hearing on dealing with voting rights reform, the voting rights advancement act. we have had the 50th anniversary of selma, of bloody sunday, this year. vote and howthe that impacts us to be able to deal with any of these issues. to make that decision? us this guess joining morning. melanie campbell of the national coalition of black civic participation. of essencesa deluca magazine, editor in chief. our next caller from indianapolis, hi. caller: number one, i think black people really need to work with their young black boys to let them know that the prison institutions are making money off of them. the people that own these

private jails, they are getting money from our young, poor, black boys to send their children to the best colleges, to live in the best homes. they are getting rich off of them. i think is more young black boys would understand that these people are getting rich off of them, they would stop going to jail, getting these bracelets on the ankles that they have to pay for. in the state of indiana, indiana loves to send black boys to prison, and never let them out. they constantly get money from them, constantly, constantly. , he in indiana, mike pence accepted medicaid, but most of the health care programs are hsa's. who can afford hsa insurance coverage? you only have coverage in the amount of what you could pay for

. then, after that, you have to pay out-of-pocket. it is ridiculous. host: thank you very much. when it comes to issues of criminal justice reform, 37% of respondents said that is a top issue on the list. it is of critical importance to our community. when you see our young people having no opportunity to advance because they have a record, what we need to do is spend more time and put more energy and investment into education and job training, mentorship, all the things that can avoid us from having to spend that money on the back end. in fact, i went to screening of the hbo-vice documentary coming out where president obama visited the federal prison and sat down with the young men. that is something they talked a lot about. had they had more education,

more job training, more mentorship in the beginning of their life, they may not have ended up there. michigan,t, republican line, john, you are on next. about: i'm calling in this. , about sixnow why they didn't do nothing for us, but we will go to the polls for what? i can't say why you keep trying to separate yourself from other races, saying you are doing something that you are not doing. they are not doing nothing. you can't keep praying. if you lose it, i lose it. if you get it, i get it.

thank you. the election is here. we have candidates that we will have to choose. we have to get in there and make put people injust office, but engage and hold them accountable. that is what we are going to be doing. vote turns the black out. we will have some they called the black vote alliance. every election is the most important election. it will impact our communities for decades to come. that is what we will do. we want to make sure we are informed about where we stand on issues that matter, the impact our community. it is about quality of life. we tried to do our part. host: there was a recent piece in "the letter" magazine. the headline was, canada republican party maintain its

hold on black voters? guest: i think that is actually on target. a candidate can take advantage of the issues that we talk about in our poll. themselvessee galvanize a lot of the vote around supporting them. here's the thing. a lot of times people don't ask our opinion. they just don't ask. it don't want to know. any candidate that extends a hand, and that she shows that they are interested in some of the things that are important to us, that gets our attention. that definitely gets our attention. that is one of the ring reasons we felt it was so important to poll with a

roundtable. we understand ourselves, we just need to make sure we leverage it. host: is there a republican candidate that resonates with your issues? guest: right now, i think the republican party is going through when needs to go through. you are not hearing the issues that we are talking about. one of the things that was high -- guess what, reducing taxes for lower and middle income people. entrepreneurship was high. opportunity was 12%. the reality of economic issues like that, we are not really hearing that. right now, is more of a personality contest been substantive -- than substantive issues. we need to hear from these candidates, whether democrat or republican.

one of the things we exit have .oing on now we have a presence of questioner that we have sent to all of who we feel are viable candidates to ask them more deeply to give us what their lands are -- plans are. what they stand for and against. we are going to release the questionnaire results by november to share that in our community about where ended it stand on theidates issues. we seem to not be getting that in the debate yet. host: something adjusting that was found in the poll you did is 88% of the respondents said they would vote for president obama again in 2016 if he had the chance to run again. president obama was going to speak at the

congressional black caucus tonight. if you want more information on that, go to our website. did you have a chance to present your findings likely to the white house or the congressional black caucus? weest: we released it -- hosted a form. probably tong this the current administration, congress, candidates, and the general public. it is a broad reach, and not necessarily at one group. host: one more call. this is billy from colorado. caller: good morning, ladies. guest: good morning. caller: i grew up in the mississippi delta. we were the poorest state and the union. my folks were sharecroppers. we were working from the time we were 7-8 years of age. i've got a cold, i'm sorry. we would crawl in the pickup and

work all summer. we wouldn't get paid nothing. we used to complain to our debt, we wanted money. he said, you don't pay for your food or your housing, secure getting paid. the reason we have so many poverty problems in the delta was white and black folks were not educated. me and my brothers, three of us, all got college degrees. orked summer jobs, we cannot spend the money. we had no student debt. all three boys got a college degree, one god masters. the problem in a lot of communities today, black, white, and everything, folks are not educating their kids. you cannot expect to get a good job with less than a ged.

