so for them once he removed these jim crow barriers their agenda is gone. then there's just a matter and in fact at that point they are overqualified. opportunities are going to open up because now they're no longer facing explicitly racial barriers. jobs are opening up. so, for them they don't need the black movement. for the black poor, the movement is just beginning. getting the vote, getting the right to go into a restaurant and go into a hotel. if you are poor, what if you have you gained? >> host: a larger amount of blacks are still poor and there is the silence. >> guest: well i think one thing that happened before that is people who came out of the middle class saw their responsibility to go and help mobilize those who were poor and destitute. that is what sncc was. the college students. the sons and grandsons and granddaughters of the black peasants. people like myself. my mother grew up in rural florida and in segregated schools. >> host: where was your father? was he from tennessee? >> guest: originally from alabama but he was part of that lot mi

so for them, once you remove these jim crow barriers, their agenda is gone. then it's just a matter in fact at that point they are overqualified. opportunities are going to get opened up because they are now no longer facing explicitly racial barriers. jobs are opening up. so, for them they don't need another movement. for the black poor the movement is just beginning, getting the right to go into a restaurant, if you are poor what have you gained? >> host: but a large amount of us are still poor. >> guest: one thing that happened after that is the people that came out of the middle class solve the responsibility to go and help mobilize those that are poor and destitute. that's what sncc was. the college students, the sons and grandsons and granddaughters , people like myself. my mother grew up in rural florida and segregated schools. >> host: where was your father? >> guest: originally from alabama, she was part of the black migration. it was against racism. >> guest: that is directly from most people the peasant background, the right to freedom was sent by

so for them, once you remove these jim crow barriers, their agenda is gone. in fact, at that point, they are overqualified. opportunities are going to open up because now they are no longer facing explicitly racial barriers. jobs are opening up. so for them, they don't need another movement. for the black poor, their movement is just beginning. getting there though, getting the right to go into a restaurant, going to a hotel. if you are poor, what have you gained? >> guest: >> host: but a large amount of us are still poor and there's the silence. >> guest: one thing that happened before that is people who came out of the middle class saw their responsibility to go and help them mobilize those who are poor and destitute. that was the college students, the sons and grandsons ingrained outers of the black peasants, people like myself. my mother grew up in rural florida and segregated schools, the whole works. >> host: who is your father? >> guest: a rich life alabama, was part of the black migration of it to detroit in world war i. at least it's fabulous. >> hos

but now. >> host: told them to wait about 150 years of apartheid here in america of jim crow and we were told to wait and many black people were told to wait four more years for president obama's second term. women brought their issues to the president, the comprehensive immigration reform and the governments are bringing their issues to the president. we are not bringing our issues. martin luther king's issue. >> guest: who is stopping us? it's one thing to say president obama is not responding but what are we doing to put the issue so that we have to respond? to me we are not using that leverage. everyone knows that it's the black vote. the latino vote but it was decisive in the last election. when, each of these groups that played a role, that's why in my view when i came here for the inauguration i said the day before the inauguration i give a speech and i said the important day is not tomorrow. we celebrate that. the important days the day after tomorrow. what are we going to do then and for a lot of people they went home and celebrated. >> host: it is a milestone. i never thought i

like it was never going to end and yet people stood up they fought back against it and they brought jim crow apartheid to an end it's always possible and we can always be done and we have. thirty seconds left but why do you think that occupy was such a threat to the establishment i think because occupy speaks the needs of the people the united states and the people of the world who don't want to be oppressed for press and subject to the banks and corporations that are causing so much suffering against the people actually do the work and society and people are rising up because they need to because they're going to have to and they will continue to indeed occupy was the first kind of grassroots movement against that institution the system instead of a single issue and that really is a threat thank you so much mara their head and thanks for that i'm. like you see so far go to our youtube channel youtube dot com slash breaking the set and subscribe check out our facebook page or facebook. breaking the set and if you want to read what i'm doing when i'm not on air follow me on twitter at adam ma

