it's not about leaving blackness or rejecting blackness. it's very much a part of me, but i want to have the right to perform it or embody it any way that i want. >> host: you have a chapter called 40 million ways to be black. >> guest: that's right. skip gates talks about in his class at harvard f there's 40 million black people, there's 40 million ways to be black. so it's not that one way that's illegitimate or inauthentic, you're realer -- those are ridiculous ideas about blackness. whatever way you want to embody it or perform it or do it, that's reasonable. >> host: here are some of the questions you asked 105 people that you interviewed for this book. what does black -- being black mean to you, does being black mean something different now than what it meant three or four decades ago. has what it means to be black changed over the last 40 years, and if so, how? is there an authentic black experience? what do you think of the concept of post-blackness? do you think blacks have ways of imposing limits on black identity, etc., etc. and

american that his father was a black african as opposed to a black american. i think has subsided somewhat as the caller indicated that was a topic of conversation at all across the united states they deal with the attention but on a question why i went to princeton university, because my older brother went there and it was recommended to me and my older brother suggested that i do. i am very happy i went there. it is wonderful. the third question on occupy wall street, very interesting. my sense of things is that to many black americans feel themselves to be in the grip of a dilemma. on the one hand many are feeling the real pinch of the continued economic difficulties. they feel it. at the same time a lot of them don't want to do anything to do with the president and a stand he cannot snap his fingers in everything changes in recognize he has influential political adversaries so even though black america dense are hurting, maybe 13 quietly as the president's policies they don't want to be very public in their protest because they think that may hurt the pres

, the black man on campus and some of the black women. when i was a junior, i got the coveted right to live in the black house where only three people lived. i was the creator and editor of a -- >> where did you go to school? >> emery in atlanta. editor and creator of a black newspaper called the flier. i was close friends with all the leaders of the black community. i was black african-american studies major. you know, i had gone through a transformation over a few years, and not that i ignored blackness before, and this is my friend group, my psychology major, and then i grew. these are years where everybody goes through identity formation, and that's what i was going there #u as well, but, you know, some people were not going to let the past be forgotten and were clinging to things that happened freshman year. we were at a party at the black house where i lived, and, you know, a very vanilla argument broke out about just who was going to clean up the black house after the party, and, you know, we said, hey, don't leave it for us reside

and i'm like, what black guy? everybody is black. it is a sea of black people in my mind. but very shortly after, a few weeks, i quickly picked up all the prejudices. i mean, i had them all in my head. and be when i came pack to the united states, i'm like, oh, this is the same prejudices that we have were transferred in africa. so, oh, you know, views of jewish people or, you know, italian people or black people, they have the same prejudices apride. applied. and when you have society under great economic stress or turmoil, these tensions, people become very tribal. and i think the great strength of organizations like the naacp in that year was to not go the route of marcus garvey who wanted to be tribal for black people. okay, we're going to move to africa. okay, fine. that sort of tribalism they said, no, they rejected it. here's the united states constitution, i get the same rights you do. and their ability to fight for that in that chaotic situation, to me, was very, very impressive and inspiring. i think that i was part of writing this book when i started to do the r

that's why our blacks are so much better than their blacks. >> jon: our blacks. even i'm offended by that and i'm a racist. ( laughter ) ( applause ) but ann coulter raises a very valid question-- are conservative blacks better than other blacks? to discuss we go to the ( bleep ) roundtable. ( cheers and applause ) welcome. let's begin-- to start it off, wyatt senac, you're an african american. are you offended by what colsaid? >> i am, but only because the truth hurt. the left has the quantity, but the right's got the quality. >> republicans have the cream of the black. >> jon: uh-huh, uh-huh. in what regard? >> in every regard, jon. they're stronger. they're better dressers. better singers. and one other thing. >> they can't stand that a black man, much blacker than obama, and a real american black, is this right winger. >> their blacks are just blacker. ( laughter ) >> jon: yeah, yeah. >> it's a smoother, darker tone. it's creamier, like suede. >> yeah, right, where the left brack, they're, like, plether. ( laughter ). >> it's also actually what's inside in a

