it just clicked -- why not bring the two together to bring this link from the past unsegregated jim crow to what is happening in the 21st century and that has been happening? i think i was inspired by michele alexander's booke." >> it is my pleasure to say, ms. colvin, without you we would not be where we are. [applause] thank you for sharing your story, and keep telling your story because we need to know, and our children need to know, and our children's children need to know your story. and we want to thank our sponsors today. we have the san francisco unified school district. we have marked as bookstores, who will be selling this -- ms. colvin's book, written about her, by philip house. we have sponsorship from the african diaspora, and the friends of the san francisco public library. i serve as part of the african- american interest committee that helped put this program together, and i want to thank all of you for coming, and i want to thank sfgtv for taking the program today. we want to thank the department here at san francisco public library, and we are having a reception in l58,

well to put this in a context think of the jim crow laws remember in america that the jim crow laws which were put in place never the signs of colored only for blacks or light only for white rights sat at the front of the bus a black side at the back of the bus in america their financial jim crow laws if you're a white goldman sachs partner you can borrow money at the zero percent or less than zero percent anyone else you're borrowing money at sixteen percent twenty percent thirty five percent payday loans analyzing at three hundred percent so they're using interest rates to create a two class society those who are on the inside who get zero percent interest charge to them and everyone else who is basically under a class of permanent underclass in the united states and around the world who are charged exorbitant fees to borrow money that's almost a financial apartheid if you will and it's orchestrated on purpose to create this huge social divide for profiteering purposes and this is something that you are very outspoken about all over the world and you've also been pretty outspoken about

slavery where construction, jim crow, the civil rights movement, this is my family story of struggling and fighting for humanity and freedom in the context and culture was saturated with investment into the humanization. what is amazing about this narrative about the story is not only does my family know where the plantation is in escambia county, we now own at and there are members of my family currently living on that as free people who have property rights to it, codify and protected by will fall. how many countries in the world is it possible to have a group of people who were once sleeves on a piece of property a few generations lately own the property that they were living on that they were being in sleeve on -- enslaved on. yes, of course we noticed progress in our country by having a black family in the oval office. there are not too many countries around the world where you would see subdominant cultures rise to that level, that status and just a few generations after movements like the civil rights movement. it's amazing to me that -- and all i personally am delighted to thin

this is something that the jim crow segregation come from mars? no.they were people who were doing the oppressing. candidate obama doesn't talk about that. galligan, i am not condemning him with that rhetorical decision. he was probably a proper decision for a candidate to make. but we ought to recognize what is going on. one of the reasons why one is to recognize what is going on is because it shows that -- he was a senator when he was running for president. he was already a powerful person in american politics. even a person who is a senator, even a personnel who is president of the united states faces a predicament when they talk about race. they face all sorts of predicaments. they face the fact that they are are an appreciable number of americans who are racially prejudiced. they face the fact that a much larger portion of the american populace wants to deny the realities of you know as the candidate, he had to grapple with that and you know he had to get past it. he got past it by you know, he quit the caving. he got past it by you know, sort of

can you start out with how race played in this country from slavery, jim crow? >> guest: one of the first things i wanted to do in the book was to explain to people frankly why it was such a big deal on election night when barack obama was elected president of the united states. why were there parties all across the united states? why was there this leaping? any time a president is elected it is a big deal. there is emotion. but clearly this time there was something very different from -- something very special going on. what was that? one reason was this was the first black president. what is the big deal with that? one that wanted to show was the degree to which black americans have been marginalized, have been excluded from collective world politics. so i thought it would be useful for readers to know about that history. it would be useful for readers to know that in the history of the united states there have only been two popularly elected black governors, deval patrick in massachusetts and doug wilder in virginia. in the history of the united states their

sharecroppers are making more money and they're not going to go back to the jim crow restrictions that you want them to be in. there is a war on, and the war is to eliminate jim crow, and that quote to me sums up where things were headed. but anyways, thank you very much for coming. [applause] >> any questions? we're going to do questions for 20 minutes or so. and as i said earlier, please wait into the microphone comes to you, and you can just watch it and right in front of you. in fact, why don't we start with some questions over there. >> in your research did you determine how much influence woodrow wilson dasher woodrow wilson's wife had on his attitudes as he came from princeton, new jersey, and help re-segregated the hospitals, the nursing staff, government workers and all that in washington at the time? >> i think there's been, i was actually in washington giving a talkhim and he went to work at the woodrow wilson house tried to sort of portray him as, you know, he had his wife engage in racial attitudes that are not acceptable. i think he was very comfortable being a racist on

