Okay, look, we hear about it every day but if there is one thing that regularly brings our country together, its our hatred of washington d. C. What is wrong with washington . Whether youre republican. Washington d. C. Is not only broken, its broke. Or democrat. Change needs to start right here in washington. Or just a opportunist. We ought to change it from the word swap to cesspool or perhaps to the word sewer. You have sole levme level of dislike for the nations capitol so whats it like for the people that live in d. C. . Washington, d. C. Is not just capitol hill. While the people who dominate that scene are overwhelmingly white men, the city has proud black leadership and problems like any other city. Unlike most cities, d. C. Is not allowed to solve them on their own. Washington, d. C. Is a Federal District which means its not a state, but its not in a state. We would like statehood. When d. C. Decides to legalize marijuana or hand guns, the federal government said not today, black folks, not today. Im going to talk to these folks. Your name . Lamont tomson. You did it like a rapper. Whats your name . Pierre richards. Mischa. So how did you end up here talking to me . We saw you outside the window and tried to gather more coworkers, but the white coworkers were like ooh thanks for that ego boost. There is something about d. C. People with a chip on your shoulder. Is that true . You say that about a couple of things. Like d. C. , some cities very proud. We sometimes dont get the respect we deserve. Like there is no culture in d. C. Any time a new person is in d. C. , i try to tell them the history of the city because so many people dont know. They dont understand why we dont have representation. They think its because the government is here, but when black people moved here after the reconstruction period, white people did not think we were smart enough to govern ourselves. We dont have representation because of racism. She aint lying. 25,000 africans moved to town because it was pro union and they had a growing infrastructure of black businesses. They had a greater percentage of black folks that led to many black politicians. Locally they empowered themselves this is by invitation only. It has been a battle for the people of d. C. Who didnt have the right to vote for president until 1961. This week im going to try to get to the bottom of some of this. Im going to start with the place that defines d. C. To me. Im headed to the shaw neighborhood owned by my friends. She used to come to my shows and we became friends. She even sends care packages to my family. How are you doing . Excellent. Glad youre here. Thank you for sending that to my mom. Shes a borablborabledborabo. A doll. How can we heal you . What tea do you have for kids. Absentee dad tea. Absent tea. Kombucha mixed with that. Thats fantastic. I brought the camera crew. How busy can a tea shop be . People say that. Its good. All right. This place is packed. Look who its packed with. Some of everybody. The first 15 minutes of a classic spike lee movie before they give a speech. There is lots of black people on the wall. What are do people dont know about d. C. Outside of d. C. This is a really democratic town. Completely. Its a really dont tread on me area. They tried to pass this legislation that if huh loud music playing, you get 10 days in jail. Everywhere was up in arms. Black people, white people. They were angry they would try to slide that in. The people here are fervently committed to rights of other people. We have lots of d. C. Folks here. The tea shop is right around the corner from Howard University so its a regular spot for students and d. C. Scholar like this. How long have you been here . Too long. At least 42 years. What was d. C. Like when you got here . The demeanor of the population here, they were more subtle. They were cordial. Felt like a small town. Yes. Thats why i didnt move to new york. Older and dirtier. Its all neighborhoods. There was a record store that used to anchor this block where a lot of people convened. There is a barbershop where people still convened. It renewed the energy. A lot of students from howard are from all over the world. It has nothing to do with whats going on 1600 pennsylvania avenue. You recognize it as national news. Its a lot of noise. It doesnt really affect our day to day. Worse than this happened to us. Its kind of how the people are. We have been worse than this. We will move on with whatever else we are doing. In this city. We were here before you and will be here after you. Politicians are not even thinking about it. Except when they want to play god with the rules. In puerto rico and guam, its occupied territory. In the heard of the city from the beginning, it has really been the african population. There is always attention to keep that here. 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What did your mayor do . One of the first offices was on u street, a center for black culture and business in d. C. For decades. Hi at first glance, lees flower shop seems like a flower shop. But it has the laughter and conversation of a barbershop and a first job for many team in turned into a career and a successful Family Business that has been a successful Family Business for more than 70 years. 