so the class of jim crowe did not -- collapse of jim crow did not mean the -- [inaudible] it just meant a new regime. so going back to your question, so there is a legitimate opposition both the from the left as well as from the right to obama, but a lot of the position is based on the limits of the tea party, the birther moment, etc., that no evidence -- i can't provide all the evidence that let's oppose obama for the right reasons, but don't claim you oppose obama because he's not a legitimate american, yeah? it clearly shows that is the case, he is an american. >> host: when you say the tea party, do you find the tea party to be racist? >> guest: segments of the tea party definitely have clearly shown their face, but they are in the traditional sense of racism. in this book i address not the 10% of white americans who subscribe to jim crow ideas, who would be more racialized, more open in their racial views. i address regular white folks, yeah? who want to be beyond race but have not done what needs to be done in america to truly go beyond race which is the only way that we can elimi

and usually his philanthropy was for whites and blacks in the period was the jim crow segregation. very unusual to get equal money to white and black entities. so he gave his money to orphanages and he gave his money to churches and he gave his money to the benevolent societies but also all very small local ones. i argue in the book these were the people that supported the company. in a lot of cases these were the employees at these were the people that he wanted to be connected to in the community. i think that he gave equally quite strategically. we might have to say to ourselves r.j. reynolds is way ahead of himself and is opposed to the jim crow segregation but that isn't the case. he accepted the racism that was part and parcel of that world. but i think what he did understand is that by giving act quickly to african-americans and whites he was saying to those i care deeply about your social issues, about your community and i want to support your community and they have a connection to you both as your employer and someone that cares about your welfare beyond my factory. he al

in the jim crow south. often sometimes his students would show up to class hungry. and when he would visit their homes he would meet fathers who were paid slave wages. those children were taught, he would later say that the end of leaf is in a beet row, a spinach field, or a cotton patch. deprivation, these were not distracts to lindon banes johnson. he knew that poverty and injustice are as inseparable as opportunity and justice are joined. so that was in him. from an early age. now like any of us he was not a perfect man. his experiences in rule texas may have stretched him moral imagination, but he was ambitious. very ambitious. a young man in a hurry to plot his own escape from poverty. and to chart his own political career. and that meant not challenging convention. during his first 20 years he opposed every civil rights bill that came up for a vote. once called the push a farce and a shame. he was chosen as a vice presidential nominee in part because of his affinity with an ability to deliver that southern white vote. is that the beginning of the kennedy admin

we're talking about the new i jim crow criminalization, right? much of the history is framed as we're a perpetrator, we're a criminal. >> right. >> so i decided not to look at even though i know they existed, all the police reports, the cointel pro documents and things like that and to actually interview the people and find out what their lives were about, what motivated them to create these artistic movements and things like that. and later i came back to look at the police reports as the menace to what they aspire to, right? but sad to say many historians, because there's so much paper there, want to start with the criminal record and don't realize that's framing the story. right? and so baraka was being villainized a few decades ago, and they went so far as to say he wasn't an artist. so i said wait a minute, you know? you can talk bad about my mother and stuff like that, i expect you to do that -- [laughter] you're going to get to the point where you're going to say we're not artists, you know? so i started giving these conferences, what, ble

to understand how much worse the persistence of pain and poverty could be for other races in the jim croweouth. oftentimes, his students would show up to class hungry and visiting their homes, he met fathers paid slave wages by the farmer ares they work for. those children were taught that the end of life is in a bebeet, or spen afternoon or cotton patch. that was not abinstructions to johnson. he anyhow that poverty and enjustice are inseparable as opportunity and justice are joined. and that was in him. from an early age. and like any of us, he was not a perfect man. his experiences in rural texas may have stretched his moral imagination, but he was ambitious, very ambitious. a young man in a hurry to plot his own escape from poverty and to chart his own political career, and in the jim crowe south, that meant not challenging convention. during his first 20 years in congress, he opposed every several right's bill calling for a vote calling legislation a farce and a sham. he was chosen as a vice-president nom no because of his ability to deliver the southern white vote and in the beginnin