and he is a black man. so for purposes of level of difficulty, think about athletic events you get points for level of difficulty. the level of difficulty is very, very high and that must be appreciated when it comes to judging the president. as you know from my book i am critical of the president along a wide range of dimensions. i don't have any problem with forcing criticism of the president. at the same time one voice's criticism of the president, one must understand the difficulties he faces including the special difficulty he faces because of his race. barack obama had to overcome his blackness as president of the united states. he had to overcome his blackness to effectively govern the united states and he will have to overcome his blackness yet again in order to be reelected. i am happy to go into various issues. happy to voice criticism of the president. but it has to be against the backdrop of the special difficulties he faces. >> host: you have a special perspective. you are harvard law professor

blacks are far worse off now than george bush and the black caucus savage all the time. >> host: wait a minute. >> host: john? we will say goodbye i wanted him to define what he meant by black racism. >> guest: i am happy to respond he raised a number of interesting issues but first is their black racism? sure. there are people who look down on other people because of their race. sometimes a look down on asian people and that is terrible and to the extent there are black people to act badly toward other people because of their racial background it is a bad thing. sure it exist within black america. now on the question of barack obama and the black vote, in presidential politics, then the democratic nominee who ever that is coming typically gets the lion's share of the black vote. bill clinton got over 9% of the black vote and the same was true of all gore. they are white but they are democrats in presidential politics in particular, black america overwhelmingly goes with the democratic nominee. was that instinctual the case of barack obama? of course, it was. his color has something t

but that was not even expectation if we talk about black america, i think most black americans actually had a more realistic notion to recognize number one that what he was inheriting was tremendous difficulties especially with the economy. they recognized that as a black politician he would be scrutinized more than a white politician with respect to racial policies. >> host: aides and blacks and whites the one absolutely every aspect of american life. i don't care if we talk about why the expectancy zero or access to medical attention or employment housing, incarceration you name it and we still have but ratio hierarchy where people of color get the short end of the stick by and large white americans are getting a better deal. that is the case before barack obama and now and frankly after barack obama leaves the white house. most black americans had an inkling of that. they understood that and also understood with respect to racial equality the detractors of the president that said they would be waiting for anything to jump on to say he is showing favoritism to black america, but that

with black america. what about george washington? what about thomas jefferson? what about pulp. what about lincoln? i went through them all. >> host: many of them were slave owners. >> guest: many of them were slave owners, that's right. they were slave owners and not only were they slave owners, they were slave traders, you know. and jackson in particular comes to mind. he was an unembarrassed participant in slavery. there were people who brought their slaves to the white house, so i go through the various presidents. there were a couple that you mentioned that i thought was particularly useful to call upon. even before obama occupy the white house were people were making analogies between obama and fdr. i think one of the reasons was because both assumed the presidency in the midst of financial crisis. so, the great recession. people say this was the biggest downturn in the american economy since the great depression. when you think of great depression you think of franklin delano roosevelt. >> host: a

black friday is getting violent. we'll have a live report next. >>> plus the bay area county talking about charging you a fee for plastic bagsment. >> and still a few areas of drizzle and light rain in the east bay. >>> and we're watching the parking lots just as much as ths we frwa. who you what's going on out there coming up. [ woman ] my boyfriend and i were going on vacation, so i used my citi thank you card to pick up some accessories. a new belt. some nylons. and what girl wouldn't need new shoes? we talked about getting a diamond. but with all the thank you points i've been earning... ♪ ...i flew us to the rock i really had in mind. ♪ [ male announcer ] the citi thank you card. earn points you can use for travel on any airline, with no blackout dates. >>> i'm live at the scene of a shooting in a wal-mart parking lot. i'll tell you the connection to black friday coming up. >>> i'm bob redell live in the south bay. black friday is looking more like black thursday, considering how much earlier retailers are openi

