they brought down jim crow in many areas years before the civil acts right of 1964. i think in our retelling of the civil rights era we don't give enough credit it to the heroism of the disobedience that brought down jim crowe. you might say that is all well and good but that was a long time ago. what have you done for me lately? republicans did champion citizenship but they became imimpatient. african americans were language anguished and they were below whites in every sense. it was especially harsh for those on the lowest rungs at the time. republicans offered something that seemed to be less tan gible the promise of equalizing opportunity through free markets. now republicans face a daunting task several generations of black voters have never voted republican and are not open to the option. emocrats offer federal assistance and republican offer free markets, lower taxes. we believe it will create millions of jobs for everyone. the democrat promise is tan gible and puts food on the table but does not lead to meaningful success. we believe that lower taxes, less re

so they felt that cometh they cracked birmingham, they could crack jim crow. i won't go through the whole story, but, if in those weeks leading up to jail, things weren't going well. the black people of birmingham and the black clergy were not responding to his call to go forward. and you hear a very frustrated king who is disappointed with black people before he is disappointed in the clergyman in a letter. a few weeks before all this happens, god is telling moses why are you having the children of israel complained to me to take them to the promised land? they have to go there themselves. and then you hear king saying i can do it alone. you start to hear the -- i can't do it alone. you start to hear the frustration and him. they may lose, after all they llve ambled, they have gone oa in antifamily decides that he wi ginto court arrest because he needs to jar the people of birmingham forward. was it planned? didn't happen that way? >> there is -- did it happen that way? >> there is some speculation. for all of his passion and narrative, he identified more wit

no conspiracies, but just in the sense that in this new era of the new jim crow, it was assumed that they would disappear and the oops mistake of we got the wrong guy could be covered up because these guys would disappear. instead, they remind us daily of the hero it perseverance -- heroic perseverance i wish i had myself. >> you talked about the film becoming a press freedom peace. what was it like having your work, your notes, your video under a subpoena and having to fight back? >> it was a mixed blessing. it was something incredibly foolish about the city subpoenaing records write-in the middle of the film. it was a publicist dream, right? [laughter] is it not? at the same time it created, and i think i can speak for sarah and dave as well, there is something that struck at our got, that feeling that you have sometimes when you think you're driving too fast when you see the blue lights behind you. this meant something. this is felt on our effort, particularly the irony that we had spent so long and have been so conscientious and diligent and asking for them to please comment. hon

this is the same rationale that propped up jim crow for eight years right when you want to show women in school what people look like you you want to sit on the bus or sit in the same thing they're doing is the same water found as people look like. you its to reality this is irrational it's not good for the safety of phoenix residents and really what they need to be doing is putting resources into swimming classes because i just want to end with this hispanics and blacks tend to not be as good swimmers as white. as though that's not a socio economic problem it's all just pretty cringeworthy from carlson's comparisons to wright's claim that minority lifeguards will endanger swimmers this whole segment is just very very ugly. after the break a job in finance puts you in the fall put you on the fast track professional success and personal happiness right maybe not we'll talk to one wall street refugee about why she left her high powered career and how she found satisfaction in the post business world. with. technology innovation all the developments around russia. the future covered. wea

you know, we don't have the jim crow signs, we don't have the lynching anymore. so we really did lose that traditional america that we never really had to begin, right? -- begin with, right? eric, i want to ask you, you know, race has -- you know, blackness has had a particular history with media where images were reality and, in fact, images and words supersealedded reality and in many ways still do. >> sure. well, the book in my chapter on network television, i talk about how the image of african-americans have evolved on television over time. and, you know, we started out with these really, with the sort of mamie characters, we had beulah on 1950s television, then we had amos and andy, and then we got to the supernegros which were diane carroll and julia and bill cosby on i spy. for black characters to exist side by side with white characters, they had to be perfect. they, you know, bill cosby was a rhodes scholar, he was a karate expert, he spoke seven languages on i spy, and the guy who was his partner was a tennis mom, you know? that's what he needed to be

