much a huge pivot that's happened as shown by this kind of representation of them. >> well, for african-americans and historians talk about this, the reconstruction period really is the second american revolution in which political rights were extended to this group that had been excluded for so long. and rainey and revel, their two careers in the house and senate respectively really embody the experiences of the african-american to serve in this time period. their service was to a great degree largely symbolic service. revel only serves a very short time in the senate, and he later goes on a speaking circuit around the country and he's introduced everywhere as the 15th amendment in flesh and blood and the embodiment of african-american voting rights. and rainey, too, was a symbol for african-americans. these were men who not only represented their small districts or their states and the constituents therein, but they represented african-americans nationally. and they were a source of pride. and that's reflected in the material culture. rainey serves for almost eight years in the house. he's the

are majority african-american. and so there's support for a black candidate. elliott is a wonderful orator and he's one of these people who invented himself as he went along. you get the sense that he was a true character, but he had a great classical education. he came up after reconstruction. worked on a newspaper. he had some journalism background. then he moves up into the state assembly in south carolina. and he comes to the house for two terms in the early 1870s, and he is one of the men who comes on to the floor and talks about the importance of passing the 1875 civil rights bill. and gives some speeches that are picked up in the northern press and they just swoon over him. and one of the speeches, he actually, kind of a point/counterpoint debate with alexander stevens, the former confederate vice president who has by that point come back to the house and elliott just blows him out of the water. he's so respected and he's such an ally of senator charles sumner that when sumner passes, shortly before his bill

the word african-american and the african-american people almost two dozen times. i done think you can sit up here and say he's -- he was not aiming this speech in important ways at a new constituency. in general, that's a good thing. we've wanted him to reach out. he's doing that. unfortunately he did it in an arena that made it somewhat laughable and with rhetoric that was very, very, i think, disrespectful. the african-american community has other things going on than just crime. the only thing that he's saying about us is we're the victims of crime or committing crime. that adds to stereotype. >> van, that's not what he said. he said the democratic party has taken f taken advantage and taken for granted, and he's reaching out to slow that under a republican administration, under a trump administration, what that would look like is better schools, better jobs. stop illegal immigration with digs proportionately hurts african-american communities. he talked all about that because it is true the democrats have taken advantage and taken for granted the african-ameri

joe biden talked about african-americans. what's the african-american population of scranton, pennsylvania. where's the equity? where's the fairness? >> she wasn't giving a speech on african-americans. >> but donald trump was also talking about security, violence against police officers -- >> what was the bulk of his speech? >> 80% increase in gun violence against police officers last year. >> i'm not disagreeing with that. what was the bulk of his speech about? >> it was a broad speech, it was about homeland security, charter schools, about economic safety, changes in washington, d.c. and -- >> he spoke a lot about african-american -- >> it wasn't just about that -- >> no one said it wasn't just about african-americans -- >> nobody said that. we're analyzing the speech, corey. everything can be analyzed. >> go ahead, van. >> corey, i thought that the most remarkable thing about the speech, he said a lot of divisive stuff and law and order stuff in the past, the most remarkable thing about the speech is he said the word afric

donald trump asked african-american voters what the hell do you have to lose. 2% of african-american voters support him, consistent with other polls, most which put the number in the low digits. gary tuchman talks to some voters who say they are supporting him. >> reporter: ten-minute drive of donald trump's most recent rally takes you to not the kind of places trump holds rallies even as he increasingly talks about african-americans. >> i'm going to go for hillary. >> clinton all the way. >> clinton. >> reporter: this neighborhood in west akron is not friendly territory for trump but less friendly now after he said this about african-americans to an almost all-white honest. >> what do you have to lose by trying something new like trump? you're living in poverty. your schools are no good. have you no jobs. 58% of your youth is unemployed. what the hell do you have to lose? what do you think of that statement? >> i think it's stupid. >> reporter: that opinion what is widely seen as racial stereotyping is one of the milder one. >> very insulting and kind of racist. >> he don't care abo

