the president of the naacp ben jealous will join us next to talk about it. documentaries that are real, gripping, current. alright, in 15 minutes we're going to do the young turks. i think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that we're honest. they know that i'm not bs'ing them with some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. when the democrats are wrong, they know that i'm going to be the first one to call them out. they can question whether i'm right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. >> john: welcome back. our thing of the day tonight is our clarification of the day and it has to do with the late margaret thatcher. now, in last night's show, i gave mrs. thatcher credit for voting to decriminalize homosexuality back in the 1960s, a brave time for that kind of thing but i forgot to mention she forbade schools from teaching the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship. that's right. legal but not acceptable. becau

the naacp and childhood obesity. we have an advocacy manual we have put out for your youth to deal with your young people. boystoo many of our young are being stopped on the highways and byways of this country not knowing what to do when they are stopped by the 5- 0. , the 411 onmphlet the 5-0. you want to know what the naacp is doing? we are alive and well. , asks the melanie sisters and brothers to stand. those of you, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the march on washington, how many of you here by show of hands are under the age of 50? raise your hand. raise your hand. ,his post-joshua generation now is the time for us to stand up and be counted. i was born in may 1965. in fort pierce, florida, right down the street from my sister. i did not have the opportunity to march with martin in the south or protest with malcolm in the north. but i believe i have an inherent responsibility as i lead the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization to give something back to our nation. [applause] so we are calli

that's why the naacp launched the climate justice initiative. >> communities of color tend to have these pre-existing vulnerabilities so that somehow when a disaster happens, there's communities that have you know poor housing stock or are under insured or are politically marginalized and all of those factors combine to make a greater vulnerability to the impact of disasters. >> scientists believe climate change may be one of the leading factors responsible for the increased frequency of natural catastrophes such as hurricane katrina and superstorm sandy. women exposed to natural disasters and man-made environmental toxins are more vulnerable, experiencing high rates of health problems. patterson says the impact is even worse for women of color. >> an african american family making $55,000 a year is more likely to live next to a toxic facility than a white family making $15,000 a year. so then you have situations where when disasters happen, which are on the increase because of climate change, then these facilities become yet another hazard for those communities. >> patterson says poor c

the students received support from the naacp and other groups. a press conference, the president of the naacp's georgia chapter laid blame for segregated proms at the feet of parents and school administrators. >> shame on you. shame on any parent who continue to embrace the politics of segregation. when you are the leaders of the county and you allow your community to retreat to the era of segregation, you are the problem because saturday's prom will be the first and wilcox county high's history to bring together students of all backgrounds. in the past, the promise of an organized by private groups and parents behind from have refused to let african-american students attend. local officials say the segregated prom has continued because it is organized privately, out of the school district's control. news of the case spread quickly over social media, feeling support and donations for an integrated prom from as far away as australia and south korea. for more we're joined by two students were helping to organize saturday's integrated prom, mareshia

of late civil rights leader ralph aber in a they, reverend joseph lou re, and the nacc -- and the naacp chair. this is two and a half hours. >> good morning, ladies and gentlemen. i'm reverend davis the coordinator for the national action network. thank you so much. thank you for being here this morning, especially all of you vf been -- who have been here this week. we have had a wonderful time this week and want to thank all of you who came from all over the country to be with us. now we're about to get started on our program, i would like to introduce our founder and president of the national action network, the reverend al sharpton. [applause] >> good morning. ood morning. good morning and thank you. movement, measure the 2013. we are live on 1190 wliv, c-span, and it will run on c-span again during the week, three times, and msnbc. every year at the end of our national convention, we have the leaders of various national civil rights groups join us to talk about what they have done and we have done in the preceding year, what we have not been table

i am president of the naacp.i am joined today on stage by members of the naacp, leaders of the naacp who marched to fight h.b. 56. [cheers and applause] who organized last year to help pass the dream act. and i'm joined on stage by other brothers and sisters who were born in the caribbean, who were born in africa and all of us together say that the time is now for immigration reform. let us all reflect for a moment on how we are a place where today and focus on where we need to go from here. join me if you will, think for a second about the last time you were in a public classroom or a citizenship ceremony and yours somebody say the pledge and it got to the last part that tells us what the great u.s. of a stands for. and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. [cheers and applause] why do we say that? we say that because in this country, it is our conviction that there are common that there will be no second class families . not to be sure our nati

