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Transcripts For ALJAZ UpFront 20240712

A deal signed between the United Arab Emirates and bar room to recognize israel remember the Abraham Accords were signed here at the white house just in september just over a month ago and he believes that there are 5 other countries who are ready to sign up to this deal libyas rival factions have signed a permanent ceasefire agreement the u. N. Broken pact which orders all foreign fighters out of the country comes ahead of political talks next month it was signed in geneva after nearly a decade of conflict tensions are growing in guinea where the army has mobilized after results show the president winning a controversial 3rd term Security Forces dispersed opposition protesters with take asked at least 26 people have been killed in the unrest in sundays vote. Unrest over Police Brutality continues in nigeria with gangs blocking major roads in lagos groups armed with sticks and knives set small fires on friday after the president delivered an emergency speech Muhammadu Buhari appeal for calm but he failed to condemn the cheese day killing of police 12 people the 28000000 residents of lagos have been under 24 hour curfew since tuesday after violence in several states over the past 2 weeks. Bolivia has declared leftist candidate louise asked say as the winner of this years president ial election the final tally showed us a winning 55 percent of the vote he served as finance minister exiled former president evo morales or as resigned a year ago after standing for an unconstitutional 4th term in office triggering mass protests. Theres the headlines up front coming up next. When i think of my career i think of potential when i think of potential i think for what it is not i think of young people who need to do to get into the i want something that they come to. Tell me its impossible i think the challenge. Is a challenge theyre going to the. Money is being dismissed and this is my job. My nigeria on aljazeera. Welcome back to front im Richelle Carey today ill talk to the journalist who was suspended from the u. S. Sports network e. S. P. N. For her outspoken political views including calling donald trump a white supremacist ill ask her how she feels now that the u. S. President has refused on Live Television to condemn White Supremacy this weeks headlines are jamail hill. Jamelle hill thank you so much for joining me on front im going to take you back to 2017 right you were at the center of a National Firestorm because you tweeted that donald trump the president of the United States was a white supremacist right so White House Press secretary said you should be fired your employer e. S. P. N. Rebuke you you did not back down you will even further you eventually Police Tweeted rather some political things about a very popular owner of an American Football Team at that point and set it up and they suspended you what was that lake that you know youre getting all of these attacks from the president himself from the white house what was that like it was a little crazy because i would be totally on is i thought. Donald trump was a white supremacist was essentially telling you what it was like i thought we kind of all agree that this was the case particularly after charlottesville and he made the remark about very fine people being on both sides equating white supremacist to people fighting against White Supremacy and racism and so believe it or not i actually didnt expect to get in trouble for that at all and i think maybe sometimes ignorance is bliss had i thought about what might the possible ramifications i may not have tweeted it but you know nevertheless im glad that i did. Not please the fact that i was right just just a few weeks ago in the 1st president ial debate donald trump walked away from the opportunity the challenge to to tell White Supremacists to back down he did not so since this time in these last 3 years the right many other people that have called president on a trump a white supremacist do you feel validated in some way i actually dont i have the opposite feeling i feel frankly very sad about this and kind of heartbroken because i dont want to be right about this i wish i was that wrong i wish that what i said that a few years you know now were looking in hindsight that in 2020 wed be saying like look how wrong that prediction was look how wrong you were and you were just the attack this man and he turned out to be Everything Different from what you said but unfortunately hes only prove to me more right every single day and more people have seen it i mean america does not deserve to have a White Supremacy as president they dont mean we dont i mean i live in this country too i have to live under his authority so no i dont feel validation at all i feel just sad and heartbroken as i said and its unfortunate that the American People are put in this position to have to be subjected to this kind of language that he uses on a on a frequent basis and to know that we have a president that struggles struggles to denounce something as basic and as awful and evil as White Supremacy do you find it i. That this white house attack you for your use of words when this is a white house that has called people animals they have told 3 American Congress women of color to go back to where they came from how do you reconcile the fact that theyre mad a jew about words you use but they use really harsh rhetoric against people all the time unfortunately with this administration this is just how they operate this is how they do business is that they want to police and cancel everybody else but theyre for ever lecturing people about the awfulness of cancel culture and about how they speak to each other to refer to Vice President ial nominee common errors as a monster or not even a monster this monster as if shes a