the passy black best friend. angry black woman.he sassy black friend who is bringing down the house. what is the reality versus the main stream media perception? >> i want to echo the point that it is really important for us to name. when we began we were talk about black powers for black men hashtag, and that was created by jamila lemieux. but what you have pointed to is the inability to see black women as complex and humane. so we don't get complex representations, we get these caricatures, and they are not just happening from white directors or stories that center white women as the help, but tyler perry frequently does that. i have argued that his movies are very much about redeeming black men, and they do that on the backs of black women. and black women are always asked to take a back seat because the issues that black men face are seen as more urgent. there are really high rates of intimate partner violence and homicide for black women in the community as well, that rival the number of black men being killed by other black m

is black power only for black men? ♪ >> our digital producer is here bringing in all of your live feedback as it comes into the studio, and our community is hotly debating the state of black women in america. >> yeah, and the stream he only tackle light hearted topics, like race. and of course our unopinioned audience has their feedback. so you the viewer at home. we know you have opinions on this subject. we know it. and out there this show be sure to join the discussion, because you are the third host of the show, by tweeting us. >> black power is for black men. recently that hashtag sparked debate across the country. black women used it to show how they are left out of the community. we talked with civil rights leader gloeshia richardson about the march on washington. she actually spoke there, and she was added to the program at the march on washington following a lot of criticism that women aren't invited. >> they called the women very late in the march, as least as far as i was concerned. i understand that ann arn

black church reenvisioning. taking a more critical, you know, examination of the history cam theologies see ourselves in the sacredness of the church. it has been done elsewhere, it can be done, i think, that perhaps it may, you know, make the black church in the u.s. a little bit more legitimate, you know, at least people like me look like me. >> one more question and give you a chance to weigh in. >> thank you. good evening. i enjoyed the panel so much. and i think that religion right now in the black community is very important. as [inaudible] i still have that belief. some of my family are catholic. [inaudible] became politicians -- [inaudible] one of the things i was concerned about our youth. the church now as the congregation get older and die off we haven't been bringing enough young people to the church. we need to find a way to bring them back to the churches. i belong to a church that has a thick youth in the church. and after the absence of -- [inaudible] trayvon not guilty for zimmerman -- we were u

we can't have a black president that because he is black we are unwilling to say this is the black agendahat we need, these one, 3 things that you have to push for this rhetorically and public policywise. he gave a great speech but told us as president of the united states, not just an accident, he can't do anything about it. we are supposed to say that is good? that makes no sense. pecans sign an executive order? the can't make a speech about racial profiling, he can't say we got to bring blacks and white plaids and latinos and asians of all these people in the united states which is about to become a majority minority country, we got to bring them all together to have an up-to-date conversation about what does racial integration mean, what does racial justice mean in the twenty-first -- twenty first century and outcomes are part of the democracy? weekend just to the color blind racism game and colorblind racism, colorblind racism and say he quality is a fact when we no racial outcomes show a pervasive inequality and discrimination in america. [applause] >> i will go next. how can you fo

and the big idea could a black run, should a black run?time 2008 had come around, we'd knocked down the walls to build the bridges for today. >> surrender will get better and better. keep hope alive. keep hope alive. >> where we met with cynicism and doubt and those who tell that you say we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people. yes, we can. thank you. god bless you. and may god bless the united states of america. >> that was on election night. i saw you standing out with the people, watching president obama give his presidential acceptance speech. you were crying. >> there was a lot going on, you know, we were in that same -- across the street where we are now, 48 years before then, there was tear gas. that night, it was both the moment and the memory. the moment is that we had won something real big that night. and that was the joy of victory, you know. i mean, given my father couldn't vote. in world war ii. my parents couldn't vote. all the stuff we'd been through, the change of rules. >> if