reverend william barber, ncaa of the north carolina naacp, also spoke out about the state's voter suppression> they take three hours to take the first shot at reducing voting rights that took some of us more than 200 years to obtain. what do you do? >> michael: barber and the 16 other protesters there yesterday could face charges for disorderly conduct and failure to disperse. joining me now from raleigh north carolina, author bob zelner. his memoir" memoir chronicles his years as an activist in the civil rights era. he was arrested at the protest yesterday. welcome in "the war room"," bob. >> thank you, michael shure how are you? >> michael: i'm very well, sir. this was not your first rodeo. you were arrested 18 times for civil disobedience, and the oldest arrested yesterday. but for some this was their first time. tell me what the mood was like as you were being taken away by police. >> the young protesters, it was somber and joy solve. somber because it was necessary to engage in civil disobedience to turn back this right-wing thrust that was a small minority in north carolina. but joyful

. >> how many of you -- if i would have said who do you think the found yours of naacp would everybody know the founders were republicans. >> yes. >> you know more than i know. >> and i don't mean that to be insulting i don't know what you know and i'm trying to find out what the connection is. >> jon: calm down, everybody. just calm down. red team start the car. turns out i'm neither crazy nor brave. the gray hair needs to be plucked. remove the vanilla bean from the hot chocolate. howard university doesn't just educate black people. we're joined by senior black correspondent larry wilmore. larry -- >> jon. >> jon: senator run and paul, who i like very much. he said his friends are calling him brave or crazy for speaking at howard. what are your thoughts? >> i don't know about brave. it's howard university not the apollo. [laughter] although i did think it was a nice gesture for him to get a jerry curl before coming over. >> jon: that's not a jerry curl that's what his hair looks like. >> seriously? [laughter] >> jon: yeah. >> and he goes up on stage? then he is brave. >> jon: what do

we spoke to the naacp president.s escovel to rethink his move. >> we have expectations of him and the department to come around while we do not have a chief and put the plan back in its proper place. >> now, just as this is making waves, a bit of good news for the san jose's police department. the city's independent police auditor just released her annual findings on the department for 2012. she says complaints were down 7%. that includes fewer complaints of racial profiling. will the reversal inspire more complaints for 2013. judge ladoris cordell will present her findings on april 30g9. live in san jose, marla tallez, "today in the bay." >> thank you very much. >>> how about the weather, something to jump on. very nice out there. 6:46. a spectacular look out at san francisco. just gorgeous and clear out there. being told to maybe savor that warmup today. after today, it looks like it is on its way out. >> if you like it hot, today is your day. if you like it cool, wait until tomorrow. >> san francisco, a very inter

thank you to christina swarns naacp legal defense fund.en we come back, there has been a tar sands leak in an exxonmobil pipeline in arkansas. we will speak with bill mckibben, founder of 350.org. stay with us. ♪ [music break] >> this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. exxon mobil continues clean-up efforts after a ruptured pipeline sprayed thousands of barrels of crude oil across central arkansas subdivision, forcing nearly two dozen homes to evacuate. the 20 inch so-called pegasus tar sands pipeline burst late friday near mayflower, arkansas, creating what the epa is categorizing as a major spill. officials said the pipeline gushed oil for 45 minutes before being stanched. more than 12,000 barrels of oil and water have been recovered. the pipeline will be excavated as part of its investigation to determine the cause of the leak according to exxon. the company says about 50 claims have been filed so far. a local news station spoke to two mayflower residents impacted by this bill. >> we're all

joining me in the studio, naacp president ask ceo, ben, it is always good to see you.n important day as we look back and reflect as a country. now we have this new publicly never seen video that "dateline" helped enhance and restore that shows some of our living history from 45 years ago of the killer james earl ray and what he went through in booking. this was kept under raps for so long and it is really a time capsule as we look back. where are we today? 45 years later. what would dr. king think of how we progressed? >> you know, the more things change, they have changed, the more things stay the same. so on the one hand, i think as a society, dr. king would say there is a lot of positive change. the south has changed in many ways. and yet as justice said, we still need the voting rights. he would look at gun violence in this country and feel very familiar with that have the way some of our leaders still feel stalked. we have a trial going on in detroit, preparing for trial. the man convicted killer who left prison, white supremacist, and after prison, after being co