dehumanize thing to call Maxine Waters the congresswoman to question her i. Q. It seems that i when women of color he keeps coming back to certain trucks that are racists and unacceptable and it exposes further just how he really feels about people i mean if you saying this about women who are in a position of authority and leadership what is he saying about the average black person that he comes in contact with if there is one it just is a scary notion to contemplate since you left and its aims that many of the on air talent are much more outspoken and the social media around on air saying things that are similar to what you said do is that correct i mean are we right that it seems that the environment has changed there and that e. S. P. N. Is is not just sticking to sports as some people say you know i think your assessment is accurate i mean theyre talking about social justice issues frequently if not you know frequently may not even be the word i think is probably daily and when youre in sports is almost your job to distract people from some of the things that are happening in Current Events and some of the atrocities and going through a pandemic like its church. That provide a sense of relief to the audience that is watching you but its hard for you to manage because there were days certainly after donald trump was elected and after charlottesville now after a number of other incidents where i went in to work and i just didnt feel like talking about it was all in the a. F. C. East but i didnt care because i have being subjected to all these other things that are happening i mean yes im a journalist yes i work at e. S. P. N. But im also a black woman in america and that is coming before all of those other things and so im just happy that my colleagues are able to discuss these issues openly hopefully without fear of retribution or being you know policed internally is there the difference that there needs to be more diversity in the newsroom so that you feel like you can say what you need to say without fear of retribution without being accused of having a bias because of your race i think e. S. P. N. Has the same blind spot in issues that a lot of Media Outlets have still overwhelmingly white still a lot of people making the content decisions are white and because of that there is a lack of sensibility that is there is that just about r. C. Is that inclusion too so that there is not you know i couldnt help but notice that a lot of these companies were putting out these very flowery print statements about Racial Inclusion and suddenly saying black clouds matter and they considered it occurs where 4 years ago thats all great thats good however what does your organizational chart look like if your organizational chart does not reflect those 3 statements you are putting out that youve got some work to do and hopefully this moment has made a lot of these Decision Makers and corporations understand that they have got to get serious about disrupting dismantling and changing the inside of their organization let me ask you about that specifically what youre talking about that now you know its fine to have all these messages they social justice messages it all the leaks not just the n. B. A. Were going to come back to the n. B. A. But all the links including the n. F. L. But the n. F. L. Is also buffet mylene where collin kaplan it was for. Donnelly a star quarterback does not have a job has not had a job since 2016 when he chose to kneel during the National Anthem as a protest against Racial Injustice and police for talent how do you reconcile the fact that the n. F. L. Now you know kind of gives a green light to their players to talk about social justice but collin kaplan extols doesnt have a job is that it is a type of performative activism definitely you cant reconcile it because no matter what they do no matter what they say they will not be able to atone for that injustice as long as he doesnt have a job in the n. F. L. And i doubt he ever gets one they wont be able to be taken seriously at least not by me i cant speak for everybody obviously but i consider what theyre doing to be performative as you said theyre doing this because this is where the countrys sensibilities are the only thing that change between now and last n. F. L. Season is that Public Opinion shifted what change was george floyd what change was a modern change was Briana Taylor and that they were no longer able to escape what was happening in this country and the players were demanding to be heard but kind of kept it was their glowing example about what can happen to you when you speak out a little too much when you make too many people a little bit too uncomfortable and its not just gonna happen either that they have to its own for if youre putting out these statements about black lives matter naturalistic whats happening inside your organization right now we have a situation where there are 2 black general managers in the n. F. L. They do not have a majority black owner and theyve never had one they have one black Team President 1st one in n. F. L. History they have 3 black coaches these are embarrassing statistics you cant talk about White Supremacy or black labs matter when they dont even matter in your own league so as far as im concerned all of what the n. F. L. Is doing wow i guess its well intentioned its also something i cant take very seriously because their actions have spoken ways. Too loud for me to actually Pay Attention to their words ok lets talk about the election joe biden is the democratic nominee obviously you had some critique some criticisms of him during the democratic primary issue said that at least some of his support was rooted in this is a quote fear that white folks wont vote for anyone else on that stage of course a reference to the fact that there are an extremely diverse array of Democratic