1945. You werent here in 1945. No, but may grandparents were. This is my sister. Its one of d. C. s oldest blackowned business. In a place known as Chocolate City, thats saying something. There were challenges with opening a floral shop in 1945. Not a lot of people would think to do that. There were a lot of black businesses on u street. Back in the day, d. C. Was like detroit, los angeles, major cities with large populations of black folks where segregation led to enterpriseship. Since black people couldnt go downtown to shop and see shows, they had their own. There were tentists and doctors and Jewelry Stores and all kinds of black businesses here this was the main drag. Here i am. Look at you how does a business stay open for more than 70 years . My grandparents decorated the white house. There were not a lot of black people in the picture this could be a Current White House photo. Number two, you change with the times. I never have seen a florist shop with so many computers. They were working the phones and its like a telethon. This is our patriarch. My dad. I imagine u street has changed quite a bit since you took it over. Millions of changes. D. C. Went through tough times after the assassination of Martin Luther king, jr. And riots in d. C. How did that affect you . We were here all night long. I wrote black owned and soul brothers on the window. My mom went in here with a shotgun. Hoping to discourage people. Im a soul brother with a shotgun. Locked and load and full of soul. That was rough though. There was smoke all over the city. 14th and 7th street were on fire. Nothing happened on u street, thank god. This is our beautiful mother, marie lee. You let them talk and do all of this stuff. Thats the way it is. Tell me your perspective. Its wonderful. Shes the president and a vice and the they are doing a wonderful job. Our accountant cant believe how well they are doing the business. I like that you got down to the bottom line. Our accountant. This is smart. My daughter and sage. This is samantha. Samantha has been with us for 15 years. This is gina, the hostess with the mostest. This is my aunt, but we were born on the same day. We are the same age. Thats how black families work. From alabama. Thats how it works. There are more black women employed here than at the white house. I feel like i need to open a Family Business. Stacy thought that was a good yet. Next thing i knew, i was wearing an apron. The chain broke. Featuring three new dishes that are plankedtoperfection. 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C. Is its a tale of two cities. Everything you see is washington. Where i am from is d. C. Its where people work and live. Its d. C. , baby. When people come to visit me here, they say lets go do touristy things. I forgot i live here with that stuff. Whatever crap that happens on capitol hill. I try to keep it in that line. Isnt that from hamilton. The crap that happens. Oh, my god, i wish. There is always crap happen on the hill, but the Trump Administration is crap taftic. While republicans are celebrating, its hard to find any to talk to. My reputation precedes me. Democrats d. C. Hates trump. He is not welcome here. He doesnt have a job. He has a home business. The places i go, you see the maga hat staring me down like what are you doing here. We know you are here and that led us to there. Were asked Trump Supporters to talk to me, but we got nobody white or black to talk to me soy i appreciate you talking to me as a trump supporter. Thank you very much. Have you had anything assume because you are a black woman that you must be a democrat . Of course. People come up come down talking trump. He is no more of a racist than obama and hillary in my opinion. We were talking about her life as a republican in d. C. We couldnt help but take a stroll down maga lane. Hes just standing up for himself. I was happy just who could forget this. I didnt see his birth certificate. I dont know. That was fun. Lets get to the real conversation before i start to cry. What are is it like living in d. C. With that hat on, specifically with that hat on . They say how could you and you are a sell out. We all know they are black republicans. We are not all in a closet. Thats true. Thats a complicated layer. Everyone is in the closet as a republican. Even white people . Oh, yeah. They are afraid of being attacked. You go to a restaurant, i wouldnt wear this in a restaurant because im afraid they are going spit in my water and food. You bring your own water with you. Come on, we know its not regular republicans that have the problem. Its the republican policy maker who is work for trump. Say you are ted cruz and you restrict freedoms and spew nonsense and at the end of the day you get hungry and you transform into a regular guy and that creates a problem for you. While you think you pulled off a super man clark kent switcheroo, the people you speak out against recognize you and