it was no secret that they were going to attack segregation.he justice slowly and took time and by the time they got to 1950 the had the president because what we have now we have it in adult sitting in a classroom, how can a state -- a state is not allowed to sit and adults in the classroom beneath a banner that says, colored student section, but a state is allowed to sit thousands of children in a building across the street with colored children? you can't have both. the constitution cannot allow both. no logical document can allow both. so the court had been painted into a corner at this point and it took time, it took years, it took plaintiffs putting their lives and livelihood on the line to get there but finally after 1950 going into brown and had to have the issue before them. if you're not allowed to have a 60 year-old man in the same classroom and he can't be set off because of his race, how can you allow thousands of children to be set off in different buildings because of their race? the court was in a corner. two close, i would like

you talk about segregation, it's weird. you know we didn't have a segregated army until woodrow wilson? a progressive democrat. progressive. who is also a radical racist. he resegregated the military. i have never seen internment camp set up by talk show host or grocery store clerk. only an out-of-control government that has ever done those things, only a government that has all the apparatus, a gigantic government that can clamp down whenever they want to. it's amazing to me that the media is trying to paint tea party as rabid, frothing at the mouth, lunatics ready to start firing at any moment. we have bertha lewis getting millions of dollars of taxpayer money, building an infrastructure alongside the government, telling the socialists to be proud you're a socialist. if you are a socialist, whatever. then telling the socialists look out because people will put you in an internment camp. no one says a word. no one. the more this administration and its media cronies try to paint the tea parties into the radical radicals tha

for example, you know, my state, we still have, you know, segregated school systems. even in integrated school systems, there's a black homecoming queen and a white homecoming queen. sometimes there's a black prom and a white prom. dealing with that, i think we can challenge some of these, the thinking behind that, without backlash. it just means we have to kind of move forward. >> moyers: some politicians, african american politicians are urging that we give a pass to president obama because as the first african american president, he can't really be expected to take on racially targeted issues. that is, he can't appear to be president of black people. he has to be president of all people. do you agree with that? >> well, what i think is important is for us to have a president who cares about all people. and what it means to care about someone who lives in a racially- segregated ghetto is to be responsive to their unique concerns, their unique challenges. all right? so, if we're going to care about all people and treat all people fairly, we're going have to extend ce

shortly after the end of the second world war the end of legalized segregation began to. black people as never before. , currently other changes were soon to deeply alter americans a sense of the very meaning of race. the openness of the mid 1960's when beyond the black white-collar line. the immigration and nationality of the act of 1965 was crafted to counter revered nordic minded statutes in terms of patience. also allowed for wider immigration from the western hemisphere and africa. therein lay the seeds of democratic revolution. new immigrants of the post 1965 mirage overwhelming week outside europe were up ending america's racial conventions asia discreetly in number were judged to be smarter and richer than the native-born whites. latinos formed a 13% of the population by 2000 edging out african-americans as the most numerous minority. the u.s. census without scoring the nation's racial makeup began to notice latin americans in the 1940's. by a counting of people with surnames and lumping them together as hispanics. so an impossibly crude measurement and survived u

so opposed to segregation type inc.mericans generally are trying to figure out who we are according to our traditional bases. in the new bases are so much more about class because we are living in a country with the most profound inequalities of income and wealth. i think just about in our history. certainly in our post-slavery. in the slavery south, the disparities were infinite. but since that time, you know, we've really reached very few people who are very rich and an increasing number of people who are increasingly black and brown, who are just scraping by. yes? >> were going to take the last workers who might come in the last four or five. >> hike in the thank you so much for coming and my question i guess is to give context to grew up in d.c. and went to a multiracial public school and went away to a college that was very progressive and much wider and there seem to be almost a preoccupation among the student body about i guess the concept of white privilege and trying to be sensitive about white privilege, but a

a multi a cultural middle-class with college campuses but the face of course, segregated into cities remains black and for some time many have held that many and interracial sex would solve the race problem and in the day have been some cases but nonetheless poverty in the dark skin endures as the opposite of lateness driven by the age old social journey to characterize the poor as inherently inferior. thank you. [applause] >> we have about 20 minutes for questions. please get to the microphone >> made the race go to the swiftness. >> i have the political questions. >> no no. police. just ask a question. >> i am trying to gather the purpose of your book that what you would like to happen if also called white people agree with your premise because when i read works like the and cyclopedia of it but colonialism it talks about and i quote, playing possession too nearly all of america and austria and pollination 90% africans and 50% of asia or when you read the book we have in the store who owns the world that talks about the largest landowner and the world is queen elizabeth to happens

