that they can level a respectful critique to the president of the united states for not discussing black post. he says he is not president of black american. say fine but black americans are american citizens no matter what anybody says. we're american citizens and we should be advocating for an end of poverty, the end of racial in inininequality and the end of mass incarceration, so when we think about president barack obama we need to go back to what dr. king said in his last speech. the greatness of america lies in the right to protest for right. whoever is in the white house should be someone who is talking about an agenda that affects african-americans, even if that person happens to be the first black president of the united states. [applause] >> good afternoon, it's great to be here, and i, too want to join in the congratulations of the harlem book fair for organizing this event, and allowing us an opportunity to talk about contemporary state of black politics. tina, you offered three imagesment one was of the u.s. supreme court's decision in the shelby county case, the voting rights c

and karen cadet, "huffington post black voices." that account george zimmerman gives in that taped interview differs from other testimony we heard. maybe he jumped -- but it's like you followed him, you followed him. you precipitated this whole thing. if it ends up being the case you precipitated him and trapped him for no reason other than he was a suspect in your mind, then it went down the way you said, and this dude beat the crap out of you because you were following him, then you get to shoot him and what? >> you're making the point because this is the frailty of the -- or i think the inherent injustice of the stand your ground law. who can stand their ground? you jump on me, you ambush me, you have a set of stereotypes in your mind and i cream you. i'm getting the best of you. oh, you're going to beat me? >> the standard here isn't even stand your ground. this is just self-defense. right? >> i mean, obviously this was a tragic accident, but i think that trayvon martin's parents have a great case against the state of florida be

finished in 2011, but he came back in november of 2012 to do this, but the video is just now posted online by blackiamond equipment. >> talk about strength. >> yes. >> he is like a spider, seriously a spider crawling across the ceiling. >> yes. >> because this should not be hue mably possible. >> right here, he is nearing the end and this is the very last part, and the most difficult finish. >> i didn't breathe for a lot of that. >> if you are not impressed by that, i don't know what will impress you. >> that bee hhive up in the tre is coming down. >> he gets right under the limbs. watch what he does. >> no! >> next "right this minute." and still to come -- >> i'm going to mislead some people today. >> ben is going to pretend he is a famous college basketball player on the way to the nba. the only problem is -- >> he can barely do something. he is terrible. see if he gets a pass. >>> and plus an amazing par course. >> and you can see the high fielding le97 look at 'em. living on cloud nine with that u-verse wireless receiver. you see in my day, when my mom was repainting the house, you couldn't jus

. >> a whited ed adult male carrya gun killed a black boy. >> posted $50,000 bond. k the following monday. that case being prosecuted while trayvon martin was killed. >> when most americans look at this case and if they can imagine george zimmerman is black and trayvon martin is white, i think they would have a very different -- >> where is your outrage on dooley? >> gentlemen, thank you. obviously it's a hot issue. and i think it's going to be really interesting to see whether or not the administration moves forward with it. whether the justice department give it is lip service or whether they go further. thanks, guys. let's go back to the u.s. and trace.they go further. thanks, guys. let's go back to the u.s. and trace. >>> deadly terrorist attack in benghazi spa benghazi spashing a closer look at security. considering what has to be dwun to prevent another benghazi. james rosen live for us in d.c. to prevent another benghazi. james rosen live for us in d.c.. considering what has to be dwun to prevent another benghazi. james rosen live for us in d.c.. >> reporter:

question for me is how does the black community respond in we a country who can elect a black president. we're not a post-racial society and the black community over the last five years has actually gone backwards in a lot of ways, was hurt harder by the recession than other groups, still has enormous unemployment rates, still has issues of racial profiling, enormous frustration. and there are two stories being told. you have a black community that actually out-performed whites in the 2012 elections in terms of turnout, and yet continues to be incredibly frustrated that they're not being represented. i think this is going to be one of these crucial moments when we look back to see is this community as a political community able to move beyond in terms of organization the goal of having african american leaders because they have that now to actually moving the ball towards improving the situation they're in? and i think there's a lot-- you talk to pastors in the black churches, there's a lot of enthusiasm right now for really seizing this moment to do that and i think that will be the next story. >> i'll