they have opinions about your opinion and you and your friends hide behind arguments about civility. We are supposed to have civility. There is a loss of civility and an anger and a rage on the far lefts that frightening. What do you say to people who say its rude to interrupt somebodys dinner even if you disagree with them. Did i laugh out loud . Kristin is one of the meal interrupters. In july 2018, she saw scott pruitt, then head of the Environmental Protection agency in a restaurant even though she was with her husband and kid, she knew she had to say something. We need somebody who does protect the environment and believes in Climate Change and takes it seriously. Thats my son, brooks. I think i saw her in a viral video. I saw her as a parent who knows how to multitask with the complicated list of things. Raise the kid, save the world. The video of you walking over to scott pruitt to as we say, read him for filth. And it was such i think it was a mom moment. Such a parent moment. On many levels. Thats what made it great. As a real person, it was not a rehearsed speech. What you did shows how the regular people of this area get pulled into this. My husband took the video for me and after he walked away, i was like that was a boring video. Nobody is going to watch that. Why do you think it was boring . I just came up and said what i wanted to say and i was polite and he was like and i sat back down. You gotta post it. New tonight is resign from a woman who came facetoface with scott pruitt in a restaurant. You definitely helped him put the accelerator down. We will never know. He said in his letter he cited unrelenting attacks. Thats me i was a tiny part of that an unrelenting attack come on, scott. You know what that means . You are doing a bad job. You havent have had the job you had. What do you think about losing civility because you are not letting a man eat his lunch. The civility debate is a waste of time. When people say that, they are uncomfortable with the content of what is being said. Sarah Huckabee Sanders wanted to say that was not civil. Did she say anything to address the content of my words . The corruption, the misuse of taxpayer dollars, what he is doing to our air and water and the favors he is doing for corporate lobbyists. No, people should be able to eat their lunch. Like his taco is more important. What do i have to say to that person . Yeah. My last question is, whats that noise . These are the biggest grasshoppers. Its all throughout d. C. Every 17 years and with Climate Change, they are unpredictable. These are from scott pruitt. Im feeling attacks from them. Im going to write a press release about this. Which took them to the place where they discovered that sometimes a little down time can lift you right up. Flights, hotels, cars, activities, vacation rentals. Expedia. Everything you need to go. Expedia. Thanks for the ridealong, captain ive never been in one of these before, even though geico has been ohhh. Ooh ohh here we go, here we go. You got cut off there, what were you saying . Oooo. Oh no no. Maybe that geico has been proudly serving the military for over 75 years . Is that what you wanted to say . Mhmmm. I have to say, you seemed a lot chattier on tv. Geico. Proudly serving the military for over 75 years. You ok back there, buddy . In a city filled with people claim to it like it is and actually dont, man tells it like it is for a living. Henry roll ups. In the 1960s, this was jackson elementary school. What i learned here informed me for the rest of my life. Henry rollins is a citizen of the world. He circled the globe many times as the lead singer of black flag and with rollins band which you may remember from the 90s. He mostly spends his time going everywhere he is invited and taking pictures and speaking truth to power. How hard you stand up for lgbt and brown folks and women and Reproductive Health rights, et cetera, et cetera, it all matters now. No matter what, he returns to d. C. And reminisces about the old days. Notice i didnt say the good old days. This was a Majority Black School when you were here. Heres the great irony. This is an incredibly white neighborhood. Most of the kids in this neighborhood are going private schools. So they are being spared the wrath of the Public School system. Even as a little kid, i knew i was lucky. This is a nice neighborhood. Parts of d. C. Are on fire. And kids i was going to school with were coming from that to school. They were mad. At what, i dont know. Just angry because their parents were angry. Day one of first grade and i walk in looking like a sears ad for please beat me up. I got surrounded by black kids with tiny fists in my face. Im easily frightened, you know. Thats when i heard cracker. Bama. I never got the 411 on that. I was literally trembling. It was so loud. I had no idea what i had done. The chant was fight, fight, finger and a white. Beat them because president white cant fight. Thats right. I said you have a song . What is this . This sucks i havent even gotten inside. This is how it starts . Heres what i would do since i lived down the