new york met great mookie wilson will be joining us tonight. they are not booing they are mookie-ing. first the wounds of centuries racial oppression have long haunted our country a tragic but inescapable part of american experience. until last week when the supreme court said its okay for states to ban affirmative action programs at public universities thus completing the mission of racial healing this court embarked on last year. >> the supreme court essentially knocked down one of pillars of the civil rights movement. it invalidated a key part of the voting rights act, the law enacted in 1965 to stop racial discrimination at the polls. >> as chief justice john roberts said nearly 50 years later things have changed dramatically. >> jon: racism is over! [cheers and applause] of course, the justices were codifying what many of us had known for a very long time. >> america treats people equally. we have a black president. europe even has never had a black president. >> unfortunately for liberals there's no racism in america. there's nor cholera i

>> i was just -- i thought it was time for people to understand mookie wilson as a person.y remember the play. everybody knows the play but there's a guy behind the play. i felt it was time for people to know who the guy was. >> in the beginning it was really tough to write this book and it got fun toward the end. why was it so tough in the beginning? >> i've seen so many baseball books and always wanted to do a baseball book but didn't want it to be a traditional baseball book pitch by pitch, no hitting, .400 in high school. i thought that was boring and i didn't think my life was interesting enough to write a book until i got started then it started to get fun. >> you didn't think your life was interesting enough to write a book, why? >> i guess because you think baseball all the time and i didn't want my book to be about baseball. so what parts of my life was more interesting, the baseball or my growing up. without baseball, i didn't think it was interesting. >> the book definitely peels back the layers of your life. what was i guess the hardest thing to reveal about you

new york met great mookie wilson will be joining us tonight. they are mookie-ing. first the wounds of centuries racial oppression have long haunted our country a tragic but inescapable part of american experience. until last week when the supreme court said its okay for states to ban affirmative action programs at public universities thus completing the mission of racial healing this court embarked on last year. >> the supreme court essentially knocked down one of pillars of the civil rights movement. it invalidated a key part of the voting rights act, the law enacted in 1965 to stop racial discrimination at the polls. >> as chief justice john ros