we want to welcome mycal denzel smith and armstrong william mycal smith i want to begin with your words from the nation magazine. you said quote, i ask him and everyone who said we must respect the verdict. how long are we suppose to remain calm when the laws we call it respect to exist, the arc of the more universe bends slowly and our lives are on the line. can you explain? >> looking at the verdict. it was a lack of respect for black life. trayvon martin was put on trial what was suppose to be george zimmerman's trial. his character was assassinated. his parents had to sit there as mark o'mara and don west and george zimmerman defense team put on the most racist defenses i seen in in a courtroom. the stand your ground law and the self-defense law give you what constitutes protecting yourself. i think open assault particularly on black youth because who is going to be considered a threat. who is going to be considered enough of a threat that people can justify killing them for just fear of their life instead of being in actual danger. >> armstrong williams, your words from the washing

we will begin with mycal denzel smith.est: this thing with george zimmerman being a minority, we are talking about racism. it affects us all. each not that we hate other. we hate blackness. we hate things associated with blackness. that is what it is built on. we branch out and say we hate latinos and we discriminate against people of asian descent. but the core of it is anti- blackness. i am not keeping racism alive. i am trying to address it and to have an agenda about how we unto racism in this country. guest: it is sad that he feels that america hates blackness. it is a sad comment. obviously, he believes that. we have to show that this is not the case. i believe people all over the world, especially in the united states, america is much better than we think she is. as you live and make more people, you will find that out. guest: we can talk about the interpersonal types of relationships. it is not that i have a bad experience with every white person that i know. we are talking about cultural and systemic messaging abo

. >> news maker this week features congressman mycal denzel smith.et to the politics of healthcare rather unsuccessful in that situation. are you sensing the congressional election is going to be fought on some level about the healthcare legislation? >> certainly. the implementation happens january 1 as mr. waxman said. the biggest chunk of it. millions of people are going to have to buy health insurance or they get a fine. they're going to be glitches. obama said just this week. there are going to be glitches. you know the republican will highlight every single one of them. you will see a lot of 30 second ads on any little problem that you have. somebody got a headache getting online, you will see an ad about it and it will affect the november 2014 election. what mr. waxman said, once the benefits start kicking in, people will realize the law was a good thing even opponents will suddenly become proponents. he also mentioned that a lot of people don't know they're already benefiting from it. that was the other question. do you think there's enough ou