medical school, the road to that school is broken pillar parts labored slavery, segregation and jim-crow and there's a gay sad looking nearby and in tact pillar that says traditional marriage and a thought bubble that says little help? let me show you. that's just um, i drew this is -- [cheers and applause] anyway that is my idea for the editorial cartoon. this is just a penis cannon shooting an airplane because it's all i really know how to draw. we'll be right back. >> jon: welcome back. my guest tonight the latest film is called "the place beyond the pine." >> is this you -- took off never called me. >> i gotta leave in four hours. i don't know what to do. >> you do whatever you need to do. >> what are you going to do? >> i'm going to do what i have to do. i'm going to school. take care of jason. >> jon: please welcome back to the show eva mendes. hello! [cheers and applause] have a seat. nice to see you. >> hello. hi. [cheers and applause] >> jon: nice to see you. >> nice to see you again. >> jon: am i mistaken is that an exclamation point. >> no, it is not. it's a tear drop. >> jon:

no conspiracies, but just in the sense that in this new era of the new jim crow, it was assumed that they would disappear and theoops mistake of we got wrong guy could be covered up because these guys would disappear. instead, they remind us daily of the hero it perseverance -he roic perseverance i wish i had myself. >> you talked about the film becoming a press freedom peace. what was it like having your work, your notes, your video under a subpoena and having to fight back? >> it was a mixed blessing. it was something incredibly foolish about the city subpoenaing records write-in the middle of the film. it was a publicist dream, right? [laughter] is it not? ,tme icreated and ink fo sarah and dave as well, there is something that sucatur got, that feeling that you have sometimes when you think you're driving too fast when you see the blue lights behind you. this meant something. ,his is felt on our effort particularly the irony that we had spent so long and have been so conscientious and diligent and asking for them to please comment. honor us with a return phone call to say no. the

jim crow laws were a public of edited states and local governments.ig government has long been the enemy of freedom. we must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all americans, rich and poor, immigrants and native, black or white. such freedom is essential in achieving any long-standing health and prosperity. as toni morrison said, write your own story. i hope that some of you will be open to the republican message that favors choice in education and more compassion regarding non-violent crime, and degrading the opportunity of employment. when the time is right, i hope african-americans will look to the party of emancipation on civil liberty, and individual freedom. thank you. [applause] >> the senator has agreed to take some questions if you would like to come up to the microphone. i know we have some students who have to leave. let them speak. yes, ma'am. >> tell me your name and where you're from. >> my name is joshua. thank you for coming out. during your speech, you mentioned that you have support for a gover

make you uncomfortable, even though you knew you were playing a historical figure in the era of jim crow, when racism was that in your face? i don't know where you were when that film these particular scenes, but we see you sitting up in the stands while the coach of the pittsburg team is calling jackie robinson everything but a child of god. wasn't there, but i listened to the tracks. , when i saw the film assembled, the first couple of cuts that we had. i felt that was a really powerful part of the film. sitting through the film with an audience, i know what it felt like. ms. obama talked about when we had a screening at the white house. excruciating that scene was, and how she wanted young people , ande how far we have come to realize that we are not there yet. and i think it is more than just racial discrimination. discrimination of all kinds, religious, ethnic. i think we need to do a better job. tavis: i know given your stature, there are presidents who wanted to meet you, but i am curious as to whether or not this represent a moment for you to be in the white house with a black fi