jim crow spread to all 50 states. you know, they passed the civil rights act in 1964.1974 they announced the war on drugs. and if they had not had drugs they would have had a war on chitlins and soul food. they wanted a way to bring the power of the government against black and brown people. >> and had these ideas occurred to you before politically in any way? >> no, no. no, i -- i thought before all of this happened, i thought i was a republican. and now i am sort of like a former smoker. i am a former moderate. >> so you came out of prison a changed man? >> uh-huh, uh-huh. way more angry than i ever was when i was 18 or 19. i'm much more upset. >> and john mctiernan joins me here in studio along with his attorney, oliver diaz, good to see you again. you didn't want to talk about your case out on the ranch, i wonder why? >> well, i shouldn't, for one thing. legal reasons. it will give them ammunition to go after me again if they want to. >> do you fear there is more prosecution coming? >> well, we actually have appeals still pending at this point and we want to make s

he came to understand how much worst persistent pain of poverty could be for other races in the jim crow south. often times his students would show up to class hungry and when he would visit their homes, he would meet fathers who with paid slave wages by the farmers they worked for. those children were taught he would later say that the end of life is in a spinach field, or a cotton patch. deprivation and discrimination, these were not abstractions to lyndon johnson. he knew poverty and injustice are as inseparable as opportunity and justice are joined. so that was in him. from an early age. now, like any of us, he was not a perfect man. his experiences in rural texas may have stretched his moral imagination, but he was ambitious. very ambitious. a young man in a hundredary to plot his own escape from poverty and chart his own political career and in the jim crow south that meant not challenging convention. during his first 20 years in congress he opposed every civil rights bill that came up for a vote. once calling the push for federal legislation a farce and sham. he was chosen as a vi

it's the new jim crow. it's not the old hood. it's james crow esquire in a pinstriped suit.h just to be able to say we impeached, knowing full well that the senate is not going to convict. they know that. let's play it back home, throw red meat at our people, bottom line, we've got to get reelectriced and that's what it is. but eric holder has done what any decent attorney general would do. you do not suppress the vote in the united states. >> you have to give him credit. he's not blinked, he's not backed up one bit on voter suppression. >> thank you both for your time tonight. still ahead, the music industry, the mob and me. a story from 31 years ago that i'll revisit tonight. but first, be afraid, be very, very afraid. paul ryan's vision of america. that's next. ♪ i know a thing about an ira ♪ and i got the tools ♪ to do it my way ♪ i got a lock on equities ♪ that's why i'm type e ♪ ♪ that's why i'm tyyyyype eeeee, ♪ ♪ i can do it all from my mobile phone ♪ ♪ that's why i'm tyyyyype eeeee, ♪ ♪ if i need some help i'm not alone ♪ ♪ we're all tyyyyype eeeee, ♪ ♪ we've got a

institutional racism we see in america today and trace it through the prison industrial complex, jim crow rev, the pundits and the conservative journalists who are screaming about activist judges, referring to justice sotomayor have not one leg to stand on because they don't say anything when justice scalia or justice thomas in their sort of personal lives engage in very, very specific political actions and political rhetoric, so the reality is since this ban has been in place, african-american attendants and matriculation in michigan institutions is down 33%, rev. the data is very, very suggestive, we need the federal government to have a role in terms of equal opportunity and access, not just for education, but remember it's also government employment in the state of michigan, as well. very, very important issues here and we took a tough loss with this high court decision this week. >> it's not only in michigan. if you look, viviana, in california, 9% of the state's college-age students are black, but at berkley, only 2% of the freshmen are black. in florida where i am tonight, 24% of c

