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later, tough topic for the black community in america. the collapse of the african-american family bernie goldberg has thoughts on that upcoming. >> bill: last thursday we had debate over mitt romney's appearance at the naacp convention in houston. john mccain received some jazz when he visited the naacp four years ago. mr. shelton said that was not true. roll the tape. >> if i am making $17,000 a year, i cannot afford my housing. i cannot afford gas and food and to provide healthcare for my children. what are you going to do, senator? >> bill: can you decide if that's jazz or not. but there is no question that when senator mccain tried to engage the african-american community at a different event, it was tough going. >> i voted against a federal holiday in member of dr. king. [boos] >> i was wrong. [heckling] >> i was wrong. [heckling] >> we all make mistakes. >> i was wrong and eventually realized that in time, in time to give full support, full support for a state holiday in my home state of arizona. [shouting] >> bill: joining us now

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. >> woodruff: then, aids in black america. a special "frontline" report tonight looks at that subject. we talk to phill wilson of the black aids institute in los angeles. >> ifill: author david brody discusses his book, "the teavangelicals," about evangelicals and the tea party, and the romney campaign's effort to win their hearts and minds. >> romney has three and a half years of president obama which is which has definitely helped these teavangelical voters come to his aid. the question is, they may be 80% there, but are they going to get there... what about those last 20%? >> woodruff: paul solman explores the prospect of eternal life with author, inventor and futurist ray kurzweil. >> there's a very good chance of making it through. >> when you say "making it through" you mean live forever? >> indefinitely. the goal is to put that that decision in our own hands rather than the medical community. >> ifill: and hari sreenivasan talks with wikipedia founder jimmy wales about the role the online encyclopedia plays online and of

i think they care more about how his policies are going to speak to black america. what is mitt romney's plan for criminal justice reform. what is mitt romney's plan for the high levels of black unemployment? it was mostly rhetoric and mostly him bashing the president about obama care. the republican party provided no new initiatives or alternative when is it comes to black america. we hear the same old tired proposals around vouchers that have been talked about since reagan was in the white house in 1980. i don't hear anything new that is coming from the republicans. >> let's talk about jobs. to you first. even under this president, president obama, that has the support of the majority of black voters. you have 14.5% unemployment for black americans. it's 7.4% for white americans and 8.2% average. for hispanics it's 11%. when you are addressing that group that was just so helpful to the president in 2008 in getting him elected and jobs are the number one issue, the economy and jobs this election, has the president failed black voter when is it comes to jobs? >> that

what does he need to tell black america?mployment is at 14.4%. it stayed double the the white unemployment rate since 1972. what can be done about that? the large unemployment rate contribute to the rate of black crime, which justifies shredding the fourth am amendment's guarantee to stop and frisks. what do we do about that? does he have an urban economic agenda that can revitalize the fore saken ghettos of america or perpetuate the faileded war on drugs? and does he have a plan to narrow the education gap between the races? there are also questions that are unique to mitt. did he ever believe that blacks are the cursed descendants to cain? what impression was left by the church's policy of racial discrimination that ended in 1987? in 2007, romney said he was moved by the ban's removal. >> and literal we want. even at this day, it's emotional. so it's very deep and fundamental in my life that all people are children of god. i had no question in my mind that african-americans and blacks generally would have every right and b

machine itself, and so we see, again, this contradiction of it being the political capitol of black america, but it's the legacy of segregation that put all the black folks together in these neighborhoods, and also because of the veer rasety of the machine or those who opposed the machine and those who oppose it. >> host: right. you had this concentration that turns into considerable power or leverage, and 10 the question -- and so the question in the way you see it what dwiedz philosophically, proceedings and the machine is to oppose it. is that the decision? >> guest: the independents of black politics is a little different. there's the independents in the national black politics. you know, those independents who seek a community centered agenda opposed to the coalition, but there's also coalitionists who are black in chicago independent from the political machine. >> host: i see. >> guest: right. we had two types of independents who sometimes collaborated and sometimes clashed, and i can talk about that in a moment which and where president obama sits within the tradition. because of the

and so we see again this contradiction of being the political capitol of black america but mostly because of the legacy of segregation that put all the black folks together in these neighborhoods, and also because of the voracity of the political machine and the blacks learned to oppose it. >> host: you had this concentration, which turns into considerable power or leverage, so the question is -- and the way you see it -- that what really divides is in so include, strategically, is whether or not to play the game within the machine or to oppose it. is that the -- >> guest: yeah. that's part of the division. and the independents, they way i described it, is a little different. the independents i talked about in national politics, black politics, those independents who seek a community centered political agenda as opposed to the coalitions, but also coalitionists who were black in chicago, who were independent from the political machine. so we had two types of independents, who sometimes collaborated and sometimes clashed. and i can talk in a moment about where sort of barack obama fits wit

about what's in his heart, i think they care more about what his policies are going to be for black americatt romney's plan for the high levels of black unemployment? so, it was mostly rhetoric, it was mostly him bashing the president again about obama care and so unfortunately, the republican party has provided no new bold initiatives or alternatives when it comes to black america. we hear the same old tired proposals around vouchers that have been taunted around ever since reagan was in the white house. i don't hear anything new coming from the republicans. >> let's talk about jobs, anna, you first, even president obama who has the support of the majority of black voters, you've got almost 14.5% unemployment for black americans. it's 7.4 for white americans and it's 8.2% average and for hispan hispanics, it's 11%. so when you're addressing that group that was just so helpful to the president in 2008 and getting him elected and jobs are the number one issue, once again the economy and job this is election, has the president failed black voters when it comes to jobs? >> you know, that's goi

