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and later, martin luther king iii joins me on what his father would say about race relations, free speech, and activism in the era of donald trump. but first, president trump's criticism of athletes protesting during the national anthem continues to engage and divide the nation, and his language remains provocative. >> the nfl cannot disrespect our country. i saw this a year ago with kaepernick and i said this is a terrible thing. the nfl is in a box. they have to do something about it. i think they're afraid of their players, you want to know the truth, and i think it's disgraceful. >> the trump/nfl battle is ongoing as taking a knee crosses over from protest to pop culture. we start this morning with this question, is the social justice message that originated in all

of this being lost while his former employee/employer gets to take the victim and has taken a knee an excuse to take a picture. joining me now is dave zirin, sports writer for "the nation" magazine, adalius thomas, a retired super bowl champion and pro bowler with the baltimore ravens and the new england patriots and alejandro donra, the editor in chief of "the shadow league" and author of the book "the boys of dunbar," an espn producer of the documentary "baltimore boys." let me start with you right here, mr. danois. as you have done documentaries on what has gone on in baltimore

and around this country with racism, with racism, with the criminal justice system, which is what a lot of these protests started as results of movement struggl struggles, some of which i've been in the forefront of, are we now watching donald trump flip the script to making this about the flag and the anthem rather than the issues that really these athletes are saying the flag needs to be fulfilled, and that is liberty and justice for all? is he really changing what this is really all about? >> donald trump has been masterful in this game of political three-card monte in terms of changing the message, and we're seeing a gentrification of colin kaepernick's message around police brutality, similar to what we're seeing in brooklyn, new york. this was about the unarmed killings of innocent black people in america, and somehow

it has evolved into some type of manifesto on the patriotism of unpatriotic, rich, black athletes who hate america and are disrespecting the american flag. it's totally erroneous but it's masterful when you understand his playbook and what he's been able to accomplish with it. >> and, dave zirin, you and i have talked many times throughout the last several years on this show, and part of that is this really started as far back as trayvon martin. >> yeah. >> because i remember when we went in with the marches and the rallies that i was one of those in the forefront of just saying we need to go to court and have justice here, we awe lebron james and others wearing hoodies on the court then. >> yeah. >> we saw later with eric gardner people wearing in basketball courts "i can't

breathe." so colin kaepernick and michael bennett is a continuation of years of athletes making statements, it's just that the former president obama did not try to use them as a scapegoat or flip the script like trump is. but this is not new that professional athletes on the court took a stand. >> no. and i would make the case that professional sports has been perhaps the most important hub of anti-racism in the united states in terms of being a cultural megaphone for the people in the streets. when i say the most important hub, i mean putting that over popular music, putting that over the democratic party, putting that over any other force in our society. sports has amplified this anti-racist message that black lives matter. i think what donald trump is doing and it's the same thing he's doing with puerto rico, is making it about him instead of about the issue. so if he comes -- this is what a

tox toxic, narcissist does, you make it about the individual. when you said that you were speaking with martin luther king iii later in the show, in the 1960s it wasn't about bull connor, it was about very direct goals that people were trying to fight for. >> and it was not about the bus company having better tires, it was about segregation. and i think he's flipped this over. and you know -- let me go to you on this, mr. thomas. the athletes are standing up behind a movement that has been going on for many years. black women marched here yesterday in washington. the ministers march we did just a few weeks ago. they are supporting the march. he's scapegoating them like they were leading the protest, so at some point if somebody doesn't

take a knee then all of a sudden the movement is dead. when they're supporting a movement and they're not the ones that generated this movement, the movement comes from the fans that they're saying this flag ought to stand up for everybody equally. >> that part is correct. the biggest thing is, this is not about white versus black, this is about right versus wrong. >> right. >> people have started to paint racism with patriotism. if you're a patriot of this country, you have to be a patriot of everything, including the flag. when you see the flag lay on the ground on the side of the football field, you're not upset. so now all of a sudden now you have a guy that's taken a knee and you're saying that it's about the flag. the guys we have said many times that it's not about the flag, it's about injustice, it's about the rights of police brutality that is epidemic going on today. everybody is talking about what he's doing but nobody wants to

