. >> and let you feel we learned from the member of congress, as cynthia mckinney trying to get into her place of employment? >> it is a new once example of why people can become so frustrated. it is never the explicit issue. nitrite to go to a space where i belong in somebody tries to stop me it must be something other than i don't have my id. but in those instances we see racial paranoia not just a four marginalized population even when we're at the top of the game that folks seem to be that there is no open and shut case with the black hat bad guy a cop does not say racist things as a security guard you don't belong here because you are black by it is politically correct to do that work anyway without ever invoking race at all but it is more slippery than a quintessential way than you imagine. >> host: in your view are white people unfairly tarnished with the race card brush? do you include examples? >> one of the things i decided to focus on how african-americans understand race but that is a natural way to respond given how what race functions also it is unproductive to box ours

cynthia mckinney, member of congress, trying to get into her place of employment, and henry louis gates, trying to get into his home. >> guest: those are both really important and nuanced examples of why people can become so frustrated about race. because in both of those instances, race is never the explicit issue. the issue is always -- i'm trying to go through a space where i belong, right? and someone is barring me from entry in some way. i think must be about something other than the fact that i don't have any i.d. or that i'm a little boisterous because i have had a long trip back from asia. and in both instances we see racial paranoia is not just about poor marginalized populations trying to find a way to be heard. it's about folks who have mad it, whoer very successful, who think even when we're at the top of the game, there are these moments, instances in a flash where folks seem to be -- again, we're not sure. part of what makes racial paranoia such an interesting concept, there's no open and shut case most of the time. we want the certainty of the black-hatted bad guy who can

it's kind of a joke, because back during the last assault weapons ban, cynthia mckinney, somebody asked her what is a barrel shroud. >> she said i think it's a shoulder thing that goes up. (laughter) . i'm glad thousands of us inadvertently committed felony because we might have a thing on the shoulder that goes up. >> mike: and let's talk about the magazine, one of the pieces of the president's proposal, let's ban high capacity magazine and heard the press secretaries, this is just common sense. well to some of us it's not so common. explain why that doesn't make people safer. >> well, it's actually, there's a few parts to this. first off, logistically banning magazines will do nothing there are hundreds ever millions of them already in circulation. for legitimate self-defense use we want magazines that hold more rounds. no one survived a gun fight and said, doggone it i wish i wouldn't have brought the extra bullets. you want as many rounds as possible. unlike the movies when you shoot somebody, they don't just stop. sometimes you have to hit them repeatedly. sometimes they penetrate

it's kind of a joke, because back during the last assault weapons ban, cynthia mckinney, somebody asked her what is a barrel shroud. >> she said i think it's a shoulder thing that goes up. (laughter) . i'm glad thousands of us inadvertently committed felony because we might have a thing on the shoulder that goes up. >> mike: and let's talk about the magazine, one of the pieces of the president's proposal, let's ban high capacity magazine and heard the press secretaries, this is just common sense. well to some of us it's not so common. explain why that doesn't make people safer. >> well, it's actually, there's a few parts to this. first off, logistically banning magazines will do nothing there are hundreds ever millions of them already in circulation. for legitimate self-defense use we want magazines that hold more rounds. no one survived a gun fight and said, doggone it i wish i wouldn't have brought the extra bullets. you want as many rounds as possible. unlike the movies when you shoot somebody, they don't just stop. sometimes you have to hit them repeatedly. sometimes they penetrate

of course we will support israel, but we lost too many lies through war. >> cynthia mckinney, and you will find plenty of her. good afternoon. >> good afternoon. thanks for taking my call. i believe senator hagel should be confirmed. he is a true american. he is a hero. he is working for the american people and he has been elected for the senate he for. that is what he does. the united states of america has to change its own foreign- policy. we have our own issue in the united states with 15 million homeless. 60 million people have no health insurance. so, america comes first, and american people come first, to. >> there is this tweet from ernest who says the senator's words are working against him and he has to flip-flop his position. too bad. dennis, latrobe, pennsylvania. good afternoon. >> yes, thank you. i would like to weigh in on a few things. senator hagel's past, to me, he is not a warm person when you meet him in person, for instance. from very important people in my life that have met him. the other thing is little things like his views on the boy scouts, other issues, they