>> black on black violence. >> black on black crime is part of the social responsibility which reverend sharpton did mention. >> and in vague -- >> as part of the social contest -- >> you mentioned black on black -- >> we are dealing with it in our community and we have been dealing with it in our community. >> back to robert zimmerman. obviously you are not black and you don't come from that community. you have, however, experienced as you said the civil rights machinery. don't you think though many of the people who marched were sincere in their feeling that they were being profiled? >> oh, absolutely i do. and i have gone out on the record before saying there is a despair -- disparity in this country and it continues today in treatment and equal justice for all-americans, but particularly for people of color . i do want to say that it is remarkable how this mention by reverend jackson today -- i'm sorry by al sharpton allegedly mentioning in passing the black on black violence is kind of how jesse jackson in passing frowned on the murder of chris lane. we frown on all things like sho

most of this crime is black on black-crime.eather mcdonald of the manhattan institute has run the numbers on this. 10,000 black men are alive in new york city who wouldn't be alive but for these policies. >> but, you know, the critics argues that the rate of crime reduction, which is undeniable, that started in 1981 before stop and frisk even began and the crime rate reduction has continued even as in the recent years the nypd has stopped or reduced the number of stop and frisks. dan, how do you respond? >> well, i guess you'd say ask them about that in chicago or detroit where the crime rate has certainly not fallen. look. crime is created -- done by criminals, and criminals create -- the average real criminal would -- produces about 15, 16 crime as year as a late criminologist pointed out, if you don't want them to commit crimes you have to take them off the street or you have to suppress them. i think that's an established fact of criminality. if these cops in new york are going to step back, then i think the criminals are g

they usually served in segregated units black nurses caring only for black soldiers but they served in africa england the china burma india theater and the pacific. in liberia army nurse sammy rice and her fellow nurses treated patients at the 25th station hospital. prudence burns was a surgical nurse in new guinea and the philippines. before she left the philippines she and her fiancÉ wanted to get married so her fellow nurses not having any fabric for a wedding dress used silk from a parachute to make a wedding dress for her. darrell foster and agnes glass were among a group of nurses who served in the hospital in the clouds at the all blacks staff 235th station hospital in the china burma india theater. before they could treat patients and nurses help set up a hospital installing a wire and drainage system. in england african-american nurses cared for injured not see p.o.w.s. some believe the black nurses were intentionally designed to p.o.w.s a job that other nurses did not want. during the world war ii years generally the side of a military uniform commanded respect and special tr

black women. i'm very concerned. at the time it was around 20 percent of black homes headed by single black women. today you have -- on sorry, the illegitimate birthrate is about 23% born to unwed mothers. today it's 73 percent. the reason why we have more is not because of sentencing guidelines for crack verses powder cocaine. it's because you have 73 percent of black babies born into homes without fathers. you don't have a marriage to support and welcome the child. he have the failed politics by democrats who think that they should just throw money at it. our system, not have been in the home, no foreigners. i'm not saying that white americans are on welfare. this is the number of people that will tell you there are more whites on welfare. true, but blacks represent a small a portion of the population, and we have a disproportionate number on welfare. that is not in powering. for a look at what is happening in the 60's, we have not done much better. we've got wars. how is this in power in the bl

on black crime.k on white crime. white on black. you know, all of this. why do you think they didn't cover it? >> well, let me first say that makes one of us who surprised, okay? >> particularly abc news though. abc. >> yeah, but it's part of a bigger picture. let me do this my way and then we can focus in. >> okay. >> look at it this way. if the australian ball player were black, and if the 88-year-old world war ii veteran who got a purple heart at okinawa were black and the thugs who killed both of them were white. >> bill: riots in the street. >> abc news would have been all over that story and the other networks would have had far more coverage than they did. but you know what the problem is? and you do know what the problem is, liberal journalists don't feel comfortable with stories where the victims are white and the assailants are black. it doesn't fit the liberal narrative. the liberal story line. i will give you just one quick example. let's say george zimmerman in the trayvon martin case, l

black-on-black crime. and now suddenly it is topic a. it is what everybody is talking about. and it just seems strange to me that all of a sudden when you have the trayvon martin case that nobody wants to talk about that. they just want to talk about black-on-black crime. >> bill: i think everybody talked about the trayvon martin case until we were going to faint. there is a context to it and the context arose when the verdict came in and then certain people in the grievance industry primarily but other sincere people as well, i'm not going to discount that were disappointed in the verdict, all right. and then they started to level charges that america is a racist country. you have heard them. we have used them here that we are a bad society, that we're trying to hurt, hunt down -- white men are trying to hunt down black people. and that's where it arose, that the problem in the violence in this country isn't generated by whites. it's generated primarily by blacks. so it's in context. surely you know that.

