African americans . And what impact will donald trump make . Gabriel gatehouse has more. Band plays in the final week of the Obama Presidency, a Louisiana High School Marching Band Rehearses for the big day. We dont see colour, we dont see race, we dont see gender, we dont see ethnicity. We see potential. They are one of ten School Bands Chosen to play at the inauguration. There has been a lot of talk about how we need healing, and sometimes. Healing happens, you know, you just have to quit picking at it. But as it marks the transition from obama to trump, america is having two very different conversations about race. This is the life that black people live, and people of colour, but this is the life we live so it is not necessarily a conversation about race it is just a conversation. Amid tension over the issues of Police Killings, White Supremacists feel emboldened. Hailtrump, hail our people, hail victory and for some, talk of a return to The Good Old Days signifies nothing good at all. I look at it as the master has reclaimed his house. And even though he allowed the slaves to look after the house while he was on vacation, we are still in the same situation we have been in. Barack obama called slavery the original sin of america. His presidency once held out the promise of redemption. That hasnt happened. And as this country enters the trump era, the divisions between black and White America are felt, perhaps, more starkly than they have been in a generation. Barack obama if there is anyone out there who still doubts that america is a place where all things are possible, tonight is your answer. That was the era of yes, we can. When black america seemed poised to claim a confidence, a power, a parity long denied. Im so reckless when i rock like she dressed my daddy alabama, my mummy louisiana. To me it is a race war. You have black against white, white against black. From the swamps of washington to the bayou of the south. Beneath the surface of the post racial society, fear. Anger. And the deep roots of a history stil anger, and the deep roots of a history still unresolved. The final week of the Obama Presidency began with the annual commemoration for a man who gave his life for the civil rights struggle. America has come a long way since then. In new orleans they mark his memory with a show of sartorial pride. Our self esteem has grown from us knowing each other. Black men can see each other in a greater image that has been achieved. In this respect, the obamas scandal free tenure at the white house has had huge symbolic value. So you think about a boy like. How old are you . You know who the president is . Um, barack obama. Do you know who the president was before him . See . All he has ever known is obama. His life, like this, it is normal. It is normal for him to see a black man at the head of the country. A symbol is a powerful thing. The very fact of a black man and his unlikely presidency has expanded the concept of what is possible for millions of americans, black and white. But when it comes to cold hard statistics, the fact is that if you are Black In America The Odds are still stacked against you. In 2013, the median net worth of a White American household was over 140,000. For black households, that figure was 11,000. That is 13 times less. Under obama the wealth gap has widened. Travel up the mississippi from new orleans and you come to baton rouge, one of the most divided cities in the United States. To some children of inner city high schools, the education they got on the streets can seem more important than what is on offer in the classroom. You can go out there tomorrow, have your pistol, shoot somebody, then you end up in prison for the rest of your life. Silky slim reed is a former gang leader turned activist Whose Mission 110w is to stop young black men following his footsteps. It is 2017 and you are still Walking Around looking and acting exactly like slaves. And the world is looking at you as animals. Why . Because you live that lifestyle. Because you live a beast like lifestyle. Barack obama often told Black Americans they had to take responsibility for the problems in their own community. Silky agrees, up to a point. Im trying to bring a message to black people that if black lives do not matter to black people than they should not matter to anybody else. That is my message. Black lives have to matter to black people first before they matter to the rest of the world. Black lives matter focus on police killing, but i need to look at what we are doing to ourselves and try to resurrect as from the spiritual depth we are in really before i can worry about the 200 or 300 killings taking place by law enforcement. We are dying by the thousands at our own hands so i am focusing on that and then i stay on that. The poverty. I have grown up in poverty and i became a gang leader because i was starving. If i am in this house and do not have anything to eat i would rob before i starve. So when i am finding out that i do not have the necessities of life, i will go out and get those necessities, regardless of what the world says. I need to survive, just like anybody else. There are also inequalities that are systemic and ingrained. If you were black you are more likely to be arrested, get a longerjail sentence and more likely to be shot dead by police. 