talk about the issue because the issue is uncomfortable. we've had tax reform, we've had voter reform. now we have to have a dialogue about police reform. how they interact with people and teal with resolution conflict, i think they should have to go to a class every year in order to deal with conflict resolution. so not all cops are bad, that is not the case, but just like any other ceo of the company, any other business that's out there, you always want to see your company do better each and every year. it's the same thing for the country. the country has came a long ways. but can it be better? yes. how can it be better? by creating a dialogue and having police reform where there's a standard operating procedure when you get stopped. >> even as we go down that road, we certainly need to have better police/community relations, but we need to have the criminal

justice system act fairly. that's not about just relations, that's if you have a video of a crime, that a prosecutor that is not dealing with local county politics has to defend the law. that's what this has been about and that's what this continues to be about and that's what these protests by athletes have really brought new and needed profile to. i think it's very much needed. i just don't think we need to allow the president to distort it. and president obama with his commission and others began going where mr. thomas was talking. this president and his attorney general aborted that process of dealing with policing. >> absolutely. >> well, it's a long overduhonest conversation that needs to be had. one thing that we're realizing is that the majority of americans are not ready for an honest conversation. people are talking about how spike lee was ahead of the curve and do the right thing. and the most interesting parallel that i can draw to that

is people were more upset at mookie for throwing the trash can through the glass window than the actual police are you at that ti -- brutality and chokehold that led to the death of raheem. colin kaepernick is drawing interest to this issue of police brutality and people are more upset with his protest than they are the actual issue. that's what's getting lost in all of this is that people are not willing to have an honest conversation and saying what colin kaepernick is doing and what he's done and the movement that he's pushing forward is more patriotic and american than anything that donald trump says about the people in puerto rico. >> he's not burning the flag. michael bennett is not burning the flag. others did not interrupt games when they supported trayvon and eric garner. david, i think what is important

here, as you mentioned, i'm having martin luther king iii on this morning. martin luther king jr., the iconic civil rights figure, he died with the polls saying he was more unpopular than popular. so when you've had the president now changing the script and people talking about should people respect the flag, the real question is should the flag stand for what the flag says with the pledge of allegiance says, liberty and justice for all. it's the wrong question getting the wrong polling answers that many in the media are not saying that's not the issue here. >> yeah, and we know what trump is doing. it's the three ds. distract, demonize and destroy. and you can throw divide on there too if you want a fourth d. this is the thing we need to fight against. i'll tell you a couple of

things. i was at the march for racial justice yesterday in washington, d.c., the one you mentioned, reverend sharpton. i have to tell you there were so many kaepernick jerseys and people holding up signs that said i kneel with kap. what you saw was the way i think we are going to actually recenter this conversation around this issue of criminal justice reform and racial inequities in the system. it's going to happen because people take that to the streets. athletes are not going to do it for us. this will not be an athlete-led civil rights movement. they may help amplify the movement and shape the movement, but as you well know it wasn't like muhammed ali came down from planet cool athlete guy to earth in the 1960s to lead a movement against the war. >> no. he gave a lot of voice to a movement -- >> exactly. >> -- against the war that was already going. >> that already existed, exactly. >> i think what mr. trump is doing, mr. thomas, is trying to supplant a movement that's going

in many various forms. the march yesterday, the ministers marz, the traditional civil rights groups. he doesn't want to deal with them because then he has to deal with the issues. he can pick on the nfl owners and pick on the nba owners that he has no authority over. then he doesn't have to deal with his justice department not dealing with criminal justice, not dealing with commutation of low-level nonviolent drug offenders, not dealing with the high incarceration of black women that the black women's march brought to bear. he does not have to become accountable for his actions. he'd rather have a straw man fight with people that he can beat up on rather than be held accountable himself. >> you're looking at a president that is very ill informed, he's divisive. i've said it before. he's the president of the divided states of america. he is uninformed all the way across the board. he's talking about patriotic, but he didn't want to be patriotic when he was called on

to serve. so you have a president that, again, he's distracting. he puts it out there and throws it out there as if he's the victim. well, if there's anyone, the african-americans have endured more than any culture that's out there from rape to the jim crow laws to slavery all the way up to the police brutality that's the epidemic now. look at the history, that's what this thing is, respect the flag, patriotism. well, the red summer of 1919 black summers were being lynched in their uniforms after world war i. you have things like that that comes along and what he's doing now is kind of like the old fire with hitler. he's trying to put this whole thing from the communists and blame it on someone else and now it's the athletes' fault that they're kneeling for the flag. if you're patriotic, be patriotic all the time. this is just racism being painted with patriotism and that's their message instead of