decentering the black church, black church was never the center. it might have been the center of our activity, but the holy ghost, i hope, has something else going on other than what's been happening in our congregations. [applause] >> i think what we also forget is a church is not a building, it's the people. it's the people on the inside. and i'm thinking about this sort of history of church of god and christ, they were just accommodationists. they didn't do anything. i uncovered this great history of all these women, mother lizzie robinson, all of these women were involved with social movements, they were involved with mary cloud bethune. there's a whole different way you can look at the history of the black churches because there were people who were making connections with other organizations. national council of negro women, naacp, all these things. and now what is happening is that people within these churches have to start to make connections to outside organizations. urban league, naacp, all those organizations were made up of church peop

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tremendous black-on-black crime. more black males involved in the penal system than ever.ut rates that are tremendous. that's alarming. dr. king and many others put their lives on the line to open doors of opportunity. particularly the doors of education. you almost have to drag some people through them. we really need to put emphasis on a different place. that doesn't mean there aren't problems out there. but we have the mechanism to take care of problems. you can wallow in problems or you can buck up and say, i'm going to deal with this. >> actually, the president -- i thought he gave a good speech today. i'm not a fan of oh his in any way. he talked about the magnitude of progress and not to ak knowledge that is to dishonor all of those who fought. they really fought and put their live uh lives on the line. i didn't like multiple rechbss made to trayvon martin. dr. dr. king's daughter comparing florida to syria. comparing the supreme court to the kkk. what was your reaction? >> hello, sean, dr. carson. i was listening to dr. carson and you as well. i listened to almost

pair black boys with upstanding black men. in hopes of teaching the kids a better way forward. >> morning, sir, how you doing? >> good. >> siswe teaches the manhood development class at oakland's sky lie high school. >> glad you could be with us. >> he and about a dozen african-american male teachers are focused on making sure plaque boys graduate high school. >> take a step back. y'all ready? >> we're trying to make transformations. a lot of our brothers are failing disproportionately. if we look at statistics in oakland we're the highest in everything we don't need to be in. >> you'll see higher rates of dropouts, lower rates of graduation, higher rates of chronic absence, higher rates of suspension. >> june yus williams is ceo of the urban strategies council, an oakland-based nonprofit working to eliminate persistent poverty. in 2010, the council partnered with oakland unified in developing solutions for improving the academic and social outcomes for black boys. that same year, the district launched the office of african-am

there are more black children, black students in college then there are black people in prison.o make sure i make that point. said, ike martin king have a long way to go. we have come a long way. when we were in slavery, we were told to wait for freedom. when we were free, we were told to wait for equality and our rights. when we got a black president, we were told to wait until the second term to have him address race issues. from what i understand, the president will speak on the march on washington commemorating the 50th anniversary of the i have a dream speech. he will speak and i think that will have -- that will be his legacy speech. people will remember that stays the way they wouldn't -- the way they remember dr. king's speech. bit ofere is a little the president talking about his own experience of race. [video clip] allt will be important for of us to do some soul-searching. there has been talked about should we convene a conversation on race? i have not seen that be particularly productive when politicians try to organize conversations. they end up being stilted and ar

traumatize black people with rather trayvon martin the son of the new jim crow where young black males especially poor black males and females are criminalized to demean their degraded as a form of soul murder that enables physical murder as in the case of the zimmerman still call of the murder us to call it a killing in that sense no matter what the lol say as i do not accept races vertica don't accept race doers but i recognize they have to come to terms with the reality of those kind of verdicts and jurors decisions but there is parallel in the sense that the old jim crow in new jim crow and this is this is part and parcel of not just affecting black people but affecting working people it makes it very difficult of course the people of different colors the come together to keep track of the oligarchs keep track of the plutocrats here and around the world and it makes it very difficult for white liberals and black liberals to gain a footing in a context and with the truth about their hypocrisy is more and more disclose and. i want to get into the hypocrisy in just a second but just t

>> what's missing more often is perspective that comes from a black mind or black voice or black sensibilities> welcome back. many african-americans have responded to the lack of diversity in the mainstream media by creating their own space in the world of new media. here to discuss this are journalists lola ogunnaike, david wilson, managing editor of thegrio.com and nbc news and tv and web personality amanda diva. all have been in mainstream outlets, nbc, "new york times." what is it like to be behind the scenes, being the only person, the raisin in the buttermilk. you can write that. what's it like? >> i think at nbc, there is definitely -- they get it a lot more. they understand it. you need to be more diverse, particularly in the newsroom. nobody is perfect but i think there is a good mix and i'm in those big meetings when they are deciding what stories are going to go out and what's going to happen in the day. i think it's very important. i think, look, america is diverse, as we all talk about. i think it's important that the newsroom reflects america. not just our skin but what we think.

