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when you live in a poor neighborhood you're living in an area where you have to have poor schools when you have poor schools you have poor teachers when you have poor teachers you get a poor education and when you get a poor education you does that you are destined to be a a poor man and a poor woman in the rest of your life poor education you can only work on a poor paying job and that poor paying job enables you to live again in a poor neighborhood so it's a very vicious cycle and usually these bad housing conditions result from the fact that mr. gray has pointed out of absentee landlords people who are rich and live downtown unless you and I live up here in the shack actually it's a form of 20th century slavery you now if that doesn't get your attention I don't know what else will what I can perceive is that people have an idea about what goes on in Mississippi and those things are based on stereotypes or based on information that they have gathered from different sources now this reminds me of a similar case which is communism people have never actually read the Communist Manifesto yet they believe firmly that they know everything there is to know about it and Mississippi is a very similar case people who have never visited Mississippi and who have no idea what actually goes on here think that they know what Mississippi is and why rank so low Mississippi it is the poorest state in our Union we are not making fun of anybody she did not seek out people who look like what some people would say rednecks and she said if you took any of the footage we didn't use it would look just like the footage we did use nothing and by the way all these people said they knew they were gonna be on this show and they think I'm going to hell so I'm gonna show you the video and just know that we're gonna send Andrew Alexander Pelosi in the future to the inner city to get the views of people who are not a probably the same political stripe but here we are in Mississippi with Alexander policies video hey Bill I'm here in Mississippi the poorest state in America which is also the most conservative state in our Union so why is Mississippi so conservative well in the heart of the Bible Belt we believe in family we believe in Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve whoever gets elected needs to be family orientated God should come into his mind and everything that he does you never like the president visibly never and never will why not one thing is named Obama this is America our president should be American not Muslim I don't even like it when I see him on TV I turn it all I don't like he's no there's nothing called your black elite a freeze you back to the Hamptons I guess I'm a little prejudiced are you you don't like black people not much why not we're in a state of Mississippi I go I don't care for the government they don't show me anything yeah I think I deserve food stamps I have no one farmer I hate Obamacare I think it's [ __ ] and pointless but a lot of people in Mississippi need health care yeah back when I was growing up and when my parents were growing up and my grandparents were growing up we didn't have all that and people still made it and back then people pulled their own weight they didn't sit around waiting for everyone else to take care of it so you don't care about the economy no hit take care of self you put God back in the saddle and I'll be okay so something's not working here all right Republican hasn't worked for you but it could why is the poorest tea the most conservative state we would rather go broke and hungry than to give up on our moral beliefs I feel like devoting God and voting faith is more important to me than voting for free money we're voting for a handout I'm gonna stand up for what I believe in even if I go president we're not gonna be pushed over we lost the war this truth but we're not gonna be pushed around we're not gonna back down what we and like to tag him in front of my truck says the South will rise again well thank you mr. Bill Maher for giving us an inaccurate description of what Mississippi rule is and let's take a look at a better side of Mississippi there is only one one place on earth that is the most southern place true southern culture has only one mother it's authentic and sincere it's about textures aromas sights and define appreciated and preserved by generations past present and future Mississippi was and always will be the true South come find your true South through rich experience and diverse expression unparalleled culture and unmatchable cuisines exhilarating games of chance and sports of skill crossroads of history and landscapes of opportunities Mississippi a musical incantation that inspires bright faces of wonder mouth watering grins of anticipation and understanding nods of reverence savour the true delicacies meet the true originals master your true game there is true grandeur and true simplicity discover your true inspiration places frozen in time so that we fondly remember so that we never forget witness the true miracles this is Mississippi find your true south and as you've seen this commercial I hope that you're more willing to come and find a true south theatre Mississippi so in this movie I will focus on three main issues that Mississippi has education healthcare and marijuana and what better way of explaining everything by drawing a chart all right in order for us to understand why Mississippi has such troubles with education health and marijuana we will have to look at we will have to look at the structure of our society here Mississippi Mississippi is made of the people Mississippi has a state government Mississippi has also corporations Mississippi also has local news and to CBS strongly religious hence we are at the Bible Belt now let's look at some of the relations / influences these things will have on each other the people obviously put legislators into office so they have a British they have a pretty strong influence on the government and the government has