articles, drawing from untouched archives, exploring the then mostly forgotten histories of african american fraternal and so marginal organizations. churches, social clubs, dance and labor unions. and reinterpreted african migration northward as liberatory, it even as the best of them certainly knowledge to way in which the land of hope full oface that was unmet hopes and opportunities. this builds on one of the keywords in politics and social movements and social scientific and humanistic scholarship -- the term "community." development,nomic or the blank community. the black community. the woman's community. the way community creates affective ties that pulls people together and looked at the ways in which urban institutions in everyday life fostered a community that offered resources to challenge these into many of the political economy or a racist regime or systematic discrimination. a buttress against a ,ehumanizing political economy against vicious racism, against violence. optimisticomething or romantic about these notions of community formation. we heard critiques of that this morni

for african-americans being able to create their own images and for free african-americans being able to purchase and acquire the images of prominent african-americans in the antebellum era was terrifically important both politically and personally. sojourner truth embraced the power of the photograph to not only represent herself, to present herself as a refined and dig need older woman, not as a battered former slave, right, so she curls her hand, you can't see her hand that's been injured, but she also, of course, sold her photograph to support herself and as we were doing the research for the book one of the things that we came across were letters to sojourner truth written by free black women from places like brooklyn asking to purchase a copy of her photograph and saying how tremendously important it was and how meaningful it was to be course, sold her photograph to able to support the anti-slavery cause on the wages of a domestic servant by purchasing this photograph. and in one letter a woman writes to truth and says i wish i had enough money to buy a copy of your picture for

african-americans want to achieve the american dream. they get up and work hard every single day and yes, some of those people don't work for donald trump and that's some of the retorts. oh, my god, do you see the people that work for him? i think what you saw today in that speech is why diversity matters because if donald trump had someone in his inner circle reading that speech that was a person of color they'll say look, i know what you're trying to say, but that is not the best way to say it. >> did it surprise you to say that? >> no. this is more of the same from a candidate that has demonstrated over time. i remember saying from the outset that i thought that his language was racist and bigoted and i remember getting heavily criticized and over time we've seen that message to remain true. i think the biggest frustration i have with donald trump and it's not just unique to his campaign. it also, i think, extends to the gop at large is when you hit them back with what are you talking about democrats are the ones who are the mayors an

the african-american community has been taken for granted for decades by the democratic party. look how they're doing. it's time to break with the failures of the past. i want to offer americans a new and much better future. >> see, he said no -- this is for you, maria, no community and i'm paraphrasing here, has been hurt more by the policies than african-americans. by hillary clinton's policies than african-americans. >> so there's so many reasons here why this speech has fallen flat and, you know, there was a lot of complaints on the panel we weren't talking about substance so let's talk about substance. and i will give them hints as to why this speech has completely fallen flat with african-americans as well as with latinos. first of all, when you talk in hyperbole which is what we just heard in terms of what hillary clinton and her policies has done to the african-american community, let's remember that she as well as her husband, bill clintons, have been working in the african-american community for the past four decades. one of the first things that hillary clinton did af

in african-american communities. that soldiers are fighting not just for themselves, not just for their country, but really quite literally in many cases for their families. and for their communities. it's also a picture that tells us a lot about people's perceptions of their buti and of their dignity -- beauty and their dignity. this is a wedding portrait. the importance of marriage and legalizing what could not be legal under the laws of slavery. as a really critical mark, a very personal assertion of one's freedom. thinking about the legacies of emancipation, not reconstruction politics so much, but how the idea and the experience of emancipation stayed with americans, stayed with african-american communities and culture long after the moment of emancipation. one of the things that we wanted to do was sort of move beyond the twin poles of reconstruction's promise, right, of this moment of political participation, or this moment of the unfinished revolution, this is benjamin singleton who would lead the exodus out