street. I would come here on the weekends when there would be no one in here and play by myself. I wanted to have a fun time in the school yard. Whenever i have a chance when im here in washington, i will come to this school yard and visit because it was so impacting. The most remarkable thing is that you didnt walk out as a person who was like oh, these people are bad. Im better than these people. Heres the pay back. How can you become who you are now, a guy about equality and togetherness and uplifting the voices and you become the character you played. It was about stopping color from getting stronger. How did that happen . Not to be corny, but its true. My mom. She said well, honey, its a tough time and these kids, they dont dislike you. They are just hearing bad information. I said what do i do . She said stick your handout and say hi, im henry, lets be friends. It didnt work. Thats exactly what you do for a living. Give mama roll ups credit. Parts of washington i have never been to. When i was living here, there was music shows. What made me want to go to the neighborhood was gogo. You see the fantastic and lets go. In the 70s from funks, the godfather died a few years ago. I would be willing to bet one entire don lemon paycheck that most of you watching have no idea what gogo is. Its d. C. s homegrown kind of music. It makes you dance even if you dont want to. You heard of baby making music. Lets make that baby later. This is my jam. These guys right here are gogo legends. Tonight im meeting up with a founding member. I figure if im talking gogo, he is one of the biggest fans. Do you remember what record you were first on . Pump me up. First funk song i ever heard. Here looks at them the way i look at him. Were got the straight up gogo live record. Thats classic. Thats the one. They are all good, but thats like the best record you have ever heard. On a bunch of black flag shows, before we go on, gogo. That was what we put on. No one didnt like it. That will work. It always worked. Even this is interesting about d. C. To me. In many cities, the white music and the black music doesnt mix. You guys have all played together. My first experience, it was minor threat. Looking at minor threat and these people look like they are biting. The mosh pit. Oh, hell, they arrived. Thats the way they dance, right . Im thinking like whats going to happen when we come on . The way they adapted is like amazing. It was a marriage. Between the two styles. So what was it like when you were a kid growing up. D. C. Has gone through so many changes. You see people get robbed, shot, it was kind of rough. I lost two brothers to the streets. I lost one of my brothers right in front of my mothers house. It is, you know, it was rough. Its a rough thing to deal with. And its still rough. Believe it or not. I believe it. This is still america and the d. C. Police department is like Many Police Departments in this country. They blame violence and crime on black culture and music. The councilman didnt know what to do about the violence. They associated the things that happen outside of the gogo with the gogo. They tried to shut gogo down. They like to shut down, but they cant control. Perfectly said. Just for the record, i paid my taxes. I aint in trouble going nowhere. Just for the record, tax man. We are all straight. Yeah. Alright, i brought in ensure max protein. To give you the protein you need with less of the sugar you dont grunti g ill take that. cheering 30 grams of protein and 1 gram of sugar ensure. For strength and energy. The precolor treatment, excellence haircolor from loreal carin three ways legendary color creme, nourishing conditioner. Grays 100 covered. So much care in one little box. Excellence creme from loreal paris. Depend® silhouette™ briefs feature maximum absorbency, with trusted protection for all out confidence. 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Do you want to set up the meet something. She calls out the white houses lies on a daily basis . Is the president aware that the need is about Police Involved shootings . The president made his position crystal clear. Or whenever Sarah Sanders bothers to show. I would be happy to answer if you stop talking. They are lying on a record breaking pace. She doesnt mind me crashing her self care project. This is so much easier than season one. You grew up in baltimore. What was your image as a kid. It was like a magical city to meism heard about Chocolate City. I always wanted to come. I always wanted to be a part of it. This was the mecca. Everything comes to the white house. I have seen that. For 21 years i stayed in the shadows and now im lit. Im on fire now. Im lit. You started in 1997. Bill clinton was president. Mr. Period, general Barry Mccaffrey is in the middle of controversy over the Needle Exchange program. He understood there was a racial prejudice in this nation. Back then, it was interesting to watch the people walk in front of the white house and have their opinion. Now there is a different type of mood and type of atmosphere and type of anger, but yet every day i still walk to that