Its such an illuminating statistic. Official reaction was both swift and severe. Before my neck turns into bacon out here. America was founded on the ideal of democracy. It was me. I dont know. Over 41 years, he teaches thousands of medical students about anatomy, and hes kind of famous for playing classical music on his violin and reciting poetry for his students while theyre dissecting cadavers. And they start dying in really high numbers, so much so that in some towns and cities, their bodies are littering the streets. The C.E.O.s making 204 times what the average worker is making. And to have my home taken like that, its unreal. The Yankees all going home. June doesnt have enough money to pay for farming equipment. People would always say, oh, your farm didnt last because you were lazy or your farming practices. How does that make sense? And incidentally . And thats how we just started expanding even more. Well, I think their aim is mixed marriages and becoming equal with the whites. So as Congress begins to debate the bill, Montague Cobb knows that this is the moment to both create a national health insurance program and desegregate the nations hospitals. (SINGING) Make it last forever. And he lost the patch of land off Highway 90 where June and his father had opened rows and covered cane for the last time. A little more than halfway through his speech . In August of 1619, a ship carrying more than 20 enslaved Africans arrived in the English colony of Virginia. Thats exactly right, and as that hospital burns to the ground, there is this feeling that black people have that theyre on their own, that the government created this system to help them, but that they didnt really want to help them, and so that they were going to have to take care of themselves. You know, theres not a lot of recordings of Cobb out there, but there is a documentary from the 1980s called Step by Step, where Cobb himself talks about this time. Well, I was at the shop working just trying to get equipment ready, trying to set up everything for fertilizer season so when I get the crop loan, everything would be ready to go and I got a phone call, and it was the U.S.D.A.s number. So 150 years have passed since those first Africans were sold into Virginia, and slavery in America looks very different than the slavery that they experienced. I decided that all this was bad, and I picked up a baseball bat and began to swing it about to get a little room. Now, James Mitchell is a new employee. And three, what about me? In a word, he said, we suffer on each side., We are taught to think of Abraham Lincoln as the great emancipator, and he was. And in the end, the pain of the cancer was so bad that he didnt even want to fight anymore. Its allowing investors in those countries to really say theyre against slavery out of one part of their mouth and use their money to invest in it from the other. And you wake up, and you go to church on Sunday morning. She used to go from home to home tending to the sick, and Rebecca liked to tag along and to help her. And it also helped to fuel the modern American economy. Whatever Rice hears coming out of this mans mouth is captivating to him. Thats what I call it. What they should be saying is they want young white farmers. I asked him if he had time to wait for me until I had a chance to go the restroom. One of its most momentous civil rights decisions. June and his dad are taking on more land leases, farming more property. We are running out of time. Woodard doesnt think much of it. he Fight for True Democracy" A G U I D E T O L I S T E N I N G W I T H C H I L D R E N 0:00- 10:34. And by 2014, Junes yield has dropped by more than 50 percent. In 1619, when enslaved Africans first arrived in what would become the United States, black. It involves a bank, and most of ours didnt, but the points the same. Negro youngsters paraded with placards, handed out literature, and tried to sit in at lunch counters. The white farmer gets rich on my skill. Its February of 1946, and a young black man is sitting on a bus watching the Georgia pines fly past the windows. The song, of course, is written in so-called Negro dialect. And, finally, they pass the 15th Amendment, which probably is the most important amendment when were considering what a democracy is supposed to be. Is that the year that you guys all won in 94? The land rolled to a flat bog, and in the middle of it, a city called New Orleans. And so Medicare passes, and what happens is within four months of implementation, nearly 3,000 hospitals desegregate. I cant say I had any particular expectation. My name is Wenceslaus Provost Jr. So we were interviewing one of the deputy secretaries, and I said, you know, did you guys take all those complaints when you closed the Civil Rights Office? America was founded on the ideal of democracy. Instead, she tries to turn off the little voice in her head, the one that wants to know: How exactly do you cure bad blood? I felt this way all through high school. They have a little bit of an argument. Some see the fight over TikTok as a fight for data sovereignty, while others see any ban as a threat to information democracy. He said, do you realize that youre the only farmer in this parish, in this office, thats going through what youre going through. command he gives them, be fruitful and multiply. right to marry. Its quiet out here. (IN UNISON) Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. They would have to actually desegregate. And the people on that land look nothing like anything you had