a strong influence of the people now the corporation's the corporation's are to some extent the corporation to some extent under the control of the government and the government to some extent is controlled by the corporations now the people of Mississippi are religious people so religion has a definite influence on the people and the people drive religious now the news is here to interpret all of these connections and all those happenings together on the TV so the news it definitely has an influence on the people and the news the media they're essentially a corporation so music corporations are pretty much pretty much the same thing now when it comes to religion and government there is separation of church and state so there should be there shouldn't be a way for religion to influence our government but because we are in the Bible world and we are an accursed nation so to say there's always a way around that of religion influencing government and part of that is because people are religious therefore the government also has to be religious in order to satisfy the people one of the easiest ways to influence anybody or anything in this world is with money so let's check this out now let's look at the flow of money the people pay taxes so their money goes directly to the government and the government provides services for the people so the government also spends money on the people now the corporation's also be taxed by the government but then again the government gives corporation tax breaks and sometimes corporate welfare therefore the government also spends money on corporations now people because we're charitable we spent our money on religion and religion and we expect religion to pay us back with services such as homeless shelters and summer feedings now the government has decided not to tax religion therefore the government is in a way also paying religion now the news the news makes their money through advertisement as the people watch the corporation's this is a very basic chart of money flow in Mississippi since we already talked about money let's check this out we hear all the time about the American right advocating small government and they criticize those who receive government benefits they call them takers they are receiving these handouts which they have not earned they're in favor of people doing it themselves pulling themselves up by the bootstraps rather than relying on others and of course they're in favor of paying less taxes and not seeing their taxes redistributed evil redistribution to those who have not earned it in fact this was a big theme of the 2012 presidential campaign remember Mitt Romney talking about makers and takers and saying about 47% of the country are takers or makers or I don't remember what it was but not not to be completely clear about half the country he thought were pathetic low-lives who just received stuff from the government and that was it and there was no way to fix them this is according to consumer finance sight wallet hub they crunched the federal tax and spending data and then they ranked States what states are most dependent on Uncle Sam and which states are least dependent on Uncle Sam and as you can see in this map that's over my shoulder if you're watching today green states are the least pendant in other words they pay in way more to the government than they get back they are in other words subsidizing other states at the same time the red states on the map which happened to also be red states politically when it comes to voting for Republicans are the most dependent the states that are taking the most from the federal government and really from the blue states are Mississippi and New Mexico both states taken about three dollars in federal spending for every dollar they contribute look at the redistribution of wealth that is keeping the red states afloat and this was there at Pakman he is a quality resource when it comes to information and news and I encourage all of my viewers to go out and subscribe to his YouTube channel in order for you to get more educated about the world we live in it may be about yourself all right education tonight the biggest teacher strike in America in a generation is underway 29,000 teachers out on the picket lines 350,000 American students shut out of school it's the largest teachers strike this country has seen in more than two decades twenty-nine thousand union members strong refusing to go to work until they get what they want we are fighting for dignity and respect I broke their contract this is a strike a choice and it's the wrong choice for our children and it's not necessary city officials launched an emergency plan opening 144 schools for a half-day to serve kids breakfast lunch and keep them busy we visited crown Elementary where students play games all morning instead of taking classes are you upset that you're not able to be learning in the classroom today the strike has left thousands of parents into lurch Janice Thompson scrambled to rearrange her schedule to pick her twins up early the strike combined with the city's soaring murder rate is what most bothers her here we go again mainstream news making a connection between teachers on strike and high murder rate making the teachers look like the bad guys in this case when anybody I've ever asked completely and honestly said that teachers are underpaid and then again so my name is mr. mark Geisinger I've been teaching it's my 23rd year how easy would you say your jobs how easy I'd say it's not too easy I think thing about teaching the misconception again is the time that you spend on your craft outside of school how important is a tradition to you well obviously even more so today than it was 49 years ago but I think it's it's critical and to me it's extremely important not only to me but to other youth of our country with the way the economy is today I think college education is crucial back then in the 60s and early 70s it was important I just did not appreciate how important was well that let me put it this way Mississippi of course has