born in south carolina at my parents for refugees from the jim crow south so their children could have more opportunity. group in washington d.c. and attended a fabulous high-school, the most important schooling experience i have had the a school for all boys and from there went to princeton i have been very lucky. i have led a very privileged life. >> host: next call from professor kennedy comes from of the land. you are on book tv's. >> caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i have two questions. barack obama and other white father was black but nobody talks about his white man's. why is that? and barack obama was not the only president to have negro ancestry there were several others including jefferson and lincoln but nobody ever speaks about that. what about the president of the continental congress? he was a black man. could you speak to those issues? i would appreciate it. >> about barack obama ratio lineage, there has been some attention paid to that and a good many people who object to those like myself who called barack obama of black african american in some who

but if you were african-american during the era of jim crow which began in the late 19th century and did not end until the civil rights legislation of the 19 1960s which meant it went on for more than three generations and into the life span of many, many americans alive today, if you were african-american, you could not pass, you could not pass a white person, a white motorist on the road no matter how slowly they were going. and that alone would probably account for a couple million right there wanting to say, i'm leaving. and so when i tell this to the high school students, i was sharing that with high school students in hawaii, actually, and i heard this murmuring in the back of the room where someone said, well, i would have honked. [laughter] and when they said that, i had to say, now, let's start again. [laughter] let's start again. if you could not pass individuals on the road, you most certainly could not honk. and so then someone else said, well, knowing that maybe they weren't supposed to make any noise, well, i would have tailgated them. [laughter] and i would say you cou

birmingham's mayor told congressman that the legislation smacks of apartheid and jim crow. >> we have a beautiful mercedes plant here in alabama. and then you go and arrest the executive from germany that come here? i mean do you want the jobs and the commerce or do you want the stain that comes with the discriminatory legislation? >> one republican co-sponsor of the law says if the congressman went back to washington to pass immigration reform, we would not have to do their job for them. >>> a standoff in an air force base in colorado ended peaceful think morning. air force officials say an airman with a gun surrendered to authorities more than 12 hours after barricading himself in a building at the base. no shots fired. no one was hurt. officials say the airman was facing a discharge over legal action in a civilian court. >>> still to come, u.c. davis outraged. students protesting the pepper spraying seen around the world. the police chief is now on leave. students say that's not enough. >>> egypt, protesters calling for a million man it is in. they're vowing to stay until more resi

michelle alexander calling it the new jim crow. between the 1960's and 1970's, the prison population across the country doubled. in the 1970's and 1980's, it tripled. in california, and build no new prisons between the 1960's and 1970's, the height of political action. between the 1970's and 1980's, they build more prisons in california alone and in the past 100 years. one thing that has happened is the warehousing of black folks in these facilities. if you think about what slavery is, the parallels, it is not just a metaphor when you talk about modern-day slavery. slavery denied black folks the ability to be mobile. you were trapped on one location, in a plantation. it broke up our families. it subjected us to daly wants and violence. anything can happen to you -- an example to you for somebody else. it exploded us for our free labor. all of those things happen in prison today. the u.s. has 5% of the world's population and over 25% of the world's prison population. that is a big part of the equation. i am not waiting for superman,

far as i know it is perfectly legal, but if you wereou wereafa african-american during the era of jim crow which began in the d late 19th century and did not end until the civil rights legislation of the 1960's, which meant it when offered more than three generations and into thef life span of many, many americans alive today, if he could were african-american you couldt not pass -- you could not pass away person, all white motorists on the road no matter how slow they were going. alo that alone would probably account for a couple million mil right there. when i tell this to theents, high-school students i was st sharing that with high-school students in a actually.rmur i heard this murmur in the back of tsohe room. [laughst certainly cannot honk. i would have still give them. tail you couldn't encored soga did.s this is a beautiful thing, you realize that this is so far removed from the reality of young people today because of all that has happened in part of because of this great migration that they cannot fathom the world that propelled this greats movement of people. t now, a littl

these are not to -- bringing back the poll tax and jim crow. they are not true.de island has a photo id law. rhode island is a liberal state. [applause] its legislature is 5 to 1. the sponsor was gordon fox. the sponsor in the senate was the only african-american state senator. both democrat. this is what the senator said as to why he was supporting a photo id. it has come to my attention that many people in my community have had their boats stolen. -- votes stolen. this has been too often ignore. those who do not believe that there is voter fraud also will do nothing to make the elections more transparent. this procedure in rhode island passed to the democratic legislature, signed by the governor, he said, i have been called an uncle tom. i have been called a traitor. i offer but -- party loyalty but god gave me a brain and i use it. [applause] now, he was attacked. now we have another witness coming forward. the democratic congressman from alabama, he served in congress until 2010 when he ran for governor. the teachers' union took him out of the democratic prim

