Civil Rights in America

Bill Moyers on race in america

 

Broad story on civil rights in America on anniversary of '68 Kerner Report, which denounced racial segregation in America. Guests discuss the race riots in Detroit, Newark & Watts that led to civil rights reform; and site Katrina, Jena (La), record numbers of minorities in prison and the concentration of sub-prime forclusures in urban areas, as evidence that discrimination has not disappeared, but merely changed its face...

 

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Civil Wrongs

Bill Moyers devotes an entire hour to a discussion of race in America on the heels of Barak Obama's campaign [and i thought he was only half black...]. The main interview is with Douglas Blackmon, whose new book uncovers a legacy of slavery in the south that continued well into the 1940s. He explains how police would used selective laws to detain black men for things like loitering and vagrancy, then sold them off as slaves to farmers, factory owners, mining companies and the like...

 

 

Jeremiah Wright

Barak Obama's former Chicago pasteur's first t.v interview after the controversy w/ Obama. In this interview w/ Bill Moyers, he is reasonable & articulate—nothing like the mainstream media has made him appear. Moyers response the following week is a classic critique of race, the media and all america's dirty little black secrets that no one in the mainstream press has the balls to talk about

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