james peterson, associate professor of english at lehigh university. you have written about the death of rodney king and what he symbolized over so many years. he asked the very profound question, can we all get along? but i want to start with new york's stop and frisk law and the protest yesterday. is this racial profiling? is this necessary for law enforcement to do this in new york? >> it is institutionalized racial profiling. i don't believe it's necessary to do this in the city of new york or the city of philadelphia or any of the cities where the stop and frisk policies are in place now. you cited the numbers. black and brown men where being subject to search, illegal search and sometimes seizure for no reason. the mayor of new york city and other mayors of these big cities will tell you these things have certain benefits in terms of reducing the crime raetsd, but there are other factors in the reduction of crime rates over time. >> i live in new york city, i walk home, to and from work. i see black police officers all the time. when the story ca

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let's turn to james peterson.got to ask you first, is this grade of f, does it warrant any merit whatsoever. your thought? >> i don't think he deserves an f. a lot of things are true. he's done those things well. i think at the same time when you live in an environment where cory booker is taken out for saying something that a candidate has to be careful in what they say. if he would have given him a c, then the commercials would have started from the obama camp saying even rom agrmitt romney i did a good job. >> we've gotten to the point where we're concerned about the nuclear capability of iran. this has been a big issue, how far do we go? there's evidence that the president of the united states has gone right into cyber weapons and really delayed what they have been trying to do. yet, romney says that's an f. all for political purposes? >> on that particular thing there's a big problem. i think what he did as far as coming into office and continues that program that started under president bush was good. it see

in philadelphia, professor james peterson, director of studies at lehigh university and a blogger forfington post. karen, we know that this election is being fought between those he believe government should be reduced and those who think the government does have a role. isn't mitt romney also revealing he has little understanding for schools and teachers because he has no experience of public education? he went to an elite private school where class sizes were small. i mean, that's what he knows. he knows nothing about public education. >> well, that's right. i think what we are also seeing is that mitt romney doesn't really understand how the economy isn't working for the majority of americans and how government is supposed to work. right? but remember this is a guy who thinks self-deportation is an employment strategy, specifically with regard to education. i mean, think about it, martin. what are some of the things we know? our kids are falling farther and farther behind. they used to work in education in the new york city public schools. we also know that things like bullying are

so, there was a senior auditor for segar, james peterson, wrote a column for politico yesterday. suggesting that ngos were taking far too much money off the top. of various programs, being given money to do this or that, but they end up having enormous overhead costs. and he suggested in his article, usaid has struggled to keep ngo overhead costs below 70%. so, is that right? i mean, we are actually looking at the ngos going in and they're only providing the money that's given to them only 30% is ending up trying to achieve the goal? >> i can -- i can reassure mr. peterson, we're successful at keeping overhead below 70%. i don't know where he got that number. i happen -- i can't speak for all ngos, i know the ngo i work for and the ones i've worked with in my ten years, none of them have overhead that anywhere even approaches even 30% to be honest, but certainly not 70%. i did see mr. peterson's article back when i came out i think in january or february and found it not to be particularly credible to be honest. >> that's okay. so, you would suggest that using ngos is an alternat

and james peterson, director of african american studies and director of english studies.wing what obama is up against, the president is up against, in terms of the racial climate, that makes it very curious for him to raise a racial issue, what in that climate do you think was necessary to do to more directly address the issues of african american people? >> i'm fully aware that he is in a double bind, he is working in a nasty environment, but there's something that we have to pay attention to, there's always going to be people out there, they are always periods in history where the right wing, where conservative forces have opposed racial reform. i think we need to recognize that there are issues that need to be raised in black communities, no matter who is in the white house. >> professor peterson, do you agree with this? do you think that president obama's racial situation on the ground, notwithstanding that he still has to address specifically and creatively, the interest of and concerns of the african american people or is the professor off base here? >> it's a very

from philadelphia, leehigh professor, james peterson.d with us from washington, msnbc political analyst, former dnc communications director, karen finney, a columnist for the hill and julian epstein, former chief council for the house judiciary committee. i have to congratulate you because you have consistently said the mandate would be upheld and you've been proven absolutely right. how did this happen given that the solicitor general in those three days of oral arguments was criticized. people said he choked. couldn't even drink his water properly, then today, you have this decision by the supreme court. what happened? >> i think the media did a woefully bad job covering this. the justice department and many of the lower cases argd it was not just the commerce clause. it was the taxing authority. if somebody doesn't get married or have a kid, there are tax penalties. there's nothing new about this. it is a huge victory for the tens of millions of americans that have no or inadequate health care. not just a political victory, it shows h

