we in the nerdland production staff have been seriously wrestling with this. we've got two produce who are are like we got to see the photos, they could change the newtown conversation, the gun conversation. and on the one hand, i was like yes. on the other hand, i understand not wanting to show the pictures of your slain kids. >> yeah. the two questions about a common interest in seeing them and an individual interested in privacy are already very complicated. i think the question is made more complex by a kind of wish that the photographs themselves would serve as a magic bullet. if we could only see them, it would change the conversation and perhaps be the finishing off of the stalling on gun control. and i know, as a historian of photography, that actually is not so. it most likely won't happen. it's not true that a photograph by itself changes the politics. so we know this from many examples. you gave some. i would add in my own life, the massacre, to the girl being napalmed and maim ee's till decision to show the open coffin of her son. when she showed t

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first, our civil rights in danger at the supreme court next weekend and we have a nerdland panel to breakng. i'm ari melber sitting in this weekend for melissa harris-perry. in modern america we have a story we tell ourselves about civil rights. it's about protest movements pushing the courts and courts pushing politicians even as they resisted to defend the status quo. today we want to explore a slightly different take on the story. this is a story where they are turning against social movements and a mantle of a color-blind society. it