Transcripts For CSPAN2 Jim Newton Man Of Tomorrow 20240712

Of writers bloc. Were so honored be partnering with you today on this very special program. Time to turn it over to you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you, kim, and thanks to the l. A. World Affairs Council for inviting writers bloc to cohost this event with jim newton and governor brown. And for asking writers broc on fer first date with a digital event. I urge you to purchase a copy of former Los Angeles Times Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and editor jim newtons man of tomorrow, the relentless life of jerry brun. Such a great biography of one of californias true visionaries, one ourselves most extraordinary leaders. Man of tomorrow cap tours jerry browns vision for california, his ambition and profound moral grounding. Browns decisions have always been guided by his activist principles, notwithstanding his set for tradition and passionate faith in californias point. Jim newton explores the complexity of browns unconventional and sometimes eccentric permanent and political instincts and were rye mind of the governors independence from party politics. What drove him was his notion that once fiscally pragmatic and ideailist of what california should look like down the road. His impact on the National Democratic party itself immense from immigration to Climate Change and and he makes my extraordinarily nowed blow a californian. Thank you all four joining us. Find the links on our website to buy man of tomorrow putt. Im dehighlightedded to introduce you jim newton and former governor jerry brown. Well, good morning, everyone. Are you there governor . Im here. There you are. Wonderful. Listen, i want to just begin by thanking all of you are for participating, kim, andrea, pulling this off. Im grateful, and i also want to say we have a lot of interest the todays event for which im also very grateful and i want to get to all your audience questions so, governor, i dont want to monopolize you this morning but i want to ask you a couple of things to get the ball rolling and give you a chance to address what is going on in the world at the moment. So, let me start there with the obvious point were in this period of International Crisis really and particularly at this sort of Inflection Point where theres this ongoing and accelerated debate about how to balance the Health Imperatives of this crisis with the economic desire to see things return to some kind of normal. I guess washington said that he fears some state maize move too quickly in defines of the guidelines and risk a spike in the virus. You have obviously weathered your share of crises. How do you balance the imperatives here, particularly the desire to see the economy move again and the imposition and need to be take care of the health. You do it successful countries have. Looking at perhaps the most successful country, taiwan. Right next to china, much closer than we are. Theyve had very few deaths, very five cases and they did took action as soon as they perceived and listened to what china was saying. So china sent out a message, i think in just right around the beginning of this year, 2020 people of washington didnt hear it. So, taiwan did. They jumped on it. Started testing, and they traced the people who tested positive, and they quarantined them, and that quarantine away from families, for their own separate spot. That really dampened the spread in a very dramatic way. We didnt do this. We had denial, delay, obfuscation, i think the best description of the way the current president handled things would be to take his prescription of what china has done and plug in the word every time trump his china and its not a pretty wick pure. So what do you do . You test, you trace, and you isolate. Thats the way you do it. Now, the big hurdle here, which has been being overcome is the inability of testing and that to me goes right back to the president. And some ways goes back to his enablers, Mitch Mcconnell and other folks in the congress and the senate. Who enable his behavior. Look, why cant we test . Because the federal government has not used the powers it has to mobilize industry to make the tests. I nobody can tell me that south korea can make tests or china or someone else than america. This is a great manufacturing powerhouse. Were a great biotech innovative powerhouse as well. So the fact we dont have the tests we need, not by the hundreds of thousands but by the tens of millions every day, is leading to point where we are now at. Its getting better. Getting better too slowly but we will have enoughtes and get enough people to trace and then if were willing to isolate people from their families. One of the biggest causes of spread in would wuhan was the isolation of moment and predding to family. So its simple. You test, in massive numbers, california is doing 30,000. Now its got to ramp up to several hundred thousand if you want to be careful. Dont open the schools. You better test the kids or you wont know. Theres no conflict between an energetic, creative Testing Program with tracing and quarantining and opening the economy. The longer you wait, the harder it is, the more people who get sick, suffer and die. Thats where we are. And we cant just look backwards. We have to look forward and the forward is first of all, the congress should be demanding that the mobilize the industry. The industry is doing something but you cant leave the fragmented, pragmatic fragmented decisionmaking with all these different people. I think back to roosevelt on so many in 1941, he said no more private cars. Americas building tanks, planes and liberty ships