he also pointed out that this officer was african-american and told the crowd since he was african-american his life matters as well. then he said something we haven't heard much from from this campaign, not only do we want white voters, we want black voters, we want latino voters. so once again, this is an attempt toe reach beyond his base and reach out to some of those who have not been, if you will, brought into the trump tent. this is the scene going forward, first from rudy giuliani and then from reince priebus, who has now taken the stage that this speech is going to be very much about law and order. there are teleprompters on the stage behind me. we're expecting trump to read from a scripted text. we expect him to be focused, as his supporters say, and we expect him to draw a very distinct difference between himself and hillary clinton, who rudy giuliani just painted as being anti-cop. trump is going to get up there and say i am pro cop, i am better able to handle crime, better able to handle terrorism going forward. don? >> jason, stand by. we'll get back to jason as things continue

taking out advertisements in black media we are seeing the widening of the gulf not only between african-americansut latinos and asian american voters and the republican party. >> start with the optics. sometimes that's what matters in these elections rather than policy. if we put up that video of trump speaking making this big pitch to african-american voters, and you look behind him, it's almost an entirely white audience, both there and particularly the head-on shot which typically would be packed with whatever group of people you're trying to solicit. it's almost, if not entirely, white. >> right. any candidate and all candidates, including donald trump should be doing black outreach. they should be speaking to black audiences, as he is or isn't trying to do. it matters, are you speaking in black spaces? do you have people at your rallies? what are people outside your rallies doing and saying? if you're talking about helping african-americans, you have people outside your rallies selling confederate flags which alienate african-american voters makes your message seem insincere. >> you talk abo

for african americans, not to slavery as something embarrassing, but to remind all of us that we wish we were as strong as our enslaved ancestors. or to be able to help americans realize this is a story that tells us as much about american economic growth, prosperity, and american politics as anything else. this slave cabin is one of the most important ways to tell the story by juxtaposing the cabin and the plantation house of the owner. to give people a sense of slavery from a human scale. >> quickly, my director really wanted a slave cabin so that was my charge. i was very excited to go in search of that. we were able to find a slave cabin in south carolina. we looked at the founding of america. this tells a human story. it is a community story, regional story, and american story. we worked with the preservation society who had the cabin who generously offered it to us. we worked with the community on at a still island, including descendents of the slaves and slaveholding families. we are proud to have this in the exhibition. they worked with us to help uncover a lot of the history

he did uplift african-americans. he talks about african-americans fighting in every war.ks about african-americans small businessowners, how many own small businesses and he would lift regulatory put in placely the obama administration to help the small businessowners. the other part of his speech was entirely about that. we can focus on one sound bite, know. >> let's point out the real racist candidate in this presidential contest is hillary clint clinton. she's crisscrossed the nation telling african-american audiences they're the victims of systemic racism and actually accusing public school teachers of creating a school to prison pipeline when they suspend or disciplineteachers of creating a school to prison pipeline when they suspend or discipline african-american students. why is that racist? because it's obvious that hillary clinton thinks that african-american students can expect to behave in school, to perform in school -- >> just looking at the data, there's a report -- >> don, don, don. >> you want to get the facts in here then you guys can answer. there's a re

let's start with african-american voters. you see right there on the screen, donald trump with 1% with african-american voters. look at the state of florida. very key swing state, in florida, hillary clinton ahead 48% to trump's 39%. state of virginia, very important for trump, 38% for trump and hillary clinton on top with 52%. so with the shake-up at the top, trump being trump once again, as we saw trump during the primaries, will that work in the general election to bring in these key, very important voters that would be needed to put him over the top? >> well, that certainly seems to be what he's hoping. s, you know, definitely dvd and there's a healthy amount of skepticism that he's going to turn the numbers around. they've been holding instead since the clinton bounce. about a week. and poll numbers come out since the convention, the numbers are holding steady. she's got a good gap on him. you pulled out the numbers with african-americans we've seen him hit zero percent with state polling. it's zero to 5%, to be generous