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sending black americans to separate schools and separate water fountains and jim crow justice. the world of signs that always said no coloreds allowed. they knocked down that sign and put up a new one. no racists allowed. joining me now to discuss politics host, the host of politics nation, reverend al sharpton, instrumental in putting pressure on the nba to take these actions against donald sterling. and "washington post's" eugene robinson, covering the story. welcome to you both, gentlemen. >> thank you, ari. >> reverend, you have been in and out of these battles for many years. we have discussed across the country really, how different this one has been. walk us through why that its? >> well, you know saturday when i first got involved when the tapes went public the difference that i have seen over the last couple of days is the swiftness there has been a response. and the widespread support to have everyone from every major basketball star, from lebron james all the way to michael jordan from oprah winfrey to the president of the united states i think was something that we

like jim crow. majority or plurality of the court is saying.the other hand you have justice sotomayor and justice ginsburg and arguing something different. their conception of racial discrimination it can reveal itself by social and economic conditions that suggest racial disadvantage. and that's what justice sotomayor was indicating in her powerful dissent. >> think that is very well put. and speaking to the fact. this comes up in a lot of civil rights laws. whether there will be a systemic analysis. what is the aggregate impact, versus did you find, as you put it personal, discrimination. but there is also something fascinating going on with the justices been to law school and been to the environments. look back at the programs in hyp higher education. take a listen to something, justice sotomayor said on cbs. what it means to be a successful minority and think about affirmative action. take a listen. >> you can't be a minority in the society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action. >> what is she getting at there?

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also i'm concerned about the creeping jim crow that is in filtrating our city that if you are a mostly white tech worker, you get to go in. but if you are of color you have to go to the back of the bus. you are displaying now the by your words but your outcome. i ask you to judge me by the outcomes. please respect us enough to have your words and action match. if you are care about displacement and care about poor people, then you need to act like it and the lady that does protest too much. >> hello supervisors. i'm struggling with the impact of the 2 dozens private shuttles and ignored by the mta concerning those impacts and from the environmental review. 2 years ago the mta gave itself an exemption for the 500 parking meetings and this was a pilot program. we challenged that and within 2 days after filing the challenge, the mta rescinded the program and apologized to the neighborhood sand we -- saying we won't do that again. when eir exemption are challenged in court. you need to be mindful of that. second, the argument that you need this pilot program to study the effects of these e

the end of the reconstruction era led to jim crow segregation and the lynchings and the cross burnings and the organized terror campaigns against black americans that were used to enforce the jim crow rules. the years after reconstruction were so difficult for our country that a lot of people still argue that the civil war hadn't really ended in the south. and it went on that way decade after decade. out of the 19th century and into the 20th century. in 1957 president eisenhower sent federal troops back into the american south. he sent them so they could stand guard over the integration of little rock central high school in arkansas. he sent soldiers to make that happen. the u.s. supreme court had made integration the law of the land, but it took federal troops to make it the law of arkansas. by that time old william potter gale, he was already preaching anti-federal government, white supremacist claptrap which he put under the banner of the christian identity movement. but that decision by president eisenhower to send in those troops to arkansas in 1957, that so enraged william potter

and in the jim crow south, that meant not challenging convention.he opposed every civil rights bill that came up for a vote, once calling the push for federal legislation a farce and a shame. he was chosen as a vice-presidential nominee in part because of his affinity with an ability to deliver that southern white vote. and at the beginning of the kennedy administration, he shared with president kennedy a caution towards racial controver controversy. but marchers kept marching. four little girls were killed in a church. bloody sunday happened. the winds have change blew. and when the time came, when lbj stood in the oval office, i picture him standing there, taking up the entire door frame looking out over the south lawn. in a quiet moment and asked himself what the true purpose of his office was for. what was the end point of his ambitions? he would reach back in his own memory and he would remember his own experience with want and he knew he had a unique capacity as the most powerful white politician from the south to not merely challenge the conv