white house and get goose bumps and chills. A kid from baltimore five generations removed from the last slave in my family. Every day i walk into that white house, i dont know what im going to get. April ryan, i watch her get up. You talk about somebody thats a loser. She doesnt know what the hell shes doing. Im a kid from baltimore just doing her job. I have been asking the same exact questions. Mr. President , are you a racist . Thats a tough question. Mr. President , are you a racist . Think about it. It was building up. We had charlottesville and the nigerians. The banning of the muslims and this and that. So many things. Mr. President , are you a racist . I cried. I cried some someones arms from baltimore. A cameraman at the white house. I fell in his arms and i said i shouldnt have to ask this of the u. S. President. If i hadnt asked, no one else would. That was a hard day for me. Why you have become so important for black folks is because and the white and the asian folks. Right now, we are talking about the black folks. All right, my brother. Because many of us feel like we have somebody in there who understands and recognizes the concerns and speaks to the concerns. Okay, sometimes when we sit in the unique perches, there is a responsibility even that im not a policy maker, but when you ask questions, sometimes it effectuates change. I appreciate you. Can we take a picture with my phone . Hold on. Since the day this country was founded, we debated about what was wrong with it. Living in d. C. Is a unique opportunity to be a part of the conversation by walking outside their front door. Theyre show up and theyll rally and protest. Thats great. Thats what d. C. Is about. A place where you can be heard. Sometimes a concerned d. C. Resident needs to show up after she finishes her homework. She 11 years old. At some point in my conversation, you are going forget she is 11. We lie to ourselves and say we are virginians. We are in d. C. At other points you are going to remember. This great diverse, ethical . Ethical. People with all different backgrounds. Ethical . Ethical is morally correct which you shouldnt describe the city as. If naomi doesnt look nervous, this is way less than her first appearance. Im representing the africanamerican girls who dont make the front page. She spoke at the 2018 march for our life really. She got National Attention for leading a school walk out. My walk out was different not only because we were 10 and 11, but we had an extra minute. We led a walk out on the 14th. Adding a minute to honor an africanamerican girl after the parkland shooting. It was nerve racking because i dont have a personal experience with gun violence. Its not foreign to me, but im privileged in that sense so i cant talk about whats not me. What is me is racial bias and violence against the black community. At the end of the day we will win. Im trying to promote responsible gun ownership. There is a sense of having to come to d. C. From across the country or the world to go to d. C. And make your voice heard. You are in the position where you dont have to go that far. How does it feel to have the halls of power that accessible to you . Its cool to have this great diverse city available to me. And that when i grow up, i can walk on the streets and see people with different stories to tell and different ideas to bring to the table and be in this very oneofakind city. The wifi that set the standard, just raised the bar again. Introducing xfinity xfi advantage. It comes with everything you love about xfi. The best speed, coverage and control. But it doesnt stop there, you also get enhanced network security, safer browsing, and more. Plus it helps to optimize your networks performance. Giving you the best coverage from attic to basement. So you can focus on streaming your favorites. Not finding a signal. Make the best wifi even better,with xfi advantage. Simple, easy, awesome. Now, ive talked to a lot of different folks this week in d. C. While they have differences, there is one thing they can agree on. Is this still Chocolate City . White Chocolate City. Vanilla swirl. Yeah. This is chocolate mix. More like a reeces pieces right now. No. [ laughter ] no. No, its not. As much as i hate to say it, no. We trying to get it back, though. If d. C. Isnt chocolate cit , anymore, what is it . If we talk about the future, why waste time talking to grown ups . Lets talk about kids. So bilingual Public School and half of our students are native spanish speakers, half are native English Speakers and pick up chinese in sixth grade. Wow. Youre not messing around here, huh . No. This is principal myer cruz. For us, she leads an Incredible School and for us, shes friends with our producer gerald dean. Gerald dean approved. [ laughter ] lets talk about your story. Like how you ended up in d. C. I first came here with a Congressional Hispanic Caucus institute. So i was a chci intern with my congressman and i saw capitol hill. I remember saying like where are the latinos and everyone is like go to colombia heights. I went to the metro and the education campus was at