. >>> finally the georgia chapter of the naacp has joined forces with students fighting to end segregated programs at wilcox county high school. >> shame on you. shame on any parent who continues to embrace the politics of segregation. >> four students are hoping to break the archaic tradition by forg funding and organizing the school's first integrated prom. >>> in sports the lady huskies win their eighth national championship. kelly faris scored 16 points with a rash of three-pointers. and freshman brianna stort had 23 as the huskies crushed louisville, 93-60. uconn geno auriemma tied the coaching record of eight women's championships. >> it feels great because when you see the reaction on these kids' faces, they've been through a lot. you know, the fact that i tied pat summers' record, that puts you in a category of the greatest women's basketball coach that ever lived. >> the uconn victory was the most lopsided score in a title game. >>> back in louisville, the national champion men's team were welcomed home under a double arch made by water cannons before players and coaches walked o

of you would have, if i would have said, who do you think the founders of the naacp are. do you think they were republicans or democrats, would everybody in here know they were all republicans? >> yes. all right. you know more than i know. and -- i don't mean that to be insulting, i don't know what you know. i mean i'm trying to find out what the connection is. >> and therein lies a problem. it is insulting. the republican party as rand paul himself admitted, doesn't know what the african-american community knows or what it is that they want. and his speech saying i care, or in this case, my party once several decades ago cared, isn't going to change that. the great rnc autopsy of 2013 called for greater engagement with minority voters and just yesterday, the party hired a state party director to oversee this. rnc chair raince priebus went to brooklyn last month. but the day-long voyages to a black planet don't change the reality of current republican policies. >> the democrat promise is tangible. it puts food on the table. but too often i think doesn't lead to jobs. or m

if you remember at the time, mitt romney's goal in doing the speech to the naacp was he was trying to could punch back at african-americans and say the word obama care in their face. like that was kind of the idea. but that's not really what rand paul is trying to do. it's interesting because libertarians tend to have a better audience among younger people. on the one hand he's doing the typical i'm going to a college to talk about libertarian ideas to college students which usually kind of works more with the general audience, not a black audience. but from what i understand he's going to do the usual. school choice. he's going to talk about school choice. that's always the one they bring out. he's going to talk about some of the things younger people tend to be for like legalizing marijuana. those kind of things he thinks will get him an audience with those folks. >> do you worry given the high academic standards at howard, some of the students may have looked at his father's pamphlets that i looked at earlier today, december '89, racial violence will fill our cities. 1990, black we

to tell the students at howard university that republicans started the naacp is ran-splaining.e thing to have the courage to speak to people that are going to disagree with you, but to defend something your audience would find most odious. here's senator paul on his support of the civil rights act. >> i've never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights 5:00. >> but if you're saying i saw on this network, yes, yes, you are right. this is what wavering looks like. >> there's ten different titles to the civil rights act, and nine out of ten deal with public institutions and i'm absolutely in favor of one deals with private institutions, and had i been around, i would have tried to modify that. >> that was, of course, candidate paul in 2010 on "the rachel maddow show." >> would you have voted for the civil rights act in 1964? >> i like the civil rights act in the sense that it ended discrimination in all public domains, and i'm all in favor of that. >> but? >> you had to ask me the but. i don't like the idea of telling private business owners, i have poor racism,

it's hosted by a whole bunch of different folks from naacp to seiu.inues to apply the pressure necessary to move this bill along. it's not just the 71% of latinos that voted for the president that support this. they have a full coalition, a rainbow coalition. i'm really hopeful to see this. >> professor dyson, these are people who want to be legal taxpayers. they want to contribute to the citizenry of this great republic. they're not there to get -- sponge off the country and be takers. these are people who want to contribute, aren't they? >> absolutely. let's leave all that to the notorious aig to sponge off of the economy. of the hard working americans out here. and, listen, martin, they're already making a contribution. >> of course. >> to the till. right? we understand that. i know you understand that. but i want to underscore that. they're already making an enormous financial contribution to this country. the intellectual prowess they bring. physical brow eprowess they bring. diversification we all hunger for. out of many, one. what's disturbing

