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let's bring in michael eric dyson, distinguished professor of african-american studies and eye very good friend to us here. nice to see you again, michael. thank you for joining me. >> great to see you, as well. >> here we go with president biden saying this is jim crow in the 21st century. georgia's governor says quote, there is nothing jim crow requiring a photo or state-issued i.d. to vote by absentee ballot, but let's look at what he missed. he's not highlighting parts of the due that reduced the number of ballot drop boxes and locations, and outlaws water. to whom would you agree? >> clearly, president biden is absolutely right. brian kemp is an extension of a jim crow trajectory that began before the confederacy, but certainly rooted in it and extended post-reconstruction, the denial of black people's access to the ballot. black people in the south for the most part couldn't even vote until 1965 and then to extend these kind of draconian measures imposed upon black voters in particular without naming them, knowing that voter i.d. are requirements for absentee ballots and the souls

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let's bring in renowned race and religion scholar, professor, writer, friend, michael eric dyson., brother. >> good to see you too, my friend. >> long time coming is the name of one of your works and that is how many are looking at this trial. is that unfair in a way? yes. it's putting too much of a burden on this jury in terms of, you know, they're supposed to just do their job of law and facts but it's going to reverberate. how do you see this trial in terms of its significance in the national dialogue on systemic injustice? >> well, it's quite revelatory. there's no question that you're absolutely right in terms of the juris prudential rationality. the legal thinking that says certain things are admissible, certain things are not to be admitted. on the other hand we're sandwiched between that juris prudential outlook on the one hand and on the other hand common sense. the jurisprudence and the legal reasoning says, hey, just use your common sense, we tell the juries, use your common sense and what they're sandwiched between here is, legal rationality and common sense that tells

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. >> joining me now is georgia state representative eric thomas, michael eric dyson and ari burrman. senior reporter for mother jones. i want to start with you representative thomas because you were seen in that video too. i'm going to play it while i ask you a question here. you're seen in the t video yelling al the officers who arrested representative park cannon. she's charged with a felony for trying to enter the governor's office. have you spoken with representative cannon? how is she? >> yes, i have spoken with her and she's taking time right now to be with her family and to be honest, get ready for monday. we're back at it again on monday fighting these egregious laws. she is taking the time to kind of get herself together and be ready to fight on monday. >> representative thomas republicans put in place. this is like a 95 page bill. you can't give people water. standing in line we'll make it impossible to vote. you'll be thirsty for eight or ten hours. it seems like suppression. have republicans articulated how they justify making it legal to give people food or water for sta

. >> michael eric dyson gets tonight's last word. thank you very much for joining us today. "the 11th hour" with brian williams starts now. >>> well, good evening once again, day 65 of the biden administration, and yet for much of today, and indeed into tonight, our attention has been focused on a historic night of dangerous weather in the south. massive tornadoes that seemed to go on forever, some of them were on the ground for 100 miles. we've watched the death toll grow as the storms have continued into the dark of night. we've got it covered, our meteorologist bill karins joins us later in the hour with the latest. as for our other coverage tonight we have some dangerous politics under way in the south, voter suppression out in the open. it's now law in georgia. and we begin with the president's first solo news conference, which he began by announcing that he is setting a dramatic new benchmark for covid vaccinations. >> on december 8th i indicated that i hoped to get 100 million shots in people's arms in my first hundred days. we met that goal last week by day 58. 42 da

. >> okay, well, i will respect that and i will also add what i said to michael eric dyson who was injealous of you having been there. that would have been amazing. but let me ask you about former president obama, who also began his presidency with a spirit of bipartisanship. did you get the sense that president biden at all believes that republicans will cross the aisle to work with him? is that something you would be comfortable reflecting on? is there hope, i guess, in his tone for that? >> i got the sense that he trusts his experience in the senate, that his own experience of governance, his own experience as a legislator informs how he sees the world. but i think, and this is apart from the conversation, he's running up against the world as it is, not the way the world was. he's running up against the senate as it currently is, not as the senate that he participated in over this -- over those four years. so, let's put it this way. it's in his dna, but he has to really confront the world as it is to repeat myself. >> and i have to say, boy, how the world has changed, politically s

michael eric dyson. >> dr. dyson often talks to me about counsel, not cancel. accountability, understanding what you didn't understand. owning that, learning from that, seeking counsel often in the community that you hurt, learning from them, listening, gaining experience, knowledge, and moving forward. >> so you are the right person to lead this franchise into the future, you feel. >> i plan to be back and i want to be back. this interview is not the finish line. there is much more work to be done and i'm excited to be a part of that change. >> reporter: a lot more work to be done, chris, i cannot agree with you more on that. you know, guys, his apology is his apology, but i felt like it got nothing more than a surface response on any of this and obviously he a man who wants to clearly stay on the show. but only time will tell if there is any meaning behind his words. got to stay right there. we'll be right back. wanna build a gaming business that breaks the internet? that means working night and day... ...and delegating to an experienced live bookkeeper for p