ever seen before. Joy is unconfined. You now have generations of black people who have never known a day of freedom and who will never know a day of freedom. for various reasons, and they told him their story. Woodard doesnt think much of it. And so what did they do? It was about making the ideals of the Constitution whole. And its just, youve got to put on a uniform every day and get out and turn the wrench and go look at the land, you know? They had been forged in trauma. I am privileged to say a few words to you , And Americas first talking motion picture , The Jazz Singer, about a Jewish man who feels most himself not as a Jewish man struggling with his Jewish identity and pleasing his cantor father, no, no . She snatched it from him and Purelled both of their hands before rushing them back to their apartment on Dean. Of all our national resources, none is of more basic value than the health of our people. Thats all he did, but that doesnt make him a better farmer than me. Tell you the truth, when I think over today, I dont know how Im living. My dad was born on a sharecropping farm in Greenwood, Mississippi, where his family picked cotton in the same cotton fields that enslaved people had picked cotton not too long before. I felt this way all through high school. Its also why punishments rose and fell with global market fluctuations. Theres this one example, from 1931, where a light-skinned black man gets into a car accident, and hes taken to a white hospital. But then, a few miles down the road, the bus stops, and the bus driver gets off the bus, and then calls and tells Woodard that he needs to get off the bus as well. And I tell you what I wouldnt wish that on anybody. And this is what America really wanted, which was its own original art form that is not an Italian opera, and isnt some British guy coming over and thespianing all over them. Others say they passed out because of excessive heat and lack of A.C. Thats right, through the size of the loan and the release of the funds. America was not yet America, but this was the moment it began. And of course, that effort culminates in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which says that discriminating on the basis of race is unconstitutional. When he sings the word miracle, he doesnt sing, miracle! So he finds the yacht rock station in Pandora, which I dont know why or how hes still a Pandora guy, with all due respect to Pandora. And so, for the rest of the 19th century, this is the shit. You would think I was raiding the Treasury. And so this is how it worked. A single kind of, quote, unquote, prime hand could be, in current dollars, tens of thousands of dollars. learned six women blamed their miscarriages on working conditions at the warehouse. "1619" is a New York Times audio series hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones. He said, June, he said, do you have a second? all come from the efforts of the black civil rights struggles. The hospital she has gone to, just like all of the other hospitals in this program, are completely under-resourced. Were they implying that he didnt know what he was doing? And when it came to entertainment, there was nothing new, nothing truly American. I loved it, and thats what kept me going was to get back into the sugar cane and put my all into it. And, finally, they pass the 15th Amendment, which probably is the most important amendment when were considering what a democracy is supposed to be. So it was a pretty devastatingly violent and hard place to live. If you wanted to be an entertainer at any point after 1830, you, in all likelihood, were at least going to try to be a blackface minstrel, even if you were black. So in order to expand profits, you have to expand the amount of people who are working to pick and process the cotton. You can never whip these birds if you dont keep you and them separate. Now, it didnt include women at that time, but it certainly set the stage, and it, for the first time, guaranteed that whether you were born a person who was enslaved, whether you were white or you were black, you had the right to exercise your vote in this democracy. Its that spark that finally determines among millions of black people that enough is enough. It is June of 1776, and Thomas Jefferson, at the very young age of 33 years old, has been tasked with drafting the document that is going to declare to the world why the British North American colonies, the 13 colonies, want to break off from the British Empire. They dont have the tools necessary to maintain good hygiene. Now, James Mitchell is a new employee. [MUSIC - TOTO, ROSANNA] All I want to do in the middle of the evening is hold you tight , [MUSIC - TOTO, ROSANNA] Not quite a year since she went away , [MUSIC - TOTO, ROSANNA] Rosanna, yeah . Slavery had made it so that we didnt know where we came from in Africa. Our house is on a corner lot, and in the front yard right in the corner was this I couldnt tell you how tall it was. It also ensures for the first time that the laws cannot treat people differently based on their race. They fish together. 