i've seen a lot of corporation particularly lately between frican-american organizes like naacp, la razza. i've seen the head of la raza, janet and other hispanic leaders join john lewis and retrace the steps back in alabama. i have seen the african-american congress people from south florida join hands with the republican cuban-american congress people in asking for the freedom of cuba. so i think that there are many, many joint projects that we are doing together. we're getting used to being allies and not being just competitors. we're getting smarter. we've realized that two speak louder than one. and let's face it, it's fun. black and brown, that's a fun combination. if you ever go to a black and brown party, it doesn't get much better than that. tavis: i'm down to my last few minutes. i'm a student of history i -- i want to role this tape so see what you told me, what your greatest hope was and your greatest fear going forward. we will start with adriana at the end with her greatest fear and her greatest hope. >> my greatest hope is that we're going to find a way to truly engage in t

we know mitt romney was booed when he went before the naacp last year telling that audience that obamawon free stuff. we contrast that to mccain in '08 telling the sake awme audie that obama was an impressive guy. why is it so hard for republicans to craft the right message if they want to go out and have that intellectual conversation? >> rand paul kind of said the same thing about free stuff. he said post-fdr, african-americans saw the democratic party as offering tangible goods and the republicans offering the ideas. that's part of the problem. republicans try to woo black voters with a history lesson. if you look at the way they're trying to court hispanic voters, they're talking about policy. giving people a lecture on their own history is not wooing them. it's trying to say you just don't know enough to be a republican. if you only knew, then if you were educated by me, then you'd be in my party and that's really not very effective. >> and you have a great piece on this on the grio. >> i have a piece up that's giving a little history lesson to rand paul on the way the party has s

. >>> the georgia chapter of the naacp has joined forces with students fighting to end segregated promslcox county high school. >> shame on you. shame on any parent who can embrace the politics of segregation. >> four students are hoping to break the archaic tradition of by organizing and funding the school's first integrated prom. >>> in sports, the lady huskies win their eighth national championship. u con senior guard kelly farris scored a rash of three pointers. stewart had 23 points. the huskies crushed louisville. the coach tied the coaching record of eight women's championships. >> it feels great because when you see the reaction on these kids' faces, they've been through a lot. you know, the fact that i tied pat summer's record that, puts new the category of the greatest woman's basketball coach that ever lived. >> wow. the u convictry was the most lopsided score in a game. >>> tiger woods has his mojo back with his number one rating ahead of the masters tournament. he says he's got more time to win championships. >> we have a very expansive careers. i feel like i'm in the middl

. >> if i would have said who do you think the founders of the naacp are, do you think they were republicans or democrats? would everybody in here know they were all republicans? >> yes. >> all right. all right. you know more than i know. i don't mean that to be insulting. i don't know what you know. i'm trying to find out what the connection is. >> calm down, everybody. just calm down. red team, start the car. remove the vanilla bean from the hot chocolate. red team. >> anyway, the senator also got stuck at one point trying to convince the audience he did, in fact, support the civil rights act of '64. [ male announcer ] there are only so many foods that make kids happy. and even fewer that make moms happy too. with wholesome noodles and bite sized chicken, nothing brings you together like chicken noodle soup from campbell's. it's amazing what soup can do. [ sneezing ] she may be muddling through allergies. try zyrtec®. powerful allergy relief for adults and kids six years and older. zyrtec®. love the air.

. >> if i would have said who do you think the founders of the naacp are, do you think they were republicansr democrats? would everyone in here know they were all republicans? >> yes. >> all right. you know more than i know. i don't mean that to be insulting. i don't know what you know. i'm trying to find out what the connection is. >> calm down, everybody. just calm down. red team, start the car. remove the vanilla bean from the hot chocolate. red team. >> anyway, the senator also got stuck at one point trying to convince the audience he did, in fact, support the civil rights act of '64. up next "your business" with j.j. ramberg. ♪ [ male announcer ] how could switchgrass in argentina, change engineering in dubai, aluminum production in south africa, and the aerospace industry in the u.s.? at t. rowe price, we understand the connections of a complex, global economy. it's just one reason over 75% of our mutual funds beat their 10-year lipper average. t. rowe price. invest with confidence. request a prospectus or summary prospectus with investment information, risks, fees and expenses to read