this is called black enterprise. let's go back to the black reality store and you tell me about endorsement deals. >> you look at annie lee. she's had a book. >> she has an endorsement. >> i don't know if she has an endorsement deal. she's still making money and has a brand. it's not anything that will work for the next 30 years but it's working for now. >> they're on the style network. >> they're actors. >> the biggest shows -- it's a reality show. >> so why do it except you have this insane need to be seen. >> that's what it is. >> let me push you all on that. you could say these reality stars have an insane need to be seen. aren't we all obsessed with being pseudocelebrities? >> no, i don't think so. i think that when oprah ended her show she said we all have a platform. i use twitter as a platform. a platform for me. it's not about me wanting to be seen. >> not all reality tv has to be in the gutter. >> your point is that while there are these good ones. it seems like if you're already famous you're okay having a

>> my last question is how can we possibly awaken not just the black underclass but the black elite and agitated who have become particulate so complicitous in the silencing of any dissent from what is happening in the world and it domestically, facing our people and the people throughout the country who are suffering hundred the policies of the current administrative regime. >> let me start with haiti. when i said perhaps we should leave alone, an alternative to what we have done for 200 years even frederick douglass couldn't puzzle out why we had been so hostile, the speech he gave in chicago to the world's fair in the 1890s was a speech that would be appropriate now as a matter of fact, when he was talking about the asian president, sounded as if he knew president aristide and what had the fallen him, but that is standard fare from the u.s. over the last 200 years comment and why? , what distinguishes haiti from the rest of the caribbean? in the rest of the caribbean, democratic, stable governments from end to end with friendships with the united states, open government where all of

in pursuing that project, that images project of black freedom, in which black folk, brown folk, asian folk, native americans and others would be able as king put it in 1963, to live out the full meaning of the american dream. to have full, equal to be and substantiative citizenship. that's where the question matters. that's when you have full, equal, and substantiative citizenship. my suggestion is that we need to combine in a way i think is actually beginning to happen protest politics and electoral politics. i see no other way out of the contradiction, which on the one hand, gave us two election cycles in the 2008 and 2010 which black people were the demographic that voted at the highest percentage. on the other hand, has given us an unemployment rate 13%, which is higher than the black employment rate was higher in 1963. those question of sober -- social and economic justice are questions for me that demand, and only confronted through a double strategy of protest and politics which is informed by the left vision, all right, of social democracy or, if you will, of democratic social

but we're black. and first of all, another thing, we have conservative blacks, but the conservative blacks we have, like, the supreme court justice thomas. condolezza rice. they do not really relate to the average black person. >> guest: well -- >> caller: and the fear of people being afraid of black. blacks don't want to work. blacks don't get the majority of welfare. welfare was not started by black people. welfare was started by the people of appalachia. it was not started -- the first person to receive welfare was a white lady. not a black lady. i didn't even know what welfare was until the '70s. both my parent had good jobs. one worked with general motors, one worked with ford. i moved from a 99% black community in the '50s to 98% white community. went to school where i had three blacks. the kids were yearen, they didn't come here -- blacks were beneath them. the white kids play with the black kids. we went to their homes. we ate dinner with them. their parents didn't speak english but the childr

the epidemic of black on black crime. the lines of fellow blacks and others are being devalued by street thugs. host: perspective of ben c arson this morning in "the washington times." 50 years later. von is on the phone. caller: good morning. i wanted to tell you a true story. i was about five or six years old, we were loading onto a branson airways jet in chicago. my family was seated on one side of the plane. martinext to me was dr. luther king and one of his bodyguards. my father was somewhat prejudiced at the time and stood up and made a big stink. leaveted the pilot to not because he was afraid for his family. he knew it was martin luther king jr. and he didn't want the plane to be blown up. shook dr.king -- i king's hand. i never met someone who was so calm and who was so gentle. to this day, i have never met anybody like him. he made such an impression on me at five years old. i had never seen a black man before in my life. host: did your fathers views change over the years? no.t:caller: i have a pretty good sense

