. >>> good evening, i am tavis smiley, first, with sash sasha polakow suransky, then, street artist shepard fairey is joining us looking at street arts and activisms as it relates to its most iconic work his work and depicting from barack obama. we are glad you are joining us, all of that is coming up in just a moment. ♪ >>> and buy contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. please welcome sash sasha polakow-suransky, he's the author of the book "go back to where you came from, "white n s nationalism." i read that. what kind of backlash did you get from that? >> i got some creepy message, something that i don't want to see on facebook and twitter. it got under a lot of people skin. >> give me some sense of what you heard? >> there were a lot of backlash of white nationalist groups. i got a lot of comments looking into my own background and insinuating things of jewish people. it was uncomfortable but i was not entirely surprise. i think there were people out there who were offended by it because i was calling them out. >> is immigration like, i am going to say the n

polakow-suransky says the biggest threat to democracy isn't jihad is him. it's the right wing politicians exploding public hostility to arrivals. that he says will destroy free society. sashajoins us. >> thanks for having me. >> tucker: i guess the 30,000 question is can you be surprised that when you change a society as old as european society or as old as one as ours completely through immigration and a short. of time, some people won't like it and there will be a backlash. does it surprise you? >> i'm not surprised at all and i don't believe in absolute open borders and i absolutely understand why people are unsettled, why they aretf resentful and upset. i have reported all over europe, people are angry about how their neighborhoods are changing and they have legitimate grievances and fears. often parties on the center left and left haven't listened to them for years. i get why people are resentful. whatat i'm concerned about and what worries me is that we have a new group of politicians in far right populist parties that are exploiting those fears and grievances and resentments to take our societies back 100 years in a very dangerous direction. when i say white nationa

. >>> good evening, i am tavis smiley, first, with sash sasha polakow suransky, then, street artist shepardning us looking at street arts and activisms as it relates to its most iconic work his work and depicting from barack obama. we are glad you are joining us, all of that is coming up in just a moment.