Orders. For that lets go to the north lawn and john roberts who joins us now live from the white house. John, what is this all about . Reporter bill, good afternoon to you. The president will be signing in the next couple of minutes. Were just waiting for tape to come back. Couple executive orsd, one from the Obama Administration era. Called the waters of the united states. Basically what the president is going to do is to ask the Justice Department appealing to the court to put a Current Court case regarding that waters of the u. S. Executive order that was promulgated under an Obama Administration on hold while its reviewed here at the white house and the epa. It looks like the president wants to rescind the whole thing. He thinks it was way of an overreach by the Obama Administration. But he doesnt want the court to go ahead with this while theyre reviewing it, so hes going to ask the courts to put that in advance. The other executive or would bring the black colleges and Universiti
Msnbc aired an hourlong special that engaged in racism by stereotyping and entire people based on their skin color. The gentry fires of today their parents or grandparents ran away from the city to get away from black and brown people and now their children or grandchildren are saying theres only so many Olive Gardens i can go to, i need to go back to the city and get my life in the city. Ee but when i do that i need to have my hot yoga studio and my pottery studio and my stuffnt representing. If you intrude on that, i will then call the police. Tucker more and more it feels like Racial Division is the subtext to virtually everything in this country, even topics that seem unrelated to ethnicity suddenly are raciallyd fraught. The effect of all that is a deeply angry and divided nation, but also a terrified one. Many americans are scaredea to y what they really think about just about anything. One false word, you can be denounced on twitter and lose youriv livelihood. It happens, we see
The gentrifiers of today are saying, oh, theres so many Olive Gardens i can go to, so i need to go back to the city, get my life in the city, but i need my hot yoga studio, my pottery studio, my stuff represented. If you intrude on that, i will then call the police. More and more it feels like Racial Division is the subtext of virtually everything in this country, even topics that seem unrelated to ethnicity suddenly are racially fraught. The effect is a deeply angry and divided nation, but also you may have noticed a terrified one. Many americans are scared to say what they really think about just about anything. One false word and you could be denounced on twitter and lose your livelihood. It happens. We see it all the time. Best is to smile and nod and hope the witchhunt passes. How long do we have to live this way . How did we get here in the first place . Joining us a lawyer who serves on the u. S. Commission on civil rights, written a new thriller, called second strike, which i c
I just wanted you to get to know me better before you call the cops. I dont want to sound racist. Im always nervous. I am always met with suspicion. I have a right to be here. I dont have a racist bone in my body. Ive done nothing wrong. I work here. Why is everything about race . This is everyday racism in america an msnbc town hall event from philadelphia. Here are joy reid and chris hayes. [ applause ] all right, thanks for joining us from the prince theater here in center city, philadelphia. Tonight big news, as youve probably already heard. Abc cancelling one of its biggest shows after its stars racist tweet. We are going to talk about that. But as starbucks shuts down 8,000 Stores Across the nation for antibias training, were holding our own discussion, talking about the kind of racism that occurs every day in this country in hollywood and coffee shops and public spaces. They didnt do anything, i saw the entire thing. They asked to use the bathroom and the woman said its for payi
Though. For now, american liberals are still living in that strange ironyfree world where its possible to denounce racism even as you commit it. Thats the same world al gore occupies when he flies private jets to Global Warming conferences. Its the place where attorneys general can yell at you about domesticen violence even as they beat up their girlfriend. Its hypocrisy land. Its where liberals live. Last night, for example,he msnbc held a town hall meeting dedicated to fighting racism. Guess who they invited to lecture america on the topic . You guessed it, racists. The special was literally cohosted by al sharpton, remember him . He is the guy who ridiculed jews in new york as, diamond dealers. He is the one who denounced a jewish store owner as a white interloper. That instigated a racial massacre in which eight people were murdered. D. A also on stage last night was a guy called tim wise. L wise describes himself as professional antiracism activist, which ought to be a tipoff that