speakers included the dean of trinity cathedral in downtown san jose, the president of silicon valley's naacpnd even sjsu's own professors. the letter discusses issues such as the difference between just and unjust laws, racism, and how to defeat it in a nonviolent manner. this was the first time the mlk library hosted the reading. one san jose state golfer earned western athletic player of the week. and we now know who the spartans will be playing in the mountain west football conference. but first we ask students how their allergies are affecting them. ">>>"my eyes get all watery, and i start to sneeze a lot. i get the sniffles. people think i have a cold. and they try to give me tissues because they think i'm sick, but i'm really not. it's just allergies." "pretty bad. i get, like, stuffy, and my eyes burn, and sometimes i get headaches." "well i actually don't have any allergies, and i'm guessing if i were to have allergies, it would just be, like, pretty bad." "well allergy kind of sucks when you're in class, you just be sneezing every minute or so, and if you're pretty quiet during clas

reverend william barber of the north carolina naacp. thank you for joining us. to find out how north carolina became a republican -- after this. what if you could shrink your pores just by washing your face? [ female announcer ] neutrogena® pore refining cleanser. alpha-hydroxy and exfoliating beads work to clean and tighten pores so they can look half their size. pores...shrink 'em down to size! [ female announcer ] pore refining cleanser. neutrogena.® the act of soaring across an ocean in a three-hundred-ton rocket doesn't raise as much as an eyebrow for these veterans of the sky. however, seeing this little beauty over international waters is enough to bring a traveler to tears. we're putting the wonder back into air travel, one innovation at a time. the new american is arriving. >>> hello from new york. i'm here with gerrick brenner, executive director of the progress north carolina. pen did a hair, linda garrou. we got a good run-down from reverend barber about, you know, what exactly is objectionable about, you know, voter i.d. and all of the other attempt

these african-american parents formed a group represented by lawyers for the naacp to sue school boards that required their children to travel to schools miles away from white ones closer to their homes. their case was named for one of the apartments, oliver brown, one of the parents, oliver brown, who was part of the kansas group. the closed gates were opened by the supreme court after many lawyers and thousands of people pushed against them. on may 17, 1954, the supreme court justices announced a decision in the case of brown v. board of education. the decision which said separate schools were not equal threw many states, city, towns, neighborhoods, principals, teachers, parents and students into confusion. battles were fought to honor, ignore or overturn the decision. many battles were won, some quietly, some not. the demand to integrate public schools grew into a nationwide civil rights movement to eliminate all racist law; to have the right to vote, the right to choose the neighborhood you wanted to live in, to sit in any vacant seat in a public place, marchs, protests, countermarc

he went on to serve in the georgia state legislatedture, and served as chairman of the naacp.on in order welcome both of you into "the war room" today. when you hear rand paul say those things what does that make you think? >> it makes me think that they have nothing to talk that happened in the recent past. they talked about republicans being the moving factor in passing the 64 civil rights act, that was 1964. there is nothing on the republican agenda for the last 35, 40 years that gives black voters any reason to vote for them. >> michael: let me get your response to this. >> i think that is a great question, and that hits the nail on the head exactly as to what our obstacles are, because people, including those who may have just slapped perceive they are completely different parties. and you don't agree to all of that -- i'm either going to convince you or not, but my argument there are some of us who are still the party that you liked, but there are part of us who truly believe that reagan is part of that. >> michael: what do you think of that response? >> it is unimaginab

i said did they know that the naacp was founded by republicans and in retrospect it is a question butblicans haven't been going to howard for 20 years and maybe by going there i'd did learn something and i learned that everyone there knows that everybody there knows here is a good question for you and this is where think it's unfair with the media tries to do to me on this. here's a good example. when the iraq war started after 9/11 they polled americans and they said how many of you or who do you think attacked us on 9/11 and over 50% of the public thought iraq attacked us on 9/11 if you asked the american public and this includes a lot of white people who have and had black history but even some people in u.s. them were the republicans a primary part of voting rights and naacp and ending jim crow and did you know most african-americans were republicans at one time? i was told that in no uncertain terms that i think the vast majority of the public has no idea that republicans helped to found the naacp. some people think it's presumptuous and i shouldn't be talking about it. but we ne

