this interference is two for afford statehood to th district of columbia now, we are getting somewhat eye on statehood we now have 54% of the america people supporting statehood. and when you add the notion of taxation without representation, it goes up to 58%. so we are on our way to stay ahead. all we need is to get back the house of representatives which we just lost the relationship betwee washington d.c. and the federa government is unique but it is not the only city to have its criminal justic policy second gassed we recently spoke to the mayor of st. louis where the missour state house recently passed bill to end local control of the st. louis police department. tomorrow, we will be joined on this show by the mayor o jackson mississippi, where the state lawmakers are trying t
enforcement agencies. and about 85 million to more than 900 cities and counties. police across the country suffered a 50% increase in the number of cops killed. here are a number of the cities receiving the money. chicago about 2.5 million. seattle 80 million. los angeles nearly over 2.5 million. philadelphia 1.5 million and baltimore 1.3 million and here s a list of the cities seeing record number of homicides stretching from stew son arizona, to jackson mississippi, to rochester, new york. some blame lockdowns, no in person schooling and it turmoil contributing to strikes. calls to defund the police now it appears president biden s doj wants to fund the police. guys, happy new year. kayleigh: thank you, lucas. happy new year to you, too. incredible to me, lawrence, throwing money at the problem is not going to fix things. there is a reason we have a crime problem in this country it started to uptick last summer
truth. the history. and i think a big part of that is because of the textbooks we had in our schools, you know. textbooks where adopted based on what the white man said that we could use. so we were not on textbook committees. for the state. so we could not have, we didn t have any say-so in terms of what we could use. and in many instances, these textbooks were books that were passed down to us from whites. but what i found most offensive as a young person growing up was the ignorance around the contributions of all of our mississippians, and mississippi is very cultural diverse, we have japanese, libyan, italian, all working together down ferris street, the
one of our main goals when we launched this show on msnbc in early 2020 before covid was to learn how people like you across the country view the many issues that we discuss daily on this network with journists and experts we called our efforts and travels velshi across america, but it was a kernel of an idea expanded into a series this year in which i traveled across the country listening to americans from across the political spectrum share their political beliefs and their opinions. to date i visited and have spoken to americans in 20 place, detroit, mississippi, philadelphia, kenosha, wisconsin, san francisco and the navajo nation, to name a few. and we ve discussed some of the most critical issues of our time. race, gender, class, and how those manifest in society. one particular concept we explored was how the history of the u.s. civil war is taught, depending on where you live. if you live in the south, for
hub of all of our businesses but around the time when this came up, they pretty much came up that we have this multicultural bustling city that you ve got, that is giving jobs and opportunities for people of all color, you have to choose, you have to be white or black and those from mississippi who know our history and know what it has been, what it could be, you know, we re happy to still be there to make that vision real. but if you don t know your history, then you don t understand, you are doomed to repeat it or be a victim of it. taylor, you and timothy are of a different generation, do you think you ve got the real story? absolutely not. wow. i can remember every year going to school, when it got to black history month, or when we got to the textbooks to the slavery and civil war section, we hear about different