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MUSIC: This is America
by Childish Gambino

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America isn't just a place.

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It's an idea.

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And the enduring power
of the American dream

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is that it's universal.

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The craving for a better life.

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I'm the last Mohican.

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Donald Trump said the dream
was dying and he'd make

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America great again.

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I know that we will win!

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They want to rob you of your hope.

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But how great is America now
as Trump seeks reelection?

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The guy in the White House right now
is crazier than a loon.

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Welcome to Arizona, America's
backyard with Mexico and a state

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threatening to swing
to the Democrats in the presidential

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election after backing
Donald Trump in 2016.

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Here, the issues of immigration...

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The worst of the worst
is coming to this area...

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On race...

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The heart of people have held
on to relics of the past.

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And Covid-19.

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People dying here in the camp?

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Yeah.

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Yeah, every day.

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GUNSHOT

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# This is America #.

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They all highlight America's deep
divide as voters choose between two

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very different visions
for the country's future.

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I've been reporting from America
for almost a quarter of a century.

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And I've never known it so divided.

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Left and right, Republican
and Democrat, consensus is fleeting.

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And when it comes to the fiery issue
of illegal immigration

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and what to do about it,
the gap between liberals

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and conservatives is
as wide as the Rio Grande.

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But how best to protect what it
means to be an American?

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Is an impregnable
barrier a good option?

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Build the wall!

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Build the wall!

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The biggest beneficiary maybe
happens to be Arizona.

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That wall, how good is the wall?

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It is the iconic idea
of Trump's America.

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And this...

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Cowboys and big skies,
part of the iconography of America.

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All right, all right, guys, OK.

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Bill McDonald's ranch
in Arizona is just a few miles

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from the border with Mexico.

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Illegal immigration and drug
trafficking are live issues here,

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yet for him, a Republican,
billions spent on a border wall

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is a waste of money.

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People think, well, you build
a wall, you've solved a problem.

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They've already got saws that
cut through that wall.

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You can do it with technology
and do it just as well.

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It's political, he made a promise,
he was determined to keep it.

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He thought, if he kept it,
he'd get re-elected.

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It's the only reason
he does anything.

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I'm not crazy about everybody
that crosses the border,

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but I'm not crazy about everybody
that already lives here either.

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I mean, there are good people
and bad people in all stripes.

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You can't characterise people
by where they come from.

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It takes a few hours to sort
the calves for sale,

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headed for Oklahoma.

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They'll never see their mothers
again, but that's business.

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Activists say over 500
children remain separated

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from their families...

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Building a big wall
was only part of the plan.

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Critics in Congress and human rights
groups claimed migrants

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were being treated like cattle under
Donald Trump's zero-tolerance

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child separation policy
to deter illegal migration.

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Eventually, his administration
was forced to change course.

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But secure borders are a necessity.

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We saw drug cartel spotters
across the wall in Mexico,

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checking if the coast is clear
to send over human mules.

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These ones went that way, so
yesterday I followed these guys...

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Tim Foley often spots them too,
videoing the mules camouflaged

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with their backpacks of drugs.

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From his remote base
in southern Arizona,

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he leads a group of armed volunteers
that patrols the border.

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Is the wall making
America great again?

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It's making it safer.

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Tim represents a strain of American
patriotism Donald Trump tapped into,

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giving up everything he knew
in San Francisco to come to Arizona.

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Why are you involved?

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What is it about this situation
that gets you angry?

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I didn't trust the government
or the media to tell the actual

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truth of what was going on.

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Some apple sauce...

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But what is the truth?

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There's another group
of volunteers on the border.

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They're from a charity that leaves
water and food supplies for people

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crossing over from Mexico,
asylum seekers fleeing persecution

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and migrant families with children
reaching for a better life.

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They also help families find
relatives who've gone missing

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crossing the border.

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So, what are the kinds of things
that you come across on the trails?

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Many times, we find remains,
skeletal remains of border crossers.

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You also see clothes
and abandoned shoes.

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You know, evidence
of a person's life.

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So, you see wedding rings...

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You see love letters,
a lot of rosaries, a lot of Bibles.

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We also see cosmetic products
thrown in the desert,

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deodorant, lipsticks,
and you wonder why bring

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those artefacts along?

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And it's...

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Many times, migrants want to leave
meet their loved ones with,

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you know, smelling good and looking
presentable after a long journey.

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In this one area, the remains of 181
people have been found this year.

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You see young...

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Young people, old people,
you see everybody.

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And you see the families.

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The families just reach out to us,
desperately looking

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for their loved one.

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It's an unimaginable
pain and anguish.

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You have the water jugs
sitting over here...

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Often, Gia and Tim's worlds collide.

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And there's one thing
they both agree on.

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What's the tattoo?

