So what does this mean it means the places that were segregated in the thirtys fortys and fiftys theyre still racially segregated today because we havent done anything to undo the racial segregation. Levittown today is over 95 percent white very few minority families living there. When fix the damage that was done we just allowed all those inequalities to continue but said from this day forward we cant discriminate sell it and fix it all of these policies and practices these systems the federal government State Government local government pass and then they converge to sort of create concentrated poverty by the time we reach the fiftys and sixtys so that creates a situation where many urban areas you have like what George Clooney would call you know chocolate cities in the little suburbs. This is the white house thats a temporary. Theres a lot of the city. Weve got to get some i dont need to get it. Working and it. Will be. Interesting to tell you. The ways you know gram a promise that
Minister has issued a conciliatory message to protesters saying rallies which were banned are now primitive as long as theyre peaceful thousands demonstrated in bangkok for a 6 day demand channel just resignation they want a more democratic constitution as well as changes to the monarchy but it really about what the government has to do is protect the monarchy because this is the juicy of all types people we request just these few things and we request the protesters to demonstrate peacefully. Theres no plan to expand the area of the state of emergency the governments trying to compromise as much as possible i want to ask the protesters for a few things dont destroy government and private property dont do anything wrong and most importantly dont let there be fighting. Protesters in chile have held large demonstrations to mark one year since the start of the movement for change there demanding social reforms and a new constitution but the protests were marred by vandalism looting and vi
Disputed. Thailands government lifts emergency measures that failed to curb major protests in bangkok. How much not have all the sport european champions by munich kicked off their Champions League title defense in emphatic fasten. Fashion athletic and i did 4 nil at home. And were going to begin with a coronavirus pandemic with countries across europe grappling with a rise in cold with 19 infections in some places governments have had little choice but to shut down entire cities to contain the virus on thursday france became the 2nd country in the European Union to record more than a 1000000 infections paris and 8 other large cities have been subjected to nighttime curfews and saturday that follows spain which became the 1st in the to exceed a 1000000 cases the Health Minister says he expects life is going to be tough for the next 5 to 6 months meanwhile germanys reported a daily record hike in infections on thursday thats after the Health Minister qian spahn tested positive for coron
To be doing inperson eventuals until 2021 which is a bummer but we want to be real and safe and smart. Well keep bringing you interesting conversations with authors; so we have everything from wonderful event coming up in october with layla a conversation you tent want to miss dont want to miss. Everything from that to a conversation with matthew mcconathy. If thats not a wide ranging list of events witness ill be quite a fall. Follow our events on magic city books. Com. Tonight im so thrilled to have a conversation with mychal denzel smith. A book that was seems like written for the moment were living in, although books are written planned quite a bit before their published and printed but stereotype wed have these he prescient minds that are tapped into what is going on, and so especially for us here in tulsa and everything thats been happening in our community, 2021 is going to be such an important year for our community as well. Stakes is high. We had an event with just one of my f
About your book, with something you wrote toward the end of your book, which i think is jumping off for your book, he right, i tell everyone the hardest job is to eulogize the life of someone who did nothing. My friends, is harder still to eulogize the lifeblood of the country who did nothing and then you say i beg of you, give me something to work with when your time comes and im standing before your family as they prepare to take me to god, let there be something worthy, something of merit you did for your fellow man that helped lift them. The name of your book is rise up, talk more about that, why it is imperative for people to give folks like you and the rest of us something to eulogize, to look up to. I think the definition of ones existence is what they do in life, at the end of life, the only thing that will matter is what you did beyond your own particular making and living and having material things. What was the value of your existence . Did it change anything, did it continu