Candidates and youre also critical of the 1904 crime bill of which he played a large part in which and carson rated millions of African Americans and he won the democratic nomination so how do you reconcile those criticisms you had with you now supporting him so the reason i thought i think the primary is the appropriate time where you bring up all the issues you have with any potential president ial nominee but joe biden was able to get to the front of the line because we also have to remember that a lot of people especially a lot of black people were very pragmatic voters despite the fact that they keep getting painted as liberals it meant something to them that joe biden was 2nd in command to the 1st black president that he was there at the service of the 1st black president and i think i underestimated what that meant particularly to older black people who are such a reliable voting bloc in the democratic senator let me jump in just a 2nd because i want to get to that reliable voting bloc i mean interrupt you but i think thats key because africanamericans are reliable voting bloc does the Democratic Party go with them more oh no question about it because let me supporting job im it joe biden is not my. You know completely blind support of the Democratic Party as a whole i mean i think they have done a huge disservice to black voters theyre still doing a huge disservice to black voters this is not something that is past tense however agenda items that are specific for black america that will help black america will be respectful and genuinely heard. Which joe biden and camila hares i really do believe that and so you know once the primary has and me bringing up joe biden with the crime bill by the way that was in relationship to how i felt like it was really unfair that comolli hairs was somehow being made the face of mass incarceration by a lot of people in our community when they do the road the crime bill is right next door on the same state and that getting that same smoke and to your point yes shes a former prosecutor she has been criticized by many on the left for being not tough enough on police and and too tough on some defendants do you agree with that criticism and i get your point youre comparing and contrasting it to the way she got criticism for for her record which is fair but compared to the type of criticism that joe biden got you know i will say theres a i think its fair to look at her record the best word that i would come up with it is that i think she had some opportunities that she took advantage of while being eternity attorney general and certainly by being a prosecutor and there were some missed moments for sure but this idea that common here is single handedly like that every black managerial is just wrong and its been debunked many times and i just find it interesting that when she was debating against mike pence that he wanted to point out her record. Of incarcerating black men when he moments before that said that there was no systemic racism in the criminal Justice System so which one is it is it only systemic racism when its a black woman that just so happens to be at that point i think she was the 1st attorney general in the 1st black attorney general in california history so you use it conveniently for that but not you know when you actually have to address this issue within your own administration of talk about common law that thats going to be our final note specifically a black woman being on the ticket just what do you think that that imagery means for for black boys and girls and white boys and girls i think is really significant but i focus for the moment on black women because i am a black. I think whats significant about it especially is that without ever having had a comma a conversational couple of years and ive been fortunate enough to have a few twitter is that you are ready know what she went through to get there and you know what that was like and more importantly what i liked about seeing her on this ticket and why significant for me is that she makes no apologies for seizing her power and a lot of time women but in particular black women we are put in a position where we have to defend our ambition defend seizing our power and she has always carried herself in a way that shes not going to apologize for being great you know when that idea surface that she wouldnt be the Vice President ial nominee because she was too ambitious it was really a conversation that had such broad implications its something that women face all the time where our ambition is used against us where its not the case from in their ambition is highlighted is considered to be a celebrate tillery trait so its just significant to see her there for what it means that just for black women not just what it means you know for multicultural women period now just what it means for historically black colleges and shes a proud graduate of howard but i think it embodies much like it will barack obama the best of what this nation can be eloquently said about multicultural we absolutely would be remiss if we did not acknowledge that her mother was an Indian American youre absolutely right and thats going to be the final blow chameli hill thank you for joining us here on out front always a pleasure thank you really appreciate that and if you. American voters are less than 2 weeks away from what could be the most important election of their lives its a decision that will profoundly alter not only life in the u. S. But also the lives of those around the world for palestinians especially there is hope that if prompt loses abidin ministration would reopen the door to. A pathway to peace or at least negotiations but is biden really that different from trump when it comes to the Israeli Palestinian conflict it doesnt even matter who is in

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