he would see people like joe louis, nat king cole, lena horne, dorothy bam bridge and hosts of otherswho would be presented as the exemplar of the black customer the home that company now needed to appeal. in its own way beyond laws and the capacity to vote, this was a softer form of desegregation, but one that is no less significant given that this is a country that is billed as much on the capacity to generate consumer markets as it is the capacity to enjoy rights and reform laws. >> is that where the title, "selling the race," comes from? >> guest: yes. and in that tyler want to convey we have to understand the inherent contradiction. we don't want to simply see this as a theological story about how everything became better for african-americans. being integrated as it were into the world of the consumer market meant, for instance, that much of the five -- vitality, idiosyncrasy, the eclecticism of african identity began to be a sort of pushed down and softened up and scrutinized and homogenize so that when someone like nat king cole, joe louis, lean toward, presented with one auth

louis but faded elsewhere, overshadowed by joe dimaggio and ted williams.e he is now receiving the respect he deserves. he w awarded the presidential medal of fedom at the white house. >> he was the first player to make a hundred thousand dollars! even more shocking, he asked for a pay cut when he didn't perform up to his own expectations. you can imagine that happening today. stan remains to this day an icon, untarnished and a beloved pillar of the community, a gentleman you would want your kids to emulate. >> joining me now three people who love baseball, bob costas of nbc sports, tim mccarver of fox sports. he was a teammate of stan's in the 1960's, and george vecsey of the new york sometimes, author of "stan musial, an american life." i will begin with you and go around. tell me who stanusia was. >> he was a superstar that not only put up fabulous nbers but from a personal level, his stardom never intimidated. in other words, you were intimidated when you were around joe dimaggio. you were intimidated when you were around willie maze. but with stan, he

joe's. kansas city a few embedded thunderstorms more developing back to the west. that's within the next hour or so. from st. louisf thunder. storms popping up in nashville. one of the big stories we'll follow today of course will be the steamy conditions in parts of the southeast, very humid, maybe a thunderstorm in atlanta, maybe florida, best chance is central plains an back into parts of the upper midwest. high temperatures today as you can imagine, very warm. very muggy. memphis 93 degrees. 99 in albuquerque. 87 in denver. 75 in billings. 67 in seattle with a chance of scattered showers back into the hills along the coast. should be fairly nice in places like san francisco 67. 69 in los angeles and 66 in boston and new york with 81 your expected high. t.j. that's a wrap. >>> appreciate you as always. now i hope a lot of you were watching the nba draft this week. one of the players who was drafted he may not be the best player in the draft but he certainly has one of the best stories. coming up next he goes from homeless to the nba. ong. take metamucil. sure it helps you keep regular, but it doesn't stop there

louis, is that true or did you get bad pills, one more, rob. >> scott "morning joe" starts right now. >> you realize you get messed up about paul revere, don't you? >> you know what? i didn't mess up about paul revere. >> you do a little off the cuff jumble and then you go on tv wearing a jumbo cross and you look like you robbed the vatican or you're about to marry jesus in vegas. >> in a shout-out gotcha type of question that was asked of me i answered candidly. i know my american history. >> oh, i didn't -- it was a gotcha question. what was the question again? >> a gotcha question. i'm going to repeat it. what have you seen so far today and what are you going to take away from your visit. >> here's the thing. it doesn't make it a gotcha question. it doesn't make it a gotcha question just because it got ya. >> wow. >> good morning, everyone. it's tuesday, june 7th. look at that shot of the morning in new york city. with us on set, national affairs national new york magazine john heilman and former chairman of the republican national committee and now an msnbc political analyst, mich

louis all the way up into st. joe and north, it's a problem for the entire missouri river bottom, iowa, north dakota, south dakota, and montana. to put it in perspective also, mr. speaker, the flow coming down this river, when people think that the corps of engineers could have done something different, marginally they could have, but they would have had to have been clairvoyant and violate the terms of the master manual. but the flow coming down the river happens to be the amount of water that's just coming out of the yellowstone river to itself. so those people that want to turn these american rivers back to what they were before we managed them and criminaled -- controlled them and built the program, i'd ask you all to think if 150,000 cubic feet per second is flowing out of the yellowstone river, and it is, and 150,000 cubic feet per second is flowing past out of gavins point and down through sioux city, if we had no dams in the missouri river if all the tributaries of the missouri river were completely dry except