here's the 2004 post titled "black and white pride" where he equates the kkk and naacp and writes "the groups in power today seek nothing less than the ultimate destruction of the traditional identity of southern whites who in turn have no voice and receive no respect so it shouldn't come as a shock that flag-waving southerners are really pissed off." here's a 2004 piece titled "are white people out of style?" he writes, "not only are whites not afforded the same right to celebrate their own cultural identity, but anything considered too white is immediately suspect." and "the term diversity has become nothing more than a code word for not white and it's a shame just because we have fair skin we're always denied fair treatment." okay. so the country is filled with people like this. maybe not quite like this. but why am i telling you, you ask, about this particular character, jack hunter? the southern avenger. well, because of the man he works for. senator rand paul of kentucky. oh, yes, he does. jack hunter co-wrote rand paul's 2011 book "the tea party goes to washington." he's even th

but black twitter can also galvanize. post zimmerman verdict.nce" magazine launched the twitter hash tag #he's not a suspect. gentlemen janini amber says one of the icons would embrace twitter. >> if dr. king were alive today, of course he would use twitter because that's how everybody is getting messages out to the most number of people most effectively. you have the farthest reach. >> a reach of millions in an instant. >> in an instant. okay. so listen, i'm just on there tweeting. i mean i did notice that when i was tweeting about scandal there i was getting a response from a lot of african-americans. l.z., had you ever heard of black twitter before? do you understand it? >> yeah. oh, yeah, absolutely. >> it's not just black people. >> it's just another way of saying crowd sourcing. something journalists have been doing for a few years now. it's just another catch phrase to popularize something that's been around for a long time. >> gotcha. so, anna, had you ever heard of it? no, you didn't. didn't you tell me on twitter you wanted to start --

. >> okay, we have other news this morning, black rock posting quarterly results minutes ago.arning $4.14 a share. that's x items handily topping expect takings of $3.82 a share. revenues were roughly in line. larry fink having a good morning. >> the other company has 3.857 trillion dollars in assets under management. >> it is unbelievable. the biggest by a square mile. >> that's right. let's talk about intel. intel posting second quarter results that were in line with expectations, but the chipmaker is cutting its full year revenue forecast, saying that it is scaling back capital spending as the pc indices sags. this was in line, but profit is down 29%. how do you turn things around as the pc industry collapses all around it. >> interestingly enough, pc was not that bad this quarter. units were up about 5% quarter over quarter, a little different than the dire expectations or estimates that gardener and idc posted earlier this month. >> why was profit down 29%? >> well, there are a bunch of different factors there. one is pc is down year over year in terms of the estimates of

black men are doing in the society. and it's an issue mayor bloomberg has worked on. the "washington postdid a project about black men. we can talk about that, but we tend to do it in a crisis mode and that's just who we are. >> we're talking about how black men are doing in society this past week. it seems to me that the op-eds that you read over and over again, whether it's in your paper or the "wall street journal" or other papers say black men aren't doing well. crime levels are high. then there's this unexplained leap to justify george zimmerman's actions of walking through a suburban neighborhood armed chasing down a young black man, being told by a dispatcher to get away, and him continuing to chase down a young black men. i piend it so ironic that we were enraged in the '60s and '70s when politicians would try to generalize. it's society's fault so society needs to give african-americans who are committing crimes a free pass. now it's the opposite. it seems, and what's depressing is, this isn't confined to the far right talk show radio hosts. sean hannity has been ginning this up

and by the way, the number that is being posted, $0.6 per share is black brassiere guilt.watching a number of companies, seven big companies reported this week. also looking to and jay peak. wells fargo. but the big story of the day, all about the negative announcements, negative guidance coming out of the companies. ninety-seven companies pre announcing. with analysts on wall street, they don't like it that. companies routinely like to lowball the number in order to beat the earnings estimate. instead and we are watching revenue estimates, that is the number to look at. real looking at that 3-pronouncements, there is one positive. this is the worst performance since the recovery began. valuations are the story. valuations are so tightly correlated. the price-to-earnings ratio. still really cheap. they history shows it is around 18 to 19 times earnings. looking at stocks trading at levels that they were. when you look at the run-up in the market that we have seen, it looks exactly like the dot com run-up. the valuations are running at half of what they were during the inte