talked about what we saw in ferguson or milwaukee or baltimore, he talked about citizens being african-americansnd said that hillary clinton shares the responsibility for the unrest we see in american sfeers what he called fostering an anti-police narrative. and he said also for taking african-american votes for granted. >> we reject the big theory of hillary clinton which panders to and talks down to communities of color and sees them only as votes. that's all they care about. not as individual human beings worthy of a better future. they have taken advantage. she and her party officials, there has been tremendous suffering because of what they have brought. the african-american community has been taken for granted for decades by the democratic party and look how they're doing. it's time to break with the failures of the past. i want to offer americans a new and much better future. >> reporter: donald trump referenced the african-american community several times during his speech which was delivered here in washington county, which is a county that is overwhelmingly white. but having said that,

workers 1% african-american. and secondly, there's the substance, there's some things in that fa teak that sounded and i kept waiting was there an idea, solution, proposal, anything. in fact, you know, when he started that 8 minutes often "law and order" my reaction was that's going to play well with the conservative base. he was hitting all the right notes. somebody had given him some information and i was waiting for, and therefore i'm going to do what and there was nothing. so he had -- he scored somt points i think here in southeastern wisconsin. we the conservative base, in terms of the african-american vote, he's sort of reading this and going through the motions, people have been paying attention and watching. voters think they're going to look away and say what we've got some rhetoric, some words, but nothing much behind those words. >> when you watch a each with something like this and you actually give credits while it's going on who republican speech writers who wrote some of those before including gui

a visual arts gallery which takes you through our journey andugh african-american art how they contributed to the history of american heart. there's a gallery called musical crossroads which also takes you on a journey through different john was a music african-americans created. from the moment they came here as enslaved africans, through the slave trade all the way up to the present day, they are taking the stage with african-americans in theater and film and television. and a long struggle for the control of their representation and the achievement they made in those different mediums. there is also cultural expressions here expects that cultural traits and practices that some people think identifiable with african-americans. what were really trained to do is expandhibition your awareness of what is considered african-american culture. when you go to the food section you won't be just learning about so food, but other cuisines that african-americans contributed to the development, because we were always in everyone's kitchen. hercules who is george washington's cook and was known to cel

who have created our problems will lose a lot, their contracts and a lot of their money, if african-american voters and all the minority voters support my campaign, that i know. that i know for sure. it's time to stop making the special interests rich. it's time to make the american people much richer than they've ever been before. i'm going to make america wealthy again, we have to make america wealthy again if we're going to do what we want to do, we have to be smart. we have to make america wealthy again. the democratic party has run nearly every inner city in this country for 50 years and run them into financial ruin, virtually every single one. they've ruined the schools, they've driven out the jobs. they've tolerated a level of crime no america could consider acceptable, so bad that people dot want to even report on it, the real numbers are beyond belief. violent crime has risen 17% in america's 50 largest cities last year. killings of police officers this year is up nearly 50%. homicides are up more than 60% in baltimore alone. they're up more than 50% in washington, d.c. this is the

what impacts one african-american or black person in america impacts all of us. the case at all. we are a completely diverse group of individuals just like every american. when you talk about jobs, you don't say, hey, that's just to white america. let me go talk to white people. no. when you say jobs and security, you're talking to all americans. and so i do understand there's some demographic areas in our country that -- versus an ere ban jungle in a real jungle. so i do know that demographics, certain needs are special to certain people. but i don't understand why we keep talking about the african-american community. like all of us are the same. like when you talk to one black person, you talk to them all. >> it's interesting. i'm actually happy that you -- >> -- dealing with issues -- donald trump has been dealing with issues that are impacting everyone here in the united states of america. number one is jobs. he's been talking about jobs, jobs, jobs. bringing an economic revival. he knows how to create jobs. >> i'm glad you're mentioning this -- really quickl