i sat in the back of the bus, attended a segregated school, i have in the, drank from, and relieve myself at the facilities reserved for people like me. and i suffered all of the psychological, if not physical, damage attendant on those experiences. from that perspective, my life is so much better, and the u.s. is a much better place. but, you know, my life is not the whole story. and i see that daily in the works that i used to provide educational opportunities for all children, especially low- income kids of color who have such a particularly difficult time breaking the cycle of under education and poverty that have haunted and help their families captive for generations after generation. today, these kids' lives looked little different from the lives of children half a century ago and more. they live under a cycle of poverty that the streets what they can be, what they can do, and what society can expect of an received from them. in this cycle, the results -- is the cycle the result of some continued, malignant, and malevolent racial intent? or is a legacy of the overt structural racis

civil unions and domestic partnerships and anything short of civil marriage is a form of segregation and a form of stigmatization which no self respecting date person should tolerate for a second. people will object that religion is such a powerful thing and that unreason should therefore be given a special privilege over reason and equality and truth. if religion is not about truth, what is it about? if religion is not about the sincere seeking the truth, what is it about? the civil protections i'm talking about, the civil equality i am talking about, the ability to be treated like everyone else, is a simple thing and not a religious thing. -- a simple thing, not a religious thing. it is a marriage license issued by a civil entity. it has nothing to do with religion. atheists get married every day of the week. by local clerks, but town clerks, by civil officials. they never have anything to do with any of them religion at all. the idea that a religious group should be able to say who and who cannot be married is absurd. let me give you a simple example -- the great inconsistency wit

involved the systems that had once been segregated. he said he did not know a single person that he had ever served with when he came to the court who would have voted in the manner that the supreme court did to not allow this formerly segregated system to take these steps to desegregate. and i think that's a fair observation. i still don't think he's a flaming liberal. you have to look in context. >> one of the nominees, will the republicans fight them because that's what they're doing now? >> republicans' formula has worked pretty well. they've opposed everything. health care being the most conspicuous example and their poll numbers have gone up and their prospect for november. there's a natural inclination for republicans to oppose it. i think it's a tougher case, because as nina points out, this is john paul stevens' seat. it isn't like you're going to tip the balance of the court in a different direction. >> in fact, it's probably going to tip it more conservative whoever obama pick, because all the names on the hot prospect list

i lived in were steeped in segregated areas. my father fought in world war ii and he fought in patton's army. and when he came home, his country repaid him with a seat on the back of the bus. but the beautiful thing about this country, john, is that either daughter that colored soldier could grow up and married his secretary of defense. so, you know, we have a wonderful country and i often say when i talk about race, i want to give my country's credit because i love her, despite her faults and because of her promise and her progress. >> host: i appreciate that. it is amazing to me the country that we live in. it is such a wonderful place geared we've made so much progress but they're still a great deal of progress to be made. this conference to place in july? and that's before the election. could the two of you, based on the conference, just during the conference, do you have a sense that we were about to take this great leap? >> guest: i didn't. i knew mr. obama was running in you as a promising candidate, but in my wild stream

again, segregation and this was defending the status quo.so then, as time goes by, as the milton friedman idea began to gather sand roman town and it's not until really -- there was ever to promote choice between president reagan's time because he liked the idea of vouchers. and then in 1990, the whole idea that choice for the poor was a very important by john chapman cherry know about schools where they said by now we've completely lost all the connection of choice to segregation. they said the choice -- we must consider the possibility of the choices, that the reason the test scores are above and perform poor is because we have bureaucracy and democratic participation. and if everybody would go to a voucher school of their choice, then achievement would take up yet so that's really the kind of background of the choice movement and then we now have voucher plants operating in three cities in milwaukee, cleveland and washington d.c. and the country right now they're about 30,000 children in public schools using -- none of public schools publ