and thats exactly what happened. And then play without planes in a matter of days and ships the same thing. So why cant we put out tests in several months . So well get there. But when we get there over a lot of suffering and a lot of deaths that is totally needless and goes back to washington, in my opinion. So, as we sit here today, theres this question of whether to open certain parts of california. You live in a rural part of california. If you were told that restaurants or Retail Stores were open in williams, would you go shopping or oat to eat tonight . Well, shopping, yes. With a mask and quickly. But not a restaurant. Now, this particular town im in only has three reported cases. No deaths. But nevertheless, wherever the governors as long as the virus is circulating, being in an enclosed structure will many other people is not wise, particular live youre over 65. So i think people who are more vulnerable are not going to buy into the group encounter when its a sporting event, movie theater, hotel, or restaurant. Now, going to a Hardware Store to a restaurant, Something Like that, yeah, that will happen, but there you have a mask, you do it quickly, you are separated and you the employees are working to ensure maximum safety. So the opening will be determine bid the governor, mostly be the president , i would say, but in the final analysis, millions and millions of americans are going to decide for themselves. So if some perhaps the young being more exuberant, more risk taking, theyll be out and abouts they are right now. You see that in beaches and different parts of the country, but for those who are a more cautious bent, based on their own particular reality or just based on their judgment of risk reward i would save its going to be a slow move without a dramatically and radically increased testing regime. One question that is going to play out over the coming months is recovery. You, as has been widely noticed left the state of california in a large surplus which is going to be eaten up quickly right now. The the now becomes federal aid and recovery. One thing that donald trump said he would like to condition federal aid on policies, for instance, the federal government might withhold aid from states with sanctuary policies. What is the role of the federal government to idling states . Well, i think as the first Justice White so many years ago, i believe net 19th century said to face that proposition is to refute it. And say that because if you want to return the country to vigorous activity you dont go around and say, well, california, i dont like what youre doing or new york i dont like your politics or oregon or washington, getting the whole country back. You need a unified and you need to follow the spirit of roosevelt. Roosevelt said hes going to try something and if it didnt work, try something else. Called bold, persistent experiment addition. We need that. Not partisan ran core, north pet where politic odd half wear measures. So get the economy going with so many people sequestered at home requires massive federal spending and investment. For two clear objectives. One, to supply the purchasing power that millions of americans no longer have. They need that for their families and themselves, food their their basic sunday stan sentence. Income maintenance. Number two investment. Investment in infrastructure, whether its roads and high speed rail and highways or extending the internet to rural areas or schools or creating hospitals that are closing. There are trillions of dollars of good spendable projects. Now, why . Very simply, the economy is the function of supply and demand. Demand has collapsed because of the virus. That demand is the basis of an economy. You need to have supply but you have to have somebody seeking the supply, paying for it. 70 of the american demand is from consumers. Many of the consumers are not exercising their capacities. Therefore the federal government must come in and supply that. So i would call this really a rooseveltian moment and take into account all of the problem wed have, whether its the distribution of income and opportunity, the impending challenge of climate disruption, all these things are on the table. Unfortunately if we cant do them right in more calmer days witness bill be very difficult. So there we are in the campaign. There we are with the country that has to step up starting with the president and going down, and there is some cooperation. Were getting more testing. Even california and President Trump are cooperating cooperatie ways but we need something much bigger. Even roosevelt did not rise to the occasion at the level that the economy required. We know that there was still in the late 0s a second with a of unemployment came back and the recession intensified and wasnt until world war ii with Mass Mobilization of the entire economy for war materiale and soldiers being howard we get the economy going. Thats what is required. What roosevelt did in the 1930s and in the late 30s and early 40s, but hopefully certainly not a war, but a domestic campaign, intervention, mobilization of the very best that america stands for. Anything less than that is a muddle and we are goingta stop and start and go along and while this isnt entirely predictable the odds are it will not be pretty. You talk about this as a rooseveltian moment. Do you have in the reason to believe that trump is capable of a rooseveltian moment. Since he is so changeable i dont put anything past him but it dont know. Doesnt like that likely because a person not only he but his base socalled has a quails sigh thee theological belief in this thing they call the market and the