been a state that has been handicapped its history of racial discrimination and segregation and for years african-american students did not get the same opportunity to study and acquire good education that the white students did in the last several decades well that that has changed and now we have I think it is fair to say equal opportunity afforded the children of all races but there is still they a gap between those who did not have that opportunity for a long time so we're still making up for that deficiency but I think now I think now it is fair to say that Mississippi is is doing its best to be competitive to raise its standards to make sure that every child is adequately educated ipam representative Jeremy Anderson representing district ten which is Moss Point Pascagoula for the Mississippi House of Representatives I've heard that you're one of the youngest after it's well can you explain that yes I'm the youngest in Mississippi history and I'm currently the youngest surgeon in the country does your job pay for the amount of morbidity lower than in my family thinks up it's saying for teaching to be honest way to keep teachers in the future they're going to have to pay I just I don't see the best and brightest going into teaching I'm sitting my family I would say disappointed you're a teacher but it's a surprise and almost think like you're going into the priesthood it's a nice thing you're doing but you know really is this what you want to do if you go to a party and you meet a not a lot of nice women your value tell a teacher they think that's nice but you're not the guy I'm going to marry I don't even a lot of money I would like to have you're only growing up in public and the public school system the phrase I teach because teaching is my passion not because of the money is very true and I see that in my position now being able to see the numbers that the actual dollar figure per teacher for some school districts and you see that that that definitely is true because we expect our teachers to be the super teachers these superhero teachers and we pay them you know pennies on the dollar teachers have had to fight year in and year out for raises to me which is incomprehensible that a teacher whether it's a hospital teacher a college professor should be paid equivalent to their skill set just like it in the other state here in Mississippi judges the teachers seem to be the one well they are looking more underpaid and as a result of that you don't get the quality of the teaching but again what I said earlier there's a direct parallel between poverty and the deficits on our educational system teachers teachers on a beat and a financially rewarded level Oh at the same basis as we lower years our doctors ours and other professions are the teaching profession I think is is certainly among the one two or three most important professions in the world and sure that we can find the means of making those who participate in that professional adequately compensated they will never make as much money as entrepreneurs who invest a lot of their own capital in their in their businesses but at least we can have them on a par with the other great professions or lower than medicine mental and engineering the education profession ought to be on a parity with all of those professions now how about the budget of well I mean for the state I know they they rarely will fund it adequately you know they have the budget battle every year and I don't think for what they want the schools to do they fund it they give it enough money by the budget wise for education is of course set by the legislature in Mississippi in my opinion you when you're allocating money you are towards education you're allocating public dollars for the public sector of education for young people so basically you're taking an investment in in the future of young people so I think government plays a very important role in not only funding education but kind of shaping the direction they want the educational system to work and how they wanted to work for the people that we represent as legislators and I disagree with some of our legislatures that our educational processes has really taken a turn for the better I
on't think it has see I have a belief that there is a definite parallel between the ineffectiveness of our educational system in poverty I think there's a direct relationship because you have so many families and particularly the minority groups individuals that grew up without a family structure either their model or that aunt or the grandmother erased those individuals didn't have the wherewithal to provide them with some of the niceties of life so their only chance of making money was either in professional sports or a drop out of school and get wrapped into the drugs and I think our educational system I think we put blinders on in Mississippi when we talk about our educational system the kind of load that we need we cannot talk about the future without investing in education and the investments that we make now are the ones that will pay off in the future so that old axiom that you buy cutting back on education now you you can pay me now or you can pay me later you we get we get paid back for not investing in education with high welfare and public health costs that because we did not educate people we have those those costs that are the lowest performing students really the reason Mississippi is last place in education we can tell by looking at the National Assessment of Educational Progress or nape it's true that low-income students both black and white score poorly on the nape but what happens when we look at high income students in Mississippi even more affluent students are still performing below the standard of the rest of the country our middle and high income students aren't even close to average and they're only 3% better than last place our scores for black students are some of the worst in the nation 88% of black students in Mississippi can't read at grade level in 4th grade only West Virginia has white students who perform