the audience was segregated. there was a lawyer fence between the whites and blacks and harding spent most of the speech looking at the whites and telling them you just can't go forward in a job mobocracy and call with a democracy and treat people on the other side of that fence the way that you were doing so. it was a speech he to by the south but he still felt that there were and rhodes even then for the republicans in the south and the blacks were by and large thrilled with it. he hadn't done as much as they wanted but he did a lot as president. woodrow wilson, his predecessor had been set lee a serious racist, had removed blacks from positions they get long been in the district of columbia in the federal government, then as soon as they got them out of those positions and put a civil service and so they couldn't get back in. harding did what he could but was a true progressive in fact so much of parting's material, while he is still in many regards a classic conservative president he's also a highly progressi

just as the segregation of people by race in the schools is unconstitutional and immoral, the segregation, the unnecessary segregation of people with disabilities in institutions, is equally illegal and must be stemmed. >> senator franken. >> thank you. mr. perez, part of your job is enforcing the freedom of access to clinic entrances act, which protect americans' access to reproductive service providers. i know that the attorney general and the u.s. marshals service's help protect reproductive service providers around the country after the murder of a doctor last year. how are you working with the u.s. marshals service to ensure ongoing protection for these providers, and are you and the attorney general still recommending increased protection, or do you believe that the need was temporary? >> we conduct regular threat assessments. we have an active stock get -- an active docket. the last thing i worked on in the clinton administration was the murder of a doctor in new york. the first thing i got briefed on when i returned 11 years later was a murder in kansas. the more things change, th

and it took giving evidence of the way in which segregation worked not only to the people who suffer but to the whole community, direct non-violent action to highlight, to really focus attention on the reality of segregation and discrimination. c-span: you grew up in what town? >> guest: in a little town called rankin. it was a borough of pittsburgh, a tiny little town, population of about 7,800 people, and largely an outpost of (unintelligible) the thornborns. it was an interesting little community. c-span: what were your parents doing at the time? >> guest: my father was a building contractor. and while i had been born in richmond, he was among those who in 1916 felt that there were better opportunities in northern communities, and so he chose and the family moved to rankin. my mother was a nurse, and in fact, she was the head of nurses at a hospital in richmond, virginia, a black hospital. my father was very fortunate because he could find work. in fact, he employed people. he was self-employed all his life. but my mother, being a nurse, was not able to work in any hospital, nor w

shortly after the end of the second world war, the end of legalized segregation began to propel black people and to national visibility as never before. concurrently, other changes were soon to deeply alter american sense of the very meaning of race. little note is at the time the openness of the mid 1960s went beyond the black-white collar line. the immigration and nationality or heartfelt act of 1965 was specially crafted to counter early nordic minded immigration statute. especially in terms of asians. it also allows for wider immigration from the western hemisphere and africa. there in latest seeds of democratic revolution. new immigrants of the post-1965 era overwhelmingly from outside europe were up in being american racial conventions. asians, greatly rising in number, were rapidly being judged to be smarter him and eventually to be richer than nativeborn whites. let t. knows form 13% of the population by 2000, edging out african-americans as the the most numerous minority. the u.s. census, without fear and scorn the nation's racial makeup, had begun to notice latin americans i

i would say segregation is very nearly the opposite of the conservative philosophy actually. mean, segregation was after all historically an invention of southern democrats, who were sore losers in the civil war and wanted to repress and suppress blacks and their legitimate exercise of their newfound constitutional right and their inherent natural rights. and they couldn't reinstitute slavery but they could do the next best thing which was jim crow and the whole regime of segregation. in saying that segregation is done in the name of property rights is again-- there is a little truth to that but it is a partial truth, because every human being has a right in his own, to his own property and they write indeed to his own freedom as part of his property, to his own individual identity, and segregation, slavery was even more so a suppression of the right of property on the part of black human beings. now it is true that in the late 50s and 60s, specially after brown v. board of education that we did find some conservative politicians and some conservative theorist not exact way s

the audience was segregated.here was a wire fence between the white and black and warren harding spent most of that speech looking at the whites and telling them he just can't go forward in a democracy and call it a democracy and treat people on the other side of that fence the way you are doing so. it was a speech that was hated by the south but he still thought there were inroads even then law for the republicans in the south and the blacks were by and large thrilled with it. he had not done as much as they wanted but he had done a lot as president. blogger wilson, his predecessor, a serious racist had removed blacks from positions they had long been in in the federal government. as soon as he got them out of those positions and put a civil service in so they couldn't get back in, warren harding did what he could about hiring more blacks and getting them in but was a true progressive on this. so much of warren harding's material while he is in many regards a classic conservative president is a highly progressiv

