>> easley met robert when they were both inmates on the same yard at corcoran.ert was transferred to corcoran's substance abuse treatment program. >> when he left it was devastating, but i believe that we'll be back together. i think i have enough love for him to respect him and wait for him. >> he was in love and he was able to maintain this love relationship with this other inmate through letters and correspondence and you could see how it completely altered him for the better. >> dreaming of you. it just says, you are very important to me, i love you and you never have to worry. a love like ours is meant to be. you know, dreaming of you. i wrote him a letter one time and i told him, you don't have to be bill gates to be with me, but you are bill gates in your heart. and he wrote back and told me, no, i'm not bill gates, but i wish i had his money, i could give you a lot more. you know? and that was nice for him to say that. these are the letters that i get. feel this. feel this. >> that's what love feels like? >> that's what it feels like. one letter, i have

easley is correct. with the one drop theory, if you had one drop of black blood, you were black. ok. we will have color consciousness in the black community, but in the larger society, that one drop made you black in this country. ok. so that is what i said. so early segregation times. i mentioned this in the lecture about the supreme court and how it will turn its act on the rights of african-americans. i will talk about that here so we can get a sense and a feel of what is happening before plessy. you get the sense that southern segregation will be sanctioned by law as the century changes because of plessy versus ferguson. and this will legalize processes that already existed. even prior to this, southern states had typically segregated their school systems. we talked about that. they had done this either by law or by constitutional guarantee. so, in those state constitutions. by 1867, you had arkansas and north carolina recognizing segregated schools. georgia and virginia 1870. texas, 1873. this becomes more codified. when i say more codified, i mean what? in their court of la

. >> reporter: brandon richards is an apprentice at united tool and mold in easley, which supplies bmw other german companies, has modeled it's new apprenticeship program on theirs. >> it starts out with a paid associates degree and we also pay for their time when they sit in the class. if their hourly rate at the shop is $10 an hour, then they're going to make that $10 an hour while they're sitting in school. >> reporter: a third generation tool and die maker, production manager jeromy arnett is a true believer in apprenticeships. when he started here 16 years ago. >> i didn't know the difference between a drill and a reamer and an end mill. i see myself in those young kids and all they want is an opportunity. but don't have the skill sets. >> reporter: but why, if apprenticeships are booming in the palmetto state, are they lagging everywhere else, down 40% nationwide in the last five years? >> i think a lot of it has to do with really the mindset. are you willing to think long term and invest in the front end, because you're going to have the return on the investment in the career of

. >> i'm terrified from heights and get motion sickness very easley. >> when they reach the front ofeve has a tough choice. >> grace was only 10 but you have to be a certain height or you have to have an adult and there was nobody else there other than me to go on with her. and the lady is like either get on or get to the back of the line. >> so my dad volunteered to go with me because he's such a good dad. >> it's a decision he will soon regret and one he will never forget thanks to the ride's built-in camera. steve braces himself for what's to come. >> as soon as the ride started i could feel the pressure in my stomach. it was a little more than i anticipated. at first he tries to calm for his daughter. but he quickly throws all composure to the wind. [ screaming ] >> i was just having a complete blast, and then i looked over and saw my dad. he was screaming away. >> oh, my god! >> it kept getting worse and worse and worse. i didn't see the end in sight. finally i just started screaming for them to stop the ride. >> the ride operator recognizes steve's agony and brings the swing to

well, religion answers that question pretty easley. if you pray like me, if you eat like me, if you go to the same, you know, church as i do, then you're us. and if you don't, then you're them. and you can see very easily how that kind of us/them in group/out group mindset can very easily lead to extremism, to marginalization. after all, as i remind people, religion may be the most powerful form of identity formation, but just as pawferl is violence. -- powerful is violence. how do you know who's us and who's them? well, be you're fighting alongside me, you're us. if you're fighting against me, you're them. so far from religion and violence being these two things that are at odds and should have nothing to do with each other, they have -- as everyone knows throughout history -- been much more aligned than we would like them to be. >> best-selling author reza aslan is booktv's july "in depth" guest live starting at noon eastern sunday, july 6th. and in the months ahead, august 3rd former texas congressman and republican presidential can

they could easley be occurring on the other side as well, we don't know that, they're certainly not talkingey have the potential to accelerate the sunni/shia conflict and bring people who otherwise wouldn't participate in this conflict, you know, neighborhood gangs, things of this nature, unorganized militias, into the conflict again. >> so, christi just brought this up a moment ago, in the conversation with arwa, the prime minister's assertion that baghdad is safe. he says, and i'm going to read the quote here, we have an army to respond to the catastrophe that has occurred and baghdad is safe and cannot be exposed to instability. in the context of the soldiers that we've already seen abandon their posts and get rid of their weapons and uniforms, what credibility do you give that statement, that baghdad is different than mosul and any of the other cities that have been taken by isis? >> i think most of us do think that baghdad is different than mosul, but it's certainly easy to understand someone's skepticism about that claim. but i think most analysts do think that the iraqi army will sta