i am afraid that unless there are changes made for black america, as an economic entity it is not a growing concern. it's debt is out growing it's rr resources. capitol formation are the principle factors holding back the formations and wealth creation within the black community. they continue to escalate the growing wealth gap impacting african-american families which i call a wealth gap tsunami. it has more than quadrupled over the course of a generation. it has increased from $20,000 to $95,000. the median wealth of white house how olds is 20 time that is of black house house holds. at this pace, it would take african-americans nearly 581 years to achieve income parity with whites. since the housing bubble in 2006 and the recession that followed, house values were the principle cause of loss. as a result of these declines, the net worth fell from 12124 to $5677 in 2009 a decline of 53%. compare that to a net worth of a typical white household. our notiation's economy is comparing major challenges and they will serve to mal amagnify the growing disparity. growing income whites have far mo

, black america as an economic entity is not a going concern.s debt is out stripping its resources. and therefore it will be more dependent on transfer payments. that is a definition of a nongoing concern. and our question, the lack of access to capital and capital formation is the principal factors for minority businesses and as a consequence, wealth creation within the black community. a wave of troubling economic statistics continue to escalate and further make worse the growing wealth gap that is directly impacting african american families which i have called a wealth gap tsunami. consider these facts from that tsuna tsunami. the wealth gap between white and african american families has quadrupeled for the families. the gap increased by $75,000, from $20,000 to 95,000 dollars. the median welths of white households is 20 times that of black households and at least 35% of african americans have no net assets. study stated for every dollar of white per capita income, blacks had 55 cents, at this pace it would take african americans 581 years

black. so the question with obama, with a lot of white america, is he's half white, and half black, why does he identify as black? well, of course he makes that choice eventually. but society already makes the choice for you. and that was one of the early lessons to him about that. chris: and one of the unique things about american history. that if you're one drop black you become black. and not true everywhere in the world. that's for sure. and let me ask you about the college, the anti-apartheid movement. one chance to jump into something that had a racial aspect and getting rid of white supremacy in south africa. >> right. and according to the book t. really was the beginning -- to the book, it really was the beginning of his political career because he was the first overtly political speech where people took notice and were commenting about it afterward. i thought was so interesting in the book that you had the anecdote about how after he had given the speech, the sort of consciousness raising speech he gave this sort of cynical comment later saying it's not going to make any difference.

is itself also in addition to be in the seat of the country, washington is the seat of the black elite of america. the black people who served in reconstruction governments in the south were driven out after the collapse of reconstruction, and many of them retreated to washington, d.c. we have there a pbs pinch back of lieutenant-governor of louisiana who comes there, the gentleman who was the senator from mississippi blanch k. bruce. we have many, many celebrities there. we have also howard university, which is the real seat of the black intelligence, too. so we have this town. we have this big celebration. people turn up to dedicate the memorial. the black elites who turn up, and they walk up to the platform area, because their tickets say platform, get there and they're turned away. they're turned away to a segregated seating area about a block away, and it's a weedy area where there are rough hewn benches, and the grast has not been cut. these are lawyers, judges, and many turn on their heels and leave. one of them who temporarily takes a seat is a former collector of customs at georgetown. h

deboyce would be proud, too, of the great strides that black america has made in the past century. some of us have gained great political power and amassed great economic wealth. we have suck seeded in every facet of american life -- sports and the arts, government, religion, business, academia, the military. we even have a black president. yet the work of the talented tenth is far from done. as we sit here, there are more black men in prison than there are in college. more than 80% of black and hispanic children cannot read or do math at grade level. you can add to the list of disparities that lead to an unmistakable conclusion. as my friend and mentor vernon jordan likes to say, you cannot concentrate on the best of what we have done. you must focus on the worst of what we need to do. that is your charge, to define your success at least in some measure by what we do for our brothers and our sisters. you cannot enter the ranks of the elite and close the ranks behind you. you cannot enter the ranks of the elite and close the ranks behind you. you are part of a chain of those men an