we have high levels of residential segregation. it's a very long story.out slavery. after slavery we got a golden period called reconstruction during which it appeared that african-americans were going to really be conferred actual citizenship, not just nominal citizenship and the response was the jim crow laws. race has been the great drama of this country. and it has skewed and made it impossible for many of those central democratic ideals and ideals of justice to operate. but to bring it to a more recent past, i'm very irked. that only about 25 years ago politicians again discovered that it was possible to scare the american public by showing them the not particularly beautiful face of a convict known as -- named willy horton. and that they didn't even have to say anything that just agitating of the image of someone being disheveled and someone who had, in fact, committed horrible crimes withstood for the prejudice of the larger society. and as a result, you saw a whole string of really, really bad laws speaking about the sister a moment ago. it was be

the 1955 case that ended legal school segregation. they cited that in the majority.s dissent, justice stevens called that a cruel irony. just this year in the citizens united ruling, a 5-4 conservative majority ruled in favor of limitless campaign contributions, including foreign corporations, justice stevens in the minority wrote, quote, our lawmakers have a compelling constitutional basis, if not also a democratic duty, to take measures designed to guard against the potential liddell tier yes effects of corporate spending in races. the court's ruling under mines institutions across the nation. the path it has taken to reach its outcome will, i fear, do damage to this institution. justice stevens so strongly opposed what the court did in in landmark citizens united case, that he read allowed from his partial dissent when the decision was handed down. they never do that. according to people who were there at the time, justice stevens did not read allowed from his decision very well, because he is almost 90 and he said he was tired that day. but the fact that he did i

to not allow this formerly segregated system to take the steps to desegregate. i think that is a fair observation. i still don't think he is a flaming liberal. everything has to be taken in context. >> will talk about some names as nominees. will the republicans fight the nominees? >> the republican formula has worked pretty well. they have opposed everything. health care is the most conspicuous example and their poll numbers have gone up and their prospects for november. there's a natural inclination of the republicans to oppose it. this is tougher because this is john paul stevens' seed purdue will not tip the balance of the accord in a different direction. >> you'll probably get a more conservative because all the names that are on a hot prospect list are more conservative than john stevens, in all likelihood th. it will depend on how left or ideological the nominee is. >> republicans are the conservative party. the liberal party is in power and will nominate a liberal and a -- and there are actually people in washington who have principles and believe and id

different types of groups, up one people get to a certain age, people around 53 years old, they went to segregated schools. we have been living in the situation ever since we have been over here as an under- class. even that immigrants that are coming over now, there are above the blacks in america. what you have with obama is all of these issues. most of these people are on medicaid, social security, they get all kinds of aid from the government. as those people if they want their so security and medicaid cut out it took a lot for the call. mark potok, go ahead. guest: he is basically saying what former president jimmy carter said. all this stems from race. while i did not think that is completely true, there is some truth in it. a great number of people are uncomfortable that we are changing, and changing today valet radical way demographically. in the year 2015, white americans will lose their majority. -- 2050, what americans will lose their majority. that is the kind of real change that is a very-much represented in the election of president obama, a black man living in the white house. a lot

it is a novel of segregation in america. comes out in 52, the principle is prophetic.here's a foretelling. ellison believed literature shooting gauge in foretelling. there's foretelling of the civil-rights movement of the end of the novel clearly is in an america still governedçç by plessey versus ferguson, separate but equal. the moment of the novel is the brown vs. board decision of 1954. i want to read a letter that ellison wrote right after he heard the decision come down. it is remarkable letter. it gets at what he is up to in this novel. his theme, the invasion of identity and its cost and its danger. so now the court has found in our favor and recognized our human psychological complexity and citizenship and another battle of the civil war has been won. the rest is up to us and i am very glad. the decision came when i was reading a stillness at appomattox and a study of the negro freedman and it made a heightening of perspective and a sense of the problems that lie ahead that left me what i'd. i can see the whole room stretched out and all got mixed up with th