post reporter. >> good morning. >> president obama meets with the black caucus this morning. it's the first meeting in two years.a strained relationship and what's today's focus? >> it's been a big concern among members of black caucus about jobs for black americans who they represent and their other constituents. and i think one thing the president is trying to do is return the conversation after a few tough weeks for himself, you know, in terms of some of the controversies that have occupied the white house focus. trying to return the change to jobs and supreme court voting rights act and i think president obama is trying to show a road map of ways they can protect voting rights in the future for all residents of the country, but specifically african-americans who might have limited access to polling. >> but for the first time he's speaking there in two years. why has it taken him this long? why this strained relationship. >> again, they're concerned about the president's focus not being as much on african-american constituents, job employment rate is much higher among african-americans. i think -- again, the

black president. some say we are post racial, which we know we are not. why is this is hard subject to talk about?rosecution. the judge ruled you couldn't talk about it. the prosecution wanted to say that trayvon martin was racially pro filed. but they said, take out racially and just say pro filed and people will know what you mean. >> i think the reason we can't have this conversation as. >> a nation is because when you talk about race, race is a very intimate conversation. it requires trust. there is so much mistrust, misunderstanding, hard feelings. preconceived notions and only way i can bridge that gap and close that divide is if two people who know each other very well, trust each other and trust each other's motivations that you can have that conversation and unfortunately there are a lot of people on both side of the divide for whom there is no trust. >> mike, what strikes me, we talk about sex. that is all over the place. that's an intimate subject as well. this is an issue, that again, think about the changing demographics of this country. it is like a steam roller coming in at us. we h

says it's 13.7% up employment for black americans in june. a story in huffington post says black unemployment drives a perpetual slow are moving recession. heidi? >> he is absolutely right. the black unemployment rate is extremely high. it's interesting -- not interesting -- it is just true that the black unemployment rate in our labor market tens to be around twice the regular unemployment rate in good times and black times. the black unemployment rate remains extremely high. the lever to bring down the black up employment rate is thus to get back to health in the labor market overall. so we need to tim -- stimulate land, the biggs thinges substantial additional stimulus, bring down the overall unemployment rate which would bring down the black unemployment rate with it, and the other thing he said that is really important in our economy, not just now but since the 60s, is the minimum wage. the minimum wage has reduced in real value substantially since the 60s. but research is conclusive that the increases in the minimum wage that we have seen has not caused job loss.

strange fantasy world called colorblindness and an even crazier universe called post race, that i did not think that a black resident could do anything but comment an albatross to get to a racial conversation. some think that that is letting obama off the hook and that argument can be made. but you have to put obama in context. he is operating in an american cultural world that has been the last 30 years convincing itself that, if we stop lurking -- stop looking at race we will fix structural racism. and because we have ended or reduced government or state sponsors -- state-sponsored segregation and publicly acceptable hate speech, because we have largely reduced and almost ended that, that we have somehow ended structural racism. he have done no such thing. we have changed the language that frames structural raises and some. -- structural racism. it seems to me that obama was not the person who could do what you are asking a black president could do. i think that is the reality. here is my great hope and i'm try to find a silver lining for us. this could be the moment of recognition. this isn't going to be

because it appears that we aren't living in this post racial society because we have a black presidentw, you think that, perhaps, the civil rights movement was a long time ago. race is a real problem. and i think it took this case, quite frankly, brooke, to open up my eyes to that. when i was looking at this case and analyzing it, i was in sanford, as you know. i was looking at it purely from a legal perspective. purely from the perspective of a former prosecutor. i did not think race was a part of this -- this case. and i think from the reaction that i've gotten, the hate mail that i've gotten, the angry tweets calling me a racist, i -- it was my naivety. race is very much an issue still in our country. certainly i think it was an underlying factor in this case. >> ladies, we're coming back to you. sunny, jenny, donna, stand by. >>> coming up, we're asking our other panel, the question is, can you profile without being racist? that's next. you make a great team. it's been that way since the day you met. but your erectile dysfunction - it could be a question of blood flow. cialis tadal