and i was raised by parents who raised ten children in jim crow education.ughter of a man who was born a slave. and i talk about that in "reimagining equality." seeing that in two generations that my family moved from being property to owning property is one of those things that's inspiring. and it says, look, if you can't be optimistic you really have already lost because you've seen so much positive change. not just in my lifetime but also in the lives of people that you love. >> i'm always moved by your strength, your courage, your brilliance, and your insight. i'm grateful you spent time with us today. >> oh, this was a pleasure. thank you so much. >> stay right there. we'll be back with more "our world with black [ male announcer can gravity be used to help overcome gravity? the chevrolet malibu eco with eassist captures downhill energy, unleashing it later to help propel you uphill. it adds up to an epa-estimated 37 mpg highway... ...and helps defy gravity and gas pumps. ♪ that's american ingenuity, to find new roads. right now get a 2013 chevrolet mal

jim crow laws for a product of state and local government. big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom to do something black americans know all too well on a personal level. we must always embrace of individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all americans, rich and poor, immigrant and native, black-and-white. such freedom is essential in achieving any longstanding health and prosperity. as tony morrison said, write your own story. challenge mainstream fatah. i hope that some of you will be open to the republican message that there is choice in education, less aggressive foreign policy, more compassion regarding non-violent crime and encourages opportunity in employment. and when that time is right, i hope that african-americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberties and individual freedom. thank you very much. [applause] the senator has agreed to take a minute of questions if you want to just come up to the microphone. [inaudible] [laughter] >> i heard you because i know we have so

. >> how does the legacy of slavery, jim crow, and lynching play out in justice in the south?>> well, i think we have really never confronted this problem of disfavored people in our society. i don't think we've actually done a very good job of embracing people who have been victims of our excess, our abuse, our bias, our discrimination. we've allowed these narratives that emerge, where we feel like it's okay to abuse certain kinds of people. and i think that does have a lot to do with what we've seen over the last 200 years. i mean, you know, slavery really wasn't well understood in this country. i don't believe we actually did a very good job of appreciating that in america, we had a slave system that was actually a caste system. where we enslaved people because we didn't think they were as good as the rest of us. and during that era, we redefined people who were formerly enslaved as criminals. we used convict leasing and other systems and lynching to basically create this narrative of criminality. and once you designate somebody as a criminal, you can do anything you want t

. >> we see horrible jim crow and horrible racism that happened in the '30s, '40s, '50s. it was all democrats. it wasn't republicans. >> right. but for the most part, those bigoted democrats of the '30s, '40s and '50s became republicans post the modern civil rights era. because of it. so you can't just yadda, yadda, yadda the last 60 republican years. the problem with this theory that all that stands between the republicans and a plurality of the black vote is a history lesson is, well, enjoy. >> if i would have said who do you think the founders of the naacp are, do you think they were republicans or democrats? would everybody in here know they were all republicans? >> yes. >> all right. all right. you know more than i know. i don't mean that to be insulting. i don't know what you know. i'm trying to find out what the connection is. >> calm down, everybody. just calm down. red team, start the car. remove the vanilla bean from the hot chocolate. red team. >> anyway, the senator also got stuck at one point trying to convince the audience he did, in fact, support the civil

way jews were treated in nazi germany or blackstar in apartheid in south africa and the slavery jim crow airs in the usa as examples of legally dividing society by necessity i think most people in the e.u. with their modern sensibilities would find these practices be bob barrack and backwards but my question is that why is there to this day officially sanctioned second class citizens in certain e.u. countries or to be more accurate i should say non-citizen residents of the two million people in latvia around three hundred thousand of them are considered non-citizen residents who can neither vote nor hold public office these non-citizens are russian speakers of various ethnic backgrounds whose children also by birth bear the non-citizen status not happy being on the bad side of e.u. apartheid the non-citizens have a larger glee doesn't vote for their own parliament because they can't elect to participate in the left field what even if the parliament has no power whatsoever it will be their chance to shine a light on the issue which the mainstream media has been keeping quiet for years you