market as its most fervent acolytes say does not like or does not function well if theres interference and if theres more than a minimal role for the state. What im calling for, what roosevelt did, was a great intervention and keynes more than hayak and were more than on the hayak than the keynes and that causes great heart area, and hartburn in the months ahead. You mentioned Climate Change and i want to hear your thoughts more. But let me ask you but one aspect of this crisis. Seems to run common to them and that is this trump denialism pout it. Theres at least some segment of the country that doesnt accept that this is a Serious Health crisis. What do you make of that and thats the response to that and in terms of Climate Change where theres also a streak of denialism. Where does this come from and how do we deal with this . Where does it come from . Increasingly polarized country. Not that we havent been there before. We had a civil war, a lot of people hated roosevelt and roosevelt had his own antagonisms but has gotten far worse. What is it due to . One of the characteristics, if youre a republican, in california thats only 23 of the voting pop late youre 80 to 90 inclined to believe in and trust presumed if youre a democrat its 10 . If youre a republican, according to a poll that i heard from the republican writer, only 37 of the republicans are worried about the health have not had their top [inaudible]. I you ask democrats, 97 of democratics are worried about the virus and the health aspect. So, there we have a fundamental difference. You think what caused it . Well, id say the functioning of the income maldistribution, the propaganda out of the spending and climate deny and the views of fox news any right, i by the critic on me me money being spent and he the emergence of people of color, the assertion by women of a greater and equal role, n the Different Countries of the world taking on a greater role in every way, thats causing real identify anxiety, particularly on the part of people who are in my bracket, people who are male, white, and people so, i would say that the cause with the antagonism to obamacare by the republicans, became an article of faith and that indicated i think not just so much about medical spending by the state but more something new, something different, and the republicans were able to characterize it as something unamerican, threat to the wellbeing of people who were getting the benefits of the Affordable Care act. Theres a lot of facts that come up with but suffice to say it changes in america are being felt disproportion nat bily Different Group disproportionately by different grim which youre lat teen know or africanamerican, european, calling indication, male, female, rich, poor, rural, urban. Were seeing through different lenses, different optics, and that is that for all of the factors you could spend a whole program dissecting, they are causing what is a tremendous porlarization and the election is very close, the betting odds are on trump. The polls ared so biden by three or four, five, six points, so this is a divided society and its an overextended society and society borrowing in a very exuberant way, so id say we have a lot of challenges and probably the biggest is Building Trust by our leadership which is now being done better by the governors than by those who are occupying the power of the poll position in washington. This porlarization is not a certainly the civil war and beyond. What psychs me also different about this moment and as far climbs as well. Applies to the way that porlarization seems to affect belief in science itself. That seems to have become a matter of partisan difference rather than a common based upon which to disagree in terms of political solutions. How does this how does porlarization contribute to our different newspaperings of what science understanding of what science itself is saying . I dont know that people are thinking about science. Lets say Climate Change. You can say tobacco smoking as well. Thats another iteration of health versus science. In climate theres a lot of denial and more prominent among business, republicans and conservatives. Thats a fact. Now, either of those i dont know if its a science of the belief and trust in the magic of the market and the market faces a totally new world when Climate Change requires a government induced price on carbon, when cars have to meet certain zero pollution standards, and all the other things that are needed to elegal eliminate Carbon Emissions to avoid the worst of climb changes. Either a scientific matter or this belief in wealth and money and the economy . Why is caps the central pel already of the republicans . Central pillar thereof republicans . There is religious useds, right to life and other moral issues but theres nothing so unifying as tax. Less tax is good, more tax is bad. Whats that . Going from private pocket to the public wheel, and there it is. Thats the belief system. Democrats dont want to pay more taxes than are needed, but i would say that there is a magical belief that you can reduce taxes and therefore Government Support far more among most republicans than among independents and democrats. So, whatever it is, you got this belief, the belief is different for democrats, extremely different from republicans and independents shuffling in between in some fashion. So that is the challenge. If you were ask what is the issue for politicians in its working through this divide in a way to find common themed that can bring people together. Certainly the world is getting more dangerous both for natural ropes, pandemics which this not the last one well see