it's funny that because, you know, his mother's white and his father's very black, as i understand it. almost as black as mech is the nature of this country. he's not white, he's not snow white and therefore he must be black. i never say that to the three of our -- i never say that to any of our kids, we just say that they're black, they're this beautiful mix. but the great thing about this country is that that can happen and it's one of, if not the only country in the world where you can go from such a -- this country can take such a paradime shift going from a bush administration, hard right, right, to in a post-9/11 era, somebody by the name of a kind of, for all intents and purposes, black man by the name of barack obama. that is the great thing about america, i think it's the greatest country in the world. but i'll say the same thing now as i said back then, to answer your question. what this country was in need of was not a great president, this country was in need of a great leader. and he has never waneded. not one single bit. >> let's end on a positive note. if you're reading the titles on the song

the black stuff from the window and the hair grease makes the eye liner. nobody can make it as black as meugh. they can't do it like that. >> curlers are on the list of banned items. but didn't stop orange county jail inmates michelle and stacy from making their own. >> we don't have things that people on the outs have. we make do with what we have. we can curl our hair with toilet paper. >> twist it like this. >> this is folded in half. you fold down. >> this goes around the curler. lick it and close it. there's your curler. >> if we get caught with this in our hair we will get in trouble. >> get a write up for contraband. >> it's just toilet paper. >> i know. tell them that. >> it's altering what it's supposed to be used for. >> altering. >> we could use this as a weapon and like hurt somebody really bad with toilet paper. >> see? hold on you have to do the pantene commercial thing. >>> while some orange county inmates concern themselves with appearances michael charles was all about function over fashion. >> we could see that something was immediately going on with his glasses. when we

the black stuff from the window and the hair grease makes the eye liner. nobody can make it as black as meugh. they can't do it like that. >> curlers are on the list of banned items. but didn't stop orange county jail inmates michelle and stacy from making their own. >> we don't have things that people on the outs have. we make do with what we have. we can curl our hair with toilet paper. >> twist it like this. >> this is folded in half. you fold down. >> this goes around the curler. lick it and close it. there's your curler. >> if we get caught with this in our hair we will get in trouble. >> get a write up for contraband. >> it's just toilet paper. >> i know. tell them that. >> it's altering what it's supposed to be used for. >> altering. >> we could use this as a weapon and like hurt somebody really bad with toilet paper. >> see? hold on you have to do the pantene commercial thing. >>> while some orange county inmates concern themselves with appearances michael charles was all about function over fashion. >> we could see that something was immediately going on with his glasses. when we

blacks. as sherman adams related one time, eisenhower told me that he disagreed with his southern friends that negro were primarily seeking social equality. eisenhower believed that the negro was more anxious for an equal chance for a job and good education, equal justice before the law, equal right to vote. the president was certain then that he possessed a full appreciation of the aspirations of the negro and he also believed that he had to find the best policy for achieving those goals. eisenhower's policy, the president's strategy for whatever goals, he saw reflected his core blefs. eisenhower, first and last was a man of moderation. he characterized his approach to problems as the policy of the middle way and he was utterly convinced that this policy offered the greatest chance for the successful resolution of the difficult problems that surrounded school desegregation. the most important tenant of this policy of the middle way was the avoidance of the political problem of our time is to find and stay on the path that marks the way of logic between conflicting arguments advanced by extrem

as a black american man. look, you know, my feeling about racial identity is that as my father told me when i was a teenager, there is no one way to be black. i mean society will tell you that anybody whose black blood traditionally is black, and that's how society defines us, but he said, so you will always be black, but it's up to you to decide how you want to be black, and i talk about it in the book about the pressures that i think people have felt -- mix race, but also just black folks who have two black parents but integrated world, but the sort of pressure ironically after all the advances of the civil rights movement to show you're awe ten -- authentically black, and president obama encountered this when he ran for president in 2007 and twaights, -- 2008, and i don't get on my soap box on it, but threaded to the story is a rejection of that premise, so, you know, in my case, i grew up in contact with both worlds, and commute through being very grateful for having a black cultural identity, but i have always felt that, you know, that wasn't the full story and that it was not necessary to reject the whi

as you begin crying like a child. crying but not speaking to me you remind me of my black self. tears and your mouth a gap like a bird as i put the wine in your mouth and we drink the rest of it together. the unsainted god the sobbing girl there in the dark i hold you closely and we are like lovers. your ear shells on the floor next to my booted feet. my own hands handy work. after work i will have these specimens saved. i go to a tax dermist shop when the man gives a look of hear when i pull out the ear shells. he refused to do it. i return it later and unmake his look say, i will never do it again your ear shells forgotten in the trash bin of the polytechnic where i toss them of history. days later i'm convinced i see one hand carried by a rat. seeking the traces of your body and the animals is this not a form of transcendence my darling. a downward rising the maggets small white gods like an animal mob. you did not answer my question with the language we used between us you vomited and stared into the lenses i wore to cover my pupils to keep some things in and some things out