i am president of the naacp.'m joined today by members of the naacp who marched last year to fight hb 56. [applause] those who organized last year to help pass the dream act. [applause] i am joined by other brothers and sisters who were born in the caribbean and africa and all of us together saying that the time is now for comprehensive immigration reform. [applause] limassol reflect for a moment on how we got to the place that we are at today. and where we need to go from here. join me if you will, think last time you were in a public restroom. and you heard somebody say the pledge and it got to the last part about what the usa stands for. one nation, under god, indivisible. with liberty and justice for all. [applause] we say that because in this country it is our conviction that there will be no second class families. [applause] even after our nation became one, we were not clear that we would even be one nation. were that we would insist on having liberty and justice for all her brothers and sisters. decades a

saw parks was secretary of a local naacp.there's a great book that's just congresswoman out called the rebel cross life of mrs. rosa parks, i encourage everyone to read it. but rosa parks was a secretary at the local naacp. she worked under idi nixon, he worked under a. phillip randolph who helped organize the 1963 march on washington. he and idi nixon helped organization the brotherhood of sleeping carporters, thousands of them who rode the trains, all called george. their mothers didn't name them george, but they were called george for the owner of the train, george pullman. and you know the famous story of eleanor roosevelt taking a. phillip randolph to meet with fdr, and he describes the condition of black people many this country to president fdr, roosevelt. he describes the condition of working people in this country, and fdr listens intelligently and then responds, i don't disagree with anything you've said, but you'll have to make me do it. and interestingly, when barack obama was running for president the first time,

he was the founder of louisville's naacp, he's a republican. most of the founders of the ncaap were republicans. worely bought a house in a white section in defiance of the segregation law. the case was finally decided by the supreme court in 1917 unanimously holding that the kentucky law could not forbid the sale of a house based on race. the republican party's history is rich in eman pation and black history. republican still pride the sense of justice that m.l.k. spoke of when he said an unjustice law is any law that a majority forces on a minority but does not make binding upon tself. [applause] >> i wasn't sure if my speech would be entertaining but now you've had some entertaining. when m.l.k. talked about an unjustice law what intrigued me was m.l.k. talked about race but he talked about a justice law goes beyond race. he said an unjustice law, this is a good way to look at any law, an unjustice law is any law that a majority, any majority enforces on a minority but does not make it binding on themselves. any law that is not universally

. >> member of the naacp. >> dead in the name of black militant group. jonathon, you were saying in the green room she has paid her debt to society. >> well, first of all i would turn to michael's p oi nt and say universities are exactly where you would find the class a rap bags. we talk about ricidivism. she served 22 years and she is not recidivised. rehab is not a bad thing. she served her time. she has got almost a real job. i don't see the problem. i think people are coming at it at a purely political point of view. if this was a prn on the right side -- a person on the right side of the political spectrum. >> never going to happen. >> there is never a right leaning killer. >> employed by columbia university. >> are we attacking columbia? >> the story is she has been at columbia since 2008 and she got a distinguished professor ship at nyu. >> i want to go to you, remi, but i disagree with jonathon that she is getting a rehab because she is seen as heroic, somebody who fought against the system and killed people and allowed her the chance to be in co

barber, president of north carolina's naacp who spent the day at the house debate and penda hair codirectorthe advancement prong who has been following these bills. thank you for joining us. >> thank you good evening. >> john: what happened before these bills. >> we saw the leaders of the republican party really attempt to be the george wallaces of the 21st century. they engaged in tyranny. they passed to suppress the vote vote. we've had the highest per capita voting rate in any state in the union in the last few elections and they know that the south is changing. they're trying to stop what i call the thirdly construction. they passed a voter document that is unnecessary because we already had signature access, and we have not had any evidence of voter fraud. their claim of fraud is fraudulent itself. this is an tempt to stop progress and it's so wrong and we're going to find it with everything we have. >> john: we've seen admissions like this across the country that tend to target minorities poor folks or seniors and in this case it's targeting college students. there has been a lot of p

he was talking about how republicans helped set up the naacp, and ended slavery.ral republicans did that. it's been historically conservative democrats and conservative republicans who have opposed civil rights. >> and it doesn't matter who did what historically. it's who is doing what now. who is trying to marginalize voting. that's not the democratic party. they succeed when everyone gets to vote. but when people are marginalized who succeeds? who winds out of that. >> he went there to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. just someone else's truth. >> john: could this help? rand paul going to howard help the g.o.p. get the-- >> they call him the new republican which means you excuse racism more than you excuse rape. there is this idea that i read through the speech as well and it just felt like a lot platitude. and he has to stand in front of the arc american and say its still their party. as an eye doctor that's bad vision. >> the government and authority should be out of our lives but he was glad to have them there when they were tackling