the african american community has been taken for granted for decades by the democratic party and look how they are doing. it's time to break with the failures of the past. i want to offer americans a new and much better future. it's time for rule by the people, not rule for the special interest, which we have right now. every insider getting rich off the broken system and it is broken is throwing money at hillary rodham clinton. hedge fund managers the powerful protecting only the powerful they don't care about you, but leave me. insiders fighting for insiders but i'm fighting for you. that's what i'm doing. when we talk about the insider, who are we talking about? it's the comfortable politicians looking out for their own interest. it's the lobbyist that know how to insert the perfect loophole into every single bill and get richer and richer and richer at your expense. it's the industry that knows how to regulate the competition right out of existence so there is no competition. the insiders also include the media executives, anchors and journalists in washington los angeles and new

he talked about african-americans fighting in every war, african-american small business owners, andow he would lift regulatory restrictions put in place by the obama administration. he has talked about them in a positive light. the other 90% of his speech was entirely about that. >> let's point out that the real racie isist candidate is hillar clinton. she has crisscrossed the nation telling african-americans that they are the victims of systemic racism and accused teachers of creating a school to prison pipe heine when they suspend or discipline african-american students. why is that racist? it's obvious that hillary clinton thinks that african-american students can't be expected to behave in school, to perform in school. >> governor, just looking at the data here, looking at the data -- >> don, don, don. >> can i answer the question? >> there's a report done, a civil rights collection done in 2014 that does say that african-american students are disciplined harsher than white students for the same things in school, suspension of preschool children in race, disproportionate suspens

this is one of the four african-american elementary schools operating in topeka in 1951 when the brownses board of education case was filed in district court. the brown board education's case was a much small piece started in the late 1920s and early 1930s which was part of the national association for advancement of colored people or naa naacp struggled to public education. they attempted to file cases that would lead to over turning a case called plessy verses ferguson. that was a supreme court's decision in 1896 that allowed the state of louisiana to segregate rail cars by gates. what you saw was an explosion of laws in the south that permitted seg gra segregated facilities. the naacp was attempting to over turn that precedent. they could try to do it in one case but if they lost, that would be the end of their attempt. beginning in the 1930s. they begin to file cases to chip away at that precedent. the strategy was initially to end segregation in law schools and graduate school and working down to elementary school. the name brown was the first name to appeared out of the list of p

we as african-americans are americans. we are americans. we are americans.serve to have the same respect as all americans. when donald trump talks about jobs, he don't talk to white america. he talks to america. that's the problem we have in this society. that we are pandering after these different races and we are pandering after these groups like we don't matter. yes, we do matter. and we are equal. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for everybody. >> all right. on that note, i will let that be the last word. thank you, pastor burns, for calling in. appreciate it. >>> we'll be right back. and so many businesses rely on the united states postal service to get it there. that's why we make more ecommerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country. the united states postal service. priorityyou hillary clinton: i'm hillary clinton and i approve this message. vo: in times of crisis america depends on steady leadership. donald t

african-americans are not working. they cannot find a job. we must do better as a country. i refuse to believe that the future must be like the past. it won't be. our future is going to be a great future for everyone. for everyone. nan and in a trump administration, all workers will get priority for jobs in their own country. i want higher wages for african-americans, hispanic americans, and all americans. we want higher wages. many, many, workers in our country are making substantially less money today in real wages than they made 18 years ago. they're working two jobs instead of one. they're working harder as they get older and it is supposed to be the opposite. we're going to stop it, we're going to create great jobs, and we're going to get the wages up. hillary clinton is a throw back to an ugly past where politicians praised on our people for personal game. promises, promises, all talk, no action politicians. they talk, talk, talk, you vote them in with great fanfare, and then they do nothing. with trump, that is