0bama only engaged with this issue late in his presidency and then with limited results. Like quarterbacks on the team, White Supremacy does not help us. The judge has to abide by the law. As far as black folks on the whole, politically, when you do the research and you look at the numbers then if you and i wanted to get married, we could get married here. The gays accomplished something you see what i am saying . I can not always just pressure it because at the end of the day, we did not ask for anything. We did not want to put that burden on the black man in the white house. We did not want to give him that burden. If you do not ask for anything you get nothing so you cannot be disappointed. So youre saying that the black community gave barack obama a free pass . Exactly. He is one of us. It is over 60 years since the Supreme Court ruled that and segregation in Public Education was unconstitutional. Ten years later the Civil Rights Act outlawed discrimination based on race. But today in cities across america it is all too obvious that De Facto Segregation is still very much in effect. If you look at a Demographic Map of baton rouge you will see that this route here, florida street, is a stark dividing line. Everything to the north is overwhelmingly black, everything to the south is mostly white. Now i spent time in divided cities. Places like baghdad and beirut, places where they have recently had a war. There has not been a war here since the 18605 when the north fought the confederacy over the issue of slavery. But last summer it felt like war was not far away. The killing of a black man, the latest in a string of Fatal Police Shootings caught on camera. They are shooting right now and there is an officer down. Two days later at a black lives matter protest a man opened fire on police, killing five. Not long after that, more officers were shot dead in baton rouge. This is a race war, to me. You have black against white, white against black. There would not be so many black people against white people, a i think, if was not so much Police Brutality. That was pushing that situation with some of the people. Nefertiti is part of a growing movement of radical black activists. During the black lives matter protests she says she too found herself on the Receiving End of some heavy handed treatment from the police. Going on a protest down town to city hall and Police Officers approached me, they dislocated my shoulder and fractured my finger. More recently, and i am recovering from that, but all was basically because i am part of the new black Panther Party and they assumed that the chapter out there protesting at the time, that i was a part of that chapter, but i wasnt. It is perhaps ironic that relations between the police and the black community reached their lowest point in a generation during the final years of the Obama Presidency. The killings by police and a lack of prosecutions of officers involved has entrenched a sense here of a force that does not serve and protect, but one that operate with impunity. Everybody is on edge, 0k . We are waiting on a decision from the department ofjustice. So people wantjustice and they want transparency. So that is the main thing that folks want. Transparency and justice. Recently we have had a shooting with Alton Sterling about two blocks down the street. We had Police Killings on the highway and we had a flood. So our community is broken. We are trying to get back together. The Baton Rouge Police department is acutely aware of the need to rebuild trust. To that end, Sergeant Riley harbour is dispatched of a weekend to do a spot of gardening at an inner city schooljust around the corner from where he grew up. This is what passes for community outreach. The citizens here, they have a right to be upset with all things that have happened, both from the civilian side and from law enforcement. Weve had losses on both, tragic all the way round, but we still have to be able to come together because weve still got to live. Baton rouge is braced for more trouble as it awaits the outcome of a federal investigation into the shooting of Alton Sterling. Nefertiti says the tensions between the black community and the police have brought an old enemy out into the open. Last year, about seven months ago, the klansmen, the ku klux klan aryan nation, they put flyers out Recruiting Members and this was particularly right after Alton Sterling was killed, they had it on the news that they were putting notes on peoples doors, going through the neighbourhood. Nefertiti and silky slim rang the number on the leaflet it went through to a pre recorded message which had clearly been updated within the past few days. Greetings. If you celebrate Martin Luther king, youre celebrating a communist pervert. Hailtrump hail our people hail our victory not long after the election, a group of white nationalists gathered to discuss the new political landscape. The final speaker was richard spencer, who coined the term alt right, a movement associated with Donald Trumps former campaign ceo steve bannon, who wasnt present but who is now one of the most powerful men in the white house. America was until this past