urgot to take a private to h .ith him at the exhibit i stand on the shoulders of harry belafonte ands and paul robeson. i am honored to be able to have experiences with people like that and when they talk about their giants, that is when you know this is somebody we have to pay attention to. tavis: what is the message you want to get through? >> my father was a heroin addict and a heroin dealer. he has been in and out of prison 59 times during the course of my life. i had a lot of images of who i could be in the world. our deepest pain is that path to our highest purpose. it can be a platform to real contribution. it is part my story and it is part a roadmap. the short answer for how you navigated through all of that to become the artistic performer that you are today? >> i believe personal healing is the path to social transformation. becomes, what about my story, what about my experience gives me something to give to other people? tavis: is going took, he perform for us a piece called "run, lack man, run -- black man, run." >> sometimes late at night when these projects get quiet,

tavis: king and harry belafonte are going for some speeches, and the state department did everythingy could to shut that down. there is something about our government then, and even today, quite frankly, they do not so much like you going on foreign soil and critiquing the united states of america. how did they view malcolm, and how did malcolm view himself going up against that? ahna, --ghana, and he said racism had not ended in the united states, and they do not care about the civil rights act. people are still being beaten, and there is still tremendous inequality, and they are trying to paint a rosier picture of american democracy, and instead of painting that picture, malcolm is criticizing that for what it represents. there is the old malcolm and the new malcolm, during his time with the nation of islam and afterwords in terms of his politics, and you hinted at this a little bit earlier. how could he straddle that sort of fence, people seeing him from the past and his being open to having conversations like the one at oxford? >> i think oxford was the perfect form for him to ad

you don't understand you don't have the standing to talk to harry belafonte. [laughter] [applause] >> he referred to him as a boy at 1.. >> he referred to him in a rap song he is from a different generation but i know i am an academic and intellectual but you would not disrespect him like that that is our brother but this mae and risks his life literally when they needed to bring many to sncc they flew down not the day of winter anything could happen to them. >> that is to this man is. >> we should be hesitant to rely upon to expect that from the celebrity model entertainer be lived in a different place we need to recognize because of capitalism and that capitalism culture they are just symptomatic of a bigger set of concerns. we could talk about this it is not unrelated but what we have to do is to go about the hard work to build a culture that can sustain itself. [applause] >> across all different lines do not be afraid to say things that would get you into trouble but in terms of institutions yesterday johnson publications did something i thought was uncons

. >> i've dealt to diana ross, harry belafonte, sinatra. >> sinatra was not supposed to be particularlys. he was a gentleman. but those were the good days. but it's nice now, too. >> would you describe yourself as a degenerate gambler? >> i'm trying to move past that. we have a 2-year-old at home. but i'll always have that gambling gear, no doubt about it. >> eric and erica are professional gamblers, poker players, to be precise. it's routine for them to sit down to a game with a bankroll of half a million dollars. tonight, slightly smaller stakes. >> hey, how do you like my chances? >> good. good. >> that's a trained answer. >> instead of actual poker, we are set up with a dumbed down for the camera version of texas hold 'em. you play against the house. the odds, to say the least, are stacked against you. >> oh, here's a winner. here's a winner. two pair. he's cutting up over there. see how easy it is? you got this game down. >> uh-oh. those are famous last words. >> all right. let's put out a hundred dollars, see what happens. >> all right. now we have a pair of 7s. >> i want to bet.

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harry belafonte called them white supremacists. then, let's see, letitia james, who was head of the union, said, "right-wing, anti-union profiteers like david koch should not be meddling with health care in new york city. all have to stand together against the koch brothers coming to new york city." >> tom, so far, these aren't facts, other than the $100 million. >> the rally and what people said are facts. >> oh, i see, the facts are what people said, but you wanted to talk about the contribution that rich people make, which i think is an interesting line of discussion. >> let's just start with simple arithmetic. let's say you're a successful author. your income is taxed at a little over 50% if you live in california. on your death will be another roughly 50% tax. out of the dollar you originally made, you kept 25%, 25 cents. you gave 75% of your lifetime's work in the form of taxes, not including property and other taxes. that's on an individual basis. i just learned something today that i suspect nobody in the audience is famili