because of Climate Changes, the system and technologies with so much power and certainly the weapons business that is accelerating even in the midst of the covid crisis, the congress is considering tens of billions of more dollars to confront china and iran, russia, and all the other adversarieses that are certainly different but are being magnified in order to boost the Defense Industry and fan the flames of widespread fear and anxiety. So i think were in a very difficult political environment and it will take great skill and fair degree of luck to get us through without getting greater dares than we have seen more recently. We are going to cut to audience questions in a movement but let me ask you before we do look ahead beyond this virus or to the point where things seem to have he settled down. How does life seem different to you . Does it payment travel, politics, meetings . What are the ways in which [loss of audio] it is what is different now but you want to know how much of now will continue over the years the coming years . Yeah. Imagine you were a year or two out from this and theres a vaccine and this virus has been contained and this moment of crisis has subsided. Does life just go back to normal also it was six months ago or look different two or the years from now. Thats a difficult question. Obviously you gate vaccine. Its not clear when you get a vaccine anytime soon; when youve get it its going to be hard to distribute it. So, yeah, if we dont get a vaccine, which were not, the airlines arent going to come back to normal. Restaurants wont come back. Theyre going to come back but theres going to be a change. I think the body of the question is the larger point. Are we going to learn something from this pandemic about how we want to live or how we must live . Id say, yeah, this is a big this is not a one off story for a week or two. This is a persistent new result that will induce more reflection, people i think will probably spend more time at home, cooking and sharing meals with their family and friends than hey have heretofore. Remember, it wasnt that long ago, when i grew up, in the a middle class family, maybe a little bitter than that mitchell fair was a lawyer and the elected strict attorney of San Francisco District Attorney of San Francisco. We win out to dinner once or twice a year. Now my memory might not serve me right. Maybe its a few more times put nothing like is standard practice. So, in the trips i never went to europe until i was in law school. Yet today many families of middle class and above are flying all over the world; so, things are have not been the same the last decade or soso they will change, and i think it could be some good out another of that but mostly i think what id like to see Society Learn is that when you see a threat, you have to take it seriously. Timeline responding, act on a small amount of information but they can infer that these pandemics would spread if the didnt take very drastic action. On the part of italy and many European Countries and the United States, we didnt want to act. We wanted more servitude. There will be more pandemics weapon have things like the danger of war. Can the United States make china an enemy, a more hostile, more hate enemy month after month without having a war . I can we do that . I have my doubts. We have to learn from the pandemic you must take danger seriously, listen to science and this is a world that is not me versus you. Its not this linear who is going up and who is going down . Its mutual. Its interdependent. The virus did not come from natural rhythm. Didnt come from insure the way all politics is oriented. Winners and losers. With are on a planet and we share among 7. 7 billion people, this atmosphere, the soil, all the Human Systems we created, and we have to find mutuality, we have to fine commonality. Doesnt mean we have to agree all the time but just as in a war people unify, in a crisis people unfie. This is a crisis not another china versus america but it is human beings who live in china and america, russia and india and were all fating very common threats, Climate Change is another one. And we have to get a merge out of the the we win you lose, were number one, without letting anybody be number two through a world that is more collaborative and that might sound like pie in the sky but we can adopt some form of a more shared moral more mutual sense or some people call winwin or we really do fails a heightened prospect of extinction or many, many horrors beyond those which would encountering today. I think we are here, its a recognition that we are not isolated Carbon Emissions, the germs and viruses spread around the world. To find the common way forward i would make russia, china, the u. S. , india. We would absolutely do that. Congress will delegate the west. We invited a nuclear war. The worst of our nationalistic senses, the feelings. If we dont, its a very dark future. If we cant wake up and take looking at the world from the totality from the independency interacting not from human but in truth, as a decline, it affects us. Same as our economy and european economy, its with china. We got a lot, even though its a profound difference but its a wisdom to negotiate their differences in the context of the commonality the future lies. We have so many questions coming and. Unfortunately, we will not be able to get to all of them but thank you so much. The first question, are like jerry brown to comment on his time as the Democratic Party in his efforts for the campaignfinance voting reform. How can we improve the voting process in 2020 . Shes fortunate enough to have the opportunity to work with brown