the segregation of the schools was happening again.an schools, classrooms were being segregated by race, so that the remaining non-minority students anwere being segregated. it was wrong and illegal. we attempted to settle the case with the school district. we were forced to go to court. the court ordered the relief that is noted in the paper today. i wish i could say that was the only case of this nature. in louisiana, we had a case involving a school district where 87% -- which was 87% african-american. they have to go high schools -- two high schools. in the school district that has 100% african-american students, there were no ap class is offered and by the gifted and talented horses. in the other school-- and five gifted and talented courses. this was not fair and we reach a settlement. -- we reached a settlement. in criminal enforcement, the prosecution of the crimes remains a top priority. we're working to implement the hate crimes prevention after 2009, turning lawyers, law enforcement officers, state and local, across theç co

washington, d.c., was nearly as segregated as in the southern town, and when i reported in mississippithere were no hotels that admitted blacks, so i stayed in a black funeral home. it was challenging in many ways, but i was fortunate to be able to report on interesting times, the civil rights movement, the women's movement, and all that happened in the aftermath, and i really have a love affair with journalism's for five decades, and throughout all those areas in which i worked, and even into the turbulence of today just referred to commo, i have alwayt we have to maintain the principles of journalism, the principles of truth and accuracy and clarity and balance. i truly believe, as i think everyone in this room believes, that our democracy cannot survive without the watchdog role of journalism, and i -- [applause] and it is critical to have journalists in the democracy that journalists do their jobs and do it one of -- do it well. i am going to quickly say a word about diversity. i have always been told you have to do what you have come to do, and i am worried, because i think divers

one is the administration joining of very important lawsuit calling for the the segregation of affordable housing in westchester county, new york. it is a very well to to suburb, access to good jobs and good schools. the second is the administration signing on to the affirmative action case in the new haven case, one that was lost in the supreme court, but the administration cigna goal -- signaled its commitment to pushing that agenda as well. these things are not appearing on the front pages of the papers or the talk shows, but they matter. >> i was going to throw in my two cents. unless of movement again occurs, and going back to my father and his team, in the early 1960's, they asked if he had in the civil rights legislation that he would propose. the president said, i am impotent. i have sympathy and i sympathize with you. i have some other domestic things that i've got to do. i cannot do anything right now. what my father and his team were able to do was precipitate a nonviolent crisis. my point is that if the african- american community comes together and precipitates -- and i will

there has been an effort charlie wrangle compares it to segregation, you have another congressman compared the tea party movement to the clan. now there's an effort to infiltrate the tea party movement so they can em ba emba the movement and alienate the tea party from the american people. here's what bothers me racist voice mails left for obama care nobo nobodi nobody pays attention. let's play the tape. >> you sounded like such a slave on the fox news program. >>er reck cantor, obama supporter. why -- what do you think these attacks against the tea party movement are about? >> i am a coffee drinker what i know is people have a right to stand up for what they want and to peacefully talk about it in the company they agree with. there are people who are bad people on both sides. i don't think bigotry -- >> concerted effort to show up at tea parties april 15th tax day on thursday we will be in cincinnati. we will be holding up signs with misspelled words trying to get on interviews use racial epitaphs to embarrass the tea party movement. >> it's a threat. they see it as a threat and understa

she helped organize freedom schools in mississippi at the height of the battle over segregation in the south, bringing women of different races and backgrounds together for what became known as wednesdays in mississippi. she knew and worked with figures such as rosa parks, whose defiance sparked the montgomery bus boycott. >> it was as if she could hear a soft voice say to her, rosa parks, you are a child of god. you can make a difference. i think she would want to say that there's a lot of work for us to do to make freedom and equality a reality. and that each of us could make a difference. >> reporter: she was close to dr. king and fond of quoting him. >> dr. king always says the black man needs the white man to free him of his freer and the white man needs the black man to free him of his guilt. we need each other. >> reporter: she was awarded for her public service in one of america's most turbulent eras. joe johns, cnn, washington. >>> in the battle against the bulge, america is losing and sugar may be partly to blame. if you are on the losing end, it may not be your fault. why re