black man. >> i can feel that. >> stephen: that is the vibe you are getting off me. >> i can tell you got rhythm. >> stephen: that's the content, listen, as a possible half black man, i am offended. (laughter) >> stephen: samuel l. jackson, thank you so much. (cheers and applause) samuel l. jackson now appearing on broadway on the

valentine's day massacrement he said i'm not as black as they paint me to be. was. >> and a vee lent man. >> i equate that part of american history to the wild west. in the wild west, if you wrestled somebody's cattle or stole someone's woman, there was retribution to be paid. the cowboys with line up and walk toward each other, whoever fired first fell to the ground. and that's the way it was. my grandfather swore to me on my father's grave no innocent person was ever hurt. no woman was ever made to do anything she didn't choose to do. and no child's life was ever in danger. and i believe that. but, yes, they went into the business knowing full well that they needed to do their job. >> so just briefly, this cost you. you didn't get invited to birthday parties at school. you lost a job. do you regret -- >> and i lost a father, too. >> who committed suicide. do you regret being a capone? >> for a long time, yes, i did, john. >> interesting perspective on history. great book. thanks. >> thank you very much for having me here. >> good to you have. >>> up next, a p

as a black american man. my feeling about racial identity is that, as my father told me when i was a teenage, there is no one way to the black. society will tell you that anybody who is black but -- black blood tradition is black, and that's a society defines us. but he said so you'll always be blocked, but it's up to you to decide how you want to be black. and i talk a lot about, the book about the pressures that i think people have felt, mixed race, but also just black folks who have to black bears but grew up in an integrated world, but that sort of pressure ironically after all the advances of the civil rights movement, to self define as black, to show your true black, but you're physically black. obama himself and countered this early on when he started to run for president. in 2007, 2008. and i don't get all my soapbox about it, but i think in the thread, thread to the story is reflection of that premise. so, you know, in my case i grew up in contact with both worlds. and continue to be very grateful for being, having, you know, a cultural, a black cultural identity, but i've always felt that that wasn'

that's fine, we believe that white brothers and sisters have the same rights as black and brown and red and yellow. tavis: let me go to roger clay on the other end here. i think that roger can speak to something that dr. west raises now poverty in this country for too many of us is color coded? how much of our lack of will to address heretofore at least in the poverty question has to do with the fact that poverty is so color coded? >> i went back and looked for the last 40 years to see what the unemployment rate was for blacks. knowledge one year has it been lower than -- only in one year hasen been lower than it is now. black folks have been hurting for a long, long time. no one paid attention to it because they look at the unemployment rate for everybody, not just certain populations. i think it is a good example of what happens when looking at a lot of problems among our different racial minoritys is that if it doesn't hit the white community it doesn't happen. it didn't exist. what's happening now of course is that there are a lot of white folks that have fallen out of the middle class or are in danger of it

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michelle obama pushes back against a new book is he shez tries to portray her as an angry black woman. finally tonight, let me finish where is it what's going for the romneys is that really good for america? we start with the politics of envy. chris is in the city of rome as we used to call it and john harwood is with us here with the "new york times." a somewhat superior newspaper historically speaking. romney got to give the big speech this prime time. i think he gave a speech more appropriate to a convention. which is probably an arrogant thing to do. but his focus was clearly on president obama, not the guys he beat yesterday. let's watch. >> president obama want it is to fundamentally transform america. we want to restore america to the founding principles that made this country great. he wants to turn america into a european sometime social welfare state. we want to ensure that we remain a free and prosperous land of opportunity. this president takes his inspiration from the capitals of europe. we look to the cities and towns across america for our inspiration. >> chris, john and i can see it, his sons

emanuel and that robert gibbs to this day is a trusted adviser >>she tries to portray me as some kind of angry black woman >>anxious not angry are the words that the author describes the first lady as behind-the- scenes >>she is very anxious for her husband to succeed and achieve his goals >>there were lofty expectations for this presidency >>press secretary jay carney calls the book over hyped and sensationalized saying that it is normal to have some conflicts in any white house administration >>the overall picture is one of remarkable collegiality ... jay carney went on to blame the media for this sensational portrayal >>the book does not portray her as an angry black woman i have covered her for five years and never said anything to that and it >>comed up next jim ramsey has the latest on an incredibly busy day for jim ramsey ... >>i would like to mention something i found out a few minutes ago ... when the snow began to fall the temperature was above freezing so there was a level of water and ice on the roadways ... so there are some hazards out there and there have been traffic accidents having