of course, at that time, we had jim crow south, you know- we still had a jim crow south at that time. yeah. >> you see, that's what i mean by empowerment- he had to empower the african-americans so that they could then make the decisions. i understand that. >> this other step that you are taking, where you differ from your father and the others, is this then- it doesn't seem to me, from what i'm hearing, that this is actually a swing back, if you wanted to call it that, toward original islam doctrine and so forth, as it is a moving forward into maybe another arena. am i on track with that, or- >> well, yes. to me, the change is a moving forward into real islam, but it is also a moving forward into the world of reality. and i don't think the qur'an, or the religion given to us as given by- as it is preached by muslims of the world could have brought about this change in me, or in many of those like me- i don't think it could have done it. it took what that man did, it took his trick to break the grip of what we thought the world was, what we thought white people were, what we thought t

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the sole rights act in the voting act and destroying the institutions of jim crow and guaranteed access to -- i mean, on the march him -- the march was very important. evolution in terms of thinking about these issues of structural and equality. the same time, the launching of a major campaign. in chicago you're talking about the big northern city, legal segregation. and yet you have the issues of race and class. you have this sort of personal, first in connection to the flight and -- played. and that sort of cheapens the understanding of the issue. he sees the march is a chance to highlight and create a national conversation which is one of the great tragedies. the press never picked up on that. they never carry the story the way that he wanted. some of that was because of controversy, but just the nature of the press at that point. the backlash, never able to shift the conversation into larger, structural issue. those are obviously issues of race. get tied into drug laws, tied into the criminal justice system mom i talked about in the epilogue and the focus. i try to follow some of th

it's creating a new jim crow. >> reporter: counting ohio eight states have banned affirmative action starting with california 20 years ago. one other note, justice kagan set this out when she was at the supreme court. >> pete williams at the supreme court building tonight. so that was today's decision by the court. this next issue was argued and presented to the court today and full disclosure right at top. this company is a big player in this case along with a lot of other big names in media who are tonight just like us covering it as a news story. this is about something called aereo, it delivers tv to you by bypassing the usual players. our report tonight from nbc's stephanie gosk. >> reporter: ben allen doesn't pay for cable and he has a message for the cable company. good riddance. >> no more cable. the only thing i'm paying for is internet. >> reporter: he uses the online service aereo. along with several other internet video services. slashing his once $110 tv bill in half. aereo launched last year from a warehouse in brooklyn and now available in 11 cities charging customers

opinions including a 58-page decent by justice soto mayor who compared michigan's reference dumb to jim crow laws in the south and writing that a majority of the michigan electorate changed the basic rules of the political process in that state in a matter that uniquely disadvantaged racial minorities. the political diary editor, jason riley, and senior editorial writer, collin leavy. colin, you wrote about this for us. the opinion was splintered with a lot of different points of view, what should be the main takeaway from the opinion? >> right, paul, the main takeaway is that the justices got to the right answer but they were most incredibilityal. they can ban those privileges without the constitution. but it took them 105 pages to do it. this opinion will not be a clear guiding light going forward. >> but it is clear that this opinion did not say that racial preferences are unconstitutional. in fact -- >> yes, justice kennedy was very clear to say that. and wanted to make sure that this was a very narrow opinion. >> so it boils down to basically the people can decide whether or not they wa

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. >> so for liberal whites the shooting triggers another round of out rage against the jim crow south. they see it as another example of violent retribution. and people write to their congressman just as they had done with birmingham. the editorials in the newspapers , condemning the violence. some of the documents came across him people writing and talking about their own ideas. it sort of honor of this great liberal guilt. the civil rights movement has been at least since 1960 has been a major news story for the past 56 years. and to some extent the march continued that sort of liberal turned. by the same token because of this emerging -- because of something like the watts riot and the controversies over the morning and report we're starting to see the language of backlash, the phrase backlashes just aren't developed as a buzzword. some whites are sort of increasingly alienated. they think blacks are moving too fast. the civil rights of man is achieved what it should.

