jelani cobb, i want to start by asking you, what do you think is the fine line or is it a fine line at all between free speech and hate speech? >> well, it's interesting. my article wasn't even dealing with the question of hate speech. it was really dealing with free speech as a virtue, as an ideal, but it was sincall cynically den campus to avoid talking about race issues. we've seen missouri and yale and students who have been reacting to racial kre crises on their campuses and instead of talking about what's happening the conversation devolved into a conversation about the first amendment. i think that's what i was responding to. there is such a thing as hate speech and such a thing as free speech. there are probably a thousand different ways in which people differentiate that, but i don't think we should go to the kind of absurdest argument where anything that someone says that remotely, possibly is offensive can be deployed against actual legitimately, objectively things that are happening on college campuses. >> ifill: greg, do you agree this is a question of deflection? >> i thi

jelani cobb and dave zirin, thank you both for your time. that's "all in" for this evening.the rachel maddow show" starts right now. and rachel has some new polling data on how south carolina democrats interpreted that democratic forum on friday night. i can't wait to see that. >> thank you very much, chris. it was nice of you to have me on your show and thank you for the giant tease. i appreciate it. >> you bet. >> thanks, my friend. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. i do want to say thank you to everybody who tuned in on friday night to watch our big first in the south democratic candidates forum with the three democratic candidates for president. as chris said, we do have some data in terms of how that went, its impact. we know first off that we had a really big audience on friday night for this event, which is heartening. we also got a lot of really good feedback in terms of people finding it to be a really useful source of information about the democratic candidates and the differences between them and what they stand for. we had a lot of really good f

jelani cobb and dave zirin, thank you both for your time. that's "all in" for this evening. "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. and rachel has some new polling data on how south carolina democrats interpreted that democratic forum on friday night. i can't wait to see that. >> thank you very much, chris. it was nice of you to have me on your show and thank you for the giant tease. i appreciate it. >> you bet. >> thanks, my friend. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. i do want to say thank you to everybody who tuned in on friday night to watch our big first in the south democratic candidates forum with the three democratic candidates for president. as chris said, we do have some data in terms of how that went, its impact. we know first off that we had a really big audience on friday night for this event, which is heartening. we also got a lot of really good feedback in terms of people finding it to be a really useful source of information about the democratic candidates and the differences between them and what they stand for. we had a lot of really good

jelani cobb, a frequent academic guest, says that with "the prize," dale has brilliantly rendered the hopes, complexities, pitfalls and flaws of the efforts to reform american education. this is not simply the compelling story of a single conflict-ridden school system, it is a metaphor for the faming institutions -- failing institutions that have betrayed an entire generation of american children. with that, dale russakoff. [applause] >> thank everyone for coming tonight. i would like to start by telling you why writing this book became so important to me. it began for me literally the day that the zuckerberg gift was announced. i had seen an article in the star ledger saying this was going to happen on "the oprah winfrey show". i had never watched oprah in my life. on september 24, 2010, i was absolutely electrified to see this 26-year-old billionaire pledge $100 million to the newark schools and also to cory booker and chris christie talk about using the money to transform education in newark, public education work for the nation's poorest children. to me, $100 million sounded like