talking about, again, the issue. understand the why of anything they're doing. it is because people are being killed. you have people blatantly being shot in the back and then being called innocent. and that is absurd. >> that is the issue. i'm going to have to leave it there, i'm out of time, but thank you so much for being with us, adarius thomas, dave zirin and alejandro danois. coming up, i'll ask congresswoman sheila jackson of texas what the biggest political challenge facing capitol hill is right now, as well as reaction to president trump blasting the mayor of san juan over her comments about the lack of hurricane aid the island is receiving. ah, dinner.

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on top of the resignation of secretary tom price friday, it's been a busy fall session for congress. in the past few days, members faced a number of funding deadlines, including the debt ceiling, children's health insurance, national food insurance, and the federal aviation administration. coming up, members will face decisions on tax reform and the fate of daca and relief efforts to devastated parts of this country from hurricanes. on top of all that, there's the challenge of addressing racial justice as the social fabric of this country is stretched by disagreement over equality and patriotism. joining me now is democratic congresswoman sheila jackson lee of texas who earlier this week took a knee in the house of

representatives to show her support for racial justice demonstrated by nfl players. thank you, congresswoman for joining me. let me start by asking how are relief and recovery efforts going in texas, because we should not forget we are still in very serious circumstances there in texas from mercury harvey. >> good morning, reverend, and thank you for having me and thank you for asking the question. i was out in my district yesterday as i flew in from washington visiting with constituents. 6,000 people almost were online -- let me change that number to about 27,000 trying to get supplemental food stamps because they have not worked because they have been damaged by the flood. the program thinks they could see up to 100,000 needing more centers in our district. i spoke to the hud officials

indicating that one of the unfortunate situations in houston, which is a big sprawling city with a lot of homeowners and we appreciate that, but low income people are having a hard time finding replacement apartments. so the message i have is that even though the sun is shining, there is a desperation here that is clearly needing a response. our local officials have been excellent. they're fighting to ensure that individuals have a road to recovery, but i can imagine the plight of those in puerto rico because we in texas are still facing an uphill battle. we need all of the resources from the state and the federal government to collaborate with local officials to make sure that we restore people. one more thing, the disabled and senior citizens who have been displaced are having difficulty in finding the kind of living products that are out there that are suitable for their income. that's always a question. those who get the largest brunt in many instances are our seniors. i spoke to a senior couple who

have a number of health issues and there was a volunteer individual out there, a young man out there helping them and they were so grateful because they were not able to do it. even though they're appreciative of government, they needed help. that's the issue. when you have these devastating storms, the most significant storm in history here in hurricane harvey on the continental united states with 24 trillion gallons of water, we are still facing an uphill battle. >> now, you mentioned puerto rico and certainly we have all seen how president trump has engaged in a war of words with the mayor of san juan. many people, including myself, have taken issue that while people are literally dying, at the point of death, living with absolutely no power, he's

golfing and attacking the mayor of san juan and talking about how puerto rico was in debt. i mean how do you react to this president behaving this way in the middle of a crisis, a crisis that you and the people in your district just came through in texas and still recovering from? they are in the eye of this storm. they are in the midst of this crisis. and he uses this to attack them and to get in a back-and-forth with the mayor of san juan. >> well, we have a great mayor, mayor turner and judge emmitt, county judge, working together here. i'm going to applaud mayor cruz. i think the question for the president, and you want to ask how we address it, we take him on. i applaud mayor cruz for taking him on because, unfortunately, he does not know the topography or the he does not know puerto rico. puerto rico happens to have many cities. mayor cruz made it very clear that what she is speaking of is

those individuals, those mayors, those small governments beyond san juan who cannot speak for themselves who are facing the devastation of bodies, the devastation of dead animals, the lack of water, having to travel an hour and a half for a bag of groceries, roads that are impassable. and the president failed on this, absolutely failed. it's not the fema personnel. they don't govern themselves. they are guided by directions from the administration for them to be on the ground. knowing there was going to be this catastrophic category 5 hitting puerto rico, a commander in chief would have predeployed a number of assets at least close enough to be able to move toward the island. they would have had military personnel, they would have created ahead a commander that would have taken charge like general honore who certainly has been very pointed on the failures of this administration.