>> it's creating a new era of racism, a new jim crow he. >> controversy over a supreme court ruling in michigan. >> separated by adoption, a man tracked down his biological sister after 50 years of searching. good morning and welcome to al jazeera america. i'm stephanie sy. >> i'm del walters. it's been three years since the president talked about his asian promise. >> he made good to shore up diplomatic and economic ties, he arrived in japan for the first leg of a week long tour of asia. he will make stops in south korea, malaysia and philippines. >> the president reiterated plans to reassert the u.s. as a pacific nation, saying our strategy is a long term commitment to this region and it's people and i'm proud of our progress so far. the president who won't visit china pledged to build a relationship with the country saying it would not come at the expense of japan or any other ally. >> first stop, japan where rising nationalism has raised alarms. a high stakes dispute between japan and china over a set of remote islands threatens to become a live fire conflict. >> what could degener

opinions, including a 58-page dissent by justice sonia sotomayor who compared michigan's referendum to jim crow laws in the south, calling it, quote, the last chapter of discrimination. and writing that a majority of the michigan electorate changed the basic rules of the political process in that state in a manner that uniquely disadvantaged racial minorities. for more, i'm joined by "wall street journal" columnist, dan henninger, jason reilly and colin levi. colin, you wrote about this for us. the opinion was really splintered. a lot of opinions, different points of view. what should our viewers -- what should be the main takeaway from the opinion? >> right. the main takeaway here is that the justices got to the right answer. but they got there by the most incremental means possible. they found that states can ban racial preferences without violating the constitution, but as you said, it took them five opinions and 102 pages to do it. so it's pretty clear this opinion is not going to be a clear guiding light going forward. >> but very clear this opinion did not say that racial preferences are

you have to at least understand that it is morally wrong for this country to sanction jim crow segregationd this, over time, really pushed people, especially when they saw the settlers -- the southerners stonewalled. there is no mind, greater coalition of americans that push to get the civil rights bill passed. i have seen nothing like it since. it is a one-of-a-kind coalition, and yet it happened in an america that was pretty starkly divided between black and white, and now here we are in the most multicultural, multiracial, altiethnic america ever, with black man sitting in the oval office, and that might be part of the problem, push back here, but we cannot get anything comprehensive push through this congress even though in 1964 they did remarkably well. >> well, i would say that one of the things that we face today is that people learned lessons of that time, so, yes, you have a lot of pro-immigration reform activists, but you also have a team reform and an anti-immigration reform. i do not want to say just the tea party, who have learned the same lesson, and they are pushing in the o

because the americans come out of the legacy of segregation and jim crow and even slavery far back enough of the o b b b are more susceptible to economic trends. would you like in the foreclosure crisis with the home ownership. with the layoffs and job site with lower pay and so this is certainly had an effect. now i wear them and i would argue that there are people like to group of educated in trying to heal the racial division. and oh we do live in a country were racial cold is spoken only by nearly everybody. but it allows people who use it. to say to not do anything wrong but they know that they know they aren't anyone else to soak allow the conversation around voting and guns and things that are racially change. although seldom is that ever admitted to a set of the president is a very strong symbol of course full full. the road ahead for improvements and so has he done enough in terms of the b race relations during his time in the light also fall all of us can do more overheated. well i mean look the president is being towed on by a whole multitude of forces for me to sit back and se

you have voter id laws just like the jim crow south.e at the highest levels of the government making statements like that which are absolutely not true. we have these isolated incidences that should be condemned but they are isolated incidences. one thing for the president to condemn these comments from a specific person for him to then go on and condemn united states as a whole of the country goes beyond the point. martha: whether or not they should be broadened out. you look at the ridiculously disparaging comments she made about jewish people, about gay people. it raises a question, this is an individual acting badly, and in this case they're going to to investigate, look to authenticate this tape, they will go through the process as the head of the nba, commissioner of the nba and figure out what kind of action to take given all of this, richard, what kind of action do you think he should take? >> there are a lot of options on the table. it does not allow them to take away the team from him. we will have to see what the nba does. cl