worse on the nape than Mississippi the highest performing group of students in Mississippi are wealthier white students how do they do compared to high-income white students across America not good at all we're in 46th place when you look only at the students in Mississippi who have the most resources to be successful our schools aren't failing because of low performing students they're failing because everyone is performing near the bottom compared to the rest of America well thank you for those fresh ideas now let's look at the educational paradigm every country on Earth at the moment is reforming public education there are two reasons for it the first of them is economic people are trying to work out how do we educate our children to take their place in the economies of the 21st century how do we do that even that we can't anticipate what the economy will look like at the end of next week as the recent turmoil is demonstrated how do we do that the second though is cultural every country on Earth on Earth is trying to figure out how do we educate our children so they have a sense of cultural identity and so that we can pass on the cultural genes of our communities while being part of the process of globalization how do we square that circle the problem is they're trying to meet the future by doing what they did in the past and on the way there alienating millions of kids who don't see any purpose in going to school when we went to school we were kept there with a story which is if you worked hard and did well and got a college degree you would have a job our kids don't believe that and they're right not to by the way you're better having a degree than not it's not a guarantee anymore and particularly not if the route to it marginalizes most of the things that you think are important about yourself and some people say we have to raise stand as if this is a breakthrough you know but really yes I we should why would you lower them you know I haven't come across an argument that persuades me of lowering them but raising them of course we should raise them the problem is that the current system education was designed and conceived and structured for a different age it was conceived in the intellectual culture of the Enlightenment and in the economic circumstances of the Industrial Revolution before the middle of the 19th century there were no systems of public education not really I mean if you had educated my Jesuits you know if if you had the money but public education paid for from taxation compulsory to everybody and free at the point of delivery that was a revolutionary idea and many people objected to it they said it's not possible for many Street kids working class children to benefit from public education they're incapable of learning to read and write and why we spending time on this so there's also built into the whole series of assumptions about social structure and capacity it was driven by an economic imperative of the time but running right through it was an intellectual model of the mind which was essentially the Enlightenment view of intelligence that real intelligence consists in this capacity for a certain type of deductive reasoning and the knowledge of the classics originally what we come to think of as academic ability and this is deep in the gene pool of public education of the really two types of people academic and non-academic smart people are non smart people and the consequence of that is that many brilliant people think they're not because they're being judged against this particular view of the mind so we have a twin pillars economic and intellectual and my view is that this model has caused chaos in many people's lives it's being great for some there are being people have benefited wonderfully from it but most people have not instead they suffer this this is the modern epidemic and it's as misplaced it's as fictitious this is the plague of ADHD now this is a map of the instance of ADHD in America or prescriptions for ADHD don't mistake me I don't mean to say there is no such thing as attention deficit disorder I'm not qualified to say if there is such a thing I know that a great majority of psychologists and pediatricians think there is such a thing but it's still a matter of debate what I do know for a fact is it's not an epidemic these kids are being medicated as routinely as we had our tonsils taken out and on the same whimsical basis and for the same reason medical fashion our children are living in the most intensely stimulating period in the history of the earth they're being besieged with information and cause their attention from every platform computers from iPhones from advertising hoardings from hundreds of television channels and were penalizing them though for getting distracted from what no boring stuff at school for the most part it seems to me it's not a coincidence totally that the instance of ADHD has written in parallel with the growth of standardized testing now these kids are being given ritalin and adderal and all manner of things often quite dangerous drugs to get them focused and calm them down but according to this attention deficit order increases as you travel east across the country people start losing interest in Oklahoma they can hardly think straight in Arkansas and by the time they get to washing they've lost it completely and there are separate reasons for that I believe it's a fictitious epidemic if you think of it the arts and I don't say this exclusive of the arts I think it's also true science and of maths for the lemming I said that now particularly because they are the victims of this mentality currently particularly the arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience an aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their peak when you're present in the current moment when you're resonating with the excitement of this thing that you're experiencing when you are fully alive an anaesthetic is when you shut your senses off and deaden yourself to what's happening and a lot of these drugs are that we're