blacks don't think. they simply do what they are told, told where to live, where to shop, where they have to send their children to school and so on. trees, freedom from preference, options, personal decision and so on. those are more sophisticated people with your little thinking skills, those who deserve freedom. often these are called eletes. and the rest of us must do with the eletes say. they enjoy their own freedom but do not really believe that others are capable of exercising the same freedom just yet. so they position themselves as surrogate decision makers for others who aren't nearly as enlightened as they are. if they were considered people with equal dignity, the prospective employee would be free to negotiate their own wage for employment based on her honest assessment of her needs and skills and capacities with a potential employer. offers and counteroffers would be made without the oversight or intervention of sarah get third-party is because they would be the expectation of both the empl

but that was not even expectation if we talk about black america, i think most black americans actually had a more realistic notion to recognize number one that what he was inheriting was tremendous difficulties especially with the economy. they recognized that as a black politician he would be scrutinized more than a white politician with respect to racial policies. >> host: aides and blacks and whites the one absolutely every aspect of american life. i don't care if we talk about why the expectancy zero or access to medical attention or employment housing, incarceration you name it and we still have but ratio hierarchy where people of color get the short end of the stick by and large white americans are getting a better deal. that is the case before barack obama and now and frankly after barack obama leaves the white house. most black americans had an inkling of that. they understood that and also understood with respect to racial equality the detractors of the president that said they would be waiting for anything to jump on to say he is showing favoritism to black america, but that

having grown up in arkansas and having lived around black people and havingú black people come into his's store.. >> right. >> .and having a friendly relationship with them. i think he was a different person.. >> yeah. >> .than the other white presidents we've had. it doesn't mean he's lacker than barack obama. >> right. but being, being a southerner were, were, a preconditioned coofort wwthú that and serving effectively as president, haley barbour might be running for president. >> but you know, i think haley barbour probably is more comfortable with black people than many northerners are. >> really? >> yes i do. >> the accusations of racism against him notwithstanding. >> oh yes. >> yeah. >> because i think that some of those are strong, are proper accusations. >> yeah. >> that he does say racist things or ignorant things anyway. >> yeah. >> and luckily as you said, it's not the same thing. you know, it's possible to be ignorant and not be a racist, and he has, you know, on occasion, he's been both. >> yeah. okay. can we talk about how you got to be this person; how you got to be at t

also oprah winfrey the founder of black entertainment television the first black billionaire.ichard parsons who was chairman and ceo of the world's biggest entertainment media images in a company, time warner. and then was asked to come back after retirement, leave his vineyard in tuscany and come back to help buy the share after the collapse. and so we had ed tete lows that if we could never have had ever in history. african-american president grappling with the worst financial economic crisis as the great depression season at a steady hand is needed at this giants broke important financial restitution and is it what to call on african-american seasoned ceo to come in and apprenticeships. they could not have happened before. so i called this tiny group, the transom in crude. actually opened the book with the scene from the party that vernon jordan sounds that was quite interesting finally i saw something new that i call them immersed in black america. this emerging group to my further subdivided. one is the record number of black immigrants from the caribbean, but especially

at black oceans slowly swallowing everything i had never known. it took some time then my prayer began to subside. she goes on to tell her period -- parents about the odd characters on board. there is a captain and the greek crew who were very suspicious of her and a journey she was making to pakistan. where the you imagine a guy would need by nice dress for dining and dancing as if my passage to design a cruise ship other than a freighter i was happy to leave that behind along with my corset and the high heels that i gave twos a lady across the hall from me and then i found high neck long sleeved blouse. i see i cut the unlikely figure. anybody would ask why wouldn't say attractive flustered woman dresses and such a manner? i don't blame him. the captain tells me he just returned from turkey and took the best efforts to outlaw eight -- arrest muslims and has no problems about fanatics as to when he met muslims or the year of 18 for core avoid others like the plague and happy to see it eradicated because it is home to many europeans showing me the