jim crow? wasn't that a law that you often talk about? >> i want to know the back story here. some kind of personal situation with the editor of the new yorker? >> no, i'm just saying that they are okay with government getting involved in other businesses well let's get involved in their business. >> i think you have a situation with them. you can gloat all you want, bob. because they are soon coming to an end, as soon as that employer mandate kicks in, you wait and see about the poll numbers for obamacare and what's going to be happen? it's going to be the reckoning with 2016 and 2014. mark my words. >> reaching critical mass. i'm always maes amazed people have insurance. >> if it was going to change america for the better, why are democrats in trouble for the senate in 2014. >> i think you are overestimating how much they are in trouble. >> i love you brother, but i know a couple of days ago -- >> republicans campaign on their idea for health care. >> that's why they delayed the mandate. >> you can't have that people up for re-election and not being in trouble. >> the best t

dream" he has written inside is of the civil rights movement and prophetic religion in the death of jim crow. he has written numerous articles and essays so our format today i will start by asking a few questions for panelists to discuss and then we will switch to audience questions. please go to the microphone in the middle. it 3:15 we will move to the activity building for the book signing. all the panelists could address, it is drawn from law quote in his book. in "eyes on the prize" charles houston, an early civil rights lawyer said lawsuits mean little unless supported by public opinion and baffling problem is how to create the proper kind of public opinion. to extend the goal of the movement is about shaping public opinion, or legislative and judicial appearance? >> they are tied together in some critical ways. it is the predicate for legislative change, social change, public opinion shift in your favor. i can think of two wonderful examples, everyone would be familiar with the letter from the birmingham jail by dr. king which is not only briton for the new york times also a pamphlet b

, and his landmark achievement, pushing the civil rights act through progress, and abolishes the jim crow laws of segregation. he praised for his courage. >> he knew he had a unique capacity, the most powerful white politician from the south to not merely challenge the convention, that has crushed the dreams of so many. with civil rights icons looking on, he acknowledged set backs in the struggle but drawing on his own personal story, he insisted that government still maz a role to play in social justice. >> i reject such cynicism because i have lived out the promise of lbj's efforts. because michelle has lived out the legacy of those efforts. because my daughters, because i and millions of my generation, were in a position to take the baton that he handed to us. >> the if the drew a parallel between his own law, obama-care, and his rocky path for another part of the program known as the great society. >> and then a healthcare law that opponents describe as socialized medicine, that would curtail the freedom, but ultimately freed seniors from the security. power politics is next, and prep

jim crowe.alks about the racialization of the criminal justice system in america. >> he is also funding a journalism project. >> a really interesting one. it is more advocacy journalism. we talked to him briefly. he wanted to understand what we were doing. i have known him since he started ebay. i covered him and i know him very well. >> does comcast have an interest in your company? >> we have an operating agreement with them. we looked to have an operating agreement with a news organization that was larger than we were because it was not just about raising money, it was getting the benefit of their wisdom. i am dead serious when i say that. they know things that we do not know. also, of course, they have platforms. >> and they have lawyers. they are a minority investor. we have very tight relationship and i have to say, it has been really great for both of us because we both have what each other needs. >> how much of what you do will be conferences? >> we sold out in three hours. >> we are con

reynolds also did this because he was having to deal with the reality of a very horrific jim crow racism at a frightening time for african-americans in the earliest -- early 20th-century south. many had the right to vote taken away from them, other civil rights, and literally, from extralegal violence that many african-americans wanted to leave the south and go north. r.j. reynolds say i will support your community, giving money to orphanages, churches, elderly society, always to take my will take care of you. stay here in winston-salem. >> host: he was a democrat. >> guest: he was a democrat, but that democrats at that time was the same thing that being a debt -- was not the same thing that being a democrat means to us today. in fact, the democratic party was the prominent party in the early 20th-century and the democratic party had used racist invest is to get rid of the public in a populous challenges. the democratic party was the party of all whites essentially in the early 20th century. >> host: winces white and black communities. several oral traditions about r.j. sexual relationsh