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One of the horsemen
of the apocalypse.

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It's what I see is coming, it's...

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It's my view of the border.

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There is death all around.

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Donald Trump's wall
speaks to us all.

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Like a mirror, it reflects back
to us our own values.

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But when it comes to race,
America has always failed to really

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look itself in the eye,
to understand its shortcomings.

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And after November 3rd,
we're not going to rest.

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Because no matter who wins
over there or out here,

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we have a lot of work to do...

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It's hard to steer a middle
course in modern America.

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The loudest voices...

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The United States will never
be a socialist nation.

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..force the taking of sides.

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Black lives matter!

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I cannot breathe!

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On race and discrimination,
the conversation is insanely

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partisan and painfully deep.

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The unfortunate root,
the dark roots of our country,

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the dark side of our country
is really starting to show itself.

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And that's because of this election
because there's just

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so much divide right now,
so much divisiveness,

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there's a lot of tension.

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I!

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I!

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I believe...

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The election comes amid
a reawakening of Black activism not

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seen since the 1960s.

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I know that we will win!

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I know that we will win!

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You know, we the people...

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And with a third of all American
voters being non-white,

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how will these new civil rights foot
soldiers cast potentially decisive

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ballots as they fight for a more
equal and just America?

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And it hurt...

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We tried to reform the police
after Rodney King...

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Bruce Franks cuts the stillness
of the evening in Phoenix, Arizona.

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The light is dimming but not
the memory of those beaten or killed

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at the hands of police officers.

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His words are powerful poetic rage.

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..Those demands today
because we are not going nowhere...

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He was arrested in August
for taking part in a peaceful

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civil rights march.

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Because he's innocent...

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And now he needs a protest outside
the courthouse after the jailing

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of another protester.

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When we fight, we're
building our legacy.

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Fighting a battle in a war
where you'll never get to see

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the outcome but if I continue
to fight, hopefully that

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along to my five kids.

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And if they continue to fight,
it passes along to their kids.

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And it get to a point
where maybe we can.

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Do you think the election
will change anything?

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I think the election has the power
to change a lot of things.

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I'm not doing cartwheels
for either candidate.

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But I understand that it's just not
about the candidates.

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We are voting on entire
administrations.

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So, when we talk about change,
we have the chance to change

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what our affordable housing looks
like around the United States

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if we get somebody like Cory Booker
as the HUD Secretary

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rather than Ben Carson.

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We have the idea of changing
what education looks like if we get

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somebody like Elizabeth Warren
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Betsy DeVos, right?

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We got the chance to change
what criminal justice looks

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like if we put Mickey Mouse
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Barr or Jeff Sessions.

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You know, we got the ability
to change a lot of these judges

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who are appointed federally
by the president throughout

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the United States who perpetuate
mass incarceration, who perpetuate

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all the problems with the systems
where we know that disparity there,

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we know what the folks
in jail look like.

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We know where they come from.

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So, those are my hopes
for the election.

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Why are you doing this?!

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Until then, this is
what must be overcome.

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Before George Floyd in 2017,
there was Muhammad Muhaymin

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here in Arizona.

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The unarmed Black man died
after being held down

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by four police officers,
one of whom put his knee on his

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neck, for close to eight minutes.

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I cannot breathe!

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No one was disciplined.

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And you're only hearing about this
case now because of the controversy

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over George Floyd.

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And it was in this area
where he was pinned down

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and was clearly heard to say,
"I can't breathe."

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He knows that his life
is about to be taken

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from him and he knows...

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Jazlyn is 21 and part
of a new younger breed of civil

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rights activist spurred
by the urgency of the moment.

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It makes me feel like my life can be
taken at any given time just

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because I have brown
skin because I'm Black.

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Because since I was a little girl,
I've seen the way Black people

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in America and just all over
the world are treated,

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it's a really unsettling
state of mind to live in.

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Please do your research,
please don't be discouraged...

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And that psychological distress,
central to the Black American

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experience will tolerated
a written no more.

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Use your voice or your fingers
for your typing to create change.

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That's important.

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Not far away, a reunion. A proud
father embraces a relieved son who

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is fresh out of jail. His name is
Percy Christian, he is 27.Jail is a

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place where they want to rob you of
your help...The subject of the

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courthouse protest to get him freed.
He served seven days arrested during

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a demonstration against police
violence.I'm willing to do whatever

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it takes. I'm willing to put my life
on the line to bring awareness to

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the issue. And that's that police
brutality Israel. That's that our

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police system is up and designed to
hold a certain group of individuals

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back. And that is my people. --
brutality is real.And what are the

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dreams of the father, a pastor
having seen his son fight the same

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battles he fought years ago?Why has
it taken so long? Because the hearts

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of people have held on to relics of
the past that remind them of the