black as coal. so now i'm free. i love muhammad ali. it's my name, it's connecting me to all my brotherless. brother -- to all my brothers. >> thinking about changing it legally? >> legally? who would have to -- who would i have to face? >> the judge. >> the judge is what color? >> i don't know. >> he's white. so in other words -- in other words i would have to ask a white man, may i call myself muhammad ali bob? >> former clashus clay refused to take the induction into the army. he was immediately stripped of his title by the world fighting belt. clay faces several prosecutions and a possible five year sentence but $10,000 fines. later martin luther king praised clay's courage. >>> in april 1967, muhammad ali refused to be inducted into the united states army. he sighted religious reasons. the boxing accomplishment immediately took away ali's title and he did not fight for three years. during that time, he also was convicted of draft evasion. fined $10,000, he stayed out of prison while he appealed his conviction and in 1971 the u.s. supreme court overturned it. around the time his draft ev

me i'm some angry black woman. >> bill: abc news reporting on a new book about the obamas portrays me, your humble correspondent as hostile to the first lady. >> image of an angry michelle obama long been fodder for critics. >> i have a lot of people who call me on the radio and say she looks angry. i say there is some validity to that. she looks like angie woman. guess where they got that clip abc media matters. did abc tell their audience? we will tell you. >> if you question things done in the name of capitalism, then he calls it being envious, i don't think anybody was envious when the fool failed to question what bernie madoff was doing. >> bill: now some democrats say mitt romney is similar to bernie madoff under the capitalistic banner. we have a special report on that. >> we will stand on principle or we will not stand at all. >> what we have got is an attempt to substitute the rule of the mob for the rule of law. >> bill: the great american news quiz, the flamboyant women edition coming your way. ♪ i want to be kissed by you. >> bill: caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins rig

. >> i am as washington and i'm not going to sing right now, i'm not appalled but i'm tickled pink or tickled black that the cbd is gone. it was corrupt. let me go back a little bit. maybe the concept was good as rev. towns and spoke of. money is coming into the community. yet to understand history of cbd. this was created by an agency that's gone trade even people on the redevelopment agency are trying to get employed by the cbd. i'm going to prove to you in my year-end report that the west is corrupt -- we have the senior citizen program, which have thecbd -- there are so many agencies are corrupted our community, no fault of our outgoing supervisor, to be sure of, but it was corrupt by individuals. reverent tones and mentioned how we need the funding it was good in the first five years. -- rev. jones. it did not work in the western addition because it was involved with african-americans, blacks, negro's were involved. it wasn't a mixture because the people that you gave the money and trust to, they were corrupt. [tone] myself, i had to sit down with the corrupt as of that old board and tell them i would not support them. most of the people

me time to move stops more sanctions on damascus and. i didn't do it by iran's oil to go as it said to pay for black gold with the yellow card. tonight. thank you for joining me for the latest for the headlines. top out reigning champion kim clijsters outgoing world number one caroline wozniacki to reach the summit finals this trail you know. while fed express roger federer cruises into the semifinals with a straight sets victory and final martin del potro next spacewalk for a little. dugout to talk to the manager harry redknapp has been in court where he denies charges tax evasion. first to tennis and writing a champion kim clijsters has beaten outgoing world number one caroline wozniacki to reach the semifinals and is straight you know penn well despite injuring her ankle in her previous match the twenty eight year old belgian overpowered the dane to win six three seven six in scorching temperatures and ensures wozniacki will lose her number one ranking the sixty seven weeks at the top. you know i was i was happy with that i was playing just to try to be a little bit more dominant again. you know she stepped her game up and started s

following a slide early in the day the russian markets ended the day in the black joining me for the details in our prisons bulletin. now as iran and the u.s. engages in a political standoff america's mainstream media are being accused of fueling the fire so says over to iran's nuclear program and uncertainty in the gulf have provided news outlets in the states a platform to speculate over the likelihood of war and is going to try to can report it's not the first time american viewers have been led to believe that conflict is inevitable. twenty two options bomb iran or let iran get the bomb with tension between iran and the west as high as ever a host of hardline speakers on u.s. mainstream media seem to be pushing the audience to believe that war is inevitable and the better way to prevent iran from getting nuclear weapons is to attack its nuclear weapons program directly although experts say war with iran is far from being inevitable i don't think that we are very get that is to say at the precipice the media are already preparing the grounds for it some by misinforming the public the new york times wrote that the intern

as he was. that's who james wheldon johnson was. you ever heard of jenny slew? 1719, her smom white. her zad black. you know, even back then a good man was hard to find, you follow me? so we understand this. this thing has been going on for a very, very long time, ok? jenny slew, 46 years later she sues for her freedom and back pay.