the united states in current thank you very much jim crow and they're talking to us outside the high court where sanchez now is left he's gone back presumably to the house of smith in norfolk outside london where he has been held under strict bail conditions for the last eleven months he's considering his next steps this case is not over but it certainly does look less likely that he will walk free at the end of it all. parties or. of course a position to extradite julian assange to sweden comes just over a week after week and it's announced it was suspending a committee was due to work financial ok and many believe the case is more about his whistle blowing activities rather than any accusations of sexual assault i mean this is just the latest in a saga isn't it a kind of scandinavian viking saga of the barbarity of which it is being treated appallingly it's been an eighteen month disruption campaign against what is actually one of the most important websites in the world what what wiki leaks does is it was among the most powerful tools to address corruption corruption at the highes

kathryn stockett, author of the help, the book about race in the jim crow south that has topped the best seller list since 2009 and led to the hit movie. former secretary of state condoleezza rises, whose memoir "no higher honor" tells of her days as george bush's secretary of state. michael lewis, author of boomerang the explosive best seller about wall street. and walter isaacson, the best selling author of the new biography of steve jobs. they're all ahead on face the nation. captioning sponsored by cbs from washington, "face the nation" with bob schieffer. good morning again. well, we are all here and i'm going to start with kathryn stockett because, among those of us who write books from time to time, you are the hero. how long is that book... how long has that book been on the best seller list? >> i try not to keep track of numbers like that, but it seems like it's been a very long time. >> schieffer: back to 2009, right? >> it came out in february of '09. and somehow i am still on book tour. i need to write another one. >> schieffer: and it is still number one on the paperback lis

that they would not get to fear here in india and i should states in current thank you very much as jim crow is actually looking to us outside the high courts where julian assange has now left he's gone back presumably to the house full and smith in norfolk outside london where he has been held under strict bail conditions for the last eleven months he's considering his next steps this case is not safe but it certainly tells that less likely that he will walk free at the end of a civil. right that what i let's get some more reaction on the particular bit of bad luck and i'm joined by liberty campaign a pole with and also with the u.k. independence party thank you for joining us today is it now inevitable do you think that julian assange will actually be sent. it's certainly looking more and more likely i mean there's always the possibility of another appeal but the problem is that these european arrest warrant wretched thing gives you very few grounds to actually tackle. not supposed to look at the quality of overton's they're not supposed to do anything other than pass the you up and ship y

i grew up in orange where, south carolina in the late 1950's and early 1960's toward the end of jim crowup went to segregated schools, lived in a black neighborhood on the black satin town because that is where one lives. i was too young to remember, but dr. king did visit my church. to black colleges. in 1968 there was an incident that became known as the point spurt massacre. students from south carolina state university began a demonstration over a segregated bowling alley in the heart of orangeburg called the all-star lanes. long since closed. it was a whites-only borelli, and this protest over the bowling alley grew into something larger and mushroomed over the course of three nights. after the second night the demonstration was about 500 yards from my house, so we have kind of a direct line of sight. after the second night i remember putting up in the morning. the schools were all close to. i was looking out the window to see what was going on, and my father who was an extremely gentlemen yell the me in a voice that he'd never used before and said it down out of the window right no

it is like the jim crow conspiracy. it is an attempt -- that map is a little misleading. it shows states where such bills are pending. we have the democratic majorities in their introduced by republican members, those bills are not going anywhere. it is not a map of where there is a danger. the red states -- some of the yellow states are dangerous in the sense that might get through and some are not. in new york, don't worry about it. i know that as a new yorker. in any event, obviously there is a war against the civil rights here. it is an attempt to use one election to perpetuate those majorities by taking away the right to vote from people who might not vote the "right way." protecting the right to vote should be a priority and yet they have only brought one section case. mr. murphy, under section 2, is there any reason why you could not show a disparity? >> these cases are expensive for groups like the aclu to bring. >> the justice department couldn't attack -- >> the justice department would have to devote more resources to this. they claim they are. we have met with

it is not jim crow but it is jim crows cousin. the most important -- maybe the most important testimony was what mr. campbell gave. he is not in my district. >> i wish i were. [laughter] >> thank you, sir. how many hundred thousand do not have them? it is unbelievable. we are looking at maybe 1.5%. that shows the problem we face and the purpose -- this was done to suppress the vote. it was done to win the election in 2012 and other alexian's because tennessee is a red state. it would take a parting of the seas for us to change our course. but tennessee did it, too. was 2300 people, we are not going to get it. i wrote dictum -- letter to commissioner gibbons encouraging him to do things. they are doing a registration, a first saturday or you get a photo id and it is free. in shelby county, there are two places on the extreme parts of the county. not easy to get -- get to. it is only one saturday a month. voting is the most important pillar of our society, and democracy. we have a lot of people talking about how we're spending trill