and then it tracks the same attitude of treatment of people of color. these are people of color. >> i want to push you right there, congresswoman, because it seems like his reaction when it's black or brown people, whether it be puerto rico, whether it be people protesting policing in the nfl, as many of us have done in the streets and you have done in congress, it seems that he has a cute insensitivity to put it best when it comes to people of color. does this president have a real race problem? certainly his policies reflect that. you as a member of congress, can you look at what this president has done and not say when it comes to people of color, it seems to always be a problem and a negative with this president? >> it is a problem and it is also, i believe, an ailment, an

illness. let me make sure that i'm very strong on what has happened to the u.s. virgin islands as well. again, a population of people of color. by the way, all of these individuals, u.s. citizens, have served in the united states military. one of our members is working hard to bring attention to the u.s. virgin islands. and we, the members of the congressional black caucus as we work with the hispanic caucus and democratic caucus and anyone else that will have the back of these people. as it relates to the president and his problem, his particular illness on the question of race, let me be very clear. it is a long standing history. cited by the department of justice twice, standing up against, i believe, five young men who were called the central park five. they were innocent. he insisted on them being executed. not having someone count his money at his casinos that failed. now coming into the united states presidency, selecting a

former segregationist as the attorney general who has obliterated, obliterated the record of our past presidents, plural, because george w. bush signed the reauthorization of the voting rights act with great joy and a great successful passage. this administration is almost imploding the voting rights act, imploding affirmative action, taking away the trajectory that president obama had on criminal justice reform by the commutation of sentencing and also telling prosecutors across america, u.s. prosecutors to praus su prosecute every single element -- >> you're running it down exactly right. >> may i just say the first amendment, the first amendment, reverend, part of it says petition of grievances. i knelt on the floor and i challenge everyone to take a kneel because those young men were having the right to

petition their government. and the protocol for the flag, not laws, they are protocols, i respect the flag and the national anthem. but the first amendment gives us the right to express our grievances. so take a kneel. however those young men do it, they should not be fired because the law of the first amendment provides them with that right to do that, as colin kaepernick did. that's why i took a kneel and i ask everyone else to do it. >> i certainly agree. thank you, congresswoman. >> thank you. >> everyone should take a kneel but then get up and deal with the issues that we're taking a kneel with. >> thank you. >> i want to bring in yamiche alcindor, reporter and contributor to msnbc. just seconds ago president trump tweeted this. we have done a great job with the almost impossible situation in puerto rico. outside of the fake news and politically motivated ingrates,

people are starting to recognize the amazing work done by fema and our great military. all buildings now inspected. yamiche, did i miss something? are we not days after this storm that we knew was coming, this was a projected storm, hurricane 5, that this national response by this administration was not quick in response to, did get into a -- really accusatory battle with the mayor of san juan. when you contrast that with how president obama responded with haiti, whereby dawn after an unexpected earthquake hit, we had military in the air on the way to haiti. when you look at the contrast, what is he tweeting about?

how does he pat himself on the back for what is late and incompetent at best in my judgment? >> well, i think president trump is essentially proving what everyone who's been watching the president for the last two years knows. it's that he's emotional. it's that when he gets upset, when he feels as though people are attacking him, he takes to twitter to try to eviscerate his enemies. what i'm struck by as a reporter is not the fact that he's saying we're doing amazing work but the fact that he's saying ingrates and doubling down on his attack on the mayor of san juan and really saying to this woman, you are ungrateful for all the things i am doing for you. yesterday when we were talking about and watching as he was getting into a political back and forth with her, i was also struck by the fact that he said puerto rico wants everything done for them. what we're talking about are americans in need of their federal government to stand up and to fix and to help them. the reporting down there indicates that there are tens of thousands of people, at least thousands of people who have not even been reached yet, which

