o. j. simpson case allowed that to burgeon. what strikes me about your answer specifically with regard to run the king, i am trying to figure out what the connect is with you and rodney king. you are an academic. rodney is writing down the street in a hyundai. your world are very different experiences you tell me that you are now connected with rodney king. >> i was not always an academic. i grew up on the south side of chicago, a largely segregated community. it was a working class family and i was deeply rooted in a family that carried about the least of these. going to college was really an opportunity to explore african- american culture in general. what we learned in the classroom was all the sudden being broadcast in television in terms of the beating itself. in that way, the real world was more powerful than what was behind those books, but they were not disconnected. what drove me in academia was the pursuit of knowledge of how it is that we can live in a society that justifies this kind of thing. that of suffocated the