i would like to say that michelle alexander's success is due to the fact she is in my film. but i cannot because my film has just come out. [laughter] tavis: but it is fair to say that mitchell would be the first technologists. it is fair to say that her book has succeeded because a whole of the -- a whole lot of of of seven long distance runners on this issue. >> she brilliantly framed it in a book that leave no stone unturned in that argument and she does it from being a legal scholar and being an extraordinary activist and public thinker. i think there are contributors like michelle alexander and others, all of, brought into my film because i want to sort of make a definitive portrait right now of where we are in the overwhelming need to reform the drug war. if i made this film several years ago, we were all fighting for this issue and we were a lot more in the wilderness. it was much harder to get traction. but when you see people from the right and the left, for reasons having to do with fiscal conservancy on the one hand or him is among the other, they're all collapsin

. >> rose: we conclude with a look at incarceration in america, with patricia williams, michelle alexander, and eugene jarecki. >> i think it is possible to change people's minds about the war on drugs without making it a race issue. in fact, you know, every poll that's been done shows that white americans in particular don't want to hear about race or racial bias or the racial dimension of any issue, let alone mass incarceration on the war on drugs. but i believe we would be making a huge mistake if we were to pursue drug policy reform without talking about the racial dimension of this crisis. because if we do, if we go about our advocacy in a color-blind way and talk just about cost savings and dollars and cents, and the benefits of drug treatment, never address the racial dimention, we will fail to learn the critical sson that this moment in our history has to teach us. marion cotillard, andrew solomon, and a look at incarceration when we continue. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. rose: marion cotillard is here. she cam

have the largest prison population in the entire world, and you probably read michelle aler's book about the new -- alexander's book about the new jim you, -- jim crow. i've been an activist around police brutality and this kind of thing for 17 years, and, you know, finally like in seattle people are seeing what the seattle police do. they just murdered a 77-year-old man on his doorstep last sunday, and they want us to just forget about it. and i think that what you're showing is when people start coming together and really like saying i'm not going to stop, i'm going to work on this, i'm going to try free somebody, what if, like, everybody was doing that? i would like to see everybody in this room down on the streets of seattle saying we're not going to take this any longer. it does mean something. and, you know, i've been frustrated, i'll say it, because, you know, everybody in this room should be out in the streets screaming bloody murder about this. and i think it does make a difference besides one case at a time, and i don't know what you think about that. am i making sense? and everybody check october 22

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