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system that they want it to hold
onto. Recently in our nation the

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Confederate flag became a issue
again. And you ask yourself the

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question and this is another thing.
Why are there people in this nation

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determined to hold on to an emblem
of something that represents hatred

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and slavery? The battle hasn't
changed. But the playing field has

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changed, the platform has changed,
the process has changed. What has

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happened is that there is a denial
of the reality that people of colour

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experience in this nation. And so,
we are proud of our son. I would not

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be OK if he decided to shrink back.
He can't shrink back now.Gentle

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tales of African-American manhood
rarely reported. But they are the

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norm and while both the candidates
for president say they want to

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banish racial injustice Bruce Franks
says he will not wait for others to

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act. His own son pounds my future is
on the line.I want a lot of the

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things that's happened with police
when you talk about police and Black

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men, Black women, I don't want that
affecting him although we know it is

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inevitable, right? I just got to
make sure he's equipped for it and

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he ready for it. I'm not fearful
because I teach him how to love and

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what love is and how to have love
for his people.While many

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African-Americans feel marginalised,
perhaps no community is more on the

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fringes of society than the Native
Americans. And their battle, their

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trials with Covid-19, the
pre-eminent election issue is

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revealing of an America that many
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In our culture, as a Navajo, as a
Native American, it's something

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we're not supposed to even do to
deal with death.But dealing with

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death is Michael's calling in the
worst corner of the worst country

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for Covid-19.With Covid patients we
normally don't embalm, we usually

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just keep them in the body bag.An
undertaker, he prepares bodies for

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burial on the Navajo lands of
Northern Arizona.Numbers are going

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up again so we are preparing for
another influx of bodies.Living in

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the largest of the Native American
territories, the Navajo have

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suffered more coronavirus deaths per
head of population than any of the

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50 states of the Union, many
hundreds of people.There was that

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point when I went into our storage
unit and I just saw all those bodies

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laying there and I knew two of them.
It was a hard time for me. Knowing

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that those people are laying there,
people that I know and are here

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because of Covid, it was
heartbreaking. And a good friend of

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mine, his son died of Covid. And I
have known him since he was a little

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boy. And I got the phone call, I was
talking to him on the phone and I

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just told him, "I can't imagine what
you're going through." I have known

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him since he was a child. And we
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Americans say their land is blessed
by God. Now, it's cursed by

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Covid-19. And there is seemingly no
clear strategy to end its hold on

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the land. Navajo nation is one of
the poorest parts of America and

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mask mandates and curfews were
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But the virus had already taken hold
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many were left at Covid's mercy. But
that's the American story. Despite

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its untold riches, millions always a
struggle. This is tent city in

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Phoenix. Thousands homeless, someone
losing their jobs due to the

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pandemic are now losing their wives.
-- their lives. Meet James Wright,

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he is 62... Pity would be no more if
we didn't make someone poor.

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Social distancing is tough in tent
city. It's tough here too at this

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trump rally but why? We scrupulously
kept our distance and wore masks at

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this gathering in Tucson. But in
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wearing or not wearing a face
covering has become a political

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statement. This is Chris and his
family. So, do you enjoy the

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atmosphere at the rally yesterday?
We did. But the pandemic is still

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out there, that didn't worry you
being with all this people

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yesterday?No. It didn't bother me
one bit.If Donald Trump said

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everyone should wear a mask, he is
following the signs, you would do

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it?Reluctantly I would probably.Do
you think it is un-American to be

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forced to wear a mask?I do. I think
it's un-American to force anybody to

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do something that there is no
medical reason if you are not sick.

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There has been a conflict in all of
us during this time and perhaps more

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so here in the land of the free,
individualism versus collective

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responsibility.It is part of our
culture, to take care of each other.

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It is always the natives that are
wearing masks and you see that in a

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lot of non-natives are not that
diligent but we as a people are. So,

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this is really the start of Covid,
we open this area here.In Navajo

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nation, they had to build a new
cemetery to take all the debt. And

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this is one of your close friends?
Covid is why he is laying here. I

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always think it shouldn't have
happened.The presidential election

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is above all a referendum on Donald
Trump said handling of the

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coronavirus pandemic and the whose
votes can swing the result was that

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it is America in miniature with
extremes of landscape and

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temperature, poverty and wealth. And
the people we encountered on our

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journey across the state represent
all that is American. Kindness,

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generosity, determination, and grit.
This country's leader has a duty to

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represent everyone, not cherry pick
and that means understanding the

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patchwork of cultures and ideas and
ethnicities that make up this great

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nation. And the sensibilities of
those on the right and the left. The

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winner of the presidential election
will be the candidate who

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understands that focusing on what
unites rather than divides is all

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that really matters. Guiding this
country to a better shore reachable

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from here.