what do i say when people say, 'well, what will blacks do now?' blacks will overcome. they will now begin to rely--rely on them. they'll do it anyway. c-span: when you write, where do you do it? >> guest: i have a little--my s--i said my wife is a clinical psychologist and she has a waiting room, and i put up a little wall and divided the raiting--waiting room in half. c-span: this is in monterey. >> guest: in monterey. so i have a little cubicle about as--little--little bigger than a closet, and i write there. i get up every morning and i go there and go to work. c-span: how long did it take you to write this? >> guest: it took about 20 months--18, 20 months of really, you know, intense--it was the most intense writing experience i've ever had because i really wanted to take these ideas out to their--their l--their limit and fully flesh them out and--and--and--and s--and say--so i would--i had to sort of be in the world of the book all the time. and so it was a kind of seven-day-a-week, you konw, 10-, 12-hour-a-day ordeal. c-span: what time of day do you start? >> gue

is the last black business to the past. i'm also my immediate issue is housing affordability but i see that horrify but i need to - i need to empower those folks and marcus books provides that kind of presence. i saw the spirit and it's different having the children walking in there and that's different for the black communities in the west edition to connect them to the past. thank you >> thank you. i'm very active in the japan community. i've defltd into the history and the culture information we're not just japan town we're fillmore western edition and we've shared so much and one of the key places we've shared is the city believe. the building started out on post street. it was a hotel with a pool hall underneath. and in those days the pool hall would be a place they would wait for a job. it become a drug company. a place that served the medical needs of our community and who's family is still active in our community today. jim cities i've been working with the reproblemistic committee for their status which will come u

perception of blacks. not sure -- it's indicative of a racist society but as far as personal prejudice goes, i don't know how you discuss that. >> and i think -- i want to hear what you have to say to that so we'll tease it. an. may i read something? yes, please. of course. a rich, never bitter taste cup after cup. 340 grams. [ sighs ] [ male announcer ] always rich, never bitter. gevalia. [ laughing ] ...is the crackle of the campfire. it can be a million years old... cool. ...or a few weeks young. ♪ [ laughs ] away beckons from orion's belt. away...is a place that's closer than you think. find your away. for a dealer and the rv that's right for you, visit gorving.com. >>> after that build-up, there you go. >> we were talking about whether or not racism exists in the united states. ly say blanket, yes, racism exists in the united states. racism exists between individual people. racism exists between classes. the problem is actually in some ways it has to do with whitewashes as it were of martin luther kin

are blacks better off? some ways they are, some they're not. >> some, greg, don't believe if martin luther king were alive and watching the current civil rights leaders giving speeches, he would be too impressed, one is our own, bill o'reilly. >> how would dr. king see the current racial situation in america? he would be appalled. would he accept the broken educational system in many poor precincts. no, he would not. would he be happy with the rap industry and other entertainment aimed at the young. i do not believe dr. king would be happy about that at all. finally, would he approve of a civil rights movement that continues to blame american society for problems encountered by blacks, rather than encouraging personal responsibility as a way to achieve individual success. >> you know what, he makes a lot of good points. i think when you think about it, you look at martin luther king and look at al sharpton, it is like going from caviar to cookie dough. the reason is we keep wondering, we keep asking which s

so we're talking about race, not just talking about blacks and lights. so if you're measuring by race as an indication, we're more race conscious today. in 1960 the census bureau measured four races plus other. in 2010 it measured 14 categories plus others. so race consciousness -- >> in many ways we're less race conscious. we have to be because more people have diverse backgrounds. >> right. >> we've got more intermarriage, and i think most people celebrate that diversity. >> what do you think? is it a result of diversity of population, race conscious sentence. >> i think we have learned to live together a lot better than we were doing at that point. i also happened to be there, and it was an inspiring moment. >> was it virtue on our part? >> i think it's that more and more americans understand what america is about, a land of equal opportunity, and it's dramatically improved since those days so i think it is a huge step forward frankly. i feel there is much more mobility in this society, upward mobility in this society, much more acceptance of people o