reason we have a special place for blacks in american society because there was slavery, there was jim crowthanks democrats. but the president we have now who has benefited from this, isn't it great, we have our first black president, well, he's half black, and he's not a son of someone who suffered through these. he's the son of a kenyan. he's not the son of an american black who went through the american experience. that is herman cain. >> ann coulter, thanks for being with us. >> thank you. >> i'm glad you didn't call me a gossipy brat. >> you are. >> and if you are going to fill up this time, i'm going to promote cain. >> do you want him now? >> i want him as vice president. >> ann coulter, coming up and more on the sexual allegations being made against presidential candidate herman cain. how could this impact the 2012 field. and you know bob beckel is a huge liberal. did you know his brother is a hollywood conservative? they will debate. that and much more coming up. straight ahead. ford fusion has now been named the most dependable midsize car by jd power and associates. we go to kimb

the jim crow south so their children could have more opportunity. group in washington d.c. and attended a fabulous high-school, the most important schooling experience i have had the a school for all boys and from there went to princeton i have been very lucky. i have led a very privileged life. >> host: next call from professor kennedy comes from of the land. you are on book tv's. >> caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i have two questions. barack obama and other white father was black but nobody talks about his white man's. why is that? and barack obama was not the only president to have negro ancestry there were several others including jefferson and lincoln but nobody ever speaks about that. what about the president of the continental congress? he was a black man. could you speak to those issues? i would appreciate it. >> about barack obama ratio lineage, there has been some attention paid to that and a good many people who object to those like myself who called barack obama of black african american in some who say he should be called multiracial. his m

they feel like alabama blacks of the jim crow era. and as in 1963, alabama and the federal government are at odds over a racially charged issue. >> the woman who owns this bakery, she said the men who did this are racist. she was talking about you, sir. >> well, that's -- i am certainly not racist. i am not racist. in fact that's insulting to anyone think i would be racist. i love everyone. >> reporter: the governor says alabama had to pass its law because the federal government wasn't enforcing its own laws on immigration. >> can you understand, sir, how this looks to people outside of alabama? people think about alabama and they think about the past, unfortunately. >> well, but they shouldn't link it. in the '50s and '60s, the federal government was trying to get alabama to obey the constitution. they were right and we were wrong in the south. they were trying to get us to obey the law. today what we're trying to do is we're trying to get the federal government to obey the law. so it's just the opposite. >> reporter: the day after t

today richard trumka and martin luther king iii called it the new jim crow, but they are fighting back attention to the law. these anti-immigration laws are un-american. it's time we stop it. joining me is jose antonio vargas, a former reporter of "the washington post" a pulitzer price winning journalist. he wrote a document called "my life as an undocumented aliens" the first time he -- what made you finally decide to come forward with your story? >> first of all, thank you for having she. it was a little surread. >> and, you know it got to a point where i couldn't do it anymore. i couldn't lie anymore. i've been in this country since i was 12. i've been here 18 years. i can't even go to mexico or canada. i've been paying taxes all of these years undocumented people pay income taxes. >> say that again. >> thank you for pointing that out. undocumented people pay income taxes in this country. a report from the migration policy center said something along the lines of $400 million in state and federal taxes. but again, these are the kind of facts that we need to get out there. got there

the broad climate of fear that will be familiar to those who live in alabama's first jim crow era, he wrote. at last night's republican debate, the candidates almost drew a distinction between good immigrants, people with graduate degrees and bad immigrants, the one we have to secure the border against, like people from mexico. what's happening in alabama is what happens when that kind of thinking becomes law. the arrest of the mercedes executive caused alabama lawmakers to stumble all over themselves to say, hey, that wasn't supposed to happen. republicans who supported the law keep calling the arrest an unintended consequence. quote, due the a number of unintended consequences including this incident, republican governor robert bentley, a strong supporter of the bill was considering revisions. but that arrest is exactly what was supposed to happen, even though governor bentley may not have intended for it to happen to a german executive from mercedes, a company that has already shown discomfort with alabama's fraught racial history. the daily decatur summed up the arrest with a pret