there's a deafening silence in black america with regard to the obama white house. and this administration. and what they ought to be doing about poverty across the board. to my mind, the president hasn't used the word poverty enough. but what we can not debate is that there has been a deferential silence on the part of black people, and black women specifically. i love barack obama, i love michelle obama, i love the two kids, i love all of that, but there's been a deathly silence about poverty among black women. >> when you look at melanie campbell, and people have a thing friday and she talked about the voting patterns of african-american women. we are the most loyal democrats that there are. we voted overwhelmingly, 97%, someone said for president obama. now having done that, what have you done for me, lately? that's really a question that we have to ask. but i think there's a schizophrenia in the african-american community about president obama. everybody loves him. i've got to love him. you know, the brother's fine, he's smart. i mean he's got it going on, he's

but i recognize that the problem inherent in black america is not lack of commitment to care for ourselves, not work ethic, not integrity, not transparency, not a desire to live in a two-parent household, none of that is endemic and built in our dna. but i will tell you what is built in the dna of america is a history, chronic history of institutionalized discrimination and race discrimination. >> no doubt. >> and unless we resolve that, we will be here when congress west is a senator from florida, having this same -- >> what about president? >> having this same debate on the issue of race. but i don't want to -- >> actually, a quick retort, because i want to get everybody else in too. >> well, i respect your definite success. you're definitely an american success story. >> without any set-asides. born in mississippi. >> exactly, exactly. >> go ahead. [ inaudible ] >> okay. >> because believe in me. >> but the government didn't invest in you. >> i think the government should be a tax system to cause the private sector to invest. the government does that all along. there are research grants

in urban america as you have reported in the past about 40% to 50% of black pen alone are unemplowed and we are seeing a hemorrhaging of jobs because the jobs that left are not coming back. i'm hoping that congress and the president and we as citizens will push to get the jobs that we so desperately need in a consumer driven economy. >> jamie: i don't want to put words in your mouth but sounds like you are putting the blame on everybody. >> not the blame, the responsibility. >> jamie: angela, does the president still have time to turn this around between now and november? >> he doesn't have team to turn this around. too much. too little. too late. and the president still using his deflect, divide and strategy and the american people are not buying it. the only proven way to increase ross parity and reduce poverty is through individual responsibility santita but also capitalism and free markets and bipart tan politics. >> jamie: let me throw this out at you. in the speech that the president gave when talked about the unemployment report on friday he asked congress to pass more legisla

certain segments of this population have been attacking black america, black masculinity. this is a spillover, to say this is an overstatement, it's ridiculous. there's no one protesting. they're applauding for this. we see it time and time again. >> can i say, ed, if i went hunting -- >> when you talk about black masculinity, colonel allen west who served his country heroically in the united states military is attacked very regularly and very harshly. >> listen to what he says. he makes comments that are unbelievable. allen west is the most -- >> i agree. so does the president of the united states from time to time. >> great to have all of you with us tonight. appreciate your time. thank you. >>> mitt romney uses a visit to wawa to try to seem like a normal guy, but the crowd didn't buy it. we'll have the latest on another out-of-touch moment for the mister. stay with us. >>> mitt romney isn't winning over hoagie lovers in pennsylvania. we'll show you his latest out-of-touch moment. i think he's defining what it means to be detached and out of touch with the american peop

where is the agenda for black america?u know what i see the president doing and i think i've said this to you before, one of the pieces that got the least amount of attention but i think was the most important was him talking about his own personal journey where he says, i've got to embrace it all. when you listen to what he talks about, that's how he talks about these issues of social equality. they see health care as a right for everyone. it talks about economic inequality and he's talking about everyone. i think in the language of the president he believes he's trying to help everyone with -- you know, we're going to lift all votes and perhaps not the, we need to do this sector, that sector, that sector with obvious exceptions. that's the balance that we have and as the first black president is, how do you balance the expectations of a community at the same time know that you've got to be the president of everybody? i think you need to do more to communicate that. >> governor, you faced this question during your tenure