41 min Episode 1: The Fight for a True Democracy 1619 News America was founded on the ideal of democracy. I mean, you know how it goes. Its newspaper ads. I lost the home in September of last year. Your backs to the corner. And I remember we chopped the land up. America was founded on the ideal of democracy. Its a trickle-down effect. And a lot of these performers had never been meaningfully south to have a meaningful relationship with black people. Our teacher gave us an assignment. Because that river is a place where they found the body of Emmett Till, who was lynched by white men when he was 14 because they thought that he had done something untoward to a white woman. Well, the United States government itself took it from Native American peoples. Not long. But its not a perfect world. Two, here comes a new competitor. And so to run a sugar-cane farm the size of Junes, it costs around $2 million. Michael McDonald. And so they have written what is perhaps the most radical constitution in the world, and from the beginning, they knew they were going to violate its most essential principles. Its what you would have heard passing a black person doing his job, entertaining himself doing the drudgery of work, the way a guy named Thomas Dartmouth Rice did sometime around the 1830s. And he finds the yacht rock station. And when the newly emancipated turned to those facilities for help, they were turned away. Aug 23, 2019 Episode 1: The Fight for a True Democracy Play 42 min playlist_add America was founded on the ideal of democracy. My dads mom fled the South like millions of other black people during the Great Migration and came north to Waterloo and found many of the same barriers that she had sought to escape. Its cotton. Now we fought the public accommodations fight 10 years ago with the blacks. It is deeply American, almost especially when its sung by British people like David Bowie and Annie Lennox and Amy Winehouse. Yeah, just be careful, because it will kind of slice you. He was driving his first tractor when he was 7. The 15th Amendment guaranteed the right to vote no matter what your race is. They said, well, all of you [racial slur] is all free now. And that woman is Rebecca Lee Crumpler. This is just one more thing that the king of England did to wrong us. Its painted in brown, and it says, in white letters, Greenwood: Cotton Capital of the World.. They dont just suddenly desegregate, and its unclear when or even if theyre going to face any consequences at all for that. Plantation owners went to the banks and said, please give me a loan to buy more land and expand my workforce. I think thats fair to say. I think they knew that we knew that they knew we knew, and I think that made the difference. You have black musicians thinking about how to move not only music forward, but American culture forward. Yeah. But in the suffocating hull of a ship called the White Lion, bound for where they did not know, those who refused to die understood that the men and women chained next to them in the dark were no longer strangers. And , The word was always, oh, that Olivier guy, hes not going to be farming long. The problem was that was frightening to the white farmer in the South for three reasons. Theyve hired a P.R. Hes not the greatest singer, but theres a kind of gumption and nerve to the singing of this song . Even with all of those efforts, not much changed, and he realized eventually that left to their own devices, white hospitals are going to stay white. They always came before dawn for us chosen to be sold south. They didnt give me a chance to explain. Now thats emigration with an e, meaning his job was not to help people to enter the country, but to help people to exit it. And its like, heres the proof, you know? to go work in our communities and our states, in our homes and in our hearts . I dont know, thinking about what they went through. And he had all the files already on his desk from every year. I definitely tried to think of what it mustve felt like for them. People are going crazy for blackface minstrels. You could not stand up to white plantation owners in the South if you were black and live to tell that story. Youve reached Nikole Hannah-Jones. Black Americans were denied access to doctors and hospitals for decades. And he really implores his white colleagues to take the matter seriously and to think about it, but he didnt get very far. Not long. Crowds before the White House await the announcement. You got to laugh at a thing that you actually felt so anguished about. all come from the efforts of the black civil rights struggles. [MUSIC - KENNY LOGGINS, THIS IS IT] Now Im not so sure . All these years when I had been trying to get Aunt Charlotte to talk about what it was like in Mississippi, and now here we are, with the mosquitoes swarming our legs. So you kind of have to put yourself in the scene. In 1776, the nation was founded on the ideal of democracy. And when I graduated, my uncle picked out this all-red outfit from head to toe. And the blows keep coming, and they keep coming, to the point that Woodard loses consciousness. And then about 2009, he started to feel a pretty severe pain in his back. They heaved themselves over the walls of wooden ships to swim one last time with their ancestors. Slavery allowed this poor, fledgling nation to turn into a colossal powerhouse in the global economy. and President Trumans State of the Union address. He was so smart. But still, I dont like to talk about it, because it makes people feel bad. You know, its not like where I live a few miles away and you barely pass by it. Really, the regulators had no practical choice but to keep them from failing. And so to understand why thats happened, I went down there . So it took, literally, my uncle getting a death sentence before he was able to get health insurance. (SINGING) I want you to know that Im ragged but right, hobo-like and living like you people ask why.
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