we were experiencing the first black administration, the first black mayor in the city of atlanta, as well as the first black police chief. >> but in the summer of 1979, a shocking discovery marks the beginning of a terror atlanta would never forget. july 28th, 1979, police respond to a possible homicide in southwest atlanta. >> a woman was out collecting bottles and cans out in a wooded area out near niskey lake road and she found a body of a young teenage boy lying there in the woods. he was 14 years old. >> investigators determine that the body is that of edward hope smith. a week earlier, smith didn't make it home after a night out at a local skating rink. forensics determined he was shot with a .22 caliber weapon. but there is one more grim discovery waiting for investigators searching the woods that day. >> so then they found a second body lying less than 100 feet away. >> there was a little path through there where apparently individuals had cut through. you could see where people had been dumping rubbish right as you approached it. >> the second body is that of 13-year-old alf

there are black schools, black churches, black communities that could take the initiative to do what it wants to do. and it does not do it. [applause] so while we lose the elite, while we lose some of the most talented we have ever created in our midst, we have to step back and take another look at what we are really doing. yes, everybody has their thing. i have got a picture coming out that is a documentary. it is one hour, 44 minutes long. it will be on hbo on october 17. people who have seen the film say i do not understand how they got on the air. there things inside the content and what this film says that such as deeply into radical thought and radical thinking, uttered by those who were radicals in their time. mandela, dr. king, and others will be heard speaking to it. how did it get to hbo? what made me get so lucky? i am not lucky. i got smart. [applause] and us, in pursuit of ego, in pursuit of large, ridiculous sums of money, have sold our birthright in the name of somehow we're more victim than we are responsible. [applause] >> tatyana, you're out there -- [applause] taty

this is our celebration of black history month.e to city hall to recognize this and to recognize the great work that pat williams is doing because about the stories that need to be told. and i, as my life becomes unfolding in front of a lot of other people you're going to hear about me and i want you to know there's a lot of part of the black community that has to do in my peam and gsh famed -- family and so i want to tell you a story. it's a true one. so when i was growing up in the projects in seattle, washington, my neighbors were black. we had businesses in the black community because that's where we could start. that's where my dad was able to cook in restaurants. and there was a gentleman who owned the gas station. his name was darnell. and he came to the restaurant every day to have his meal and to support my father's struggle as he tried to make that restaurant business succeed. well, it was during those times that i learned very quickly observing things in the restaurant who were the gp friends to my father and who was jus

stock market a turkey and for shoppers today it is black friday for those boycotting and protesting it it is occupy black friday now from pepper spray to staying in tents the two movements have brought about sums to writing links similar images as for black friday itself does it fuel corporate power and exploitation or does it fuel its better an economy driven by consumer spending we'll take a look at it and looking beyond black friday big picture can anything save the u.s. and western economies from leadership failures as european leaders race to save the eurozone and u.s. presidential candidates campaign for a chance to steer the u.s. economy is everyone headed in the wrong direction we'll see let's get to today's capital account. ok unless you're living under a rock you know that today is black friday a tradition in american culture that almost rivals thanksgiving itself it is known is the biggest shopping day of the year this year stores opening even earlier opening last night to customers to get deals but it's known to critics of american consumerism as buy nothing day and this ye

american that his father was a black african as opposed to a black american. i think has subsided somewhat as the caller indicated that was a topic of conversation at all across the united states they deal with the attention but on a question why i went to princeton university, because my older brother went there and it was recommended to me and my older brother suggested that i do. i am very happy i went there. it is wonderful. the third question on occupy wall street, very interesting. my sense of things is that to many black americans feel themselves to be in the grip of a dilemma. on the one hand many are feeling the real pinch of the continued economic difficulties. they feel it. at the same time a lot of them don't want to do anything to do with the president and a stand he cannot snap his fingers in everything changes in recognize he has influential political adversaries so even though black america dense are hurting, maybe 13 quietly as the president's policies they don't want to be very public in their protest because they think that may hurt the pres