getting our children to education by illicit icing them and I think we should be doing the exact opposite we shouldn't be putting them asleep we should be waking them up to what they have inside of themselves but the model we have is this it's I believe we have a system education that is modeled on the interests of industrialism and in the image of it I'll give you a couple of examples schools are still pretty much organized on factory lines of ringing bells separate facilities specialized in two separate subjects we still educate children by batches you know we put them through the system by age group why do we do that you know why is there this assumption that the most important thing kids have in common is how old they are you know it's like the most important about them is their date of manufacture I mean well I know kids who are much better than other kids of the same age and different disciplines you know or at different times of the day or better in smaller groups and in large groups or sometimes they want to be on their own if you're interested in the model of learning you don't start from this production line mentality these are it's at essentially about conformity and increasing it's about that as you look at the growth of standardized testing and standardized curricula and it's about standardization I believe we've got to go in the exact opposite direction that's what I mean about changing the paradigm there is a great study done recently of divergent thinking published couple of years so divergent thinking isn't the same thing as creativity i define credit is the the process of having original ideas that have value divergent thinking isn't a synonym but it's a an essential capacity for creativity it's the ability to see lots of possible answers to a question lots of possible ways of interpreting a question to think what Edward de Bono probably call laterally to think not just in linear or convergent ways to see multiple answers not one so I mean there's test for this I mean one kind of code example would be people might be asked to say how many uses can you think I'll for a paper clip while those routine questions most people might come up with 10 or 15 people who good at this might come with 200 and they do that by saying well put the paper clip be 200 foot tall be made out of foam rubber you know like does it have to be a paper clip as we know it Jim you know now they're Tesla they gave them to 1500 people a soup in a book called great point and Beyond and on the protocol of the test if you scored above a certain level you'd be considered to be a genius at divergent thinking ok so my question to is what percentage of the people tested of the 1500 scored at genius level for divergent thinking now you need to know one more thing about them these were in the Garten children so much thing what percentage of genius level 80 make 18 ok 98 percent now the thing about this was it was a long two to dental study so they retested the same children five years later age of eight to ten what you think after they retested visit them again five years later ages 13 to 15 you can see a trend here coming now this tells an interesting story because you could have imagined it going the other way opinion you start off not being very good but you get better as you get older but this shows two things one is we all have this capacity and two it mostly deteriorates now a lot of things have happened to these kids as they've grown up a lot but one of the most important things Appleton I'm convinced is that by now they've become educated they know they spent 10 years at school being told there's one answer it's at the back and don't look and don't copy because that's cheating in outside schools that's called collaboration you know but in circles now this isn't because teachers want it this way it's just because it happens that way it's because it's in the gene pool of Education we have to think definitely about human capacity we have to get over this old conception of academic non-academic abstract theoretical vocational and see it for what it is a myth secondly we have to recognize that most great learning happens in groups that collaboration is the stuff of growth if we atomized people and separate them and judge them separately we form a kind of disjunction between them and their natural learning environment and thirdly its crucially about the culture of our institutions the habits of the institution and the habitats that they occupy you now here on the US presidents given us some very very great responses to what we should do with our education end I'll push again and I'll say to them read my lips stop funding prisons over education listen to me I'm gonna say this again I did not have sexual education but my daughter will the United States and our allies have prevailed college education will be accessible for everyone a new sense of common purpose yes we can eliminate poverty in America alright let's talk about health America land of the free home of the brave you see for the moment you're born till the moment you die there's one thing bred into the mind of every American this country is bigger it's better and if people don't like it they can get the hell out see it all boils down to one thing America is exceptional guess what we are at least when it comes to being bigger let's be honest guys America's fat as hell with thirty five percent of the population officially classified as obese and if you don't believe me you've probably never been to the Old Country Buffet feeding trough or people of walmart calm well the US has held the number one heavyweight title among populous nations for several years Mexico is close to time so we you don't folks cuz we die keep that top spot secure see guys we can back up the claim to exceptionalism it's just in the worst of ways which is a shame considering that we're also the wealthiest country in the world in terms of GDP see in the categories that the US should be number one were not this year the US ranked 16th in the literacy in the industrialized world 27th and