generation a white country designed for ourselves and our posterity. This, then, is the context in which donald trump has taken office. Americas new president has disavowed support from overt racists, but still in baton rouge the tranquil surroundings of University Lake near the College Campus belies a sense of unease. Tina lang and meet Lewis Maurice are here for a photo shoot. Theyre expecting their first child in march. They want to remember this special time. But they fear their unborn daughters future may not necessarily be brighter than their own. We dont know how it will be for African Americans now to four years down the line, six years down the line. We dont know what will happen. Even when obama was in office, you seen officers were killing young black males and really werent getting penalised for it. So now that its trump, you never know. Itll be harder for us to get those opportunities and have that freedom to get the best education and to get the bestjobs, you know what im saying, just because of our race and the perspective that others have on us. So that is what im afraid of for my child. Here in the south the shadow of the plantations, the memory ofjim crow, of americas original sin, still loom large. It takes more than eight years to dismantle a social system thats been in place before the country was even established, before the country talked about creating some people equal and allowing some to have a pursuit of life and liberty and happiness, they had individuals that were not even considered human, they were treated as chattel. The situation youre talking about is actually normative for america, so to see something other than that is to see something radically different from actually what america is and how it came into being, which is deeply, deeply antiblack. Deeply, deeply anti black. Barack 0bamas legacy is a subject of fierce disagreement but radically different is not an assessment often applied to his record in office. For some the election of donald trump looks less like a sudden change of direction than a resumption of the status quo. I look at it like master has reclaimed his house. So i know masters place, you see what im saying, i know my place, im in the field, so i stay in the field i dont try to get up to the house, know what im saying . Youre talking about slavery here. Of course. Thats the dynamic youre talking about. Its the oppression. Youre saying it never really went away . No, even though master allowed one of the slaves to look after the house when he was on vacation we are still in the same fight that weve been in for the last 2115 years. In all seriousness, obviously there is a huge legacy of slavery but you cant say things havent changed since the 1860s, since the 19605 . Definitely. Theres no forced free labour here with the slaves, right . And what america has been successful in doing is creating these slums and ghettos, putting you in these areas and then making the police still oversee you just like were still on the plantation. So what goes on in the White Community dont happen in the black community, so when the police come here they say, get up against the car. Hey, man, ive got rights, shut the hell up. Its a different treatment. Its still like the overseers overseeing the plantation, we just dont have to go to work. Announcer next up, from louisiana, its the west monroe High School Marching band and raiders. Inauguration. Inauguration day. After the speech and the oath of office theres a moment in the spotlight for the High School Marching band from louisiana. Then the parade moves on. And so america begins a new chapter in its long book on race, weaving in the history of slavery, of segregation, with that of Martin Luther king and of the obama era. From my experience, i think the American Dream is still alive for anyone who wants to reach for it. There are African Americans in all areas of life that are quite, quite successful. I think that the road may be a little narrower and a little more stoney at times, but i think the American Dream is still achievable for everyone if you work hard and you live right and play by the rules, then success happens. Jaylen, 11 years old, has known no other president but obama. For her and her friends, President Trump was at first a frightening prospect. We was all thinking about, like, what if he actually sends us back to africa . That was your first thought, that you might not be allowed to be an american any more . Yes, sir. That sounds like a scary thought . Yeah. At first we were all, like, at first we were saying, its going to happen, but we talked about it one day at school and we was, like, it cant happen unless everybody says yes to it. Jaylen is ambitious. After Harvard Law School she wants to go on to become americas first black female present, but. I think he is going to try and make everything harder for blacks to get into, everything harder for hispanics to get into, everything harder for anybody of colour to try to do or try and be something. Jaylen has one of those teachers you remember for the rest of your life, someone who helps you make sense of a bewildering world. I think that people were sick of talking about race. White people or black people or everyone . I would say, from my