dismissal and i saw these beautiful kids come out and i said if i ever live in d. C. , im going to work at this school with these kids. Wow. I dont think people even think about la ttinos in d. C. Talk about that. You cant have d. C. Would el salvador. There is dominican here. There is a raising mexican population here. No idea. This is washington. Yeah. Right . Washington, i mean, washington, salvadorians are the largest immigrant population and that lead the mayor to deepen the citys connection to el salvador with a visit to promote the cultural ties. It was a historic first for a sitting d. C. Mayor and evidence of the changing city the students here will one day lead. Youve all gone here to school all your school life . Ive been here since prek. Got here in fifth grade. What took you so long . Waiting list. Waiting list. I was on the waiting list since kindergarten. Really . Yes. Do you like it here . I did. I like the curriculum, classes and teachers. Curriculum. [ laughter ] what about you . I really love the diversity. There is people of from basically everywhere here and its great. When youre here, do you think about the white house and all that stuff and things you see going on there . Its always on my mind. I know that there was this event happening where about the kkk going there. I have friends that live here and they were going to go there. I didnt want anything to happen to them because of most of my friends are hispanic and like, i dont know, i just felt like they were unsafe. I mean, that makes sense because they were potential violence. It brings me down to think about this stuff. Its a drive and they are coming up with decisions that could negatively affect people. I know a friend thats undocumented and shes afraid to walk near the white house or like get out of her house. Its heard breaking to me. Yeah. Are you old enough to remember barack obama as president . Yes. What do you remember from when he was president . Thankfully. She said thankfully. What do you remember . I felt safer. I felt more confident about our neighborhoods, the people around us. I just felt better about the country that we live in. Uhhuh. You actually sound like Young Barack Obama the way you speak. He does. I want people to know that the only thing in d. C. Isnt the president , and the people here probably like any state in the United States just its a good community. Its a good place. I know a lot of people like think about like the d. C. Like a place where they like divide people based on like color, religion, their sexuality but there is always a part in d. C. Where there is a community that you can always go to. I like how everything blends here so culturing from all over the world and everybody seems to accept that. Its been great to go to some of the marches that have been here. I had a great time at the womens march. It was fun to be part of a big Movement Like that. I like that people stand up for what they believe in. The hatred thats going around. I think that needs to like decrease because there is a lot of hatred in the world and there is no point of hating people. Like we should all just get along. Good job here. Good job here. Thank you. You need to get back to class. We pulled you out of class. We dont want you to a lot of you claim to hate washington d. C. But really your problem is with washington. With capitol hill, with the politicians who dont even really live there and guess what . The people of d. C. Have the same problems with washington that we do. I love d. C. Its a beautiful place, a city with a proud black history when it wasnt easy to be black and proud and a city thats consistently turned out some of the best artists and thought leaders and many of those people have a real problem with washington because washington wont let d. C. But d. C. , a diverse place with progressive politics, with a history of fighting for the voices of the unheard. Look, on some level, washington will probably always be a mess but that aint d. C. s fault. Whether youre on the left or right or an opportunist, you have to support a city being allowed to decide whats good for itself. Let d. C. Be d. C. I think police do a lot of bad things. Nobody in the neighborhood trusted the police. You respond to calls. You make arrests. And you either survive under any and all conditions or you dont. Im going to talk to him about that night. Im taking a chance. I dont know exactly how its going to go. It doesnt seem like either one of you are thinking fully of the other person as a human being. Youre just two soldiers on a battlefield. We got shots fired. I saw him rack the slide back. And i pulled the trigger. I closed on him. He was struggling with me. I fully intended to stop him. That included taking his life. Ive spent half my life working with the criminal justice system, and ive seen lives devastated by violence. We like to imagine that after the verdict, the story is over, the victim and the offender are never meant to meet again. But for some, the only way to move forward is to come face to face with the person who shattered their lives. Bakersfield, california,