unemployment is over 14% for blacks.se comments are not helping economy or job autos what is the nature about black conservatives that seems to the liberal establishment? it scares the hell out of them. why is that? >> we're a threat we stand for empowerment, personal responsibility, i support school so choice there are black liberal who's do not support school choice. if you zront a quality education what are these kids supposed to do? they can't read and write. it's deplorable. >> has there been a meeting of the minds between black liberals and black conservatives? >> i went to the naacp convention i tried to get a speaking slot on their agenda i was denied. i tried to get booth space, told they were sold out whchl i got there, there was plenty of space available for me to set up a table. so they don't want our message of liberty and empowerment to be communicated to the black community because that blow as way their narrative there is rampant racism in america and blacks need special treatment. there are clowns out th

so essentially, he said talking about black on black crime. that is not an excuse to not talk about racism. but also, it strikes me that what they're doing is putting it, it is y'all's problem. further creating more divisions rather than saying, this is an american problem. >> and let's be honest about this issue. when we use a phrase like black on black crime but we don't use the phrase, white on white crime which 92 playerly is four to five, it is four to five time more white on white crimes than black on black crime. we don't use the phrase. so this suggests this sths isn't about dealing with crime of it is about labeling peel as criminals. when o'reilly says this criminal, the disproportion of crime among black men which is true statistically. that somehow that justifies racial profiling. let's look at new york city. the stop and frisk policies in that city which stop 80% of the time people of color. in 95% of those cases they don't even give a citation because they find no evidence of illegalality. less than 2% of the time do they find dr

why do you not believe that black children in particular in the black community writ large has falleno far behind that we ain't never going to catch up, pardon my english. >> were going to catch up because we've got to catch up. we are investing our time and training the next generation of young servant leaders who are going to speak for themselves. the civil right movement did not come out of the upper class black folk. we are out organizing the poor in housing projects. we are organizing the next generation of leaders to fight the zero policies in our schools and talk about the imprisonment that is destroying our communities. we are going to build a movement. we need to remember what dr. king said at the end, because he was pretty depressed. we were integrating into a burning house, and we really had to have transformative efforts racism andh materialism. that is still the agenda today. tavis: we love and celebrate martin today, but he lived five years after the march and he was persona non grata by the time he died. what do you make of that echo >> we like the dr. king who was agai

read multiple newspapers a day, black newspapers, black periodicals, and she saved many of them. and they're at wayne and you can see them, and you can see these different issues she sort of clipped and is reading in the '60 asks and 70s. she gives that part of her papers in the late 'sevenness, and it's amazing what she is thinking about. and so the kind of whole very variety of issues from economics to labor to international issues, to criminal justice, and seeing those issues as being connected. but it wasn't just one, but many. and so it's an amazing -- >> jeanne, most people hear that be civil rights movement, you imagine everybody knows who rosa parks is, so if she went into the employment office right after this victory, she would be the first person to get a job. right? what is the truth on that? >> one of the sort of hardest parts of writing the book on rosa parks is the chapter in the middle which i call the decade of suffering. and that is, i think, part of the kind of accidental sort of bus lady, right? one of my students always talk about the myth of the bus lady. an

to the black condition, to what it means to be african-american or part of the black diaspora. hip-hop. it has produced the most money ever and continues to drive primary youth interests and until we unlock that i think it's going to be a hard way. >> how do you deal with the artist who says i would make other kinds of music but the labels won't let me. there's music i would love to make but i don't have a space for it. >> labels are waiting for artists to develop their fan base and seeing it grow and say we want to find you a bidding war. artists will say i'll decide when i want to decide. the power is up. >> just to change your standards. if you think your goal is you want to be a hundred trillion air, that's the route you have to go. when you sell your soul, you can't get that back with money. >> now one of the things we've been talking a lot about is the american context. hip-hop is a global phenomenon. we hear hip-hop coming out of every sector of the world. you just came back from tour. what are you seeing around the globe? >> it's amazing. we just toured south africa. di

black educators to teach black students in this state.s 1891. and elizabeth city state university has been through a few name changes since then, but it is still here. it survived. in the '60s, elizabeth city integrated the only public high school, they eventually tore it down. now elizabeth city is known for its huge coast guard presence, the naval air station here that used blimps to monitor the shipping canal looking for german u-boats, has evolved to make it a hub in the world of high tech blimps. because there are high tech blimps. and now the great dismal swamp is a park, and anybody arriving here gets free docking if space is available. it is a beautiful place, lovely. and the people are nice. but this place is on its way to nowhere. it is out of the way. you are not going to stumble upon it. and the fight being waged here in this out of the way beautiful place is actually a fight in some ways over lost ground. these are fights that are already supposed to have been won. students in the south, specifically black students in the sou