james peterson is a professor at lehigh university. get the fact people in the bible belt are prone to googling god. you're telling me we americans google porn more than weather? >> and smerconish is googled in pennsylvania. >> why you mentioned those in the same sentence, i don't know, but that's okay. there's a graph i want to put up on the screen and this documents the research. it shows that in media markets with the highest frequency of rationally charged searches, obama underperformed. would you expand? >> basically, you can predict how many votes obama should have received based on how many other democrats receive. for example, john kerry in tour, also the fact that democrats were more popular in 2008 than in 2004. >> in what part of the country, give me specific examples, where people were more prone to search the n word? >> research is not to point out and put down any particular part of the country, the search rate was highest in west virginia, western pennsylvania, eastern ohio, upstate new york, southern mississippi, but it

james peterson, lehigh university, he joins us from philadelphia.c contributor professor michael eric dyson is here with us in the studio. if i can start with you, we heard jon stewart 'take on money. let's check e.j. for those who believe money has too much power in politics 2012 will be a miserable year. what we're seeing nothing less than a new political system that will make the politics of the guilds age look like a clean government paradise. tis as bad as that? >> it can be. we've heard people throw around the term of politicrats. what you have, you have as a result of the conksent tration ofwell in the top 1 mrs. of the country you have big billionaire donors who can pick political figures, they can choose winners, support those folk and then actually shape their ideology to make their messaging consistent with what those billionaire people want. so it's a very, very scary moment. throw mitt romney as a presidential candidate into that mix, i agree with e.j., it's going to be a tough political year in 2012. >> isn't that the problem? you have

james peterson is a professor at lehigh university. i get people are prone to goo e googling god.s google porn more than weather? >> yeah. and smerconish is googled in pennsylvania, i hope you would like to know. >> let's talk about the political significance of what you've learned. there's a graph i want to put up on the screen if we can. this documents the research you have performed. there it is. it shows in media market with the highest frequency of racially charged searches were obama underperformed in the '08 election relative to predictions. would you expand on this for us. >> basically predict how many votes obama should have received based on how many other they received. john kerry in 2004. and democrats were more popular in 2008 compared to 2004. >> in what parts of the country? give me specific examples. >> the point of the research is not to point out and put down any particular part of the country. the search rate was highest in west virginia, western pennsylvania, eastern ohio, upstate new york, southern mississippi. but it turned out to be relatively common through

. >> professor james peterson, associate professor of english at lehigh university.ist for the "washington post" and crystal ball is a democratic strategist. while we await representative issa's contempt vote, dana, i want to get your considered opinion about what we're seeing on capitol hill. you've been at the hearing, have you not? >> i was for a long part of it, but not the entirety of it because of course, every member has to get in his or her five-minute speech even though we know exactly what the outcome is and that's all the republicans votes for this contempt vote and all the democrats vote against it. and nothing happens because the guy in charge of enforcing this vote answer holder is eric holder. >> so the point of this exercise is what, please, dana? aside from a witch hunt? >> it's going to shock you, martin, to know that there's an election coming up and this is a time when they have these fights. they're not fighting about the underlying issue in this fast and furious program within the department of justice. they're fighting about what happened after

james peterson, director of african astudies and associate prefer of english at lehigh university andstudio by contributor and journalist toe ray. dr. peterson, i would like to ask you about something, there is one side of the debate, mayor bloomburg, ray kelly, they say stop and frisk led to the confiscate of over 6,000 guns over the last eight years and the mayor says this year the city is on track to have the lowest number of murders in recorded history. in your opinion does that justify a policy which so disproportionately affects african-americans? >> absolutely not. not only do the ends not justify the means, we have to dig into some of these numbers and we will find that there are other reasons why the crime rate is dropping. it is not because there is sort of harassing young black men and in fact profiling yuck black and brown men on a regular basis and not just in new york city. there are other cities an the country that have the policies. philadelphia is included. the ends just simply do not justify the means. there is other data that show there is a number of different reas