we spoke to the local naacp press that sits on a board. he wants escovel to rethink his move. >>> we have expectations of him and the department as a whole to come around while we do not have a chief and put the plan back in its proper place. >> just as this is making waves arks bit of good news for the san jose's police department. the city's independent police auditor released her annual findings. she says complaints were down 7% from the previous year and that includes complaints of racial profiling. the question is, will escovel's reversal inspire more complaints for 2013. the judge will present her findings one week from today on april 30th. >>> a prominent defense attorney admitting to smuggling a hit list out of jail. they are fighting to keep her law license. attorneys for the state are going to be here saying they are going to be disbarred smuggling a hit list. laura brown is the former attorney. once the leader of oakland. she admitted she took his hand written notes from jail hiding them in legal papers and passing them on to a

stop talking about the naacp started by republicans. that was over 100 years ago. it's what have you done for me lately. and when you hear as you have this past year republicans talking about voting rights and trying to get people not to vote. i mean 1982 saying there are too many voting essentially and i'm paraphrasing. those are the messages that the republicans have been sending. i agree, too that they start talking about now and stop speaking like academics and parsing the argument. they haven't done enough. he went on other issues. one of them was marijuana. here is rand paul talking about marijuana. >> i think if you use it too much you will use i.q. points. i think you won't show up for class. ii think you'll eat too many doritos. >> michael: many studies have been done on whether marijuana affects i.q.ish is split. is that a conversation he should get into at howard university. i'm sure he was asked about it, in fairness. >> if he was answering questions, but it would be better if he was more of a historian than an ideological speaker. there is scientific d

. >> reporter: the independent police auditor and the naacp say logging a person's race could help to track issues of racial profiling. >> it is suspended temporarily. >> reporter: he says he is tweaking the policy to make sure it works for everyone, including his officers. he says the decision to track the race of people officers sit on curbs may have been rushed. >> i think as an administration, i was deputy chief, i think we could have done a better job. you know what, it probably wasn't -- we didn't involve a lot of stakeholders like we should have. so that is probably on us for not rolling it out that way. >> it is that kind of straightforwardness that is helping him to gain the trust of his troops. not to mention the two stars on his collar. he could wear the four stars of a chief but is keeping the two of a deputy chief, his old job. >> it is a great department to work for. >> reporter: another symbol the h pin, symbolizing his eight years on the elite swa swat team. officers tell me it proves he's one of them, a cop. a man who's the u.s. thelussled guy or two. >> as for the se

>> if the naacp invites me, i'll talk about why the african-american community should demand paycheckssfied with food stamps. >> that probably won't make a greater impression either. now, look, i'm all for gop outreach but newt, did you think we'd forget all the offensive things you and others on the right said just because you wanted to be inclusive? because you've changed for right now? nice try, but we've got you. orl. but there are some things i've never seen before. this ge jet engine can understand 5,000 data samples per second. which is good for business. because planes use less fuel, spend less time on the ground and more time in the air. suddenly, faraway places don't seem so...far away. ♪ plays a key role throughout our lives. one a day men's 50+ is a complete multivitamin designed for men's health concerns as we age. it has 7 antioxidants to support cell health. one a day men's 50+. it has 7 antioxidants to support cell health. welcnew york state, where cutting taxes for families and businesses is our business. we've reduced taxes and lowered costs to save businesses more th

do we see the groups, the glads and the nans and the naacp, do we see the coordination that needs tout front for the oppressed helping each other? >> that's a great question. the civil rights movement created the framework as a temperature place when it was in south africa ar the gay rights movement. what you haven't really seen is a sense of coordination. on the gay rights issue, it's been somewhat of a black eye for the civil rights with the exemption of the the al sharptons. you haven't seen the coordination. early on, there was a lot of resentment of the borrowing of those symbols. they closely guarded the ideas of the civil rights movement. it created distance that hasn't been bridged. because african-americans are conservative, you didn't have the two movements coming together. you are seeing that now. younger african-americans like younger americans in general do see the gay rights movement as the current movement of our era. dr. king's widow was a proponent of gay rights. hopefully we'll see more coordination. the template is being used. it's a good thing. >> as we look back,

