and also, kristin henning. and pastor william lamar, pastor at eme church.astor, some say we've got this epidemic of violence. do we? and is that the correct term for it? >> chris, thanks for the opportunity to share on these difficult, seemingly intractable issues. i was at a meeting at the brookings institution earlier in the week. and they are asking similar questions. i think that we in america journalistically and historically pick up on this story in the middle. if you pick up on the story in the middle, what it appears is that black people are on theo logically, intellectually deficient, and some people say even prone to violence. in order to really deal with this, we have to deal with the policies and political and economic realities that cause what it is that we see in washington, what we see in the united states, what we see, really, globally. i believe that this begins with the violence of bringing people to this nation against their will, with a violence over a period of time that you see in jim crow. the violence that you see in the federal hous