movement and he wrote a chapter at the end of the first volume of "democracy in america" on the position of indians and blacks in america and what the problems that posed for the country. these issues foreshadowed crises that came later and illustrated problems which tocqueville addressed in the last chapters of the first volume of democracy in america. on the fact that blacks and indians were not considered citizens in this democratic republic. he foresaw the possibility of the rupture of the civil war. it's one of his many uncanny predictions. he looks ahead this young man writing in his 20s and 30s looks ahead and sees much of the future history that has happened. he sees the possibility of the rupture of civil war and the tragic fate of many native americans even as he saluted the way democracy bound citizens together through local government. and perhaps he may even be seen as having pointed to the successes of the civil rights movement when he writes to combat the evils that equality can produce there is only one efficacious remedy. it is political freedom. but the habits of the heart but the habits of

history that had any familiarity with the problems facing the poor and certainly problems facing black americaand when john was the senator, he had a few years tenure. we had reason to be suspicion and be concerned. dr. king said something very critical. we were discussing the facts these were head of state an men we had to deal with. he said we understand all the problems that we face. your task is to find their moral center. >> the moral center. >> find their moral center and to get them to our cause. he saw in both of those men, good and to keep programming them and keep giving them information and keep informing them about what our struggle was about. in the end, i think we had an incredible alliance of john didn't live long enough. >> it was l.b.j. who you talk about. initially surprised he would be the one. i do want to ask you about something else. there's a moment when you talk about police stopping you for while walking while being black in beverly hills in the early 1950s. do you see parallels between that experience and the trayvon martin shooting? >> absolutely. it's nothing to the

also look at the kind of accumulation of his work in particular how capitalism underdeveloped black america. and astonishing piece of work which carries on what walter rodney had done with how europe developed africa. st. patrick's, there was a continuation of that particular methodology. very concerned about race and class and that was something we struggled about in the 1960s that tried to find some common ground between narrow nationalist and mechanical marxist and how you bridge the principal contradiction out there with race or class or is it necessary to see both in terms of having the holistic analysis about where we are. so when he came -- he bounced around. he was peripatetic. all over the place. he was two years at one institution and one at another one and i see the similarities and malcolm was a real adventure and moving all the time. if there's one thing i would like to focus on thematically it would be his internationalism which is often ignored. you should give certain special attention to it. spike lee did the best he could with the film but i thought it was somewhat whacks

i have always said and written in my books it is much more difficult to be a black person in america, an asian, an hispanic than it is white. i think that is the truth. but, as you said, to try to foster hatred or resentment is wrong and anti-american. now, i have got to go. so you can't say anything else. >> yankees. >> bill: two out of three. all right? two out of three, geraldo rivera. >> don't walk around in the bronx. >> bill: you need to trim that mustache. if it gets any longer we need another studio. new polling shows americans may be drifting away from the belief in god. body language on the president being interrupted and putin disrespecting mr. obama. we're coming right back. >> bill: impact segment tonight, have you ever doubted the existence of god? that question was asked by the pew research center. the result 60% of americans under the age of 30 they have never doubted the existence of god but 31% have. for the u.s.a., that's a big number. among americans 65 years or older, just 9% have doubted the existence of a deity while 89% are people of faith across the board. >>

i'm a free black man in america, let me live.hymes has a new life ahead of him on the outside. >> bye, california correctional center! >> later we'll see where he is two months after release. >> officer brucell, also known as red bull, works in south block. >> my job is third watch. south block rotunda officer. my main job is to control the flow of traffic during chow and also during the course of the inmates returning back to the units because of medical or dental appointments or mental health appointments they have. go back. get an escort. you've got to be escorted. you've got to be escorted this time of day. welcome to my world. i'm the eyes and ears of this south block rotunda. here, everybody is looking at me as the point man, hey, which way we got to go? that's it. that is the completion. we are done. we are done. successful. well, here we go. i'm regrouping now. i rethink everything. i look, and i do the same program with another unit. dining hall one, this is yard five, let me know when you are done, chow house clear. mak