i had the naacp. i have so many black organizations, i have white organizations.ave white powerful lawyers taking care of me. i'm a multi, multimillionaire when i'm going through my problem. jack johnson is by himself. totally against black power movement and all that stuff, he was about getting it for ourselves. black people sticking together. you know, to the history of black america, that blacks were never strong sticking together so they never stuck together. he did it by himself. he didn't have a congregation. he was by himself. that shows the greatest courage. listen, don, he's in the ring, don, and there's 50,000 white people, don, saying i'm going to kill you after the ring. and he's in the ring beating a guy, torturing a guy, laughing at the people while he's doing it. when you come out, [ bleep ], excuse me, don. fighting these guys while they're saying this. beating this guy up and threatening his wife. >> mike tyson. >>> violence erupts in egypt and put pus a cathedral under siege. the details straight ahead. ♪ [ sneezes ] [ male announcer ] if you hav

scare that at naacp offices in maryland prove to be a false alarm. they show the region is on edge over security concerns. we can see that the naacp employees were going through the mail thursday at theirio headquarters in baltimore when ey found a strange looking envelopeith no return address and had a memphis postmark just like a letteto president obama and republican senate this week that tested positive for the deadly poison ricin. nothing determined to be suspicious. at the article points out, a lot of offices and people are on guard. we're also looking at what's ppening in congress this week. we will be focusing on immigration and the immigration bill in the senate in a little while here on the washington journal. "usa today" reporting senator marco rubio in florida is leading the right flank in the immigration bill battle. and the senate freezes the gun bill in hopes of a compromise. majority leader harry reid pledges he will come back after the bill fails. the story says that leader reid hit a pause in the gun bill penn state while senators s

. >> if i would have said who do you think the founders of the naacp were.they republicans or democrats, would everybody know they were all republicans? do you think rand paul won anybody in the room over? >> yes, i think rand paul won everyone in the room over when he made the announcement that he was going to come to speak howard university students. >> that's julian lewis a former intern at the obama white house. before anybody at the republican national committee minority outreach division unfurls that mission accomplished banner however listen to what else he had to say specifically about republicans requires picture i.d.s for voters which civil rights groups say it discriminates against minorities. >> you shouldn't lie about right to vote if you don't support it for certain people. my ancestors fought and died for that right. >> the students we spoke to appreciated paul's efforts to make the sale but they weren't buying. >> when he was asked a question he didn't answer directl ldirec. >> he wants the government to leave everyone alone. >> we did reach

the al sharptons, naacps, they were silent when that happened, mary. that is not true. was engaged in those battles. i pushed back. heck no. i'm not going to let you get away with that, mary. you're too smart. that is not true. that is hypocrisy and you're wrong and that's a lie. >> that is not a lie. j you're generalizing. there are merchants out there that the silence was deafening, mary. >> what do you think of all this slavery imagery? if an african-american happens to have a certain view, then they're talked about is being slaved on a plantation. john lewis, an african-american civil rights activist who is a democratic politician, is he anybody's slave? honestly? did you push back against those characterizations? >> i agree with you there. mary, i agree with you there. john lewis is not anybody's slave. he is a great man. he's a hero. but what dr. carson was talking about was the hell that black conservatives and by the way, woman conservatives, latino conservatives. you are listening, marco rubio, the double standard and heck and unfair vicious attacks that are la

. >> if i would have said, who do you think the founders of the naacp are, would everybody in here know republicans? >> yes. >> calm down. red team, start the car. >> brothers don't even drive linke lincolns anymore. >> we were in the 1950s and '60s a better country? >> how do you know this person would not obey the law? >> because of mass shootings by crazy people. >> you call me crazy? >> he left the smaller capacity magazines at home. >> there's no evidence anything would have changed. >> guns everywhere. >> reminds me of the clowns at the circus. >> somebody else's community until one day you wake up and it's not. >> it's play acting. it's naked exploitation. >> we don't need to fix something that doesn't need fixing. >> to make a blanket commitment would be irresponsible on my part. >> what are we afraid of? >> hydeia pendleton was me. >> my child is gone. >> i, myself, bought extra guns, extra ammo. >> we want a vote! >> sadly, taking advantage of the horrific tragedy. >> the whole thing is grotesque. >>> let's get right to our panel now. joining us is larry ward, chairman of gun