means there could be people dying, wanting water, wanting food, needing help and our president is instead saying we're doing an amazing job and patting himself on the back. i think it goes to this idea that president trump is really into optics. he's into wanting people to say i'm doing a really great job. he wants people to say he's a great president. as a result, you're seeing officials being very cautious in how they talk about president trump. the mayor never said you're a terrible president and never came after the president. instead she said we are trying and we need your help. >> now, yamiche, when you look at that and you raised the point where he talked about ingrates and made other statements, it is really, really clear that he absolutely looks at them like they are not american citizens, entitled to look at the united states government for certain

help and certain assistance, when they are faced with a natural disaster. it's almost like we're giving you charity, like you're not american citizens, and it comes down, again, to does he consider people of color equal citizens like everyone else? can you imagine him saying that to whites in florida, that they're ingrates if they said you're taking too long to come in? i mean you've got to deal with the issue of how he deals differently with different constituents. >> well, i think that there's this idea that you've articulated very well and activists and others have articulated to me who essentially think that he doesn't look at puerto rico in the same way that he looks at mainland united states, that he doesn't look at texas and florida the same way that he might look at puerto rico. i think that this goes back farther than donald trump. remember during katrina when people started calling the people who were fleeing new orleans refugees because they were going into texas. there's this idea that people of

color historically have been treated differently, especially when they're in need of their federal government's help, that they somehow become the other and people don't want them in their neighborhoods, don't want them in their communities. i think there's a lot of that going on here. now, whether or not the president actually looks at puerto rico and thinks this is an american country and these are americans is kind of -- is really, i think, to be seen. he's going there on tuesday with his family, so in theory it looks as though he's treating it in terms of his travel as he would with texas, but really -- it's really going to be important to watch him this week as he goes down there and actually sees the devastation for himself -- >> well, we will be watching. i'm out of time. we will be watching him this week, but i will not forget last week and the week before. >> as you shouldn't. >> thank you. still ahead, patriotism, social justice and sports in this country. martin luther king iii share his thoughts on this conversation that has so many disagreeing with each other and the president.

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i spent the better part of this week abroad. first in ireland to receive the james joyce award for civil rights and then in south africa to address the essence music festival in durbin. the through line of my time in europe and africa alike was this consistent question, what is going on? apart from the general concern that the united states is fundamentally losing its way, the question was more often tied to the ongoing controversy over our president using his bully pulpit to encourage the silencing of mostly black citizens. for exercising their first amendment rights. citizens that happen to be in possession of physical gifts

that have enabled them to succeed in the field of sport. in this case the multimillion dollar world of nfl football. but success is not safety. and with the litany of unarmed black civilians that have been shot by police in the last few years and the parade of officer exonerations despite compelling evidence, these athletes of color and their white peers have been doing what any conscientious person would do, using their bully pulpit of the football field. and now the baseball diamond. and even the hockey rink to take a stand, by kneeling down. and while i was away this week, the gesture spread beyond the sports world, becoming among other things a catch-all image of anti-trump resistance. celebrities were doing it in group photos. and even a conservative veteran

like senator john mccain defended protesters' first amendment rights to make their pregame statements. but as many have noted this week, free agent quarterback colin kaepernick remains unemployed, arguably because of the protest he originated, a protest that many say cost him his future in football because it was too much for nfl owners to defend. until, of course, they were the ones that needed defending. and while kaepernick's message about police brutality was diluted, his optics were co-opted by the very institution that appears to have locked him out of the game. he's on record as wanting to return to. so while it was cute to see team owners like dallas cowboys jerry jones locking arms and kneeling

with their teams preaching a tribalistic message of league unity, we should not get away from the original message by kaepernick and kept vital by players like michael bennett, eric reed and others. and that's the humanness message that insists black lives matter beyond their ability to run fast, hit hard or stand up for a song. he's going after women he disapproves of. than who does he leave the snowmen for? [ distorted voice ] you could have saved them. i gave you all the clues. [ screaming ] [ stirring music playing ] he's been watching us the whole time. he's playing games with us. the snowman.