that's why you are blacks are so much better than their blacks.o become a black republican you don't just roll into it. you are not going with the flow. you have fought against probably your family members, probably your neighbors, you have thought everything out and that's why we have very impressive black people in our party. >> here is what is disappointing about this. >> joe maxine waters in the republican party. >> his mother was a maid, his father worked three jobs, he grew up poor, just like clarence thomas, his grandfather. they are role models for people of all races. >> not only that, yes, they are. he was a math major, literally a rocket science. not only that but the reason we have a special place for blacks in american society because there was slavery, there was jim crow, thanks democrats. but the president we have now who has benefited from this, isn't it great, we have our first black president, well, he's half black, and he's not a son of someone who suffered through these. he's the son of a kenyan. he's not the son of an american

black friday, as it's known in the shopping trends. >> i always thought black friday was called blackriday because you're so full you have to wear loose clothing to cover it. >> who among us is wearing loose clothing. >> gee, i don't know. i couldn't find my black elastic pants. so i had to wear this thing. >> i'm sure all of the area bike trails and hiking trails will be busy. in the waters of the potomac, water levels still running high. stages at little falls is 7.8 feet. potomac is still running high. >>> near 40 in washington and right near the bay. awayrom the waters, it's down near freezing in parts of southern maryland, northern neck, and eastern shore. west and north of washington, we have temperatures down to the upper 20s to just near 30 degrees many locations. so a freezing start under this clear sky on this friday morning. as we look at the view from space over the last 12 hours, high pressure moving in, clearing things out from much of new england down to florida. from washington to the midwest, no travel problems on this friday morning. we'll have lots of sunshine today

it's black friday.over 300 gifts for under $50 available all weekend long. >> jay west, thanks so much for joining us. clayton, the national retail federation says they expect 152 million shoppers on this black friday. we can compare that to 138 million last year. back to you. >> we talk about these consumer confidence numbers all summer and look at the ebbs and flows you through the year. do all those numbers go out the window this weekend? >> they count on them basically and count on that to be built into all this. this is the real weekend folks are looking for. they want those 152 million and they want the tens of billions of dollars. they're counting on that especially after the year we've had. >> knowings -- thanks, rich. find yourself some toys and grab a starbucks. now i'm officially jealous. caught mocking the secretary of education. >> education is a civil rights issue of our times. now you know he went to private school because if he had gone to public school, he would have had that lisp fixed

there is a black friday special for the hope for the holidays campaign.etween now and december 31sttrokest, the adoption rates are in half, a cat or kitten is two for one. you can help out, hope for the holidays, sponsor an animal or donate supplies. >>> it is looking like christmas for the holidays at the white house. a fur by carriage, it was a tree 19 feet long and got a big thumbs up from the first lady and the president's daughters. it will be in the blue room and be the center piece of the white house sell operations. >>> it is a beautiful holiday, i cannot think of one this nice for years now. >> many areas think that the 10 above 55, this is really nice. that at the end of november and the holiday weekend. shoppers heading out, a cold start to the mornings, the shoppers are up and early. it is the first look at the video of the beautiful scenes today, around town, people sight seeing, the visits, you know, the walking off the turkey dinners and the slices of pies we had. >>> temperatures are steady, here is a look, college park is 45 -- . >>> it i

i guess to a certain degree that role's kind of fallen on me. >> on the black guy. >> on the black guyow of hands. who thinks they did well? so nobody thinks they did well? >> i did okay. >> i think you guys need to be a little bit harder on yourselves. let's be clear. my goal to say that is to not to belittle anybody in this room. i need you guys and want you guys to understand the vastness of this opportunity. right? you guys walked through palo alto to get here. this is probably the most black people who are in the town right now. let's be honest, right? you need to understand the reality that you're in. >> no one that walked into that room knew they were about to pitch. >> let's say you walked in there and mark zuckerberg was in there and said, hey, i want to hear your idea. you're going to tell me that it's okay to say, oh, i didn't know i was going to pitch to him and i shouldn't be ready? you're going to make those excuses and at the end of the nine weeks be not where you need to be. you got to recognize the only person in control of that was yourself. it wasn't the valley. it w