the dynamics of youth culture segregates generations, keeping them focused on their age group, and not having a sense of membership or belonging in generations that have preceded them and generations that will succeed them. youth culture is not good for culture. it is a form of disorder. yet it is the fortunate and -- for american churches were quick to embrace. evangelicals to see something that is a cultural disorder into a see it as a ministry opportunity rather than something that should be addressed as something that will misshape our lives in some way. youth culture is not good for culture. but american churches embrace it because they believe adopting the style or vocabulary of youth culture is an effective way to communicate a private message about salvation. whether or not it offered a good way to live, it was cultural a healthy, or good way to love our neighbors was not on the radar. it is the way the culture is. we want to communicate, be relevant. let's do it. this is an assumption that is rooted in the enlightenment thinkers, rather than in scripture or the church history,

. >> often, the church remains silent in the face of injustice, whether it's slavery, segregation, genocide. i don't have time as a pastor to just do religious services where people come and feel better about themselves."u i want to lead a movement of people who want to make a difference, a god-difference, in the world. >> reporter: about 4,500 people come to the ginghamsburg church every week. their donations have built 173 schools in darfur. those schools serve about 22,000 students. they've also sponsored a sustainable agricultural project, which has now helped to feed an estimated 80,000 darfuris. they've built water systems to provide clean water and sanitation to more than 60,000 people. and they've begun micro- enterprises, such as a brick- making factory, to help fund the projects. the programs are run by local staff on the ground. most darfuris are muslim, but slaughter says his church is not there to convert them to christianity. >> compassion doesn't have any strings attached. you serve people because they're human beings, created in the image of god, loved by god. >> reporter: s

segregated how? well, it was segregated because hispanics could not go to the school that everybody else went to. of course, african-americans couldn't either. so i guess they had two levels of segregation, but eventually he got to the university of texas and then became a doctor, and during world war ii he was a combat engineer, a field of the military that i, too, served in, and the rest, as they say, is history. it is my intention to yield to our colleague, mr. ortiz, who has more detail that we can add to this. at this moment i'll reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: does the gentleman reserve his time? the gentleman from texas. mr. smith: madam speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. smith: madam speaker, first of all, i want to thank my texas colleague, mr. ortiz, for introdousing this resolution. it reflects -- for introducing this resolution. it reflects well on him. and, madam speaker, i support house c

it's a very powerful book talking about the jim-crow who lives incarceration as opposed to segregation in sleeper. >> host: citizen a different form. >> guest: we have lots of work to do. >> host: we must continue to work and i really want to thank the two of you for your great work, you're great leadership, your vision for your inspiration. i have enjoyed being with you and continue to tell the story. continue to build one american, for we are one people, one family, the american family. >> guest: keep working on capitol hill to make it a reality. >> host: thank you. thank you so much. >> guest: thank you, john. >>> high node with the challenge is and we are in a unique position to go to work. what we need this policy makers in washington to develop a road map so we can get it done. >> something about energy policy that he would like to talk about on your blog? at the new c-span video library you can search it, watch it, quebec and share it. over 160,000 hours of video from yesterday or ten years ago, every c-span program since 1987. the c-span video library. cable's latest gift to am

he grew up under harsh segregation in virginia.tirement years he live a quiet life in suburban, washington. about a year ago with a marine escort by his side, he had tears in his eyes during president obama's inauguration. eugene allen was 90 years old. >>> it was an emotional homecoming last night for one of america's many military families. 10-year-old henry dinee was part of a flag ceremony before a waington capitals hockey game. when he came off the ice he was stunned to see his dad just home from iraq. colonel rick dinee had been with the air national guard on a six-month deployment. >>> when we come back, making a difference. >>> when we come back, making a difference. trouble never sleeps. but sometimes, allstate agents have to. they're only human. but don't worry. the good hands are always available, day and night, by phone and online. good night. take care. ♪ >>> on this friday night it's time for our "making a difference" report. during this season of graduation and change, tonight a woman who is smoothing what can be a t

they went to segregated school, they were taught they were better. they are talking about the situation. we've been living in the situation has underclass. even the immigration and the immigrants coming up now, they are stepping up above the blacks in america. what you have is with obama, all of these businesses, it's the race is coming through, what he's doing, most of the people ought to deal with their own medicaid, social security, they get all of the aid and stuff plus the government. ask those people do they want their social security checks and medicaid cut out? >> host: thanks for your call. mark potok, go ahead. >> guest: well, what the caller is saying very similar to what jimmy carter said and was very criticized for which was behind all of the anger stands race. i think that's not particular literally true, there is a lot of truth in it. i do think that a very great number of people in america are very uncomfortable with the fact that we are changing and changing in a fairly radical way demographically. the census bureau has predicted in