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with america divided on the issue of free speech this week, the reverend martin luther king jr. was invoked by both sides of the political spectrum. last saturday, a day after the president's initial criticism of athlete protests during the national anthem, dr. king's daughter, bernice, and the nonprofit she runs in his name tweeted images of civil rights activists kneeling in prayer before facing the dangers of the

movement. as we approach the 50th anniversary of dr. king's assassination in april, a new university of chicago poll suggests that most black americans are pessimistic about president trump's america and their place in it. joining me now is civil rights leader advocate martin luther king iii. martin, as we look at this poll, one of the things that your father struggled with and many have struggled with before him and you and i after him and our generation and those younger than us is trying to give people that are treated in a double standard and that are being in many ways wanting equal protection under the law hope and not pessimism, despite the adversity of the hour. in this hour, how do we deal with that, when you have an

outright fight going between the president and athletes over the very issues that you and i and your parents before us gave their lives for? >> you know, reverend, thank you for the question. let me just say that somehow we have to always maintain hope, even in the darkest hours. i'm sure my father and his team and many others before him went through all kinds of tremendous adversity. but there is hope. now, let me give one example. just a few weeks ago during the weekend of the ceremony of the late, great dick gregory on that saturday of his home going, there was a demonstration of president trump supporters. and some black lives matter individuals of one of the president's out of new york came to that demonstration and were protesting initially. the gentleman that was the head

of the militia invited them up to speak. during his speech, some things, not necessarily were booed, but there was discussion. but at the end of his speech, there was more unity. and what he ended on was something like if we're going to resolve these difficult problems in our nation, we must do it together, and the crowd cheered. now, this was a gentleman who was over the militia. these were bikers for trump. so what it showed to me is that everyone is not necessarily of the ilk of the neo-nazis. there are a lot of good people in america. all we've got to do is have a dialogue and begin to talk. quite frankly the steps that colin kaepernick has taken has created a dialogue like we've never had before. >> now, i think that's true, but at the same time we see a far right win a republican primary against even the president's choice in allabama, so we still have a long way to go, as i

agree with you we must find and bring up these flashes of hope that are not being widely covered. i also think that we've got to deal with the fact that if you're going to take this journey and take this battle, you're going to be unpopular in some circles. you know, my birthday is tuesday and you reflect on life. and your father was in many times more down in the polls, even in black america, than up when he came out against the war in vietnam, other civil rights leaders attack him. and i think these athletes must understand when you see polling saying, oh, we are with the president about the flag, you are going to have to face opposition, but it should strengthen your resolve to really test that you mean what you say and say what you mean, and i don't think a great example -- and i think a great example of that was your father. >> and i'm glad you brought that up earlier in the show when you

said at the time of his death, around that time, dad was certainly a huge enemy of the state by polling data. obviously at some point he becomes a great hero. but perhaps it was because he was silenced momentarily. although the message will be here forever, the message that he articulated. so we can never lose hope. there are so many good people in america. you think about the fact that when the storms came, when the hurricanes came, whether it's texas or whether it's even now the effects of puerto rico, americans are still doing all that they can to help people. that's who we are at heart. we're a great people. it's just that there are elements that are terrible in our society. but we can never give up on the good people, because there are so many good people in this nation. >> well, you are so much like your mother, who used to always say that when we would try to go

in other directions. thank you so much, martin luther king iii. i'll be right back. i work overtime when i can get it.

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as i sad, i spent much of this week in europe and in africa. but i monitored, as i was traveling, what was going on in the united states and the provocative and ugly statements about the protests on police brutality by nfl players by president trump. i stayed in touch with my colleagues in national action network and other civil rights organizations. but in the midst of being outraged by them, as i stood in

durban south africa to speak, i thought about how right there in south africa, nelson men dell la and others spent decades in jail, they watched in the land they were born, the land they were the majority of, as they had to have passbooks to even go around in their own nation and couldn't vote and had no rights, yet they never gave up. and i was there in '94 when nelson mandela won that election and went from prisoner to president. i was five rows back when president obama was there to be sworn in the first black president of the united states. what i'm saying is it has never been a bat that will we did not

face adversity. we always had to fly against a head wind, we never had a back wind but we never stopped moving forward. yes, i have hope. i have hope we have strengthen to go on like those before us. history is made by those that don't shrink in the time of challenge. i'll be right back. we're an organic tea company. a premium juice company. a coconut water company. we've got drinks for long days. for birthdays. for turning over new leaves. and we make them for every moment in every corner of the country. we are the coca-cola company, and we're proud to offer so much more. cohigher!ad! higher! parents aren't perfect, but then they make us kraft mac & cheese

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