but didn't james meredith go on to work for either strom thurman or -- >> i think so.rfully complicated and surprising, and george wallace game comfortable with african-americans. so the story got a lot better, but it needed backbone at this moment. >> and ross barnett was a southern democrat. >> that's right. >> let's listen to this from september 22, 1962. >> now, the difficulty is we got two or three problems. in the first place, what can we do to -- in the first place, it's the court's order to you, which is i guess you're given until tuesday. what is your feeling on that? what's your position? >> well, i'll have to think it over. >> all right. well, let me say this -- >> you know what i'm up against, mr. president. i took an oath to abide by the laws of this state and our constitution here and the constitution of the united states. i'm on the spot here, you know. i've taken an oath to do that. and you know what our laws are. >> yes, i understand that. now we have a -- >> we have a statute that was enacted a couple of weeks ago stating that no one who had been conv

that happens. 50 years james meredith integrated ole miss and began a revolution in higher educationpeople of color. 150 years ago we celebrated or commemorated the emancipation proclamation. at the same time we need to recognize that more change is needed. it's slow. it requires public education. it requires leadership from the top. we're not getting that from many of our elected leaders. president obama is unique. you don't see that at the state and local level which is where it's at. >> i love, is it quite as unique or all by himself as he was, i love business week article this week says that come january women and minorities for the first time in u.s. history will hold a majority of the party, this is the democratic party, house seats. so a minority of house democrats are white men. this ain't 50 years ago. >> the flip side of that is the house republicans are still 91% white men. i agree with what you're saying, that not all southern people are racist, but we do need more, you know, leadership. yet we are in a position where people who are driving the discussion at the national

anniversary of violent rioting at ole miss over the enrollment of the university's first black student, james meredith. let's talk to michael eric dyson, msnbc political analyst and professor of sociology at georgetown university. professor, good to have you with us. with so much hatred out there, this is a depressing story. you would think people would be celebrating this and moving the country forward. which brings me to the question, is there any chance of acceptance or is this just the way it's always going to be? >> well, among a certain, a minority of people, i think, ed, this will persist. the reality is is that a great swath if you will of american whites did cast a vote for barack obama. not the majority, to be sure. but enough to make a difference. because if you look at what got obama into office, if it was a sandwich, we'd call it ham on white. "h," hispanics and latinos. "a," african-americans. "m," the millennials. and white women. the old school, old style tradition of white men being central and dominant. whiteness is being dissipated. what's coming together is a collection of progress

anniversary of violent rioting at ole miss over the enrollment of the university's first black student james meredithchael eric dyson, msnbc political analyst and associate at georgetown university. good to have you with us. with so much hatred still out there, this is a depressing story. it brings me to the question. is there any chance of acceptance or is this just the way it's always going to be? >> among a certain minority of peop people, i think this will persist. but the reality is that a great swath, if you will of american whites, did cast a vote for barack obama. enough to make a difference. if you look at what got obama into office, if it was a sandwich, we'd call it ham on white. so there's a coalition that's taking place in america that may be threat tong the old school, old style tradition of white men being central and dominant. whiteness is being dissipated and what's coming together is a collection of progressive whites along with latinos and african-americans and young people foraging a connection to a broader future and a bridge to a brighter possibility. but at the same time, it's

anniversary of violent rioting at ole miss over the enrollment of the university's first black student, james meredithchael eric dyson, msnbc political analyst and professor of sociology at georgetown university. professor, good to have you with us. with so much hatred out there, this is a depressing story. you would think people would be celebrating this and moving the country forward. which brings me to the question, is there any chance of acceptance or is this just the way it's always going to be? >> well, among a certain, a minority of people, i think, ed, this will persist. the reality is is that a great swath if you will of american whites did cast a vote for barack obama. not the majority, to be sure. but enough to make a difference. because if you look at what got obama into office, if it was a sandwich, we'd call it ham on white. "h," hispanics and latinos. "a," african-americans. "m," the millennials. and white women. the old school, old style tradition of white men being central and dominant. whiteness is being dissipated. what's coming together is a collection of progressive whites along w

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i want to thank my guests, meredith vieira and her husband richard cohen, james spader, and christinamonday night lea michele and toby keith. but "jimmy fallon" is happening right now. jimmy! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> steve: from studio 6b in rockefeller center, the national broadcasting company presents -- tonight's guests are -- and featuring the legendary roots crew. and here he is -- jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universal television -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: oh, wow. that's the love. thank you out here. thank you very, very much. welcome, everybody. welcome to "late night." [ cheers and applause ] it's gonna be a big show tonight. new york city is the place where -- here's what people are talking about, you guys. there's a video going around of president obama getting choked up and crying while he thanks his campaign staff after the election. yeah. [ audience aws ] when mitt romney saw the video, he was, like -- [ as romney ] >> "what is that clear liquid coming out of his eyes?" [ laughter ] "is