. >> the act banned literacy tests and other jim crow laws to keep blacks from the voting booth.hese had been the airtight ways to keep the descendants of slaves from having clout at the ballot box and with it any place in politics. >> 70% to 80% of african-americans down to world war ii lived in the 11 states of the former confederacy. their voter participation rates were in the 4% or 5% range. there really is little to no black presence in the political system, between roughly the 1870s and the 1950s. >> after the civil war and the emancipation proclamation, there was a brief period of black political engagement. under reconstruction, hundreds of blacks were elected to office. some became members of congress. but whites soon retook power in the south. by the turn of the century, congress was once again whites-only. those jim crow laws made it so. >> american history bent away from justice, decisively away from justice, of course, in the wake of reconstruction and the creation of an american apartheid system, the jim crow system, which lasted for at least two generations in the

you come to his defense, but often he is not a sensible when it comes to issues of the core, new jim crow, prison industrial complex, they cannot defend them. what they have been talking about needs to be highlighted because the legacy, there have been politicians on the inside who tried to move in certain directions and gotten a lot of trouble. i want to get back to the point of change. we do need fundamental change, but part of it has to be with -- has to do with the point about jobs. you can have all the education in the world like increase, but if they have no job, they have nowhere to go. why is it we do not have high quality jobs? one reason is in the last 30 years you have the financial sector and wall street moved to the center, 41% of profits going to the banks that do not generate jobs. they do not generate wealth for value. it is well in private pockets. they are sitting on 3.4 trillion dollars right now. they have a bailout of homeowners did not get of the banks got, and they got nearly interest free loans of 7.7 trillion dollars. the top 38 banks are $34 billion each. centum

there is a professor michelle alexander and aclu attorney and "new jim crow" book and talked about the issues as it relates to drug issues and how that's a civil rights concern and that book has taken off and inspired a lot of people and lead to the human rights commission's hearing that happened and i think as a commission we should definitely as uncomfortable and difficult this topic is we're not shying away from looking at it. we might have a different analysis but it's important to take that time so thank you. >> i want to be careful. our officers in san francisco are diverse. it's one of the most diverse in the country. we have training and occ does a mag 95-cent job looking at that and. >> >> making sure things are race thought ral and you have to be. >> >> careful when you throw things out there and our officers are the best in the business. i was speaking to officer monroe and the guy said -- >> he did that in the context of his work. >> his work. >> i got your back inspector. >> he made that distinction many times. >> right. >> put him out there in a muni uniform to buy them.

i see very little difference between the jim crow of the 1950's and 60's here on the streets of chicago where police officers on a daily- weekly time. are shooting young black men that they claim have guns and then there are no weapons found. >> no matter what race you are every citizen in chicago deserves to be treated with respect by the police including me. >> he did have an extensive criminal past, he left behind a fiancee and a young child, chicago police would not comment on the lawsuit. a spokesman says that this case remains under investigation. >> chicago police say they have taken nearly 450 firearms off the streets just in the first three weeks of the year, during mccarthy showed some of the weapons seized today he said more than 180 guns were recovered in the two towns alone. it illustrates the need for tougher gun laws and he says that four times as many firearms have been seized in chicago then in new york city which he says have much tougher gun laws. >> a dog stranded, rescuers working to save it from icy lake michigan. >> someone spotted the black dog at 730 this mornin

change of heart he says is science i want to apologize for having spent several years ripping up jim crow and i'm also sorry that i helped start the antigen movement back in the ninety's and by assisted in demonizing an important technological option which can and should be used to benefit the environment. as you might imagine this is spring as several others who jumped on the anti g.m.o. train to stand their ground and breathed new life into a years long debate about genetically modified foods so we were curious to find out more about why some such a prominent outspoken critic of g.m.o. has had it changed his mind so we have him here now mark linus joins us from london hey there mark this is a huge want to eighty here give me the nuts and bolts of your reasoning well basically my change of heart comes from the fact that i spent a long time studying the science on biotechnology which was preceded by studying this on climate change so basically i moved from big somebody who was a writing about environmental issues from an environmentalist perspective to somebody who is trying to study the

we remember strom thurmond as one know last of the jim crow demagogues. but what we forget about thurmond, he was also one of the first of the sun belt conservatives. what die mean by -- what do i mean? the sun belt -- it's one of the major stories in the history of 20 until century american politics, and that is the flow of jobs, of industries, of resources and populations, from the states of the northeast and the midwest to the south and southwest,, in the post world wr ii period. southern states were recruiting industries, passing right-to-work laws. they were receiving lots of funding from the federal government to build military installations at a time when the united states was involved in the cold war against the soviet union. so, states like mississippi, states like georgia and texas and florida and southern california and arizona, north carolina, are all being transformed in the post world war ii period by this historic shift in population and political influence. just think about it. this real -- this period from 1964 to 2008 could be thought of

has a few things about the jim crow south. talk about that conversation. >> well, when he was -- i was actually here in new york. i had just been on "the view." and was in a limo on the way to the airport with cnn when i received a call that was 404 area code, which is atlanta, so i answered that. and it was congressman john lewis. when we finished talking i thought i should check my text messages because i couldn't keep my voice mail clear enough to keep getting messages, and lo and be hold there was a message from the white house saying the president was trying to reach me. so, i called the number, and they wanted to arrange the call. so, -- so interesting, these people in the immediate -- in media, the person who was in the car with me from cnn, pulled out a camcorder. i said, you cannot tape me while i'm talking to the president. so i made her turn it off and put it away. [applause] >> so, he started out by saying, you're a hard person to reach. well, everyone knew i had been with cnn all week. i didn't say that to him, th