and he inspired her to launch a vote before. The whole election system, help people with communication, ads and help people vote. Politicians who like to talk mechanics, i got a real appreciation of handson. Registered photos, democrats are i think 90 , separate from republicans. Beliefs, political movements and different pathways. Voting is primarily the choice. Thats number one. Most absentee voting, those are ways. I was mechanically extremely challenging. The rest we had problems but they are being ironed out. Its never been easier. Take it in or show up not too far from where you live. On the financing side, its more difficult. The Supreme Court Decision Making shared that speech and politics includes thousands of millions of dollars on tv ads, social media communication. That being the case, we will change that. The constitutional amendment is totally impossible so i would take that off the table. There could be ways of making through federal communications in congress, an opportunity of Free Television exposing for candidates. Also accusing male, secretary of state, providing these decisions at the same time, that was before having the main channels we have today. Given the candidates and voters. None of us are perfect, its very difficult right now and the best and internet fundraising for sanders and biden show it can be done. I have to say the political shortterm this leadership, organizing, thats when you go and theres no mechanical solution we can see from washington. Thank you so much. There seems to be a growing risk in the u. S. Between the coastal states, especially california and new york versus central states. You see the growing of healing in the future if donald trump is elected or not . I would say the division has gone very far so i think people will receive the is a problem. People on the left since it as much as more eccentric people in the middle receive it. I think we do need a unifier, to activate the electorate it doesnt mean we need someone who reaches beyond a particular issue of campaigning. Donald trump demonstrated a feelgood space and the opposition, and the enthusiasm of his opponent, and i will conclude for the other people, it is because its the most exciting issues on the right or the left will be adopted. To bring people together is a more generic undertaking, a general appeal and therefore the pages of the more exciting left and right programs will be softened and polished down. Thats why politics and politicians are not popular. But the kind of moderation are more available. Unfortunately, if we have too many battles of the nuclear character, will not have moderation. Thank you. Governor newsom as part of a group of other california governors, group mostly in agreement on actions to take . For those policies and actions in agreement, is Governor Newsom in accord with the recommendations . Thats a nice question, there are around 100 people. The governor, like any government before, we have people around us, its a real start. Hour after hour, so he gives good advice, hes got a lot of experience, i think what we are doing in california is excellent. Id like to see a lot more, why does america, which is being built right longest advocates, is the nature of business, is it our manufacturing, is obsolete . To me, its inconceivable but we know from taiwan, we know from the experts, month hundreds of thousands every day. School children, health workers, anybody who has symptoms, testing isolate, it is that simple. The governor knows that and hes doing everything he can. I dont think he needs any more advice from me. Thank you. How do you evaluate the decline of the California Republican party especially compared between the first and second since of government . California voted kennedy, more often than not, one democrat, the 20th century elected government, not too many people. Democrat. Look out. Publicans took against immigration and was successful but its the democrats the population only 11 mid 40s for people giving sources a big difference. Maybe certain conservatives around, i think california is more prosperous, has more freedom to think christianity that doesnt represent a big slot of the christian world, more tolerant and more liberal so i think theres a lot of anxiety among those who are more emergence of people of color, women, given ways of living in the world, i think that is creating anxiety. Republicans and older people, more conservative ideology, that is not as well in california. As it is in texas or alabama so a lot of politics or just who you are. Your life experience, california is 221 republican, california is not to 21, so these waves change. Trump will have an effect on the electorate. Its hard to say exactly what i would say that. This might also include you, jim, can you talk about how this came about have you read the book . Thats for both of you. That question could go for jim first. First of all, vanessa, the process of the book was about five years was a close collaboration, appreciate that. We met 15, 20 times, sometimes four or five hours out of time. I did read the book. It was almost complete, caught a few things. I asked about the argument or conclusion because its a biography. I appreciated he and his wife but also i appreciated what they have done. Thank you. Is are you are to self emigrating or self congratulatory. Very nice. Next question. When rebuilding our economy, how do we recreate it with an eye facing the Climate Crisis . California is the scoping plant, technical. We need more. Trying to get efficiency, increase Carbon Emissions. California is growing. Its not enough. The virus gives us a good indication, do it when