bill cosby says that kids tend to be educated at the level of their participation. i have a black friend who lives a couple blocks from mcdonald. he has a highly motivated young boy who wants to get a job, he can't get a job. a lot of people when they think of illegals, they think of hispanics, but the asians are coming in here and they tend to be more educated. host: we got you. do you want to chime in on that? guest: quality education was -- poll.he ball we absolutely care about education. we need to be able to make our kids more comparative --

competitive in this very competitive environment. host: the poll, by the way, essence magazine does have it on its website. it is a joint effort between essence magazine and the national coalition of black civic participation. you heard from vanessa deluca of that magazine and melanie campbell. thank you for joining us, ladies. coming up, with the new convention,mocratic c-span brings it to you live. up until then at 9:30, we will do open phones. right after the break, if you want to bring in anything you have heard this morning or things you are reading in the paper this morning, (202) 748-8000 for democrats. (202) 748-8001 for republicans. (202) 745-8002 for independents. go ahead and make those calls now. we will take them in just a moment. ♪

>> our road to the white house coverage of the presidential candidates continues this morning with the new hampshire democratic convention live from manchester. speakers include five presidential candidates. clinton, hillary bernie sanders, lincoln chafee, martin o'malley, and lawrence lessig. this morning at 9:30 eastern on c-span, c-span radio, and c-span.org. c-span's campaign 2016 taking you on the road to the white house. u.s..pe's visit to the c-span has live coverage of the tour. we are live with the president and mrs. obama greet the pope. wednesday morning on c-span.

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newshire today -- meet in hampshire. i starting by that 9:30. we will bring you coverage live, until then, we will go to open phones. if you want to let us know your thoughts, (202) 748-8000 for democrats. (202) 748-8001 for republicans. (202) 745-8002 for independents. by the way, if you are in new hampshire, we have a presence there. our c-span 2016 bus is there. it is parked at the red arrow diner, if you live in new hampshire, you probably know with others. if you would like to learn about the work of c-span, please feel free to do so. sherry from florida of first, democrats line. thanks for calling in. you're welcome. thank you for accepting my phone call.

i want to touch on a few topics that you talked about this morning. the i was concerned about .op debate the other night what i got from them is they are not actually talking about concerning the american citizens. their main issue is to take care of their own priorities. people. rich i want to talk about the two ladies who are just that concerning -- just there concerning black education and the voting matters with the black women. they were talking about how we need to come together with hispanic people, we need to unite. i don't know if they are aware of how the hispanic people, when actually talk about their civil

rights, they never mentioned the black people. it is all about the hispanic people. even if they are from puerto , they are allcuba united. i have noticed that what we, as a black race, need to do, we have people from haiti, from .amaica, st. lucia we need to start dealing with our issues as a unit, as a black people. these people are from different countries, but they are the black ethnic background. host: that is sherry and florida. connie in new jersey, democrats line. caller: good morning. i was talking about all the things that happened this morning. they're talking a lot about jobs . all the jobs are out of the country.

card, itll your credit sends you overseas. the solar panels in china, china is not taking away the jobs from us. our companies are taking the jobs away from us. this is a fact. why not do something about that? i don't care if they are republican or democrat, or whatever it is in the white house, or the senate come over the house of representatives. they are not going to be any jobs. i'm 75 now, but i used to work in a job that went to china. i'm talking about my experience. companies take the jobs away from us.

host: ok. that is connie in new jersey to achieve mentioned china. the chinese president will be visiting in washington with our president next week. in "the wall street journal" this morning, a story about the u.s. handing over a suspect to beijing.

host: if you live in elgin, illinois, a special treat for you, especially if you like art of the president of the united states. the life portraits are currently on exhibit their. this is the only complete collection of oil artists but -- oil portraits by one artist. includesit also photographs from the white house .istorical association again, if you live in the chicago area, you can visit the exhibit until september 25. lancaster, california. michael is up next. republican line. caller: how are you doing this morning? host: fine, thank you. caller: i want to comment on the

two african-american ladies. it seems like they want the federal government to take care of everything for them. they are just going to get disappointed. i'm a white guy. i come from a broken family. i ended up in prison. i got my life together. i had to travel on a bus for two hours every day to go to work. this is two years. i ran my but off. i did not have a car. it was kind of hell. you have to vote for the whole country. i just don't think -- we have to do something about our debt. i just think they are going to be disappointed. if white people say, white people need to get together and vote, we would be called racist. i'm not into that. host: let's hear from renee and

said to you, texas. -- san antonio, texas. ladies talkinge about education, i just want to say, sometimes the solution is there in front of us, and sometimes we don't see it. i grew up in a military community. the high school i want to, recently in the news, john jay, was a dominantly black high school at the time. i, maisel, and the financial analyst. the military lifestyle and leadership instills in the people to go ahead and instill that same type of as think and their children. that is a solution that people can look at. regarding jobs going overseas, i think illegal immigration is actually one of our biggest problems. visa killer.