i have always said and written in my books it is much more difficult to be a black person in america, an asian, an hispanic than it is white. i think that is the truth. but, as you said, to try to foster hatred or resentment is wrong and anti-american. now, i have got to go. so you can't say anything else. >> yankees. >> bill: two out of three. all right? two out of three, geraldo rivera. >> don't walk around in the bronx. >> bill: you need to trim that mustache. if it gets any longer we need another studio. new polling shows americans may be drifting away from the belief in god. body language on the president being interrupted and putin disrespecting mr. obama. we're coming right back. ♪ why not make lunch more than just lunch? with two times the points on dining in restaurants, you may find yourself asking why not, a lot. chase sapphire preferred. and no one's around to hear it, does it make a sound? [ meows ] or if a tree falls on your car and no one's around to answer your call, do you make a sound? the answer is probably "yes" [ growling ] and "like a howler monkey." unless you'r

i have always said and written in my books it is much more difficult to be a black person in america,ian, an hispanic than it is white. i think that is the truth. but, as you said, to try to foster hatred or resentment is wrong and anti-american. now, i have got to go. so you can't say anything else. >> yankees. >> bill: two out of three. all right? two out of three, geraldo rivera. >> don't walk around in the bronx. >> bill: you need to trim that mustache. if it gets any longer we need another studio. new polling shows americans may be drifting away from the belief in god. body language on the president being interrupted and putin disrespecting mr. obama. we're coming right back. [ woman ] for the london olympic games, our town had a "brilliant" idea. support team usa and show our olympic spirit right in our own backyard. so we combined our citi thankyou points to make it happen. tom chipped in 10,000 points. karen kicked in 20,000. and by pooling more thankyou points from folks all over town, we were able to watch team usa... [ cheering ] in true london fashion. [ male announcer ] n

author of this award-winning book, "the condemnation of blackness", which brings the past to bear on race, crime and the making of urban america, and connects today's headlines to their deep roots. he was teaching history at indiana university when the new york public library asked him to head the schomburg center for research in black culture. >> i decided right after college that there was nothing more important to me than learning about african-american history and culture, really being able to learn firsthand the experiences and contributions that african-americans have made to this country and to the world. >> the schomburg center is known the world over for documenting the history of all peoples of african descent, with a special emphasis on the story of african-americans. among its ten million items are classic works crystallizing that experience. >> there are many books in this collection that span centuries. i happen to be holding two of our oldest books. the first here is truly our oldest. it is published in 1573 by a poet named juan latino. this is the first known book of poetry written in latin by a person of afric

if you are white in america you have advantages. >> greg: if you are black in americas you also haveu have advantages. >> dana: if you are at a university and not white you have advantages. all the advantages, right? >> kimberly: all the people have light eyes. >> greg: the advantage is you can become president of the united states. pretty cool. >> eric: you are hitting exactly the point, greg. it's all about fair shot, fair -- equal student to succeed. everyone doesn't have to have the same amount of success. they have to have the same opportunities to succeed. we have that. we have a black president. >> bob: do you think the black kid from bronx has same as white kid from we chester? >> eric: absolutely. absolutely the same opportunity. >> bob: that's ridiculous. >> eric: america is 72% white. for them not put in that ad we have the, that whites have a privilege of walking in a room and not looked at different, i don't get that. if i go to the corner of market and broad and newark, i get looked at differently. i guarantee you i get looked at -- >> bob: i look at you differently eve

louis america's oldest black incorporated city refuge to the days of work to pour freeburg >>for freedomstory runaway slaves invading bounty hunters mikan perilous crossing to illinois but help of fear this woman herself a former slave the >> should roll them down the river across over here priscilla baltimore he became a dialogue with the church helped establish quinn chapel spiritual cornerstone from the place came to be known as freedom village piece of history nearly forgotten. archeologists are uncovering evidence of the bill which came from the illinois archaeological survey finding remnants of slave settlement study of historical deeds and records learning more about the place it evolves into brooklyn guiding hand of a heroic woman known as mother baltimore. this >> with viper and dynamic person >> for years to mother baltimore live and work in st. louis operating ferry service could and services force of personality winning allies making a prominent family >> all of the doctors and lawyers people of st. louis greatly respected her she could get donations for her church. believed

