in a 1964 commencement speech at the university of michigan. the great society rests on abundance and liberty for all. it demands an end to poverty and racial injustice to which we are totally committed in our time. during his time in office, president johnson engineered a policy plan that targeted the eradication of poverty, the advancement of racial equality, the restoration of american cities, the expansion of health care and the preservation of the environment. johnson s legislative agenda helped to revolutionize the role of the federal government and in