some small differences, but it doesn't -- you just don't have identification that is as broadly multiracial as it some of the other groups. the area you do get some of that is in new york, it's very interesting, looking at different groups and how they define themselves, african-american groups, i should say black groups and how they define themselves and levels of multiraciality, and so ken pruid, director of the 2000 census has a book coming out on this question, his feeling is outside of the redistricting realm that pay attention to the census and the racial categories and see how that will alter people's conceptualization, but with respect to redistricting and the voting rights act the real question is, yeah, there's no difference in voting behavior, then there's no claim so we don't need to account for it. >> thank you, my name is jeff schwartz. i will any of saratoga. my key computer passwords are -- [ laughter ] could you comment generally on the interaction in challenges, if there have been some, of district determination and the primary process and particularly here in california,

i think his history would be different if he called himself lotto or multiracial , i had he had done that he would have a different profile am probably would have been seen differently by black people am particular. with respect to the second question about racial identity of other people who have been president, the fact of the matter is the question of who is white and who is black is a question and it up then sign it how you define who is black or white. if you go back far enough may be all of humankind this effort can. said it began there then you could make the argument all americans are in some sense african-american it depends on how you want to define what you are saying obviously barack obama is the first person who view himself as black and that is the context i view him as the first black american. >> host: "the persistence of the color line" racial politics and the obama presidency" randall kennedy most recent book. winston-salem. >> caller: thank you for the program and i would like for him to speak kind the issue of president obama, a politician in nine as to martin lut

this is part of the american redemption, this is part of building the beloved community, a truly multiracial democratic society that will lay down the burden of race and hate and move on. >> thank you very much. >> that is all for our conversation today, but you can follow the conversation all week long on our

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ways, a prototype of thousands if not millions of other americans, who either seek to discover the multiracial character of families and their past or who find out about it when someone tells them. yes, sir. >> did lincoln and douglass meet? >> yes. >> and i'd be interested, what was lincoln's impression? what did lincoln say about >> yes, they met. they met three times. almost a fourth. to make a long story short, the first is in august of 1863 at the white house. not by invitation. douglass kind of forced his way in on the first visit. he went to washington. he got notes of introduction. eventually from the secretary of war as well as senator palmroy. he went to, essentially, levy a protest against the methods by which black troops were recruited. he was recruited in august of 1863. he went to protest against unequal pay for black soldiers and commissions for black soldiers and treatment of black soldiers. he had been very public in criticizing the administration. douglass came away odd, is the only word you can use, by lincoln. about how lincoln treated him so much like an equal. in fact, t

as people become more independent, multiracial marriages have risen and all groups. >>ysabel: the premise that this is impacting everyone off, tell us what that means. >> the idea is simply that the experiences that people are having for all society into the ways in which marriage is changing are most apparent in the lives of african-americans. if we want to understand what is happening in american society with marriage or what is happening with white women, wheat look at the lives of black women because we see there earlier and in a more pronounced form, the same development that was in for the seventh. >>marty: thank you for joining us. >>marty: he has to appearances coming up in the state, lafayette library at the learning center and at the san francisco club office. >> i'll also the at the santa clara county public libraries on monday. >>marty: we will be right back. >>marty: occupy oakland protests hikes, demonstrators were mostly peaceful in oakland. here is video taken last night at frank ogawa plaza for. more demonstrations are planned in there tomorrow. prot

of my favorite films of hers and of my daughter emma is her film of "cinderella" she did with a multiracial cast. it was for little girl and little boys that wanted to watch and i think that really part of her legacy, she is someone who wasn't just a singer, who really tried to expand her range of what performers could do in many different i was. >> what is your feeling that she was destined for greatness? we're looking at still images with dien w de dionne warwick. >> i don't think she was destined for greatness. i think it was something she had to work for. clive davis saw something when he saw her at that new york city -- >> at carnegie hall, yes. >> and took a chance to try to make her into something because you saw a lot of good raw material, dionne warwick being her cousin and cissy houston being her mom, but her album was not a huge hit out of the box. it day budde at it debuted at 166 on the billboard chart to reach number one. he stayed with it. she kept doing the circuit, kept performing, kept pushing on radio and became the whitney houston we all know. but she had to work at it,

true match bills itself as the perfect shade for all skin tones but her multiracial çdepiction drawingrted teasing this story at the to of the hour. people have tweets about this ad. what's going on? >> she is definitely african-american and her mother is of creole ancestry. a lot of people take what it means differently. the term means of a mixture of different races. her grandmother is a french creole from louisiana. a lot of people argue that most african-americans are mixed of thing things and it's so far back for that to be proclaimed as something she can point to as a more recent make up of her background makes a lot of people think she's not black which is insulting. >> i think some people are comparing this so apparently jennifer lepoz has this and it says 100% puerto rican. she has one similar to that and that's the contrast. >> exactly. they are a mixture of european, african-american and the native indian offense that island. when beyonce says i'm not just black, i have to put that with all my different bloodlines are, it's why can't she just say she's black? that's been the