they can and pay the price. The bailout, the new deal, it has to have credit as the key criteria. In terms of quality going up or going down, the schools will come back. They need the federal investment. Then job training, wpa that roosevelt had, ccc, but its a few thousand. We need a few million. Thats the way it was. Young people appreciate california, this is something we need. So there are a lot of ideas, i dont know where the politics will be if its years, going in the opposite direction having all of these problems, it will get much, much worse. Dangerously so if we go another route, an alternative to trump, democrat, i think we have real hope but no guarantee. This is typical. We be moving in the direction that not equality, thinking of the Climate Crisis, the nuclear arms which is now accelerated at a new level against russia and china, against iran, 760 billion for hardware, nothing will get the economy going stopping the virus, our priorities are very screwed up. In a very dangerous way. Id like to see all of that as part of this debate during this virus time. In america, its a testing. And a very dangerous. And im hopeful it will be a way through this jungle and the senate in particular, will rise to the occasion that this or that group will go downhill, we need to rise our hopes and aspirations. Thank you. Im a current undergraduate student at ucla, i worry about the historical trend in many states of k12 and Higher Education being cut in times of recession like the one we are about to enter. Thanks to your leadership, we are in a better place during these Economic Conditions and we were in 2008 but how can we ensure students like me can be supported head . Especially as it gets harder than before. In short term, california can be a great help. The following year it will take federal assistance. Without that, you will see real problems, i would say. And job wise. Virtually, deeply evaluate the whole structure, youre doing a lot of things but all of those things are being required so i think it will open up new possibilities. A diverse and it offers thousands, tens of thousands of improvements. Its difficult to reform it but its all things, all people. A Business Model that ultimately not going to be financed at the level it requires. Not good for students, it will be more for the state kindergarten through 12, the Affordable Care act so we are in what i call an error of limits, it can be opportunities for creativity. There was a time im told that the streets were. Its called design change. Design change in our cars from the government in newbie, depending on transport and then we need to change the university for being at arms reach of amenities to the more limited but also doing the research and increasingly growing without tuition increases and increasing enrollment in research at the same time. Its an example i want to look at but that one and find another one. Its not sustainable without rising. I think that would be wrong. Thank you. On the topic of change, you probably saw you on musk opening his factory against the orders early in this task, how should elon musk defines of the closure orders be handled . Thats why governors get paid the big bucks. The advice of the governor. Okay so lets say give the advice. His approach to be governor in his first two terms compared to his approach when he returned to governorship . Reflected on that so well, the second time in 80 so that right there means extremes. I also like trying to reflect on it the first time. I would say i developed a greater insight into people living, working, making mistakes, a variety of people, that helped me find a solution quicker and more accurately. Its true of people of all situations. I would say i was prepared. How many people get a do over . Week 28 years, thats extraordinary. They get a feel for what i was doing. Also, the danger of Climate Change as well and also, i didnt realize 1975, we had the recession, the vietnam war, so that was a time of conflict that i thought and all of a sudden, california exploded. Facebook, apple, steve jobs in 1874 so we did have an explosion immigration from mexico, india and all over the world so all of that opened up technological possibilities that i didnt appreciate to the level that i did my Second Time Around so i saw more clearly a genuine threat of Climate Change and also the possibilities which was more remote than it is today. The technology is both a danger for bioterrorism and viruses escaping National Laboratories but also the source of millions of responses we need to make. Thank you. This is our final question. How do you maintain hope for our Society Given the divisiveness that infected our politics and society as a whole . Im very observant, im an optimist. Tell me, the doomsday clock, where 22nd closer to the apocalypse. We are closer to doomsday, the wind is blowing in front of me but rabbits are running around, squirrels and coyotes howling at night life, just to be here is quite a lot so to worry about or think about down the road, how its going to turn about, do what you can do in the moment you have. God will take care of the rest. Thank you so much. I will take a moment to say thank you. Thank you all for participating thank you, governor for the time and openness. Especially for your 50 years of service to california thank you very much. Thank you. Governor brown, thank you so much for fun, interesting discussion, it was terrific. I do think our Community Partners in Public Affairs for their support today. Please buy the book, a special discount deal near the end of the program. Consider visiting our website so we can continue to provide the quality