way jews were treated in nazi germany or blackstar in apartheid in south africa and the slavery jim crow errors in the usa as examples of legally dividing society by necessity i think most people you with their modern sensibilities would find these practices to be bob barrack and backwards but my question is that why is there to this day officially sanctioned second class citizens in certain e.u. countries or to be more accurate i should say non-citizen residents of the two million people in latvia around three hundred thousand of them are considered non-citizen residents who can neither vote nor hold public office these non-citizens are russian speakers of various ethnic backgrounds whose children also by birth bearer of the non-citizen status not happy being on the bad side of apartheid the non-citizens have logically decided to vote for their own parliament because they can't elect or participate in the left field what even if the parliament has no power whatsoever it will be their chance to shine a light on the issue which the mainstream media has been keeping quiet for years you kno

had slavery for a hundred years then we had white supremacy and the terribly repressive system of jim crow in the south in the one nine hundred twenty s. the ku klux klan had three to five million members in the one nine hundred thirty s. of course we had numerous groups modeling themselves on fascists in europe so this is not new but there has been an upsurge in recent years i think it is absolutely tied if not entirely due to the election of an afro-american president many of these groups i would say most of them are pinched with racism and obviously this is a spur and an impetus to them and the tea party movement well not violent in and of itself but it's the rhetoric of it but its rhetoric it can regenerate its rhetoric it can be very explosive though. the tea party had or it can always be explosive absolutely the tea party's rhetoric did verge on extremism certainly not blaming the tiepolo for any upsurge of right wing violence but you know there are some some suggestive inspiration here amy you want to jump in there go ahead yeah well let me i mean actually obama is a great example o

way jews were treated in nazi germany or blackstar in apartheid in south africa and the slavery jim crow arrows in the usa.

. >> reporter: from the moment they arrived for spring training in the jim crow south, a test of gracer both of them. that scene really happened. >> it was like making a challenge of that sign and to kind of recover my own sense of dignity and pride. i had to do that. >> reporter: rosa parks moment for you. >> yeah. >> reporter: surviving all the abuse with dignity was tough on both of them. but she says they had faith things could change. >> be patient, kid, it's coming. i think we had a sense of the possibilities, even then. >> reporter: 40 years after jackie robinson's death, she's not just the guardian of his memory. she's helped many others follow in his footsteps. >> we have graduated 1,400 students. >> reporter: 1,400? establishing a scholarship program for young black men and women. >> we use a quote of jack's that a life is not important except in the impact it has on the lives of others. >> reporter: did you have any idea that this would become your life's work? >> no. how does one know? i think in the final analysis, it's how to meet a challenge. you see challenges, not as o

way jews were treated in nazi germany or blacks during apartheid in south africa and the slavery jim crow era has in the usa as examples of legally dividing. society by necessity i think most people he you with their modern sensibilities would find these practices me bob baer american backwards but my question is that why is there to this day of fishley sanctioned second class citizens in certain e.u. countries or to be more accurate i should say non-citizen residents of the two million people in last year around three hundred thousand of them are considered non-citizen residents who can neither vote nor hold public office these non-citizens are russian speakers of various ethnic backgrounds whose children also by birth bearer of the non-citizen status not happy being on the bad side of.

michelle alexander, the used to be an excellent prosecutor wrote a book about the new jim crow.you know, also latinos in prison. it is a really bad thing in america. it is more covert than it is over. like it was years ago. but it is there. it really is. and it's bad. pbs had a documentary that was probably the latter part of last year. the name of it was slavery by another name. >> guest: that is correct. >> caller: it was all encompassing. you know, if he really wants to an eye-opening documentary, -- >> host: it seems like on the miami herald, that there is a film called before they die. talking about preventing an event to commemorate this film. some called the black wall street. >> guest: i think it's important to say that while it's overwhelmingly people of color who are the victims of this kind of justice system, it's also about class. the westminster three are white kids. this happened as well, and it's very important to know that this is a part of it and it's a way to we kind of managed things. when the civil war came out, i'm speaking to a group in wilmington, delaware

