and then better still like angela davis and she renewed. ntp essays news department, which never ceased to praise jones because they saw him as a fellow ideologue who profess that they did here so the question i have for you is have you gone to any of these prominent people and asked them how they could justify creating the myth of james jones that is led so many who proper, including people like angela davis who should hang your head in shame. >> jones had wings a lot of people. he cut -- you know, the politicians came to peoples temple because jones how to command a 3000 for folders going to go out and canvass neighborhoods and people's demonstrations and even cross voting districts to get people elected. he's basically saying yes, you helped get me elected and therefore i am going to make you head of the housing authority, which he did. and you are right that when these allegations of physical abuse and financial misdeeds have an, this plate that he held the lack, mayor ness county, district attorney joseph freed this, councilmember harv

let me see, i have been border line polar, depressive, angela davis, angry black woman syndrome, i heard it all, baby i gave up on the white floor, bright line scene. i feel better here. >> charlie: it's a best-selling novel about black maids in mississippi in the 1960s and here's the trailer for the film. >> we never thought you'd leave ole miss. >> it took four years. >> i was writing for the jackson journal. >> you can write my obituary. dead, her daughter still single. >> i reckon when you finish you won't. >> thank you. >> move like a winning horse at the kentucky derby. >> i drafted the home health sanitation initiative that required every home to have a separate bathroom for thhelp. >> why not use your bathroom outside. >> minnie? >> hey. >> hey, minnie. >> these women raise white children. we love them and they love us but they can't even use the toilets in our houses. >> minnie, are you in there? >> you are fired! >> you said write about what disturbs me, i'd like to write something from the point of view of the help. >> no maid is ever going to tell you the truth that's a hell

you know this because i have seen the conversations you have already had with kim crenshaw and angela davis, literally you have already had these conversations so the main thing i can say it cs, yes we are having them again and my daughter will have them, yes. because here is the deal. those stereotypes i talk about in the book, they don't exist because of something we do or don't do. black women who were slaves were not -- that stereotyped as jezebel's because it did useful political work for a system of slavery. black women who serve as domestics to feed their families were not happy but that persistent stereotype existed because it did political work for political economic and racial systems. we are not irrationally angry. when i ever our prayer i'm angry, it's actually about something. i never just wake up mad, right. [laughter] but we are consistently, right? and this notion that we are emasculating. chris rock had, and they talk about this, chris rock had a skit during the 2008 elections where he said barack obama can never be president because he has a black wife and a black woman ca

writer, activist, michaela angela davis formerly of "essence" magazine, sam seager, co-host of ring of fire and nancy giles, contributor of cbs sunday morning and all veterans of "up with chris hayes." thanks for being here. i have the same idea as "time" magazine in thinking about what the story of the year was. this was one of the rare years where i agreed with time. they named the protester of the person of the year. we will talk about the fact they didn't name a single person. i think they got it right this year. i thought that the piece written by kurt anderson about it and evoked a lot of the same themes got it right. this was really the story of the year. sam, i know you have spend a lot of time down in occupy wall street. was that your feeling as well. >> oh, absolutely. i think you got this sense even in the spring with everything that was happening around the world and in madison in this country. also, one thing that sort of also is left out in thinking about it is what was also happening on line with wikileaks and then anonymous. you were starting to see a real challenge to