harry belafonte called them white supremacists. then, let's see, letitia james, who was head of the union, said, "right-wing, anti-union profiteers like david koch should not be meddling with health care in new york city. all have to stand together against the koch brothers coming to new york city." >> tom, so far, these aren't facts, other than the $100 million. >> the rally and what people said are facts. >> oh, i see, the facts are what people said, but you wanted to talk about the contribution that rich people make, which i think is an interesting line of discussion. >> let's just start with simple arithmetic. let's say you're a successful author. your income is taxed at a little over 50% if you live in california. on your death will be another roughly 50% tax. out of the dollar you originally made, you kept 25%, 25 cents. you gave 75% of your lifetime's work in the form of taxes, not including property and other taxes. that's on an individual basis. i just learned something today that i suspect nobody in the audience is famili

probably in it too and it's like, you don't understand, you don't have the mandate to talk to a harry belafontelaughter] >> you refer to him as a boy at one point? >> yes, in a rap song and so on and it's like, you know, that is someone who is from a different generation. but i know i'm an academic and intellectual, but there's a different other side of me that comes out if you want to disrespect him like that. because you can't talk to him like that. moreover, you don't have the ending for the man was his life. when they needed to bring money in 1964 and he and 1548-foot down there, thinking because they were the most famous black people and the world at that point, nothing could happen to them but that the government would be forced to investigate this. so that is who that man is. but that being said, i think that we should be hesitant to rely upon what to expect from this, that we live in a different point and i think we need to recognize that because of capitalism and the capitalism culture, jc and beyond they are just symptomatic of a much bigger set of concerns. and it's not related to th

the honorable harry belafonte. introduce us and we pay tribute to him by you know we pay tribute to him when he actually talked about us and that was something that we had to really try to push to make it happen because how many times you see octogenarians especially those of color speak their mind about what's going on in the world the trust just going on that the mouthpiece inspired government and this world worldwide. atrocities by structural situations that are more about the haves and the one percent and the have nots and and those out. and harry belafonte spoke to that being introduced by spike lee who made it possible to include public enemy and film with the uses of music and film to make political statements so that was the high point of the rock n roll hall of fame and when you design your signature public enemy number one uses if we but the group why did you guys decide to put a man in crosshairs if you feel like your group is being targeted and if so by whom well. r m d which is the name age he started

the nurses said, the coke brothers have a plantation mentality, and antiunion to the core, harry belafonte called them white supremacists. then, let's see, letitia james, who was head of the wing antiunionht prove iteers like david coke be medaling with health care in new york city. all have to stand together brothers coming to new york city. >> but so far these aren't than the other $100 million -- >> the rally and what people said are facts. >> but you wanted to talk about the contribution that rich think is an which i interesting line of discussion. >> so let's just start with simple arithmetic. successfulou're a author and your income is tax at if you liver 50%, in california. death, will be another roughly 50% tax. so out of the dollar you originally made, you kept 25%. twenty-five cents. you gave 75% of your lifetime's work in the form of taxes. including property and other taxes. so that's on an individual basis. and i just learned something today that i suspect nobody in the audience is familiar with, maybe you are. home andu sell your you're making more than $250,000 a family, and

. >> singer, actor, and activist harry belafonte travels to the most violent places in the world.ho are the creators of and the resisters to the violence. >> with his inspirational words belafonte gives each inmate a personal challenge. >> your failure is my failure. your success is my success. somewhere where you go, you carry a responsibility and the destiny of my children and my children's children and their friends and their community. and they can either look at you as someone in a group to be shunned or they can look at you as an example of how to take the worst cards dealt in life and turn the deck around and make it your game and play a winning hand every time out. [ applause ] >> get the community to focus on something it can have faith in, and for that institution to then move to the outside world and says you must look in a very different way at how the prison population is being treated. i think it's a great opportunity. >>> next on "lockup" -- inmates in the l.a. county jail get back their freedom. woman: how did we do it last time? man: i don't know...i forget. scott

shelly's thrown in you know this all kind of celebrities right along with all the civil rights harry belafonte's side all these people side. i really honestly believe in my heart that we talk about celebrity justin bieber tweeted out in time journal called. twenty six million people he had in the top of the fact that when something goes pop when it goes commercial well you guys talk about something that's obviously unjust and wrong then politicians have to move to call many of the greats as les greats interviewed him once said the greatest failure systematically in america is prison honest prison is a failure why do we think in new ways new ways to treat things the it goes back larry a big part of it to the corporate control of our government i don't want to sound like him spirity there is i want to make it crystal clear i slept in the park i occupied i think that if you can legally bribe a politician then that points to a very flawed democracy and our democracy is deeply flawed because of the fact that we can buy our politicians. that's our reality you dedicate the book to the you kids yeah and