i think they care more about how his policies are going to speak to black america. minal justice reform. what is mitt romney's plan for the high levels of black unemployment? it was mostly rhetoric and mostly him bashing the president about obama care. the republican party provided no new initiatives or alternative when is it comes to black america. we hear the same old tired proposals around vouchers that have been talked about since reagan was in the white house in 1980. i don't hear anything new that is coming from the republicans. >> let's talk about jobs. to you first. even under this president, president obama, that has the support of the majority of black voters. you have 14.5% unemployment for black americans. it's 7.4% for white americans and 8.2% average. for hispanics it's 11%. when you are addressing that group that was just so helpful to the president in 2008 in getting him elected and jobs are the number one issue, the economy and jobs this election, has the president failed black voter when is it comes to jobs? >> that is going to be a question that bl

black america has a serious epidemic and gay america has a serious epidemic. so d.c. has a complex epidemic. frequently we're compared to africa, oh, d.c. it's like africa. actually we're very different. >> reporter: the doctor says the needle exchange program for iv drug users has helped slow infection rate and get some addicts into treatment, but the best weapons are widespread free testing and getting more people who are hiv positive on medication that keeps the virus suppressed. >> the whole purpose of this medication, it kind of locks the virus in the cell. it keeps it from spreading. so if it's not spreading in your body, it's less likely to spread in the community. so treatment has become prevention. >> reporter: from a scientific standpoint with the medications we have now, how has life with aid changed? >> it's -- aidses changed? >> it's changed -- aids changed? >> it's changed tremendously if you take your medication. >> reporter: good news, but the idea that aids has lost some of its lethal grip can make people complaint about safe sex, something that simpl

black america has been hit hard by the grinding recession.o really go into what this recession has meant for black america, not only in terms of the catastrophe in the private economy, but public sector growth -- that visual you showed of mitt romney being booed is not a very nice visual. but there are also a lot of people in the republican base, people who are the people who like mitt romney least, who may be energized in their turn by that -- >> all right, all right. maybe. let's look at the unemployment. let's look at the unemployment for june. i want to look at this graphic here. white unemployment, 7.4%. black unemployment, 14.4%. hispanic unemployment, 11%. reuben, jump in here. same question i was asking to mark here. do you think in any way that the message from mitt romney if he attacks all these groups and says, what has this president done for you, he can dampen their enthusiasm? >> absolutely. he can dampen their enthusiasm. he's not going to be able to turn them against barack obama but he can prevent them from turning out. that'

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 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 itself a 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 philosophers and many of them turn on their heels and they leave. one of them who temporarily takes a seat is a former colle

we wanted to make sure that we found things that would give people an understanding of the way black america worked. and one of the most important stories often a story that's not clearly understood, is the story of the pullman porter. this is a wonderful hat and in some ways, we've come to a point where pullman porters were seen maybe in a stereotypical way as people who only served who actually worked on the railroad to make sort of you know, the travel of the elite white community comfortable. but the pullman porters played even a more important role. they were in some ways the communicative heart of the african-american community. they began to bring to different regions of the country an understanding of what was going on in the south, what was going on in california, and they became one of the earliest black unions so they were very successful in the early 20th century in unionizing and sort of establishing a pattern that many african-american entities and businesses would follow in the future. so for us, the pullman porter is both a story of work, it's a story of the limits of what pe

it's been a meeting place for black america. her products are sold in stores nationwide. >>> public television has severed its ties with actor fred willard. willard was recently arrested on suspicion of a lewd act inside an adult movie theater in hollywood. the 72-year-old actor is best known as the dog show announcer in the movie "best in show." till now he'd also been the narrator for the pbs show "market warriors" which is produced by wbgh, the boston public television station. >>> ann hathaway explains how her new role as cat woman began with a single meow. we have more from hollywood. >> reporter: seven years after taking on the role of batman, christian bale is wrapping up the trilogy. >> i'm retired. >> reporter: what was it like taking off the batman suit for the last time. >> knowing that i was never going to be putting it back on again? i didn't want to take it off. i wanted to sit with it for a while. >> reporter: while he's a familiar face in the series, there are some newcomers in "the dark knight rises." >> you hav

say what your message and agenda and vision is for black america. you don't have to beat up on president obama. that is why he got booed. >> bill: he told the truth. he is going to try to repeal obama care. he told the truth. candor.ou admire that can >> i appreciate his candor. >> number two, most of the governor's campaign is that he can regenerate the economy and barack obama cannot. that is his campaign. >> as a strategic move going into the naacp convention beating up on the most popular and first and only black president of america. >> bill: why should it matter if mitt romney wants to talk economics and the economics say that the african american community is suffering more than the rest of america. why can't he make those points there? >> i think you can make the point without making it personal. >> bill: barack obama's policies are hurting african americans. >> he only alieniated black voters further. >> bill: i'm trying to understand this. >> okay. >> bill: i'm an african american voter. the economy is bad for me and worse for my people th