Live now to hearing on White Supremacists infiltration of Police Department. The House Oversight and reform subcommittee on civil rights and Civil Liberties is hosting. This is live coverage on cspan2. Good morning to the chair of the committee, ms. Maloney has joined us. Good morning to our Ranking Member mr. Roys whos with us and good morning to the vice chair and all of our wonderful members who joined us. I want to take a moment to extend a special welcome to rashida to leave of michigan come to our subcommittee. This is her first hearing with our subcommittee and were delighted to have her choice. Welcome, ms. Tlaib. I wanted show a video to set the stage. Please play the video. White supremacy permeates every corner of society and our institution. Please agencies to the fbi to department of justice, all of them. The Southern Poverty Law Center combover is engaged in those groups wherever that might lead. We have outed a number of Law Enforcement officers who have connections to w
From the House Oversight committee, this is about two hours. The chair will come to order. Welcome to the oversight subcommittee on civil rights entitled White Supremacists in blue, the infiltration of local Police Departments. Good morning to the chair of the committee, miss maloney, good morning to our Ranking Member, mr. Roy, who is with us, and good morning to the vice chair of the committee, ms ms. Ocasiocortez and our wonderful members. I want to express a special welcome to Rashida Tlaib of michigan. This is our first hearing with our subcommittee and were delighted to have her join us. Welcome. Before we begin today, i want to play a video that will set the stage for the discussion that were about to have. Clerkings, please go ahead and play the video. White supremacy permeates every corner of the institution. Tracks hate and extremist groups, whomever is engaged in those groups, wherever that might lead. We have outed a number of Law Enforcement officers who have connections t
Political movement. However, in light of some very important demographic and political trends, the movement could become more salient in upcoming years. Now, white separatism should be distinguished from this notion of white supremacy. Now, to be sure there are white separatists that are also White Supremacists, however, i think there is an important distinction because the term separatist denotes different longterm objectives than the term supremacist. Essentially separatists want to establish an exclusive ethnic or racial model state. By contrast supremacists seek to dominate other racial or ethnic groups. Now, supremacists might also be seg g segregationists, but within the same state. Examples would include the jim crow system of racial segregation, the American South or the system of apartheid in south africa. Now, there are some critics that claim white separatism is little more than a facade adopted by White Supremacists to make their goals seem more publicly acceptab acceptable
Thesohoforum. Org. This is an oxford style debate whether they vote for, against of the resolution and then again after the debate is over. Todays resolution is as follows americas colleges, that makes them a hostile space for africanamerican students. Defending the resolution to my right we have lawrence ross, author of blackballed the black and white politics of race on americas campuses. Lawrence will be doing book igning and sales of his book blackballed after the debate. Youll find lawrence over at that tible signing books and response to any questions you put to him after the debate. Arguing for the negative we have kmele foster, a telecommunications entrepreneur and a host and cohost of the libertarian podcast, the fifth column. [applause] fifth column fans. Commoip oh. Gene dominating. Dominating. So now well close the initial voting and the debate can begin. Lawrence ross, you have 15 minutes to defend the proposition americas colleges have fostered a racist environment that m
Separatists that are also white supremacists. I think there is a distinction. Separatists denotes different longterm objectives than supremacist. Essentially separatists want to establish an exclusive mono state. Supremacists seek to dominate other ethnic groups. Supremacists might also be segregationists. They advocate separating racial groups within the same state. Examples include the jim crow system, the American South, war the system of apartheid in south africa. Some claim white river schism is little more than a facade adopted to make their goals seem more publicly acceptable by claiming to be separatists, White Nationalists can present their aspirations in a way not unlike other ethnic movements around the world today such as Tibetan Independence movement. By cloaking their aspirations in selfdetermination verbiage they feel their movement is seen as more legitimate. Let me give you some historical background on the white separatist movement. The 1960s was a time of great socia