unrestrained chaos she says the twenty's and painting conjures up the horrors of the reconstruction and jim crow historical periods you can see there the klu klux klan in the background but it's what's in the foreground that's creating the controversy if you look closely you can see a white man forcing a black woman to perform oral sex on him it is this aspect of the r. word that generated controversy when the work was hung up at the newark public library back in november but the engine was on loan from a private collection less than a week later some of the employees from the library requested that the image be covered is provocative images hidden by a cloth walker an african-american herself has faced outrage in the past from the black community for her quote demeaning representation of african-americans in history this time it seems was no different walker responded to the newark library's staff's concerns she said i'm sorry that the staff is so put off by the work that they feel the need to prevent others from seeing it and making their own call to look or look away i don't advocate any kind

the year twenty sixty christians will be treated the same way african-americans were during the jim crow era e-mail also warned that states would take charge of children beginning of birth in the due to the separation of church and state towns with religious sounding names would be forced to change their names basically the f.a.a. believes that there's a massive conspiracy underway to wage war on christianity and to attack the freedom of religion and it sounds just as fringing crazy is the if a's war on homosexuality goes. and the very very ugly it's constant state senator glenn grothman rothman is waging war i'm. at a press release one argues that kwanzaa is a fake holiday that was invented for the purpose of dividing and destroying america in the press release growth and rights that the founders of kwanzaa doric america and seek to destroy it by pretending that it's values as expressed in the declaration of independence and our constitution don't apply to everyone. in reality kwanzaa was established nine hundred sixty six to celebrate ideals like unity collective responsibility and sel

. >> he also campaigned with african americans at a time of jim crow, and went to africa. >> he was shocked. he said the british empire said these people back a hundred years. >> you made the movie born on the fourth of july. you made platoon. and now have written the untold history of the united states and done a showtime series. what is most important, do you feel, that has not been told in the past and maybe even in your films? the bomb, youith obam can work your way through the eisenhower years. he was a benign face, but their foreign policy starts a parade of intervention that is criminal. and he gets away with it. he builds up our arsenal of 30,000 nuclear warheads. >> p p e has one finger on the button when he takes off -- he has one finger on the button when he takes office. a dozen fingers when he leaves. >> he puts us in vietnam. he financed 80% of it. he was definitely with the colonialists. after world war ii, to be in anglophobe is very important, because the british do go back to all of these places. truman is seduced, influence, pressured, whatever. he goes right with the bri

. >> and jane crow, not jim crow, jane crow meaning?> you look at the abortion issue, the so-called personhood measures and anti-abortion measures, what they are really doing is creating precedent for a permanent underclass of all women. we have seen that women are being arrested, detained, forcibly subjected to medical interventions disproportionately so african-american women, disproportionately in the south. and, again, it's under the guise of being just about abortion. it's really about creating a set of precedents that would allow the state to control, surveil, and punish a woman from the moment she conceives. >> and you have been, frankly, losing in state after state, right? i mean, there are now 92 or 94 more provisions on state laws than existed several years ago. >> and i think the anti-choice movement is getting creative. what we saw recently in virginia and we saw it in a federal level but they're now doing this on a state level are things like the prenatal nondiscrimination act, which is an effort to ban race selective or se

has a few things about the jim crow south. talk about that conversation. >> well, when he was -- i was actually here in new york. i had just been on "the view." and was in a limo on the way to the airport with cnn when i received a call that was 404 area code, which is atlanta, so i answered that. and it was congressman john lewis. when we finished talking i thought i should check my text messages because i couldn't keep my voice mail clear enough to keep getting messages, and lo and be hold there was a message from the white house saying the president was trying to reach me. so, i called the number, and they wanted to arrange the call. so, -- so interesting, these people in the immediate -- in media, the person who was in the car with me from cnn, pulled out a camcorder. i said, you cannot tape me while i'm talking to the president. so i made her turn it off and put it away. [applause] >> so, he started out by saying, you're a hard person to reach. well, everyone knew i had been with cnn all week. i didn't say that to him, th