black kid. >> there was a post about being a child in minnesota, they decide to go to get candy.e didn't do anything? sacramento, early '90s i'm performing with a comedian named johnny ray. we're staying at a condo. 3:00 in the morning, i'm awakened, johnny ray standing over me with two uniform police officers inside the bedroom of the condo, and he says carlos tell these guys that you know me. a woman had seen johnny ray, a black man standing on the balcony. oh, my gosh! >> stephanie: oh my god. police response time 0.3 seconds -- >> black man on a balcony, i'm there! >> we can't experience what black people experience. my roommate told me many stories about being pulled over just because. >> stephanie: yeah, i can totally see that. [ banjo music ] >> stephanie: all right. get down off of the balcony. >> yeah. >> stephanie: and you are right. we all have friends that have a million stories like that. who was the caller earlier that said he was ant white guy. he was hispanic. which i don't know what the point was there? he identified himself as a white hispanic. >> yeah, his dadd

black t-shirt and jeans. she did not speak to the crowd this. video was posted by the event sponsor in may, berry, gina dejesus, and michelle knight escaped from a cleveland home owned by ariel castro. castro pleaded guilty friday to 937 counts, including rape, and will be in prison for life. >> ahead, what happened when this guy fought for his rights in san bruno. >> heading outside, expect a cooler start to the work week. >>> a man who walks the west with three mules posted on facebook, yes, he has mules and a facebook page, perfectly normal -- posted at the san bernardino police department dropped the charges against him. he was given a citation for violating a law prohibiting cattle or horses within city limit. we caught up with him when he was fighting the ticket. he says his mules are national living, moving monument and deserve specialties spend sayings -- dispensation. his new mission is to november people about the problems caused by urban sprawl. >> the watch ab live stream is now available in the bay area. abc is the first local station and abc the fi

post-racial society. i get e-mails saying, we have a black president, what more do you want? what more do you expect?nd i think the case, frankly, provides an answer to those people that race is a factor in our society. >> reporter: civil rights leaders say they're planning a rally here in sanford later this week. meantime they say they want to not only memorialize trayvon martin but they want to call on state legislators to change florida's stand your ground law. lester? >> kerry sanders in sanford. >>> for two days the eyes of the country were focused on the six jurors in the case who spent some 16 hours weighing the evidence. nbc's ron mott now with some insight into the trial itself and where the state's case may have come up short. ron? >> reporter: hey, lester, good evening to you. much of the past 16 months here in sanford, florida, especially the past five weeks at the courthouse have been focused on the george zimmerman case, a case that ended late last night with eight words. rising to his feet, george zimmerman waited for his future. >> we the jury find george zimmerman not guilty. >> repo

the congressional black caucus on friday posted what they called an emergency summit to address violence and crime in urban communities. the forum at chicago state university is a less than two hours. >> good evening. good evening. >> good evening. >> well, thank you all for coming this evening on a friday night in chicago. how are you? we welcome you to the town hall of the national summit on urban violence, here at chicago state university. i first would like to introduce the president of the university, dr. wayne watson, take it is in greetings and welcome you to the university. dr. wayne watson. [applause] >> good evening. we can never acknowledge and thank those who have the courage to have vision and the courage to bring it forth. we can never acknowledge and thank them too much. our congressional black caucus, let us applaud and acknowledge them. [applause] >> my mother used to always say, let me smell my roses while i'm here. you know, two things. one is, a question was asked earlier, what are we going to do, are we going to come up with new money, are we going to come up with ne

