>> america is a great country and we are confused what we want. this unit piece we have to break duke because the problem you saw in the last election is that half the country literally feels one way and another half of the country feels another. the people who live in rural america, working class, blue collar people hit hard over the last couple of decades with poverty and lost jobs overseas that's whitemer of a certain class and then you have urban america which lives a disexperience of unemployment and crime and donald trump has talked about the murder rate.

but the first thing is that we live disexperiences and that's key because we don't talk about that. the unity comes in and that we love our country, not that we agree with each other or experience life the same. >> march 17 we were flying down with president obama, then president obama, to selma, alabama, and i asked him a "quote-unquote post racial versus post obama era and said i would not equit may eelection with the seminole -- seminal changes. those were breaks in america's trajectory history and were the

pillars the 13 independent amount 14 independent amendment and 15th amendment or the civil righting as of the '7s so. those represent the dismantling of former discrimination the country. moving forward our work is to build on that work to find tune that work, where we see formal discrimination or stay-sponsored discrimination still occurring. but increasingly our work that do will disease being if the ongoing legacy of a divided society. closing the opportunity gaps, closing the achievement gaps, closing the wealth gaps that have been passed on from generation to generation because the gaps were so wide ask that involves no one piece of legislation it it requires a host of different every times itch means investing in early childhood education and make sure everybody has health insurance, that kind of public-private work we're doing through my brother's keeper, it means getting more african-americans and stem education and math and science

and engineering and so there's not going to be one silver bullet but a sustained effort 0s on a variety of fronts. wow. that was on our way to selma, alabama forks the 50th 50th anniversary of bloody sunday and those words still ring true today. but, again, who are we so this book really goes into the heart of the matter. when you talk about race -- this is kind of biggy backing off of what then president obama said -- it's strange to say then-president obama. it's just been ten days -- i can't keep count. but the bottom line is that we still have a society that is divided and i'll go back to something my children's favorite

singer, in a song called "sear you his" we're a united divides states and when it comes to matters of race, film froms still have he highest number of negatives in almost every categori' in issues of policing are very porsche. one of the pieces where i start in the book. traditionally in the african-american community the american black community the is an instinctty coming of age truth for our young black men called the talk, it's something black fathers or father figures give their son's or question lint. it's meant to be a lifetime tool that might help these guys navigate interactions with law enforcement, with the ultimate goal of awarding -- avoiding altercations. testify talk can spell life or death or some black males. that's the reality in the modern age, more than 60 years later. the essence of the talk is a dad telling his son in blunt terms that some bad policing results

in death for black men and boy, be it intentional or unintentional. it's an unavoidable fact in our communities. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> now on "after words" wore, sophia nelson, reflect odd then founding father's calls for a unified america. she is interviewed by former republican national committee chairman, michael steele. >> host: e pluribus one. this book is part history lesson, part call to a