programs like todays. Check out our upcoming programs. Governor jim, thank you so much. Everybody, stay safe, stay informed and we hope to see you soon. Thank you. During a virtual event, posted by the booking institution, andre perry, theres been a deliberate evaluation of black people and the community and the United States. It is a portion of his talk. Pauls narratives have normalized a hierarchy of human value that leads to an investment. One of the major goals of this book is to show that theres nothing wrong with black people and the racism. Underlying assumptions of black peoples unworthiness, undercut efforts to invest in black majority neighborhoods, theres a whole lot of programs and research. Not enough focus on nixing Structural Racism. Until we rid ourselves of the underlying assumptions found between the lines of our research, policy recommendations and reform, will always do more harm than good. Most black people dont need to hear someone say racist things about us when actions and outcomes tell us everything we need to know. When roy junior on the daily show whether or not he believed President Trump used the nword in the white house would reply, i dont need footage to know if you worked out, have you seen his arms . No and identify how precious black lives are devalued by racism, strength is devalued, we can simultaneously debunk the narrative that distract us. If we can account for the associated cost of racism to individuals, then we can begin to properly restore value by investing in the people who have been penalized simply for being black. The study for factors such as Housing Quality and structure as well as neighborhoods factors such as education and crime, black neighborhoods are devalued by 48000, amounting to a whopping 156 billion. The value black neighborhoods is much higher than they are priced and given this true in other parts, 156 billion a big number, its why i say theres nothing wrong with black people who cant solve that. 156 billion could have started 1 million businesses. They could use this money as they are denied bank loans more than twice as often as their white peers and when we do get loans, we pay higher interest rates. The loss of equity means any black Business Owners are less likely to have the financial question to weather economic crisis like the one we are in now. During the great recession, about half black students survived compared to 60 of white owned businesses. The racism should have helped Services Like education, weve known for decades School Funding and racial prejudice are correlated with academic achievement. Schools dominated by students of color received 23 billion less the majority white districts. Largely a byproduct of an educational system that devalues black communities through a financing structure based on local property tax. Many education reform ignores Structural Racism saying its too hard to address segregation and financing. When reform is applied within the confines of inequality and black majority cities like it was in new orleans and katrina, we need little room in School Boards and underachievement. I saw this up close after hurricane katrina. Ten years later, the black population dropped from over 70 to about 50 . Replaced by younger, mostly white before katrina were no longer missing. Black teachers in the face of research that Shows Positive effect of black educators on academic. Black students who have one black teacher by third grade or 7 more likely to graduate high school and 13 more likely to enroll in college. After having two black teachers, black students likelihood of enrolling in college increases by 32 . Hiring more black teachers is something we have yet to try at scale. Theres nothing wrong with black people that ending racism cant solve. Values, underlying black teachers are also behind white black women cant buy or educate their way towards better for the outcomes in spite of their educational and professional gains in the past few decades. More black babies die before their first birthday and all other racial categories. The mortality rate among black mothers three times higher than their white counterparts. These disparities exist even after controlling education and income. My wife and coauthors found racial inequality the educational attainment, income and unemployment, imprisonment shows harmful effects on black infant mortality when racial inequality and employment increase, black infant mortality worsens. The decrease in educational inequality improves black infant mortality. The evaluation of black lives is at the intersection of race, gender and occupation. Consequently, our Solutions Must be intersectional in nature. The issue of inequity like all other issues presented in this book is not an academic one. I detail the personal struggle that my wife is a physician and i had been trying to have a child when she was born. In the chapter, having babies like white people, i show instead of restricting access to womens fertility options, an idea that we must expand reproductive choices. Lack of wealth the federal government should not continue to limit black womens choices. Addressing the structures that cause inequality is a option we have yet to try to scale. Theres nothing wrong with black people that they cant solve. To watch the rest, visit our website booktv. Org. Use the search box at the top of the page to search for andre perry or the title of this book, know your price. Good evening and welcome to the 2020 virtual gaithersburg book festival. We are so happy to have you with us today. Wish you could be here in person but we are still super excited to have you with us virtually. Before we start,