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and i've heard you in other interviews even talk about how it was a good time the civil rights movement. talk about that a little bit. >> it was a wonderful time. it was the best time of my life to be in the civil rights movement, to be doing this thing this thing and this thing with this group of people. my colleagues, people who worked for the student nonviolent coordinating committee with me. people who marched down the street with me, who walked across the bridge with me. these people were just the best people, and i loved being with 'em and i can only hope i get to be with 'em again and again and again. >> and as you get to together with some of those people, as i'm sure you do from time to time do you shake your head sometimes that can you believe what's still going on? >> i say "not only can you believe what's still going on but "can you believe we're still going on?" that's the thing that's hard to believe. >> i mean, you're taking tours through the south teaching people about what you did then. you're teaching at university. do you feel moved to do that?

>> oh, very much so. i feel compelled to do it because-- i think it's one of those things, "if i don't do it, who's gonna do it?" >> i'm going back to the vacuum of leadership, is do you see people and inspire a spark and then know that "okay, one day i'm gonna be able to hand this stuff off to them?" >> sure. i see that. and you know it may be tomorrow morning. it may be next week. it may be next year or something. but sure, i see that happening. >> i wanna call your attention to a letter that you wrote also 50 years ago. julian bond democratic candidate for the georgia house of representatives. in it, you say that you wanna talk about housing, getting better jobs, getting better pay and improving schools. 50 years ago. and that was for the georgia state senate. has that gotten better? >> yes the georgia legislature and the state of georgia is a better place than it was when i wrote

that letter. it's not a perfect place far and from it, but it's a better place now than it was then. >> so we're not post-racial in this country-- no, we're not post-racial. we're better we're better. what would define post-racial, and is it possible? >> i think it is possible, but i think it's something you know you're just-- some dreamer-- some dream-- dreaming you're having. and if you're-- understand this dreaming then you understand it's a dream. >> can you recount for me any interaction you had with dr. king that-- kind of inspired you to keep doing this? >> i can't say we were best friends or buddies. but i had-- some association with him this time this time, someplace else. i remember one time he and i were walking across the morehouse college campus and i said to him, "doc, how you doin'?" his friends called him "doc." he said "julian, i'm not doin' well." he said "unemployment is high. racism's everywhere. segregation's immovable." he said, "i feel awful. i have a nightmare." i said, "doc, turn that

around. try, 'i have a dream.'" >> so really it came from you. you were the, "i have a dream, guy-- >> i wouldn't say that. i wouldn't say that. >> but what brought you to the movement in the first place? what made julian bond wake up one day and say, "i wanna (cough) put myself in harm's way and make it better?" >> i was in-- going to morehouse college in atlanta. i was sitting in a drugstore having lunch. a student came up to me and said "have you seen this?" held up a newspaper. newspaper said "greensboro students-- sit in for third day." said, "have you seen this?" i said, "yeah." he said "what about it?" i said, "it's great. it's good." he said, "don't you think it'll happen here?" i said, "it's-- it's gonna happen here." "don't you think we ought to make it happen here?" i said "what do you mean, 'we?'" he said, "you take this side of the drugstore, and i'll take the other." and we did. and we started the movement. >> and so you-- the-- and that was where? that was in atlanta. >> atlanta. >> and then you were hooked? >> i was hooked. i was-- i couldn't-- couldn't turn back. >> you see the lgbt community as fighting for civil rights, too, and you are a proud supporter of

them. what draws you to that fight as well? >> well, because i worked in the civil rights movement with many gay people-- many lesbians. they helped me, and why should i not help them? they helped me push the needle forward. i'm eager to push the needle forward for them. i wanna help them, and i hope they wanna help me some more. >> what would you say to counterparts in the gay rights movement about what they're doing right and what they're doing wrong? >> i don't know what they're doing wrong, but they're doin' somethin' so right. it's just amazing the speed with which the movement for gay rights has-- has-- has come to the country. bam bam bam bam bam. good for you. keep goin', brothers. keep goin', sisters. keep at it. >> people look at the civil rights movement, people in that community the gay community, the latino community they look at you as a hero. who were your heroes?

>> well, i have many, many heroes. lot of people i served with in the student nonviolent coordinating committee. the names are just too numerous to mention now. people i marched with, people i went to jail with people i did this or that or the other thing w-- these are my heroes. and the people who came before me. w.e.b. dubois is a big big hero of mine. >> tell me why. >> he's just one of the smartest people in the world. and-- to read what he wrote and to understand the th-- thoughts he went into, you just think "wow why can't i be like that?" and someday i will. >> do you think the media is doing a good job of covering racial-- >> no, not doing a good job of covering these kind of things and i'm not sure exactly what it is or why it is. and it seems like they're missing something. they're not telling the story the way the story should be told. they're not telling it all. they're leaving something out. i'm not really sure what it is but i know i'm missing

something. >> do you feel like you had that something before and it's gone-- >> yes i think i had it had a media that told the story more clearly in the past than is true today. not told it better but-- well, maybe even told it better than is told it-- today. >> still ahead on talk to al jazeera, julian bond talks about where he'd like race relations to be 50 years from now >> the new al jazeera america primetime. get the al news you've been looking for. at 7:00, a thorough wrap-up of the day's events. then at 8:00, john seigenthaler digs deeper into the stories of the day. and at 9:00, get a global perspective on the news. weeknights on al jazeera america.

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how to promote greater opportunity for the cuban people was what we spoke about. i told president castro in private what i've said in public that our governments will continue to have our differenences and the united states will continue to stand firmly or universal values and human rights. at the same time, we agreed that we can continue to take steps forward that advance our mutual interests, continue to work toward reestablishing diplomatic relations, reopening embassies in a havana and washington and encouraging greater commerce and exchanges between our citizens. i'm optimistic that we'll continue to make progress and that this can be a turning point between the united states and cuba and greater cooperation with country across the region. we continued four work to create for prosperity and opportunity for our people.

yesterday, central american leaders reaffirmed commitment to pursue the economic and security reforms needed and i will work with congress to confer the $1 million i proposed for our engagement with central america. yesterday's deal between the airlines will support jobs in the united states in panama and across the region and is representative of the commercial opportunities that allow both north and southern hemispheres both north and saw the america as well as central america to prosper if we deepen trade ties. i was encouraged by the forth of many leaders here for the facilitation agreement to boost regional trade and for the transpacific partnership with its high standards for trade and protection for its workers and the environment. thanks to panama's leadership, the summit included a special summit on how to access education. i want to thank our private

sector partners who pledged to continue their support of our 100,000 strong in the americas initiative to encourage more exchanges between students. the more than $7 million i announced to expand training programs for young people across latin america antcaribbean, including the impoverished and mar i didn't knowallized communities and young leaders of the america's to launch entrepreneurs and civil society leaders across the entire region access the training and resources and connections to start the ventures, including the small businesses that create so many jobs in the region. we took steps to invest in clean energy and combat climate change. our central american partners will help in energy and clean energy projects and reduce carbon emissions and our new energy t