what is much more worrisome of course racist rules that is what jim crow was state-sponsored extern regime so it was imperative and then with those laws laws that ban interracial marriage but one white man married in african-american woman within society clamps down. but then the police came into my bedroom and arrested them. that is what you talk about. with certain times and places it happened across the board so they should get rid of that extra no coercion as the court said it was there a fundamental right will always struggle now is gays and lesbians to exercise their right to marry. with the extra no coercion. it is hard to imagine because they do not tell them they cannot apply for jobs. but it denies certain avenues of the employment and education. that is one reason i am so against external coercion. get rid of the ban then we're left with parents and friends that is bad that we can deal with that. >> a one to ask how you balance -- with the german courts? >> there is a curious parallel between female genital mutilation which is serious because as practiced in much of africa is ve

he fought to overturn the jim crowe laws not with violence, but peace. >> we seek nonviolence and passive resistance and still determined to use the weapon of love. >> mike: that was in alabama, where dr. king was leading the montgomery bus boycott to end the days where blacks had to give up their seats for whites, the boycott lasted more than a year until a court put an end to segregation on buses. through the leadership conference dr. king worked with other civil rights lead towers bring the movement for equality not just for the south, but throughout the nation. >> i still have a dream. >> yes. >> it is deeply rooted in the american dream. >> mike: in 1963, dr. king brought the march to washington and announced his dream for all to hear. >> i have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of this creed. the children who will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. i have a dream today. >> mike: the power of those words forced washington to take action and a year later, th

. >> why are we still doing jim crowe stuff? why are we putting ourselves through this?> so vision is focusing on a conversation about skin color and identity with about 50 other young poets. among the questions they will be tackling, who is black? >> race is a social construct. you are who you say you are. >> what makes you black? >> is black your skin, your cultu culture, your struggle. >> who determines who is black? >> the irony is who is black is determined not by black people. >> and how does skin color divide black america? >> we are very aware from our lived experiences that skin color matters. >> once you've identified -- >> these are uncomfortable, often painful questions. >> you have to stop trying to push people in boxes that we are not comfortable in. it's not about me. it's about niles path, becca's path. >> the journeys down these paths are just beginning. why are you so reluctant to say i'm black. deal with it. >> i am -- >> i am -- abby needs everything to throw a big party for the big game. let's see if walmart's low price guarantee can make you the mvp

he fought to overturn the jim crowe laws not with violence, but peace. >> we seek nonviolence and passivel determined to use the weapon of love. >> mike: that was in alabama, where dr. king was leading the montgomery bus boycott to end the days where blacks had to give up their seats for whites, the boycott lasted more than a year until a court put an end to segregation on buses. through the leadership conference dr. king worked with other civil rights lead towers bring the movement for equality not just for the south, but throughout the nation. >> i still have a dream. >> yes. >> it is deeply rooted in the american dream. >> mike: in 1963, dr. king brought the march to washington and announced his dream for all to hear. >> i have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of this creed. the children who will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. i have a dream today. >> mike: the power of those words forced washington to take action and a year later, the civil rights act o

in 1947, jim crow was in full force in the south.e still segregated and voting rights were not guaranteed. many of robinson's teammates didn't want him in a dodger's uniform. other players jeered him and even threw baseballs at his head. he was attacked by fans who spat on him from the stands. his beloved wife, his family and his home were con standpoistant threatened. but robinson persevered. he refused to meet violence with violence. robinson challenged himself to disarm his attackers by proving himself on the field. and he did. in 1947, he was voted rookie of the year. two years later, he was the national league's moesz valuable player. eventually leading the dodger's to a world series vikt ri. he was one of baseball's most thrilling players. jackie robinson changed baseball and he changed america. he kept his focus in the face of adversity because he had a higher goal. in studying him, i learned that branch ricky, who decided to courageously break the color barrier, look for a black that had the temperament and the focus to take

what would you say about the new jim crow?about the industrial complex, what would you say about the invisibility of so many of our prisoners so many of our incarcerated, especially when 62% of them are there for soft drugs but not one executive for the wall street bank going to jail. [applause] not one. ! martin doesn't like that. not one wiretapper not one torcher under the bush administration at all. then what do you say about the drones being dropped on our precious brothers and sisters in pakistan somalia and yemen. >> cenk: dr. cornell west said that on thursday in poverty in america panel. chris, do you think that is a fair criticism? >> i think those criticisms have been raised throughout the campaign by the liberal critics of the president and i think also by some more libertarians critics of the president. they will continue to be raised so long as the administration engages in policies that seem to run counter to other statements that he's made, and statements that he made in his 2008 election run. >> cenk: michael,

in 1947, jim crow was in full force in the south.e still segregated and voting rights were not guaranteed. many of robinson's teammates didn't want him in a dodger's uniform. other players jeered him and even threw baseballs at his head. he was attacked byan