life expectancy for all countries 69th and infant mortality 27 the median household income and 61st in protecting the environment so if you want to be a gun totting totin war love and energy waste and pill-popping fat ass and come to america cuz here well that just makes you exceptional and that was added martin with her brainwash update nothing better than seeing a woman with that much passion for a country huh back to the local news of mississippi a seventh-grader eating a salad from a school cafeteria others picking fresh fruit gym class 30 minutes every day these are the changes mississippi is making after being named number one in childhood obesity and the students are learning why better choices are necessary stay healthy do things even help later on in life five years ago this is what the cafeteria used to serve white bread tan fruit lots of sauces thank you nowadays it's whole grains 1% milk and fresh fruit and vegetables 95 percent of the school is on free or reduced lunches but the subsidies are too low to buy more fresh produce so buy heylia gets some vegetables from the high school greenhouse that's difficult for a state like Mississippi where high-calorie foods have been the tradition for generations plus some citizens live in areas called food deserts where traditional grocery stores are miles away this is the only store within walking distance for Bobby McDaniel and it offers few fresh vegetables you can't get much you don't raise many god-good you can't get him here school nurse Emily hurdle calculates BMI body mass index then she counsels students on why it should be lower you always think of high blood pressure diabetes and these are things that we don't ever want to have to treat it would be so much better if we could prevent them in addition to counting calories Mississippi law recently mandated 30 minutes of physical activity each day coach Henry Hood says he's fighting a new generation that doesn't know how to play when I was a child we had to go out and play we didn't have the video games and the Wii sets that we stayed inside and play with so a recess outlet with playing and hunting fishing doing all those things and the only thing I got was the legislators have decided to pass a law making it mandatory for children to ha
e exercise elementary schools for at least 30 minutes that's not a bad start but to me obesity is caused by the problem of money as in the lack of money and giving people not the best options and food therefore leading to obesity now and I'm pretty sure if I can figure this out smarter people legislators and presidents even have realized why we are obese the way we are after all Mississippi is the poorest state and also the fattest state and 30 minutes of exercise in elementary schools it's not going to cut it and it might not sound like a good distraction and pretending yes we are doing something about your obesity problem but not really now Mississippi does also have very bad health do you think we could use education to improve Mississippi's health I think I think the quality of health care is directly related to education not only to the skill and availability of trained health professionals doctors and nurses and hospital employees but in terms of birding crises in hell of having people understand by virtue of that education what it means to have a healthy lifestyle and so that is a part of the process of Education of teaching people how to live in ways that will be conducive for their good health all right do you think the education Mississippi would have a direct effect on the health of the people yes I did and the reason I say that and I've got a sort of askew thought for us about the thought process about it you have so many individuals that say and I'm not just focusing on my heart eager because there are Caucasians that fall in this category that had to quit school what because of poverty that'd go out and work you have individual sixteen sixty five seventy years old doing manual labor some of their fifties doing manual into a manual ever since they were eighteen years old whereas if they could have progressive educational system they could have had a job that number one would not have been so I had such an impact on their health they could have afforded to buy the kind of foods they need to eat and instead they all go to McDonald's or Wendy's the world because that's what they have to do so there's no question about it that because of the fact worth of laureate of the economic spectrum we have so many people that have poor health because of their financial situation I think there's a definite corner okay can we use education to improve Mississippi's health oh yeah I'm sure I think that you stated before there's certainly a correlation and even some part of success is visible for a lot of jobs you have to be physically fit when you feel this when you're physically fit you feel mentally better about yourself creates a positive outlook and I think we can I mean it's but again that's something that's fallen to the schools I think we could do it we can with its with the school lunches or more exercise keep the PE n educate the kids but still that training from homes more importantly whatever we tell them a lot of times ladies and gents let's move on to marijuana my name is le kala jeera I'm currently a music major when changing to business you smoke we know how is it how easy is it for you to get some very very easy do you know anybody that smokes weed no punishments equal to the crime at all no I think that they're too strict my name is Demetrius Taylor doose my week I have a four all right and do you know anybody that does smoke weed yes okay so do you think we should change the charges of mental anything we should make them stricter you should you should loosen the leash a little bit what do you guys think I think Alana legalize marijuana I don't smoke right so do you think most young people your age are for legalization of marijuana yes so when you guys in 20 years because you got City around 20 in 20 years when you guys at 40 do you