they tend to be low income multiracial voters and come up with a set of best practices as to what works with the populations. these are folks that political campaigns -- it's a presumption it's a waste of money, and they will not vote anyway. at a time when the project was launched, it was not clear of the efforts because the things we know work with other voters would, in fact, work in these communities. what we found is, yes, if you, in fact, invite somebody in person by phone or on their dupe step to participate in the process, even if you're a local voter, they'll vote. that's important just to know for campaigns that this is something that needs to happen. we have some really interesting findings that if you run phone banks, they run them in nine languages. they deserve a tremendous round of applause for the difficulty of doing that. we have to seal the borders in nine languages, and it's difficult to find all the speakers. it's complicated, and so they did, and if you ask people in the first round whether or not they're going to vote and they say yes, and you call back who say yes

there was just this reaction about this, this idea of how are we going to label her as a sort of multiracial her out of the very definition of blackness. i wasn't interested in that response. other things happening over the past couple of weeks? >> i personally identified as a secular -- i'm one of the four me lennials who aren't affiliated with any religion. >> athere are four of you? >> i'm sorry. one out of four. there's only four of us. i was thinking, you know, religious freedom, fine. what about secular freedom. that's what i was thinking. >> over the sort of church/state debate, what about those of us who are secular. >> yes. i feel there's a lot of cross-speak with religious freedom virz take your religious freedom out of my government. it's very confusing. >> yeah, indeed. >> i think the very fact that you can be here openly acknowledging your secularism shows that, in fact, we don't have theocracy and that is a very, very good thing. but, you know, melissa, i don't define myself by a particular birth right. i define myself by the values that i share with other people. i'm very much

great radical leader in the senate wanted this program of reconstruction to, in the end, create a multiracialciety wherein newly-freed african-americans would be integrated fully into the political process. now, the very first african-american in congress was with hiram revels who i mentioned. he toured the nation after his term as a senator after the mississippi legislature had appointed him in 1870. and when he took a long national speaking tour, newspapers referred to him as the 15th amendment in flesh and blood. okay? this north carolina-born preacher personified african-american emancipation and franchisement in the civil war period. he occupied a senate seat that had been held by a man named albert brown who left the chamber in 1861 when the state seceded, and it was a very powerful, symbolic appointment. brown was a former slave holder, and here was hiram revels taking his seat less than a decade earlier. as senator henry wilson of massachusetts escorted revels to the front of the chamber to take his oath on february 25, 1870, the atlanta constitution had a reporter in the galleries wh

to be perfectly honest, i have been relatively more encouraged there is a multiracial community of peoplemean, you have spike lee on twitter doing a one-man crash course on racial stereotyping. had you the funny snl skit last night that talked about, you know, probing where exactly those lines are. so i think that -- as much as you have your floyd mayweathers and others out there, asking some of these questions, you know, you actually have a fairly fullty racial group ask very active african-american community really rallying behind this and trying to, you know, push this country forward around racial discourse. >> yes. phil and i asked this question of you as well. do you have anything to add? we had gotten into it here. >> no. i think that's exactly right. i agree with everything that -- that i think overall, the overall reaction to jeremy lin has been tremendously positive and so many people regardless of their race or ethnicity have latched on to his story. i think that it -- as with all industries, all walks of life in this country that the more asian american players we see in the n

base in the south right now the party is 95% white but the democratic party is a multiracial coalition of while democrats and black democrats. so, if you could eliminate the white democrats from that equation that really isolates the democratic party on a state level and national level in that region. so, that is really the core of the new southern strategy that i write about. host: it is called how the g.o.p. is resegregating the south. it is the february 20 cover story and available at thenation.com. sue joins us from shelbytown michig michigan. voted for obama but he has been a little bit of disappointment but the republicans really don't have anybody. as far as romney goes, i feel like he is out of touch. that his connection to the pacs like karl rove and the other one is newt gingrich and i feel like obama is going to win by default. i really like ron paul. everybody that i work with says if you vote for ron paul that is a vote for obama. but the republican party i'm just totally disillusioned with them. i really am. so as far as i'm concerned i feel like obama will probably get r

the democratic party is a multiracial coalition. if you can eliminate the white democrats from that equation, that isolates the democratic party on the state level and on the national level in that region. that is the court of the new southern strategy. host: it is available on-line. it is the february 20 cover story. caller: good morning. i voted for obama in the last election. he has been a little bit of a disappointment. the republicans do not have anybody. as far as mitt romney, i feel like he is out of touch. i think this connection to the -- his opposition to the bailouts in michigan. newt gingrich -- i feel obama is going to win by default. i really like ron paul. if you vote for him, that is a vote for obama. as far as i am concerned, i feel like obama is going to get reelected. host: the economy is one of the leading domestic issues in this campaign. how is it for you live? caller: is starting to pick up. the housing market is still getting hit pretty hard. we still have a lot of problems in that area, but as far as jobs, i