and, those overstaying their visa should be prosecuted as much as anyone else. host: bill. caller: good morning. great to hear everything going ok. i wanted to comment on the debate. trump hadthat ofd something about religion president obama. it seems as though everybody got a little excited saying he is christian, and that is the end of it because we should just judge someone because if they say they are christian, just believe it. barnett, it goes a little

further than that. i think he was right, and here's why. he had problems of their in chicago on the news about the fact that he did not remember the preacher saying, you know, america. i could never understand how he could have taken his children to that church and never ever heard thato preacher talking like that. other members that it was quite common. going to the low farther beyond that -- donald trump was supposed to appear at an event in south carolina yesterday and pulled out in light of the story the

you probably heard about, a recent event where the background faith with question. here is the story from "the new on ourst people programming this weekend on c-span, on c-span two and c-span 3, which turned into booktv and american history tv, cincinnati's profile. one of the people you will meet this weekend are the authors of a book called "cincinnati's underground railroad." here is a little bit of that presentation. [video clip] >> on the one level, the book is about how the underground railroad can be viewed, at least we make the argument in our introduction, as the first civilacial, multiethnic rights movement.

it predates the modern civil rights movement that started in the 1940's with world war ii. one of the major things we argue is the underground railroad is a movement that brings folks from different ethnic and racial backgrounds together to fight inequality. >> the book really starts with the founding of the country. we look at how slavery developed . it brings us all the way up to the department of ohio and through cincinnati. we tell stories of churches, individuals, and multiple stories throughout the book, connecting it to the larger story of american slavery. >> there is a story from 1821 about a runaway. he escapes from enslavement in kentucky and ends up in ohio. that he mustd have escaped from some underground road. that becomes synonymous with the building of the underground

railroad at the same time. find outet, you can not only about the literary life of cincinnati, ohio, but historically about the city as well. as we can on american history tv. more our website for information. stamford, connecticut, let's hear from mike. caller: how are you doing? i'm here to talk about anchor .abies if you are born in the united states, you are a citizen. if your parents are not citizens, that does not give them the right to become a citizen. when the kid is 18 years old, he should be able to come back. it should not be an anchor baby, .t should be a buoy baby patient flow back to the country where they came from. when they are 18, they can come back. thank you very much. have a good day. host: bernie from desoto, texas, republican line. onler: i just calling to,

the two ladies that were on there. i noticed that immigration was almost at the bottom of the list. the two major threats to this country, as far as i can see, number one, outsourcing of jobs, and number two, immigrants. every group of people that have come to this country have come here to take advantage of everything. ultureome with their cou intact, they have their name. areks, the even took hi names from us. lots, you need to put immigration at the top of your list. i never thought in a million years that i would consider a donald trump. he can be very abrasive, and hee, but at the same token represents the issues that are most important to black people.

latinos, when they get jobs, .hey put in other latinos like people listen, you need to look seriously at the immigration issue. it will not affect the wealthy. it will affect our people. to put that at the bottom of the list -- anybody who did not come here legally, they should be removed from this country. anchor babies included. we need to have american citizens that need jobs. at the bottom of the latter, are blacks. latinos, they will not do anything for you when they get in the office. they do not hire like people. until we start to represent our own interests, we will always be at the bottom of the country. this business of america, and we accept immigrants, yes we do, legal immigrants. if you are here illegally, go home, and come properly so that

my granddaughter can get a job at mcdonald's and not go to mcdonald's that has some lady who does not speak english and she is 35 years old. my 16-year-old does not stand a chance to get a job. don't say so quickly that trump is awful. host: massachusetts, independent line. caller: thank you for taking my call. i did listen to the two ladies. i think people misunderstand what they are saying. what they are saying is when everybody gets into office -- they are trying to create an atmosphere where we can find common ground and work together. i do think that latinos and blacks, we have a, ground that .e could build we are all victims. white., they want to be

they want to be a certain thing. we have to understand that they are victims, just like us. other point i wanted to make also, adam brennan talked about president obama. get the things that are substance to your deal, you are willing to veto it until we work out the differences. the last point i want to make, the gentleman that called, the two ladies said, the white thing is racist because we had been the victims of the system of inequality. of course, when we say black, you should not be offended. whites are being white all the time. you must understand, the advantage of not being a vi