think Mississippi will have the legal marijuana no maybe possibly my name is Donna Asbury I am 20 years old from kashchei Mississippi how easy is it for you to get some weed easy I wanted to you know our Justice Department very well I could say is a justice system fair and is it fair to everyone you know the best way to answer that question is our justice system is not perfect but it is that's good if not better than any justice system we have any other country yes it has there are flaws in it there's deficits in our justice system but when you compare it to the justice systems and other countries we've got an excellent justice system I think there are many areas that can be improvements made I've never really had to voice an opinion about it I know that's been legalized in other states I cannot ever see it being legalized in Mississippi simply because of the mindset of some of our legislatures I I don't agree with as far as currently legalizing marijuana honestly for recreational use you could say but I'm a criminal justice major by degree and I look at things as it relates to the launch so when you talk about marijuana and you're talking about it being I guess a tool used to prey on a certain demographic of people or have one put it the only thing I can say truly say about the marijuana issue is as as a representative for this district I feel comfortable with saying that I am open to looking at that issue more in depth towards the future however as it relates now with it being legal a Mississippi my stance on it is to make sure that the charge for a marijuana dosage are usage or however you want to put it relates to the punishment you know we don't want an ounce of marijuana someone's innocent sentence for 40 years for a house of marijuana we want to make sure that the punishment fits the crime pretty much and I think that that's more so what we should be concerned about right now as it relates to marijuana is our our is our criminal justice system preying on minorities are certain demographics based on that particular drug as it relates to sentencing guidelines I think that that's more of a more of a pressing issue now versus the legalization of it it was making sure that when someone is caught with that what being legal the sentence for them matches their crime pretty much all right so I think Mississippi could be a little bit more progressive we're looking at other states to see how this particular issue is handled but we're looking at other states to see how they have they have the issue I'm not sure how Mississippi will take to that but um as Mississippi becomes a more progressive Mississippi I think you'll hear more about that particular issue well something old is new again a new electric car made of hemp is being developed by a group of Canadian companies working in conjunction with the Canadian government the kestrel will be prototyped and tested this fall by calgary based motive industries incorporated a high-tech auto manufacturer now this compact car which seats four will have a top speed of 90 kilometers or about 56 miles an hour and a range of up to 100 miles before needing to be recharged the cars body will be made of an impact resistant composite material produced from mats of you guessed it hemp the hemp is also being grown in Canada now Henry Ford was the first to build a car made of hemp fiber and resin back in the 1930s that was more than half a century ago but the idea wasn't developed much further as cannabis prohibition went into effect in 1937 and car manufacturers favored other materials such as steel but in the last 25 years fiberglass and carbon fiber based composites have gained popularity as materials for automobiles because they are strong and lighter weight but producing composites from glass or carbon requires intense heat and multiple chemical processes making the very energy intensive in contrast plant-based fibers like hemp is grown in a field using only the energy of the Sun as a structural material hemp is about twice the strength other plant fibers doesn't require much water or pesticide and it also produces a high yield and grows well in Canada Nathan Armstrong president of motiv Industries Incorporated adds and I quote it's illegal to grow cannabis in the US so it actually gives Canada a bit of a market advantage end quote the US does however allow the import of processed hemp we here at cannabis planet applaud the effort of the Canadian government and their private industry partners but we can't help but question the wisdom of our own government for continuing to prohibit cannabis particularly in these trying financial times this amazing plant can be used as a food fuel fiber and medicine it creates new jobs promotes industry and generates new tax revenues it's time for the politicians in Washington to wake up and smell the well you know where I'm going with this the cannabis planet I'm Pat Finnerty now make it a great evening do you want to see that car amongst the thousands of products made from him one of the most extraordinary is Henry Ford's plastic car built in 1941 it contained cellulose fibers derived from hemp sisal and wheat straw the plastic was lie than steel yet could withstand ten times the impact without denting now the conservative state that we are I really think we could benefit from a new cash crop called hemp and in your industry apart from legalized hemp I also think that Mississippi could benefit from legalized marijuana we can look at some examples as in Colorado let's take a look marijuana businesses have up until now not been allowed to set up legal bank accounts with major banks since the federal government still considers the sale of marijuana to be illegal major banks have turned away pot distributors for fear of being implicated as money launderers hilarious if they offer traditional banking services to these new businesses this has prompted six Colorado lawmakers to ask the federal government for swift action on this issue and allow marijuana related businesses to axe access to basic banking yeah again this is one of