it's us, and i do a lot of civil rights, our children get killed in some of the post unbelievable ways and when little black and brown boys get killed. it's a cliche. nobody says a word. when we started trayvon's case we couldn't get anybody to cover the story and we weren't talking about race because we thought it was outrageous. you had a neighborhood watch volunteer with a gun kill an unarmed child -- >> it's interesting because i think in white communities, there is this inher rant sense of privilege that the police are there to help you and, you know, talking to jeffrey cannon just the other day and talking to you, that assumption is not there in the african american community n many parts. >> absolutely and the conversation evolves. as sybrina says we have to take something negative and find something positive. we have to ask the department of justice can little black and brown boys walk down the street and not have private citizens with guns profile and follow them and confront them because we need to know the law because we need to know what to tell our children, and if that is not the law, then the

tragedy, of course, frames a much bigger issue that eugene robinson writes about in "the washington post," blackbe young and eugene your write in part this, if anyone wonders why african-americans feel so passionately about this case, it's because we know that our 17-year-old sons are boys, not men. we know how frightened our sons would be walking home alone on a rainy night and realizing they were being followed. we know how torn they would be between a child's fear and child's immature idea of manly behavior and we know that a skinny boy armed with only candy, no matter how big and bad he tries to seem does not pose a more tall threat to an adult man who outweighs him by 50 pounds and had martial arts training. we know the boy man have threatened the man's pride but not his life. the conversation we need to have is how black men, even black boys, are denied the right to be young, vulnerable, make mistakes. we need to talk about why black men are no more likely than white men to smoke marijuana but four times as likely to be arrested for it and condemned to a dead-end cycle of incarceration and

it's us, and i do a lot of civil rights, our children get killed in some of the post unbelievable ways and when little black. it's a cliche. nobody says a word. when we started trayvon's case we couldn't get anybody to cover the story and we weren't talking about race because we thought it was outrageous. you had a neighborhood watch volunteer with a gun kill an unarmed child -- >> it's interesting because i think in white communities, there is this inher rant sense of privilege that the police are there to help you and, you know, talking to jeffrey cannon just the other day and talking to you, that assumption is not there in the african american community n many parts. >> absolutely and the conversation evolves. as sybrina says we have to take something negative and find something positive. we have to ask the department of justice can little black and brown boys walk down the street and not have private citizens with guns profile and follow them and confront them because we need to know the law because we need to know what to tell our children, and if that is not the law, then the killer of trayvon martin

post" reported. and right now more black americans are indeed in that bottom fifth than any other bracket.ic example of what judges call disparate or unequal racial impact. the sequester may not are been designed to hurt black defendants, but that is what it does. cutting 8% out of public defenders this year alone. and i could go on. i could talk about restoring voting rights to ex-felons. then senator obama co-sponsored the revote act. and he continues to back action on that policy while john mccain and mitt romney have opposed it. or the voting rights act. the president has been pressing congress to act and renew it. but the point here is the president's new and deeply thoughtful words on racial justice on friday were offered in the context of all of this action and leadership throughout his career. i think that's pretty obvious to anyone who's followed these issues or studied civil rights law. there's still a legitimate policy debate, of course, about how to push and prioritize all these goals. but few fair observers can doubt that we have a president who diligently pursues respect and

black man in america. what does "huffington post" report on this?it stems from the trayvon martin killing, and how there was racial profiling. what do we look at here? the court ruling, the way the police handled the situation in the aftermath question race -- aftermath? race gets into some of these issues. with respect to what obama can do about this, from my reporting, the white house does more at they can do this juncture. he gave a major race speech during the 2008 campaign, and he himself has moved a dialogue by just been elected and appointed the first black attorney general. if he were to give a speech, i'm not sure what it would do for the dialogue. i have heard other people talk about it that are much better suited to discuss this than i am, talking about how this is an ongoing process, and the progress is incremental. we are not there yet. host: john, republican caller in orlando, florida. you are on with sam stein, politicaln post," editor, white house correspondent. john are you with us? caller: yes. i was going to talk about something e