despite federal betrayal and violent resistance, african americans' quest for land did not end. a significant number of afghan americans managed to buy land by pouncing on slim opportunities. one example of this was in north carolina ready migration of turpentine production to georgia during the late 19th century cleared the way for some sharecroppers, both black and white, to buy land for the first time. and that is part of the story i tell in my book "standing their ground." we are also beginning to appreciate how central black women were to land acquisition. women and children often ran the farm while men held jobs in other places, on other farms, in other lines of work. in addition to playing a managerial role, many black women took the lead in purchasing farms. they were the ones scouting out auction sales. they were often illiterate ones who were reading the ads and finding out what was going on -- they were often the illiterate ones who were reading the ads and finding out what was going on. women's house of production and sales of surplus farm products also played a cruci

hillary clinton would rather deny opportunity to african-american children so she can curry favor with the education bach ureaucracy, whic very big and a lot of votes. i'm going to allow charter schools to thrive and let young kids get on the american ladder of success, a good education and a good paying job. that's what they want. >> i'm crime, i'm going employ more police in our community, appoint the best prosecutors in our country and i'm going to break up the gangs, the cartels and the criminal syndicates terrorizing our neighborhoods all over the country and that includes milwaukee. to every law breaker hurting innocent people in this country i say your free reign will soon come kroshing to an end. on health care we're going to get rid of obama, repeal it and replace it. it's caused soaring double digit premium increases and we're going to give choice to consumers across our land. aetna just today announced they are dropping out, as are many of the major insurance companies. obama care is a disaster. it's a disaster. on government corruption, i'm going to restore honor to our gov

i think he will do that by appealing to african-american, as a matter of fact, all americans of what he can do for this country and our national security, jobs in the economy, health care, education, issues important for all americans, but specifically with the african-american community, i think what he has been talking about is the policies that have not helped the african-american community. under this president, more african-americans are living in poverty, the number up creased by almost 58% the median income has fallen and the number of african-americans owning homes decreased by 10%. >> thing aen american youth dropped from the high under president obama during the great recession by about half. it's still half. >> it's still not good, poppy. it's not good. >> the thing about it is the definition of continuing to do the same thing over and over again, expecting different results. i believe and many people believe under a hillary clinton presidency, it would be four more years of the same. why not tree something different? it's not just african-american communities. let's liste

this was part of a three-day conference cohosted by the smithsonian national museum of african american museum and culture, and the us oracle association. it was called the future of the american -- african-american path. this is an hour and 45 minutes. eric foner: i am eric foner from the columbia university, moderating this second session on slavery and freedom. i want to begin by thanking the organizers of this excellent conference. we all know how much work went into, you know, putting this whole thing together. thanks to those at the museum and the american historical association that have been so active in getting this conference organized. , i gave my last class at columbia university. i am now writing off -- riding off into the sunset. [applause] retirement.-- of and so i ask if you will indulge me for just a minute as i reflect briefly on my own experience in relation to this field of african american history. which is a little, it is sort of emblematic of the many things that have happened the last couple of generations. i grew up in a family in which african-american history,

we are not talking about african americans. we are talking about asian americans. they don't believe anything he says as a result of what he had been saying for the last year. it doesn't really matter what he does. he cannot redeem himself among minorities. my theory is actually one that has been advanced. he is trying to appeal to moderate republicans. he has no vote. >> if you think about the moderate americans when he says things like i'm a bigot, what does it do to them? >> it does not help. it was brilliant of you guys pointing out the reaction of the lady behind him. even his own people were shocked at that kind of language. he is incredibly entertaining. he represents a lot of angry people who were angry with good reason but he is not fit to be president of the united states. i think most people realize that. most people realize he ought not be president. >> and beyond calling hillary clinton a bigot he said that the african american voter has been taken for granted, has been forgotten. do you feel like democratics who have had african american support have