those things where it's like you know I'm so excited about the legalization and I think you just told me this morning that Wisconsin as a legislature in Wisconsin who's now thinking about introducing and there's been New Hampshire's talking about it it's going like wildfire across Germany why is it going like wildfire across the country whoa because the retail sale of marijuana Colorado basically made almost five million dollars in its first week of legalization now in less than 40 shops for tea shops made five million dollars in one week people want their blood you know people want their weed they want their guns they're ready to go you know and people don't have an issue with that I think that's the thing is there's a market these aren't just I think what they're seeing in Colorado I mean in Colorado the first guy who walked in the door was a former soldier the PTSD and that it's the different kind of I of ideals it blows my mind however that the banks are like oh we don't want your money now let's see how things are going with our current mindset about cannabis hemp and marijuana here are 50 white guys here are 50 black guys here's how many white guys can expect to go to prison in their lifetime the chances amount to 1 out of 17 now here's how many black guys can expect the same thing the chances are 1 out of 3 why lots of reasons it's complicated but one thing is clear there's racial bias at every level of the criminal justice system when blacks and whites commit the same kind of crimes blacks are more likely to be arrested once arrested they're more likely to be convicted once convicted they're more likely to say the longer look at the numbers in America's so-called war on drugs about 14% of American drug users are black as are about a quarter of drug sellers yet blacks at 34 percent of the people arrested for drug crimes and those convicted of drug crimes 46 percent are black by the time we factor in sentencing there are actually more black drug offenders than white ones in state prison and in federal prisons in the end the incarceration rate for drug crimes is 10 times higher for blacks than it is for whites these are the facts racial disparity and America's war on drugs is one big reason that one out of three black men can expect to go to prison in their lifetime now this war on drugs has had its negative effects on the people who are not involved with drugs so I'm driving down the street with my four-year-old nephew he knocking back a juice box me a Snapple today y'all we're doing manly [ __ ] I love watching the way his mind works he asks a million questions uncle why is the sky blue uncle how do cars go uncle why don't dogs talk uncle uncle uncle he asks uncle uncle uncle he asks uncle uncle uncle as if his voice box is a work record I try my best to answer every question I do I says because the way the Sun lights up the outer space is because engines make the wheels go it's because their minds aren't quite like ours I say yes no no yes no yes no I don't know who knows maybe we laugh he smiles looks out the window spots a cup car drops his seat and says oh man uncle 500 we gotta hide I'll be honest I'm not happy with the way we raise our black boys don't like the fact that he learned to hide from the cops well before he knew how to read angrier that his survival depends worn his ability to deal with authorities than it does his own literacy get up I yell at him in this car in this family we are not afraid of the law I wonder if he can hear the uncertainty in my voice mr. day the day he learns that uncle is willing to lie to him that a more human than I am here oh we both know the truth is far more complex than do not hide both know too many black boys who disappeared names loss no too many Trayvon Martin's Oscar Grant's and Abner Louima snow too many Shawn bells and amadou diallo snow too well that we have our hard-boiled sons of a Mateo still we both know it's not about whether or not the shooter is racist it's about our poor black boys are treated as problems well before were treated as people black boys in this country cannot afford to play cops and robbers if we're always consider the latter don't have the luxuries of playing war if we're already in one where I'm from seeing cop cars drive down the street feels a lot like low-flying planes in New York City well I'm from route traffic stops or more like minefields anyone move it very well me in your life and I look my nephew in this I put face and tell him to be strong we both know black boys were murdered every day simply for standing up for themselves I take them by the hand I say be strong I say be smart be kind and polite know your laws be aware of how quickly your hand moves to pocket for wallet or ID be more aware of how quickly and officers hand moussah holster for gun be black be a boy have fun coz this world will force you to become a man far more quickly than you ever have to need to he lets go my hand but uncle he asks uncle what happens if the cop is really me and it scares me to know that he likes so many other black boys it's getting ready for a war I can't prepare him for well this is where all past will separate I hope you learn something from this video and I hope that you will appreciate the world a little bit more and I hope that you have a better understanding of what goes on in Mississippi when it comes to education health and marijuana the truth is a lot more complex than I could ever possibly show you in video and I can only encourage you to come visit us there is only one one place on earth that is the most southern place true southern culture has only one mother it's authentic and sincere it's about textures aromas sites and define appreciated and preserved by generations past present and future Mississippi was and always will be the true South come find your true South through rich experience and diverse expression unparalleled culture and unmatchable cuisines exhilarating games of chance and sports of skill crossroads of history and landscapes of 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