her own fifth grade teacher was mamie till mobley, the mother of emmett till, who was murdered at the of 14 in mississippi in 1955. her most recent piece appeared on salon.com called "for trayvon and emmett." welcome to "democracy now!" could you tell us in terms of the article that you had, how the trayvon martin incident had an impact on you and the article you wrote? >> the first thing that happened was i was thinking about all the confusion that was going on about what had actually happened. as a black woman, i was thinking about my own life experiences and now none of this really surprised me because of the things that happened to me. as all this was swirling and is beginning to get worse, i was thinking about how most of us, black women and men, had experiences called "walking while black." for us, this was just another instance of someone being mistaken for a thug or something he was not. i was angry. that's all i can say. >> you have a remarkable story. i was just looking at a piece he wrote, cynthia dagnal-myron, as assistan principal of sister middle school in tucson, arizon

mamie till mobley allowed "jet" magazine to publish the photos of the brutalized body of her son emmettl who was tortured and kill bade group of southern vigilantes for allegedly whistling at a white woman which is no more a crime than walking home in the rain with a bag of candy. her creative choice sparked a choice that would give rise to the civil rights movement. i thought of her this week as i watched tens o hooded supporters rally in washington, d.c. and new york's union square. coming up, enough of us speaking for black young men, but they are quite capable of speaking for themselves, and some of them will join me right here at my table next. ergent and i found myself using three times more than they say to and the clothes still weren't as clean as with tide. so we're back to tide. they're cuter in clean clothes. that's my tide. what's yours? >> we have been talking about trayvon martin. in the last two days we have seen many organized school walkouts in protest of the killing and mostly in florida. now, we have been talking a lot about young men of color and what it is like for