, so does african-americans. one more thing i just want to say. look. we talk about the poverty rate. under reagan the poverty rate skyrocketed. it went down with clinton. this is all proven. these are facts. yes, it is. yes, it is. then, again, wait, hold on one second. hold on one second. hold on one second. let me finish my point. then it went back up with bush. then went down with obama. that is, those are the facts. >> it didn't go down with obama. >> yes, it did. >> i was assigned day to day to cover hillary clinton's campaign in 2007-2008 and we covered her pretty closely the last two years. i have probably been to about 20 predominantly african-american churches with her covering her there. i've been in rooms where it's just been maybe her and five or six other people on a panel, some of them african-american, some of them whites, some hispanic. i have seen her countless times sort of go into cities, into neighborhoods, walk around. granted a lot of this is theater. a lot of it is stage managed but she's

poverty. >> he needs to specify that if he wants to get their votes. >> there are a number of african-americanndividuals who poverty is a reality for them. >> of course, white people, brown people, asian-americans. >> there's nothing wrong with that. >> it's how you -- >> the way he speaks to them is so con descending if that's the case that he cares about inner city african-americans and why isn't he speaking about item powering people to start businesses, school choice. >> he has. i'm going to guarantee that you're not going to get shot walking down the street. >> and tara's right -- let me pick up what tara said. what the people on the gary talked to said it's completely empty. he says trust me, i'm going to do this. >> there is a plan. >> donald trump -- donald trump opposes -- donald trump opposes a federal minimum wage. he wants to throw it all to the states. the democratic party is saying we want to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour for everybody. that affects people in the inner city and not just blacks, all working people. donald trump never said a word about that. he never said a

has the african-american improved? i think he's speaking to those folks who are sitting at home this election and feeling some of whom have been taken for granted. >> douglas? >> this is an example of donald trump pitting one class of people against another, and he's trying to build support amongst african-americans, unbelievably. i have no idea why he's going there. he can't even unite his republican party base. but he doesn't done anything. it's a very hypocritical move. hillary clinton today was in philadelphia, registering african-american voters. i doubt you'll see donald trump doing something like that. i doubt you'll see donald trump registering latino votersigrant exists in the united states today. you can't just say you're with people because you read a teleprompter correctly and you were able to stay in line with what your advisers asked you to do. that is not a policy fitting of a presidential campaign in today's day and age. >> also in context of the fact that we have some poll numbers. let's put them up, t

he talked incorrectly tonight about the facts relating to the african-american community in america. that wasn't truthful. if you look at his plans, particularly his economic plans there, is a reform of the estate tax which would not help 99.8% of americans. won't help them. but if donald trump is as rich as he says, and we don't know, it could end up with $4 billion more in the trump's pocket. his tax credit gives 60 cents on the dollar to people who have nannies but nothing to struggling, working americans, many of whom are african-american, who don't vice president child care. he has tax cuts, trillions of dollars for millionaires and billionaires. >> i see you shaking your head. >> first of all, that is not true. the stats he used, the 58% of african-americans being unemploy unemployed. that is true for african-americans 18 to 21 and that -- >> no, no, no. >> politifact rated this as mostly fault. they're people not looking for work. if you want to say that statistic like we're not sitting on our behinds. it is not 58%. if you're going to throw that out there, you have to throw ou

there's my african-american over there. anyway, eugene robinson, columnist for "the washington post" and susan page -- you're laughing. >> he's half of the 1%. >> hillary clinton is secretly sick through some disease we don't know what it is, and they are going to build a wall. the guy hasn't given up on his most crazy ideas. >> no, he hasn't. >> he's adding to the list. >> he's not going to get any african-american votes or hispanic votes, for that matter or muslim votes or asian american votes. >> not a sung wiingle vote for romney in philadelphia. >> it will be negative for donald trump. no. look, clearly if there's any rhyme or reason to what he's doing now, it's trying to appeal to the suburb an white women. >> why white women? before we get to the woman of the three of us, why would women be more sympathetic -- unsympathetic to a candidate who is clearly a racist? >> i think there are a lot of moderate republicans, both male and female, who don't want to vote for a flaming racist. right? so if he can reassure them or

