Cross Connection on MSNBC right now has excellent hard-hitting report on Tulsa and white mobs,

[JudyM]

tying it into today’s national situation. She interviewed the rethug mayor, directly questioning him about his profiting from his family’s own reprehensible actions. This is fresh reporting.

Worth catching!

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

I'm watching. It's been great.

[Dream Girl]

2. I can't watch. I find this topicso depressing. Especially since so little has changed.

[JudyM]

3. I hear you. More good people to see/read to understand and vote the bums out, though, IMO,

and this is doing a great job of educating and weaving the whole picture together. Discussing critical race theory, racist finance, whitewashing history and tourism, media ownership, etc.
Every little bit helps, and this is really excellent and riveting journalism, the way it’s being presented.

[Dream Girl]

5. Her show is excellent. Maybe I'll give it a look but I'm just so tired of this shit.

It gets overwhelming and doesn’t seem to change. White racism is a crazy sickness.

[JudyM]

9. Have to say I've learned more through all the recent events, I'm sure I'm not the only one.

So it’s doing some good. More coverage=more opportunities to reach people.

I saw a good bumper sticker today:

[Dream Girl]

12. I hate to admit it but when their is a yet another police shooting of an unamarmed black man, I

Turn the channel.I’ve gotten to the point I can’t take it anymore.it’s like different day, different black man. It’s so depressing. Makes me feel so weak and vulnerable as it could could happen to me or a loved one.

[uponit7771]

4. To say there's been little progress in America is false I agree with Obama on that

[Bayard]

6. Dang

I wanted to watch that, and it doesn't look like they are replaying.

[Solly Mack]

7. She is currently talking to people whose families once owned/traded slaves and the descendants

were "shocked" to learn that people "up North" owned slaves - Debra Bruno said she wasn't taught in school that people from the North owned slaves. That her family didn't tell her either.

(How do you go through school up North or down South (or anywhere else in America) and not know both Northerners and Southerners owned and/or traded slaves? What does it serve to gloss over this fact? Not teaching it amounts to teaching lies - if you give students the impression there were no slaves/slave owners/traders in the North. You deny the full history of slavery in America. You deny the full history of African-Americans in America. Denial and lies about history are bad/wrong/destructive - whether from schools in the South or the North)

The other person, Tom DeWolf from Rhode Island, a descendant of the largest slave trade families in U.S. History. They didn't know either until they "discovered" it.

(How is that even possible? How do you (relatively) recently "discover" your generational family wealth comes from the slave trade? Isn't that the kind of known family story (secret?) even if you don't talk about it out loud? It still gets whispered about and passed along.)

I know denial and revisionism about slavery runs deep but damn.

[JudyM]

8. Yes, I was raised in New England and was taught that it was a southern problem.

There wasn’t enough taught about the human side of it, period. Hopefully that’s starting to change.

[IcyPeas]

10. here's 37 minute clip from todays show:

[IcyPeas]

11. here is a tweet with a bit of the interview with the mayor:

Link to tweet

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