well we turn to michelle alexander's great book the new jim crow she wanted a great prophetic voices of our time the talks quite explicitly about the war on drugs been a war of poor people especially black and brown poor people just like you in new york city stop and frisk five thousand stop and frisk cases since two thousand and two under mayor bloomberg this is a low this is the mayor to the president says of the terrific mayor but five million stop and frisk eighty seven percent black and brown only two percent of the criminal activity that's the kind of autocratic authoritarian sensibility we see expanding in the united states and we have to be honest about it we have to fight about fight against it we have to protect rights and liberties of everyone. now if you like we see so far go to our facebook page at facebook dot com slash breaking the set and be sure to do what thousands of done already give us a like will be updating our status daily there with links to past segments as well as reaching out to you the audience for ideas on what you want to see covered in the show also ch

and that lead to local governments finally change their jim crow laws.t guest, diane mcwhorter's new book "carry me home". her 2001 historical book won depulitzer prize. she joins us from cambridge massachusetts tonight. diane welcome inside "the war room." >> thank you so much, michael. >> michael: tell me something, you were about the same age as the four little girls -- they weren't all the same age -- but in that ballpark who died in the church bombings. how did that affect you at the time? >> one of the reasons i was moved to write my book is i never hear about the church bombings, and then i realized that president kennedy was assassinated only two months later, and i vividly recall that. so i had to sort of ask myself why did this catastrophe, this calamity that took place in my backyard not make an impression on me? and that was one of the motivations for my writing the book. >> michael: because from a far, it seems hard to imagine that something like this is something that someone who is growing up there doesn't even remember is amazing. do you

the laws in many states called jim crow laws demanded separation of the races in all public places and especially the public schools. these laws were based on the idea of separate but equal. that meant black people could enter public areas, could use public facilities such as drinking fountains in waiting rooms and train stations, be seated on public transportation, go to parks and movie theaters and attend schools but not with white people. sitting apart on a bus or not being served through the front window of a takeout restaurant was humiliating, but nothing was more painful than being refused a decent education. no matter how much they argued or how long they complained, black families had to send their children to all-black schools no matter how far away. many buildings were dilapidated, even dangerous. textbooks were few, worn, out of date. there were no supplies, no after school programs, school lunches, sports equipment, underpaid teachers were overburdened trying to make do. then one day some parents from delaware, kansas, south carolina, virginia and washington, d.c. stepped o

we see horrible jim crow and horrible racism that happened in the 30s, 40s, 50s. it was all democrats and not republicans. some of them have switched over to become republicans. but the republicans by nearly were not those people. it is an argument of an obstacle. u.s.f the african-american senators was a guy -- i am blanking on his name. brooks. >> brooks. yes. [laughter] , if democratss had the incredible history of abolition and emancipation and voting rights, you would hear about it all the time because democrats are good at talking about stuff like that. republicans have done a terrible job. , if i said,you could he think the founders of the -- are? would anyone know that they are republicans? >> yes. >> ok. you know more than i know. [laughter] to bedon't mean that insulting. i'm trying to find out what you know. the republican party has not talked enough about the great history and interaction between the public and party and black history and voting rights in our country. i would try to make the argument that it is an uphill battle. it is. for me to try to

jim crow has learned how to dress. he or she dresses in brooks brothers suits today and much more difficult to determine who what he is. so it means being aware. it doesn't mean that one should go around looking for trouble here and there but when you find students who are negative in voicing their opinions in almost a riotous state in some of the universities in mississippi, that's when obama was re-elected president you know, it's still there. it's still there. >> michael: and we are so fortunate that you are still here, and you are able to tell your story and share it with so many people. really myrlie evers-williams, you're an extraordinary person. we appreciate your time in the war room. when we come back brett erlich has his chance to weigh in on the unveiling of the george w. bush library. i'm betting this is good. stick around. alright, in 15 minutes we're going to do the young turks. i think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that we're honest. they know that i'm not bs'ing them wi