all the majority population is still black. they don't serve that black population. their interests are with that military industrial complex in their district which makes sure they get elected, makes sure they get donations and they'll be there for a long time unless we have some critical forces outside which puts them on the spot and exposes what's going on. bobby scott in virginia, a very nice guy, very well educated, yale law school graduate, a moore house graduate they both represent areas of high military concentrations and they do the bidding of the military industrial complex first before they do anything else. >> one of your major issues when you were in congress was that education. i want to ask you about education here in new york. you've seen the pendulum swing both ways from centralization to decentralization back to now where we're heavily a centralized system with one chancellor where it's basically one by city hall. does one model work better for you than the other? should the school system here be centralized? should things be run top down from city

black super hero. we have a story of a real-life black girl super hero, things that will affect change the way art can. i have learned a great deal from being here. thank you very much. and to the beverly hills branch, of which i am a member, thank you. [applause] >> despite all of the things that have happened to the people, i took a page out of dr. mandela's life. i found myself on a corner in cape town where the indian ocean is on one side. i thought about all of the things that happened to my people in america. nothing had happened to me that mandela had not had happened to him triple fold. he came out of robben island with a smile on his face. he put grace in its people and they are incredibly homogeneous. i got a chance to think about what is the optimum philosophy for all people to believe in. my philosophy is that everybody on this planet belongs to this plan. i will continue with that with love and understanding and compassion for even the "enemy." i pray that my projects will be done by the e

how it started. >> plus, braving the black of night for the black friday deals. have that story coming up in a live report. >> adam caskey in the belfort furniture weather center. there's a chill and the temperatures but today will be as >>> live and in hd, this is "good morning washington," on your side. >> straight ahead a chaotic scene in california on black friday. a gathering at a wal-mart injured 20 people. good morning, washington. it's friday, november 25. i am pamela brown. >> i am kendis gibson. we begin with traffic and weather every ten minutes. adam caskey is on sun watch. >> you had been confused. sunlight? i am at work right now. i'm off duty i guess you could say. it's going to be a great day total sunshine, high pressure giving us a sinking motion. that is inhibiting clouds. 28 degrees in manassas, 41 in the district at this time, 43 in annapolis. total sunshine expected today, as well into the '60s and approaching 70 far south of the metro. thanksgiving was perfect. today will be just as nice and a few degrees warmer. a good chance to get outsid

and i wore black for the occasion. >> very good. i like that. >> i have to drive through union square on the way to work. there were a ton of people out there. >> at first i was taken aback. what are these, some business, what's going on? everyone had little bags from macy's. >> they were all camped out since yesterday or the day before. >>> let's talk a little bit about weather. we are going to double team it today with a little bit of weather and traffic for you. lawrence is sleeping in today. so here's a look at our hi-def doppler. you may need an umbrella at least in these early-morning hours. you can see we actually have some very light scattered showers out there mostly confined to the north bay right now. this is just light stuff. it should be passing through by about mid-morning and then we are drying out and temperatures are actually going up by a bit. you may have a little bit of valley fog but we'll talk more about that in a little bit. in the meantime, on the roads, we may see damp roads especially traveling in san franc

i grew up on black college campuses. these campuses were peopled by jewish immigrants, escapees from the holocaust who could not live in germany anymore, but who had found a home here in the country. they had found a job in this country. i remember a man who had two daughters. fales. dr. fales had a thick german accent. his son wore lederhosen. they drove us crazy. [laughter] the can this had a fair complement of these immigrants who were just wonderful people. they were well-educated. this was at lincoln university. after that, morehouse, spellman, clark. and where i lived as well. populated by jews who had found a refuge on american soil. these were the first people i knew to be jews. when my family moved to atlanta, we got to know this rich heritage of jewish atlantans. the leo frank story was not prominent in my life, but i knew about it. i had a friend that used to work for the "washington post" who told me that his grandfather was shipped out of atlanta after the leo frank lynching. i just found out recently. the i