in the jim crow south that meant not challenging convention. his first 20 years in congress, he opposed every civil rights bill that came up for a the push forlling federal legislation a farce and a shame. as a vicesen presidential nominee in part because of his affinity with an ability to deliver the southern white folk. at the beginning of the kennedy administration, he shared with president kennedy a caution towards racial controversy. marching.rs kept -- for littlerls girls were killed in a church. bloody sunday happened. the winds of change blew. , when lbjime came -- i in the oval office picture him standing there, taking up the entire doorframe, looking out over the south lawn in a quiet moment, and asked himself what the true purpose of , what was the for endpoint of his ambitions, he would reach back in his own and he would remember his own experience with want. he knew that he had a unique as the most powerful white politician from the south to not merely challenge the convention that had crushed the dreams of so many, but to ultimate

we believe this is where jim crow was still hiding out, and i hope that one day you take this on to expose the pinnacles of racism and discrimination that have permeated our society. my question is this, there's sometimes pain when we delve into the story. what helps me is the photos and images of that people lynched, there would be a festival, a picnic, children, who were those people? who were those children are are now adults? what fear do they have in going into that history? that's deep, man. how do we deal with that? that trauma that we have all experienced as a people, get through the trauma and get through the healing side. >> well, that's a tough question, but you opened up -- i can't tell you how many people i interviewed in mississippi going back 30 years or more now, how many black folks said they were raised told in their households, do not talk about emmet till. why? it's em baring. the story is painful and revealing of our helplessness. it's not just a white issue because you're afraid to offend or display ignorance or that thing to get over, robert kennedy, naive and silly

i spent 10 years growing up in greenville in the jim crow days. i had a lot of before photographs to compare to your after photographs. i wanted -- i wondered if you racism, and onhe what people don't realize is, although it reared its head again, the connection with the anti-unionism with racism. i will mention in passing, you may become aware when you were there, to its credit greenville held the first lynching trial ever in south carolina. 1948. everyone was acquitted. then, jessica west brought a long piece about it. she was there for the trial. i had known about it. your writing prompted me to dig it out and read it. you may me think a lot about greenville and change my attitude. i'd be interested to hear your observations. like thank you very much. as you can imagine there is a vein of things we have been thinking about related to this. a general proposition is we're trying to, we have been trying to convey positive impressions without pollyanna-ism. there is no part of the world that is completely positive. only used to say we to each other

landmark achievement of 56 years ago, pushing the civil rights act through congress, and abolishing the jim crow laws of segregation. mr obama praised l.b.j. >> he knew he had a unique capacity, the most powerful white politician from the south, to not merely challenge the convention, but had crushed the dreams of so many. to ultimately dismantle for good the structures. >> with civil rights icon looking on. president obama acknowledged step backs. drawing on his own personal story. insist the that the government has a role ta play. >> i reged cynicism because i lived out the promise. michelle has lived out the legacy of the efforts. my daughters have lived out, because i and millions prosecutor in the position to take the baton. >> the president drew a parallel between signature law, and l.b.j.'s rocky part of the program. >> and then the health care laws described as socialised medicine. freeing seniors from the fear of illness, >> for president obama, the legacy of l.b.j. resonates personnel paly and in politics. >> a show of power politics this week. attorney general eric holder angry over h