experience, mostly white people. Its overwhelming, i can understand that from a perspective where youve never had to deal with it, you dont understand why we keep bringing it up over and over again. And i think that especially with the heightened sense of awareness of Police Shootings and Police Brutality and the injustices being so blatantly put in your face because of social media, white people started to have a backlash and they started to feel like, no one is representing me, everyone is talking about black people and not talking about me, so how can i make it somewhat about me . And so the age of trump began, as all presidencies usually do, with a promise of inconcinnity. To rebuild our country and restore its promise for all of our people. But Donald Trumps opponents fear quite the opposite. There are those who fear that the new president is a man with a vindictive streak who may use the power of his office to lash out at those who opposed him. Id like to punch him in the face, i tell you. Many liberals, especially white liberals, see trump as an existential threat to the founding principles of america. But from the black perspective, things can look a little different. He doesnt scare me, i dont have an issue with trump or whatever he do because everyone gets in there and does the same thing. When black america contemplates the prospect of a hostile, perhaps even oppressive, state it shrugs and asks, what else is new . Hello. Most of us have experienced quite a change to the weather in the last 24 48 hours. It is still pretty cold across many Northern Areas of the uk. Here is a picture from Weather Watcherjon from the scottish borders. Cloudy with some sweet, but further south in the uk this is where the milder air has reached. Some sunshine but also big clouds and these Cumulus Clouds are producing some thunderstorms, even hailstorms, across some parts of the country. Mixed weather in the week ahead. You will need your umbrella, but be steady in the wind. It is turning milder and even northern parts of the uk will experience those milder conditions at least by the middle of the week. You get the sense of what is happening across the atlantic, Clouds Racing through, whereas eastern parts of europe still has High Pressure dominating. That is where the weather is stuck and still relatively cold. Weather front still making their way across the country during sunday, bringing outbreaks of rain, so we have lost the cold weather but unfortunately that means the weather will turn a bit ugly, lots of grey cloud, outbreaks of rain. Not to everybodys taste. Northern areas, sunday, middle of the afternoon, you can see some showers for scotland, and also the North East Of England enjoying some sunshine but many parts, from northern ireland, to wales and the south, getting some Rain Andi Wales and the south, getting some rain and i suspect the heaviest will fall across wales and the southwest, as is often the case in this situation. Looking at monday, a big area of low pressure starts to form across the atlantic. That means the winds will start to increase, started pushing yet more cloud. Bits and pieces of rain. A weak front across many Western Areas on monday but ahead of that, lots of grey cloud. It will be a grey grisly day with mist and perhaps some fog in places as well. Temperatures opted 12 degrees in plymouth. 0n places as well. Temperatures opted 12 degrees in plymouth. On tuesday, another front brings outbreaks of rain in Western Areas but look at that, milder airfinally reaching that, milder airfinally reaching that part of the uk. A lot of this is milder, stronger winds coming from more southern claims. I think wetness day will probably be the best day of the week with some sunshine. There may be rain in eastern areas and later in the day some rain in the far north west, but on balance probably the best day of the week. Thursday, and eventually into friday, major Low Pressure Area developing to the west of us again, with winds and a chance of rain particularly across western and Northern Areas. Broadly speaking, late next week and into the weekend, that big low pressure is just towards the west of us sending stronger winds, perhaps gale force in Western Areas, with that more settled weather in the east. Then no change, Aircoming Off settled weather in the east. Then no change, air coming off oceans are it will feel relatively mild. To summarise, you will need your umbrella at times but be steady in the stronger winds, and some cold weather at time between those bands, particularly at night. Goodbye. This is bbc news. Im reeta chakrabarti. The headlines at 10pm theres confusion and anger at us airports where travellers have been detained following Donald Trumps order to restrict entry to people from seven mainly muslim countries. On a trade visit to turkey, theresa may refuses to join others voicing concern at President Trumps measures. Well, the United States is responsible for the United States policy on refugees. The United Kingdom is responsible for the United Kingdoms policy on refugees. The president himself holds a day of phone calls with other world leaders, including vladimir putin. But there was no move to ease sanctions on russia
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