three black districts.s is the map for those chicago districts, all held by democrats with irregular lines. odd connecting points. back in the ear muff strip. here comes a tractor. he's leaving the 7th. he's in the 4th congressional district right now. he's going through the 4th congressional district, and he has entered the fifth congressional district. >> the problem is that the history of city of chicago hasn't been circles or squares. you know what they've been? they've been black, they've been latino, they've been white. >> the congressman is actually right. having grown up in chicago, that's the way it was. it's a racially divided city, divided almost by streets. you can cross through a viaduct and the color of people just changes like that. it's always been that way. black neighborhood. hispanic neighborhood. in his hispanic district, gutierrez is usually re-elected with 75% of the vote or more. for other democrats around him, it can be as high as 85%. mary shafsma of the league of women voters. >> t

katie marzullo, abc7 news. >>> we've talked about black friday now black thursday. more and more shoppers are avoiding that online sales are way up the past two years. online holiday sales are expected to be greater this season. here's nanette miranda with an online incentive that won't stick around for long. >> reporter: she is at the mall for photos, not shopping. she will make all of her purchases online. >> no sales tax, no shipping and handling fees. also, the comfort of being home. >> reporter: online holiday shop something off to a solid start up 14% for the first 20 days of november when compared to last year. this season maybe the last time california residents will enjoy zero sales tax on most cyber purchases if the federal government fails to come up with a national online sales tax, california's version automatically kicks in, in september. since 1935, californians are supposed to pay a use tax on out of state purchases equivalent to a sales tax. in modern times it applies to internet purchases. to make it easy the state added a line on tax forms so peop

black friday frens zee.ash for deals takes an ugly turn at a los angeles walmart overnight where a woman used pepper spray on fellow shoppers as the holiday shopping season gent

macy's opened at midnight for black friday. witnesses say the fight started when a man made a comment about a woman in another group with a black friday deal. police are reviewing surveillance videos. >> now, good news about the black friday. if you're looking at early sales reports this black friday is shaping up to be good for retailers. sales up 18%, 152 million people expected to hit stores this weekend. spending for the shopping season is expected to hit nearly $500 billion. vic lee is in san jose today to see the in store screenings underway. vic? >> we're at sears in the east ridge shopping center. there is still crowds in this mall. but as you can see this is starting to wind down. i know a lot of people have gone to internet for shopping needs. but just being here all day today you'd never know that. crowds were huge. discounts were insane. >> shoppers lined up for stores that were opening very early. >> our customers were waiting on us to open. and about 150 customers waiting in line. >> 600 before you open? >> yes re

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this is hang on black friday. a crazy day for shoppers. and the police say they didn't expect -- they were hoping this wouldn't happen on a black friday but this is the advice they give to other shoppers. >> give it to them and save your life. some people just forget about that and they try to attach themselves to that so much that they can get hurt for it. >> reporter: you're taking a live look at walmart. the lights are on, the doors are open, there are people milling around. they may be employees. walmart is closed right now until about 6:00. of course, that's upsetting and bewildering some of the shoppers who were hoping to take advantage of the post- thanksgiving sales. according to ail walmart employee this walmart has been open since 6:00 yesterday morning. they didn't close at all so there were big crowds for the 10:00 specials and also the midnight specials and unfortunately, someone got shot right here and we're told that the robbers did not make any getaway with any goods. >> there must have been a lot of confusion there i would

and she encompasses everything today's black woman stands for.nd entrepreneur, leader, mother, and someone who was just a self starter and really looked at that time world and looked far place where she fit and made a difference. made a difference. >> yes. it has been my tremendous honor to mc that wonderful luncheon two or three times now. it is always so inspiring and uplifting. and to see women who, like yourself, are not afraid to put yourself out there, to be entrepreneurial, which takes a special kind of determination. we have kathy adams and brenda wright, all these amazing women who are cornerstones, and i have admires year after year the qualities of madame cj walker in each one of you, persistence, determination and courage. and i call it my three c's of womanhood, creativity, collaboration and cooperation. >> you said it all in the right words, brenda. i think one of the things i am most proud of this year, most of the time when people think of the national coalition of one hundred black women, they think of the madame cj walker event.