. >> it's creating a new era of racism, a new jim crow he. >> controversy over a supreme court rulingn michigan. >> separ

and compares it to jim crow laws and the president talks about how the real voter fraud are are republicans are trying to suppress votes, that is trying to instill the black voters that a republican take over would bode ill for their civil rights and that is charged rhetoric and gives you an idea of what democrats feel the need to do given the difficult electoral circumstances. current indicator of how things go going with obama care and it suggest it would be a bad year and they are pulling out the stops early. >> what are the republicans doing to respond to this and b, should republicans push say immigration reform. and push the argument from steve israel that they are racist on the issue. and not only on the name calling but bring that issue up? >> and first thing they have to do is not get trolled or bite when steve israel wants them to come out and fight with them. that's number one. and number two, they have to do what they have been doing, reaching inside of different sides to say look, this is not only your grandfather's republican party or white dudes republican party it is broaden

then it goes into the jim crow era. through the black power movement.nds around room 306. the attempt is to get a new generation of people immersed into history. by using the documentaries, they hope people feel a more visceral connection to the past. >> i have been to memphis and stood where you are. you look sort of just amazingly at the balcony there. the museum held a ceremony. can you describe it? >> it was a solemn procession. it was led by a sax phonist. they walked before the ror lain motel. they laid a wreath at the spot where doctor king was assassinated. some people sat quitely, some with young children on their shoulders. it was a touching moment. it is a special place. a place that is hallowed ground. people come to reflect here. >> the goal of the museum. sit inspirational? exoccasional? what is the big takea? >> i think it's a combination. you can't help get an emotional reaction. this is where one of the nation's greatest leaders was slain. it's educational. more than words or book on a wall. you're drawn back into the struggles that hel

>> guest: for liberal whites the shooting of mayor distributers our rage in the jim crow south as anotherexample of violent retribution. there are editorials in the newspapers that condemn the violence some of the documents people riding talking about their own ideas and feelings asking for advice. it is great liberal guilt but the civil-rights movement has been a major news story in american life the past five or six years in to some extent the march continues that liberal track by the same token because of the of what to write it or the controversy over the moynihan report we see the language of backlash the phrase starting to develop as a buzzword that some whites are alienated and blacks are moving too fast as has achieved what it has an neece to slow down which tuesday exact opposite of black activists. so there are plenty of white smirches people say we will join this people often affiliated with religious of catholic or jewish americans are longtime activists. especially the civil-rights experience. it could be there own experience they decided they would come and maybe just spent

there's never been an outlawing in the same way jim crow outlawed the ability of the racists to intermingle. and there was never the work to put harsh penalty on anybody like here with african-american people. the ownerses have to own up to the fact that race plays a unique role in thx of the country and in the history of the nba. >> forget the country for a second. their league. what you saw -- >> is black. >> you saw wealthy white people staring into the headlights of a train. you could see the fear in everyone's eyes. well, guys, who do you think plays in the league? who buys your tickets, jerseys, buys what the advertisers sell. it was an amazing moment to see the power dynamic of oh what everyone in that league understood was going to come down on them if they didn't do something dramatic. >> there is no question about it. one of the differences is adam silver, as he announced today and this was part of today, is not david stern. david stern, the commissioner for 30 years, someone who coddled donald sterling for many years who didn't do anything when the housing discrimination slum lor

. >> came to chicago in 1957, part of the great migration of african-americans escaping the jim crowwork. >> we get up in the morning and you would have to take your lunch because we had to be stuck out here, 100,000 people working around the clock. >> during the great migration, chicago's african-american community grew from 2% of the population to nearly a third by the 1970s. the south side became the center of black business and culture. >> it was the heydays and now it looks like a ghost town. >> today in poverty stricken neighborhoods, good paying jobs are hard to come by. ♪ after 20 years of watches jobs and businesses disappear, folks are happy to welcome a wal-mart, viewed as anti-labor by many. >> you guys know how to open a store. it is something else here. everything thatter community pullman and rosalyn have the right to have that here, too. let's get going. >> wal-mart is bringing 00 jobs to a community plagued by unemployment and foreclosures. the pay's low but for some it is better than no pay at all. >> let us pray. through this wal-mart, our community will continue t