. >> that lieutenant and his dog black lab obviously over joyed to see her pal. video postedtube shows a joyous reunion. the dog starts to whim perfect despite income his owner lap and when the lieutenant asked his dog did you miss me, well the howling only gets louder. >> daddy was gonna long time. [ dog craig]. >> i know. >> oh, sound like the answer is yes. >> i know. >> they call them man best friend wow! touching. northern france famous for the dramatic cliff. has a little dramatic cliff. has a little something extra . >> well rae minders in france to be very careful where you walk. here's what happened. authorities there are issuing warnings after huge section of cliff collapsed on to the beac beach. spectacular sight was captured on video bay beach gore look at that. roughly 3 30,000 tons of rock split from the cliff near the city of hbo and plunged to the beach below. nobody hurt but pretty spectacular. a little scary. >> one last check on the weather. sandy is here. >> let's check out leif doppler 7 hd. fog at the coast. mostly clear sky well inland tomorrow. expect

last 50 years, detroit has gone from more than 80% white to black, and keith rich berg, an african-american reporter for "in the washington post," the city is surrounded by often hostile white suburbs if a state that has little time for a poor, destitute, democratic and black city. emergency manager is seen as a hostile racist takeover by the state of the city's black leadership. how do you respond to that? >> well, i don't want to make this a black and white issue, it's a financial issue. it's green. we have got to get funding that's necessary to help us fix our problem right now. i don't want to stir the pot and bring up all kinds of historically racial issues. we have got to get beyond that. the polarization between our city and suburbs is something that's been going on for the last 60 years. we have got to change it. once again, if detroit fails, doesn't make it, then all of these surrounding suburbs are going to feel the brunt of it also. it behooves us to see how we can work together to make the entire southeastern region livable for all of us. >> what does a new detroit look like after bankruptcy? >> i think what's happ

you know, we're in a post-racial society now. we have a black president." it is so out of touch with what is happening in the country. >> pardon me for suggesting that john roberts sometimes seems less concerned with the law and the constitution than with a political agenda. is that unfair? >> no, it's not unfair. in fact, when he was a young member of the civil rights division under ronald reagan he was at that point working very hard when the voting rights act came up for reauthorization in 1982 to gut it at that point. so in many ways the court's recent decision is the fulfillment of judge roberts' dream. >> in fact, there's a memo roberts wrote back then in which he said the voting rights act would quote, "provide a basis for the most intrusive interference imaginable by federal courts into state and local processes." in other words, "uncle sam, you're meddling too much. let's get your hands off of state processes." it's certainly consistent with ronald reagan's philosophy of you know, "government is not the solution. it's the problem." so if we just re

tepco posted more than $6.8 billion in losses for the year through march. the firm must return to the black by march next year in order to receive taxpayer money and bank loans to rebuild its finances. it says by operating just one reactor, it can cut fuel costs by about $10 million a month. >>> officials from around 120 countries say they must do more to protect nuclear facilities from terrorist activities. they have agreed to adopt security guidelines drawn up by the international atomic energy agency. the iaea hosted a meeting in vienna, austria. it's the first such event to focus on nuclear security. >> if a dirty bomb is detonated in a major city or sabotage occurs at a nuclear facility, the consequences could be devastating. the threat of nuclear terrorism is real. >> the delegates adopted a declaration, pledging to follow the iaea's nuclear security guidelines. they also agreed to minimize the use of highly enriched uranium. the material can be made into nuclear weapons. authorities say they're also concerned about terrorists getting hold of radioactive materials in hospitals and fac

telegraph news paper, "chicago sun-times," jerusalem post, the national post in canada and the sydney morning herald. finally, mr. black, in trenton you dedicate it to for loyal american friends in particular. tina brown, harold evans, ann coulter, julie nixon eisenhower, henry and nancy kissinger. rush limbaugh, peggy noonan. et cetera, et cetera. why were you specific about using the word loyal in the dedication? >> guest: well, in sort of crisis that i went through, the onslaught against me, some people went out of their way to be supportive, and some just went -- and if you really defected, became somewhat antagonistic so i wanted to show some recognition to those who have been supportive. because for the latest system works and this is not confined in the united states, when that degree of official is focus on a person, there is the intent by those targeting him to ostracize and isolate him. so all those, since i was writing about the united states i thought i would focus on americans in that. all those who resisted that, army of the once there tended to visit me when i was a guest of the american people, includin