. >>> black friday may ham in the bay area. a man shot at walmart, what police say led to the confrontation. and occupy protesters take on holiday shoppers in san francisco. the scenes of confrontation in union square. and kron 4's da lin joins us from union square. >> reporter: black friday not only attracted shoppers, it also bout out occupy protesters to union square. a small group blocked intersections and store fronts to protest black friday and that led to a tense face-off between cops and demonstrators. >> reporter: a line of police rushed in friday afternoon to contain a group of occupy protesters. the group sat down on intersections and store fronts at union square, trying to convince shoppers not to shop because shopping helps the 1%. >> realize human relationships are the best gift of all. that's why we are here. >> reporter: they picked the busiest time to demonstrate near union square. tens of thousands of people packedust us to watch the tree lighting ceremony. >> we are trying to bring awareness to the problems t

from black friday to blacking out friday. according to the latest gal lop poll we are all stupid drunks. america is drinking at a level not seen since the late 70s. not 1970s, i am talking 70ad. >> 64% of our citizens admit to a little. and it places our parting at a 30-year high. and look no further than empty audiences. says one consultant, people have lost their jobs and had more free time. >> the state most likely to be inebriated, 3.8 gallons of liquor per person. live free or pass out, am i right? we asked a resident to show us what booze means to him. >> bill, are you still in touch with carl? >> carl is not only still occupying wall street, he is 28 years old. 28 years old. stay off the hooch, kid, stay off the hooch. >>pab, have you been drinking more? and if so where? >> no comment. but they said the heaviest drinkers are in new england and the far west and the plain states. aren't those the through states? >> they are drinking out of guilt for boating in a secret muslim. >> there is no secret about it. >> what do y

black friday and the black friday app. how do they work? >> the go-to app for black friday.apps give you notification. show you right here. take a look. you open up an app. it's going to offer up over 10,000 popular deals happening from all the major retailers. the newest ads, which is very, very cool. what it's also going to do, divide it into stores. apple has 92 deals today. you know. so that's a very great way to stay on top of it. you can save them all to a list. e-mail yourself while shopping. search right here. if you look at categories. say you want to buy furniture. look and find all the best deals for furniture. there's another very similar called the black friday app. all are available on iphone and android. this one also offers up big retailers. best buy, costco. the thing i like about the black friday app, they're literally offering up a new deal after 15 minutes. a little bored, look on your phone. you can see right now the latest one is something from dell. what you can do is decide if you want that deal, and really the whole aspect sheer you can buy it from t

to black women.ity. >> i think it will be interesting do see if these guys rally around kahn cain with as much forassity, now that it's clear that a whole other layer of the black sexuality has been infused into this i. very jarring for the g.o.p., for anybody, i think to see a black man be sexually aggressive in an unwanted way toward -- especially a blonde white woman. >> does the party now wish he would go away. >> well, there is no grand wizard in the party right now who can really force the issue. >> sean: gndndndnd wizard. black -- praddatory black sexuality. blonde. >> can't we keep the race talk out of it? obama has failed to do that he puts the race talk into everything. seriously, it doesn't matter whether she is blonde, brunit, black, white. >> i agree. i don't get it. i just don't get it. >> sean: they are your friends, trip py, the liberal mede yai. hey, sean, didn'tue know, if the allegations are true, too bad he didn't consummate of any of these affairs and get the nomination and be in