will you join me in welcoming richard thompson ford. [applause] in "the new york times" review of your last book, the race card, orlando patterson praised her work writing, the end result is a vigorous and long overdue shakeup of the nations failed discourse on race. in this new book, is it motivated by the ideas being think need needs shaking up? >> in a sense, yes. i want to attack the idea that every social injustice is a civil rights issue and they think since the 1960s in particular there is a very powerful movement almost exclusively in terms of civil rights. the result has been fed a wide range of disparate issues with different causes that are in many ways incommensurable are shoehorned into a single approach, an approach that tends to focus on bias, on discrimination as the central evil, and i think that is bad and another consequence has been an over reliance on courts and legal as an akin is -- mechanism and lack of attention to other forms everything from public persuasion changing hearts and minds and also the legislative p

will you join me in welcoming richard thompson ford.[applause] in his new york times review of your last book, "the race card," orlando patterson praised your work writing: the end result is a vigorous and long-overdue shake-up of the nation's stale discourse on race. in this new book, do you -- is it motivated by stale ideas that you think need shaking up? >> with in a sense, yes. i want to attack the idea that every social injustice is a civil rights issue, and i think since the 1960s in particular there's a very powerful tendency to think of social injustice issues almost exclusively in terms of civil rights. the result has been that a wide range of disparate issues with different causes that are in many ways incommensurable are kind of being shoe horned into a single approach, an approach that tends to focus on bias, on bigots, on discrimination as the central evil. and i think that's been bad both -- or another consequence has been an overreliance on courts and on legalistic arguments as a mechanism for dealing with social injustic

richard thompson reports reports from eatonville, washington on the memorial being planned. >> a smallemorial stands at the entrance to mount rainier, on the day we learned a critical response team arrived at the park and met with the entire staff to work and support them in their grief. meantime, police officers continue to stand and watch outside the eaton home. i've learned family friends are meeting in eatonville tonight, to organize a memorial, vigil, and family fund for the family. and they are not alone. >> we're doing whatever we can to try to help out. >> at the mount rainier dining company, they have put up a sign, honoring ranger outside. and inside, a donation jar for the family. but they've also created what they call a ranger burger, in honor of anderson and 20% of those proceeds will go to their family. so far, response has been good. >> well, people are really caring. and they feel so bad. >> she was a generous person, a loving person. >> reporter: among those, ashford's fire chief. who worked with the department to build his respond time. then they were called to respo

richard alsina, we just heard from alex thompson's report that already the attention is being focused on the actions of the captain. do ocean-going passenger ships have the equivalent of a black box so the events leading up to that running aground can be recreated without using human recollection? >> most of the modern ships do. so it. >> suarez: so it will only be a matter of time that we'll be able to piece together the events that led up to this incident. >> yeah, the concordia is a fairly modern ship. they should the equivalent of a black box and they should recorded with telemetry of where they were and what was happening on the bridge. >> suarez: rudy maxa, are these voyages becoming more risky not because of any inherent danger in the ship but because the sheer size of these new liners means that if something does go wrong, you've got to get many thousands of people safely off that vessel? >> well, there's no question that it takes more effort to get a lot of people off as opposed to a few people off. but the ships have life jackets. they have life boats to equate to number of

you heard richard land, the mistake they made was not rallying around huckabee in '08. john mccain convinced fred thompsonat outrage. but it gets to the issue of not rallying around one candidate. >> right. and i had a conversation with the santorum campaign and this is their pitch. they're saying, newt has blown himself up this week. huntsman has blown it. ron paul is unelectable. i'm it. now is the time. if you did what you did in '08, you'll have a divided conservative field and mitt romney will win the race. >> what happens in texas? do you think some of the conservatives say, you know what, do we want to alienate the leader of the republican party, potential leader of the republican party, not just for eight months but potentially for four years? >> they have been backing off it by not picking one and just not going after romney. maybe we need to do this, but they're just not endorsing him yet. but they're waiting. i don't think they'll rally around one. >> jamaal, there was one other development this week that we have pointed out that it has gone under the radar. the new hampshire result in the demo

thompson. all nets down the stretch. rookie marshawn brooks and there to humphries. they really should have had the game. a big loss for the cal hoops team. a 6'10" loss. the forward richard solomon ruled academically ineligible. at one point a starter for cal. coming off the bench averaging 6 points and 6 boards per game. tennis down under. serena williams going for a 500th career single. turned her ankle. she got up, finished off. serena on to the third round, 6-love and 6-4. if you think you had a bad day. check out marco. frustrated. smash is his racket to smithereens. i should say smashes the first racket and then. >> another. >> his second. >> and then doesn't even bother to take the wrapping off a third. i think we have to end the program before he is done ending his rackets. >> go through the