. >> they agree that they feel like the alabama blacks of the jim crow era.e federal agreement are in a feud over the industry. >> she said the man was a racist. she was talking about you, sir. >> i certainly am not racist. i am not racist. in fact, that's insulting that anyone would think that i would be racist. i love everyone. >> the governor said alabama had to pass its law because the federal government wasn't enforcing its own laws on immigration. >> can you understand, sir, how this looks to people outside of alabama? people think about alabama and they think about the past, unfortunately. >> but they shouldn't link it. in the '50s and '60s, the federal government was trying to get alabama to obey the constitution. they were right and we were wrong in the south. they were trying to get us to obey the law. today what we're trying to do is we're trying to get the federal government to obey the law. so it's just the opposite. >> and kate snow joins us now. kate, this is really extraordinary because this immigration law has been largely unreported. but wha

front door of schools to deny black children access to quality education and finally come to the jim croweion and segregation. american citizen children and four million of them and tens of thousands of them here who don't feel they can access the school system and don't feel they can access health care because parents are undocumented and because of these laws that they are attempting to enforce here in alabama. look, we understand discrimination when we see it. the please show me your paper law of alabama can only be enforced if you take apart racial profiling. let me say this is an anti-al bottoma law. there crops in the fields that will never be harvested. they will never be taken to market for sale. there will be empty restaurants and a hurt in the state because part of the driving as the new immigrant, last week an executive of mercedes benz opened up a huge plant here in alabama. thousands of jobs. he was arrested under the new law. >> to your point, republicans now are saying that they are seeing the unintended consequences of the law and saying they have no one to pick the crops t

. >> you said before we came out, when it comes to the young, the jim crow laws are back.are the solutions, at this point, to defend the voter laws of those that are threatened by this. >> one, we need more uniform standards. because we have 50 different states with 50 different laws and certain states can allow for partisan manipulation. where they say, you know, we know we can't win the election on issues, so we're going to make it particularly difficult for one group to register to vote. so let's allow people to vote in texas with their concealed right to carry license, but not a student i.d. that's exactly what they've done. two is, we obviously need to modernize the voter registration process. my generation finds it insane that you can bank online, you can pay bills online, taxes, you can buy and sell things online, yet you can't register to voton line, except in eight or nine states now, and not all have gone into effect. and lastly, we need to make sure that colleges and universities step up and do more to register young people. because right now they're not fulfill

he took on jim crow and the horrors of racism. he said we'll have a civil rights bill and he web toe to toe with people like george wallace and he went toe to toe with big steel when they tried to inflate prices and he was willing to fight. he was a great president. he made the american people feel great. he was a leader. he wasn't some guy out there all alone as they say out for number one in showbiz. he was leading us. he was saying, we ask not what your country can do for you. what do you know to your country. he was bringing us in. bringing us in to leading our country. it was the wonderful thing about him that separates him from all the other leaders. a we, not a he. >> when you compare his perform yanls as president, albeit brief. is there really any comparison? >> to go google. anyone watching right now, if you have a little time tonight. watch the nixon-kennedy debate. two young men in their 40s who could beat the pants off the current crowds. who were prepared in 1960 to be president of the united states. yes, they had th

civil rights have been fabulously successful at dealing with instances of discreet bias, overt bias, jim crow-typemuch less effective in dealing with the subtler forms of bias and the institutionalized bias that are now the biggest problems for equality for women and equality for racial minority groups in particular. so right now, we have the civil rights system that on the one hand, that continues to allow a wage gap between men and women, where women are getting 75 to 80 cent on the dollar that men get for comparable work, but at the same time, that civil rights system allows men to sue for ladies night. and even in one case, a man sued for a mother's day promotion, to top mother's day. so on the one hand, we have sort of trifrl lawsuits where the real problem is not being addressed. another example. over 50 years after brown versus board of education, the historic opinion that at the time people thought would segregate the nation's cools, today about one quarter of black and latino students still attended school that almost entirely non-white. yet at the same time, that same legal principle at

about america like what hispanics are really not going to play that game of being concerned about jim crow or your past because of where they came from. and ask you look at all the racial conflicts in america, in l.a. county it's a war zone between blacks and mexicans, mass race riots in schools, prison riots between ethnic groups, whites are not even involved. the asians of south philadelphia who have to live in fear of blacks who are putting them in hospitals in schools. i think that blacks seem to be the most race-obsessed group in the country, and not -- and they have their own racism which i think they're blind to. and the final point i want to say to you is this -- >> host: you know what, james? we got two points there, that's plenty. toure? >> guest: extremely interesting points, james, i want to deal with in a very serious way. the adoption question, i think there's some generalizations going on there partly that example's a bit skewed because of the amount of white children that are available for adoption. um, you know, so i don't know if that exactly -- well, your point about tra