he addressed the african-americans.y people will have response to see what donald trump talked about today but as he goes into the crowd you can see he is very much well liked by that particular crowd. a lot of people will say he spoke to his base and did he do what the senator asked for in the beginning prior to his speaking. she said she did not want donald trump to talk about anyone personally and to make personal attacks but wanted to discuss the policies and issues. so the question going forward is did he accomplish that staying scripted and going off script from time to time. >> peter is live at the iowa state fair there in des moines and he listened in to the speech. so peter, what about it? did he do what the senator asked him to do which is kind of stick to the issues? we did hear him touch on plenty there. >> reporter: it's going to be really interesting to see how that shot at the end is received by some of the mainstream media who were openly wondering the last few days why aren't more establishment republic

. >> look how much african-american communities have suffered under democrat control. to those i say following: what do you have to lose? i say it again. what do you have to lose? what do you have to lose? you're living in poverty. your schools are they don't good. you have no jobs. 58% of your youth is unemployed. what the hell do you have the lose? >> that is the question he's asking. let's bring it right now, michael eric did ison. it is also good to have you on the show. thanks for joining us. do you think what donald trump is doing to reach out what he calls his reach-out to the black community is effective? is it working? note before i weigh in. the positive note is, at least a major candidate mentioned the issue of poverty, which is critical. most of these candidates on the left and right speak about the middle class, they sometimes speak about the working class but they hardly ever speak about those who are stuck at the bottom. i applaud mr. trump for that. having said that, no, it's going over like a brick cloud. this person is incapable of acknowledging fact

he's not going into african-american communities. specifically targeted to bring back those republicans that have left him in droves and the african-american community sees right through it. when someone tells you who they are, believe them. >> i'm going to bring you back because i want to talk on that again but i want to bring him into this discussion. one of the things mr. trump says is he wants the gop to be the home of the african-american voter once again and that he wants a totally inclusive country and party. do you believe mr. trump? >> i believe that he does mean that. i think he's very sincere in that. i think he's taking corrective action. the autopsy report put out by the rnc is an important document in which republicans should be following. i think now that it's three weeks out of the convention, we're seeing the actions and the resources put in place at the rnc as well as mr. trump's campaign to really tackle these very important issues. i think mr. trump has done a great job in terms of now getting out there and making

the concerns of african-americans are not particularly unique in this regard. ericans are concerned about gun violence. what we have heard from mr. trump had been a series of tweets as opposed to a series of policy prescriptions. we are 70 days out from the election. we are waiting to hear from him. serious proposals with respect to serious problems. >> as you know, hillary clinton says trump's campaign is appealing to a fringe of the republican party that's racist. i want to listen to part of the speech with you and get your reaction. here it is. >> sure. >> i am the extra crispy colonel -- >> absolutely not what we were going to play. the word from hillary clinton is a fringe element has taken over the party. the paranoid fringe calls itself alt-right. there has been a paranoid fringe steeped in racial resentment. it's never had a nominee of a major policy encouraging it and giving it a national megaphone until now. those bites were edited together. that said, the content. what's your take and perspective on that? >> secretary clinton is lifting up a serious i

rigueur: one might describe african-american women as being the backbone of the democratic party. they are the most loyal constituents and of voters for the democrats. we have really seen this over the past 80 years, since 1936 african-american women have cast their support for the democratic party and they have been instrumental in winning a number of different elections, most recently 2012 election. the interesting thing about this is that before the switch, the great switch from the republican party to the democratic party, black women were also the most loyal of republican party voters. we can see there is a political consistency to the political activism of black women, whether in the republican or democratic parties. >> once african-american women got the right to vote along with other women, white women as well, most african-american women got the right to vote, they cast ballots for the republican party. when african-americans said farewell to the party of lincoln, black women were among the first to do that as well and then became supporters of the democratic party. that