black america has consistent had had an employment rate double of white americans.hose that were in society who were generating wealth as a result of the beginning to look a scant -- supporting those who they deem to be nonproductive. ie, the big population of unemployed americans. you have one group of and another group argue we have to protect entitlement. that is the nature of our debate today. that is the nature that will be played out in the 2012 election. adding to the growing political conflict is the fact that the minority population, blacks and hispanics receiving the transfer of happen to be the fastest growing demographic group in the country. as a result, the population that is paying, feels they are continually being financially squeezed because they believe they're transferring money to a nonproductive growing class of people. this is a prescription for the kind of political that is taking place in the u.s.a. today. republicans are saying no new taxes. democrats are saying we must protect entitlement. we are politically in a zerosome gain and most afri

black, your third burke. what are your first two? >> guest: a first home is a children's book about my father and the second one is "america, you sexy tch." >> host: michael ian black, also your third but. >> guest: my first was called my custom van and let me blow your mind all of your face and my second one is called we are not doing it right. >> host: co-authors, coming out in the summer of 2012, "america, you sexy bitch" a love letter to freedom. thank you for being on booktv. >> guest: thank you, thank you. you are watching an interview from booktv's recent trip to new york city for bookexpo america, the publishing industry's annual trade show. for more information visit bookexpo america.com. >> he i wanted to read what i felt was one of the more moving passages as you describe, actually what's happening before the camera is rolling. so this is what you described. you said, but that was not their intent. that was made brutally clear to me when one of the officer suddenly kicked me with his boot inside -- to the side of my face smashing my job. it felt like someone had taken a baseball bat to my head. before a i could register th

what that said is it's okay to lynch black people in america and you won't be held accountable and go to jail for it. it's really a black mark on congress's history when you think about that. >> i think that's a good -- i'm sure you have many questions and we can continue the conversation. but i think that's a good point for us to end, and i think it's poignant and pulls out from everything we've heard today is to think about these descendants that they represent and what they went through throughout their lives and that we can use that as inspiration for us. and when we're challenged, that we are capable of being up to the task of pursuing what we need to do to bring justice and equity as their descendants did and as they continue to do. so thank you very much. >>> each week "american history tv's" american artifacts takes viewers behind the scenes at archives, museums and historic sites. the 2600 acre estate of montpeliar was one home to the nation's fourth president, james madison and his wife dolly. it lies about 70 miles north of the nation's capital in orange county, virginia. t

she's the author of "sister citizen, shame stereotypes and black women in america." she's a regular columnist for "the nation" magazine. she's the host of her own show on msnbc that airs on saturday and sunday mornings. she's the proud mother of a young daughter and once a month be or so she gets a little sleep. it's a delight to introduce you to melissa harris-perry. [ applause ] >>> good morning. >> good morning. >> so it's the start of what is going to be an idiologically diverse day for me today. i'm going to run off the stage when i am done with my address because i am heading off to chicago where i will join the bush family for a conversation about volunteerism in america. so that'll be fun. by the end of the day i will have no idea what's going on in the world, but i am very happy to start the day with you, and particularly because what i find to be my value added within the public sphere is not as an activist or organizer per se. i am married to an activist and organizer so it's very clear to me which one of us does real work and which one of us talks about t

said that they did not agree with our drone strike policy now you have as well you know this black mark on america's record in many respects with cia secret black site prisons about the grave with guantanamo bay you know russia just came out and said that certain u.s. officials involved in time of day are barred from entering i mean before it could you even imagine that kind of argument being made but you know has america lost its moral standing oh there's no there's no question that a lot of activities have been undertaken over the last ten years and that's up to including drone strikes that have killed civilians in numbers that we don't we still don't know the tally of right. and not just strikes there's also been cruise missile strikes there was one particular bad one in yemen there's no question that that's have some moral authority of the country and there's no question that the torture regime of the black sites also set the moral authority the country when you talk about people having trust in our other institutions from abroad i mean one of the one of the day mimics that you see in the develo