he's black i'm going to throw up! and lets dismiss all this nonsense about entrapment. nobody forced him to go to that hotel. marion barry is a pathological liar, he's a crack head. >> m. jackson: we knew that this would be used to say black people can't run anything, look what they did look, look how they act, they all a bunch of dope fiends. >> bill regardie: anything to get that son of a bitch out of office. he deserved it. [sirens wailing] >> plotkin: the trial was a spectacle. >> jaffe: this was a media feeding frenzy of the first regard. >> crack head! >> jonathon agronsky, author: i don't know how many witnesses there were, but there were scores and scores of them. but, to me, the most dramatic moment in the trial came when the doors opened at the back of the courtroom and in walks the mystery woman that we've all been hearing about, rasheeda moore. >> feldstein: rasheeda moore was busted by the fbi and then turned by the fbi against barry. >> johnson: that was what everybody wanted to see. yeah, that's his gir

folks, particularly black men. and what i'm saying in terms of drug policy is that the price is too high for our community. so high price is a play on my personal story, on my science and on drug policy. >> well, that is one of the things i thought you were trying to get us to think about this in two ways. in many ways you say that black boys are paying a high price for what you see as misdirected drug policy. you say that these policies character blacks disproportionately and that they derive, if i understand it correctly, from in this obsession with drugs like cocaine, opiates, marijuana that are based on racist assumptions, bad science, bad policing and media hype. do i have it right? >> that's right. >> and i was struck by this passage in the book where you say, and let me find it here, um, give me one second. okay. i explain that my 20-plus years of drug research experience has taught me many important lessons, but perhaps none more important than this: drug effects are predictable. as you increase the drug do

what is acting black? bill cosby has a lot to say about that mindset and how to fix it. >> the more we see it in the neighborhoods, the more we will accept it that we can't help it. what we need to do is give people more of a confidence that they can, they must realize that the revolution is in their apartment now. the revolution is in their house, their neighborhood, and then they can fight strongly, clearly the systemic and institutional racism. >> and that brings me to russell simmons. russell, i'm glad you wrote the letter. honestly i really am. initially though i wasn't even going to respond. not because i think you completely missed the point, not because, like many of the other critics i thought you were just using the occasion as a promotion for one of your businesses, your website, but i wasn't going to address it because, quite honestly, it was hard to take you and it seriously after you called me derogatory names like slave on twitter. that accomplishes nothing. especially when lives are at stak

. >> host: what does america owe blacks? >> guest: well, it owes them an acknowledgment of what happened. we don't like to talk about that in the states. even blast history month. there's a truncated version of what woodson had in mind. now it starts in slavely and moves forward and cuts us all from any access to african history. which was not what woodson intended. and so we obviously owe the value of our hire to those people who suffered so much and their families who dissented from those people who worked for 246 years for nothing. we owe them something for that. we owe them the story. we have been asked to expect that people can survive in good sound, psychology health. ashes and obliterated history. when i was a dmield richmond, virginia, we used to have a phrase that we used all the time from here to tim. but nobody knew what it was. nobody knew the providence of the world. didn't know where it was. didn't know it was a place. tim buck, which was a cross roads. it was also a site of one the world's first university. an

and fete to those who see it as a black issue. blacks cannot vote.no white woman on the supreme court in 1965. blacks had the right to vote in '65. those serving in vietnam that was impetus for giving them the right to vote. they were on campuses in 1974 which is what north carolina is seeking to strike down now. [inaudible] do it back to '74 civil rights case. blacks, white women, 18-year-old, colored student, and white women enrolled in the same coalition. think about politics in the mind of that element of people. think about the politics minus the black vote, minus the women vote, minus 18-year-old and access to capitalists. that would be a very different america. that is the america now on attack. lastly, on this i'm concerned that we appeal to the president. one of them is that we need -- we have sufficient motivation. we need a poll of that. the voter fact deserve if it's legal if there is an amendment for the right to bear arms it should be the right was no longer to be limited to various scheme or states with you deserve the constitutional r