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and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. today more than 70% of americans think that spanking is acceptable. that number is higher among african-americans. stacey patton has a new book about america s relationship with corporal punishment, and she says it s time to recognize that spanking is abuse that hurts kids. for those watching right now saying whooping already saved america s black children. what do you say. look at mass incarceration. violence in cities like chicago and baltimore, and you ll find your answer to that assumption that beating kids, whooping, spanking, treating their bodies with violence saved us from any of these structural realities. what is the sign tiffist difference between what you just ran and whooping. we have science that says whooping, spanking, hitting and pain, science that shows hitting children causes structural damage to their brains. it sparks bio chemical responses that can put them at risk ....
and by contributions to your pbs state from viewers like you. thank you. it is hard to believe it has been 25 years since the los angeles that i know and love went up in flames because of the injustice of rodney king. joining us is karen bass. gil gar setty who was elected the new da and oversaw one of the most pivotal errors in the department s history. michael wu made a racially charged race for mayor. he is now teaming with courses like redesigning l.a. he is dean of the college of environmental design, and john mack. good to have you all here. thank you. does it seem like 25 years? no, it is incredible. the years have jumped by. we were talking about it earlier. it seemed like maybe 10 or 15 years ago, but 25, that is, but of course, it still burns in my mind, the memory and the process that we went through. of course on the day of that verdict, a bunch of us were gathered at the church, and after that tape it was hard for us to believe that the jury would ....
and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. today more than 70% of americans think that spanking is acceptable. that number is higher among african-americans. stacey patton has a new book about america s relationship with corporal punishment, and she says it s time to recognize that spanking is abuse that hurts kids. for those watching right now saying whooping already saved america s black children. what do you say. look at mass incarceration. violence in cities like chicago and baltimore, and you ll find your answer to that assumption that beating kids, whooping, spanking, treating their bodies with violence saved us from any of these structural realities. what is the sign tiffist difference between what you just ran and whooping. we have science that says whooping, spanking, hitting and pain, science that shows hitting children causes structural damage to their brains. it sparks bio chemical responses that can put them at risk ....
then as tens of thousands individuals born in the dominican republic, mostly of haitian descent, face expulsion, we speak with haitian-american writer edwidge danticat. haitians of dominican descent can be expelled from the dominican republic. it is something that can potentially become one of the most catastrophic refugee crises in our region. amy: all that and more, coming up. amy: welcome to democracy now democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. greece s central bank has warned the country is on a painful course toward defaulting on its debts and dropping out of the eurozone. in a statement, the bank urged the greek government and european creditors to reach a deal before greece s current bailout expires at the end of month. the greek government has rejected european demands for further pension cuts. the bank of greece warns a default quote would snowball into an uncontrollable crisis, and bring deep recession, a dramatic decline in incom ....
silence just a day after she resigned her post as president of the spokane chapter of the naacp amid reports she falsely portrayed herself as black. she says that is how she identifies. we will host a roundtable discussion. then as tens of thousands individuals born in the dominican republic, mostly of haitian descent, face expulsion, we speak with haitian-american writer edwidge danticat. haitians of dominican descent can be expelled from the dominican republic. it is something that can potentially become one of the most catastrophic refugee crises in our region. amy: all that and more, coming up. amy: welcome to democracy now democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. greece s central bank has warned the country is on a painful course toward defaulting on its debts and dropping out of the eurozone. in a statement, the bank urged the greek government and european creditors to reach a deal before greece s current bailout expires at the end of mon ....