solidarity during the early days of the pandemic, as destructive as it was. in the early, early days. these italians saying, you know, out their window every day. they were singing a beautiful anti-fascist anthem, bella chao. i m a walking stereotype. i remember that thinking, the bells are being wrong. the people applauding every day for the health care workers. we talk about when we owe each other. the moral contract. we felt really strong, intensely for a little bit. and then it s been so torn asunder. profoundly torn asunder ever since. michelle? i think you see that everywhere. the pandemic has been utterly corrosive to the social celerity to trust in authority. that is reverberating all over the world. michelle, michelle goldberg and eddie cloud. so good to have you. that is wonderful.
needed one, of facebook literally the guy was broadcasting live on facebook, they had to bring him down but not after he broadcast live on facebook. this platform is being used to fuel the most violent of the most violent rhetoric and acts that we see in live, real time. it is, i think it s fascinating, first of all, that, of course, he chose facebook because why wouldn t he? so many people did leading into january 6th. but what michael schmidt said, eddie cloud, it s a great insight. we ve always had crazy people that have always done crazy things around the united states capitol. in fact, if these were normal times we might do a one-sentence statement and move on to the next story. what makes 2021 different? what makes this different is,
be involved with them. that s what i m aiming for with this piece. you also talked about how it was immoral if you look at the income disparity between white americans and black americans. you just said just out and out immoral. the same thing with incarceration rates. that s right. i may get you and eddie cloud together to get together to run for office in four years? the median income of african americans is half that of white americans. the incarceration rate is five times more among blacks than whites. it might be worse. this is sort of faith hour here on thursday morning on morning joe. i m a christian. i believe deeply that all men are created equal in the image of god, and so if we have these horrible outcomes that suggests something in the system is wrong. a lot of talk about racism will sound to sensitive white ears like oh, you guys are evil.
singularly, claimed to have been slaves under the auspices, institution and leadership of the united states government. so hears the thing. even if a reparations plan were to eventually pass the house, it probably isn t going anywhere in the senate if mitch mcconnell is still in charge. i don t think reparations for something that happened 150 years ago for whom none of us currently living are responsible, is a good idea. we have, you know, tried to deal with our original sin of slavery by fighting a civil war, by passing landmark civil rights legislation. we elected an african-american president. i m joined now by msnbc contributor eddie cloud, from princeton. a republican strategist and former trump deputy chief of staff at hahn. shawna thomas, jeff mason with reuters. eddie, your reaction to mcconnell. he said it would be hard to figure out who to compensate
white house. tuesday he speaks at the national holocaust memorial museum. on wednesday he s vowed to outline his principles for tax reform, underlining that line, an outline, not necessarily delving into specifics. thursday he will host the president of argentine na at the white house and then friday he speaks at the nra leadership forum. saturday, the big event, that all-important 100 day milestone, he s going to be holding a big rally in philadelphia, one of the states that he won. and you know president trump likes those rallies. i want to bring in a great panel, jason osbourne, a republican strategist and former senior adviser for the trump campaign and eddie cloud, a professor and chairman of the center for african-american studies at princeton university. good morning to you both. good morning. eddie, i want to start with you, president trump leading with the wall. does this make sense, given that negotiations have to happen, but the wall is such a divisive