women are still segregated into low-paying jobs. in 2007, nearly half, 43%, of women were confined to just 20 occupational categories, where the median income is just over $27,000 a year. which is very tough to live on. of the top fortune 500 companies in 2008, only 15 had a female chief executive. the closer aside, only 1% of police chiefs are women. young men are four times more likely to negotiate their first salary than young women, resulting in, on average, $500,000 more in earnings by the age of 60. the united states ranked 69t 69th in the world in terms of the number of women in national legislatures. only 70% of the seats in the house of representatives are held by women. whereas in rwanda, it's 56%. the united states ranks 29t 29th in infaint mortality. 17 places lower than we did in 1960 and we're now behind cuba, the czech republic and hungary and we're tied with poland and slovakia. while 163 other countries on the planet, offered paid maternity leave, and 45 provide paid paternity leave, the united states does not. unpa

other all day long and incite each other to greater extremes and it's enabled something we are self segregated into separate political realities and that can be very dangerous. >> talk more about the media and the internet and a few minutes ahead but let's try to identify and you and the two syndromes you talk about in the book. bush v. gore arrangements in durham obviously which was first formed during the bush and administration and obama the arrangements of this debate cousin durham. what are they and what gave rise to them and how are they manifested in today's political climate? >> it is a contagion virus. bush the arrangement centum and obama the frenchman syndrome i define as pathological hatred of the president posing as patriotism and it's important to understand the inner played between the extremes because neither side is immune and in the bush years we saw people, some protesters not a lot but definitely there and some very prominent ones comparing president bush to hitler. and this wasn't placards and protests. one of the things lady to yell in the book there's a surprising line o

. >> now is the time to rise from the darkness of the valley of segregation.now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. i have a dream that my children will not be judged by the color of their skin. i have a dream. i have a dream. a crooked way will be made straight. i have a dream. america could be a great nation. let freedom ring from the hilltops. let freedom ring from the malley mountains -- from 90 -- from the mighty mountains. let freedom ring, let freedom, let freedom ring. let freedom ring from tennessee. let freedom ring from mississippi. let freedom ring from every city and every hamlet. all god's children, black men and what men -- and white men will join hands and saying in the words of the old negro spiritual, free at last, free at last, but god almighty, we're free at last -- they got almighty, we're free at last -- thank god almighty, we're free at last. i have a dream. crooked places will be made straight. we cannot turn back. i have a dream. >> i, john kennedy will bottom line --

at a time when racial segregation was the standard, mind you, and i know dr. christensen remembers that, i remember that very well. that was the standard. resistance to integration was often fierce. dr. height remained forever vigilant. she remained true to her convictions. even when it was not the comfortable thing to do. a life long advocate for peace and equality, dr. height was especially committed to empowering women and girls. she stood toe it toe with our great male civil rights leaders, often times the only woman in the room, only woman on the platform. she was steadfast in her dedication to ensure that black women's issues and concerns were addressed. she was forever dedicated to helping women achieve full and equal employment, pay and education and dr. height was an internationalist. before many of us began our work on the continent of africa or in the caribbean, dr. height, as the president of national negro -- council of negro women, had chapters and did work in the villages in africa, worked as a visionary, worked to touch the lives of so many wom

of people buy a race in the school is unconstitutional and a moral, the segregation of people, the onwith disabilities institutions is equally illegal and must be stemmed. >> thank you. senter franken. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. perez, part of your job is enforcing the freedom of access to clinic entrances act which prohibits -- unsury, protect americans' access to reproductive service providers. i know the attorney general holder asked the u.s. marshals service to help safeguard reproductive providers and facilities around the country after dr. george tiller is murder last year. hauer you working with u.s. marshals service to ensure ongoing protection for these providers and are you and attorney general elders still recommending increased protection or do you believe that the need was temporary? >> i don't believe -- will conduct regular threat assessments. we have an active docket. the last thing i worked on before i left the clinton administration was the murder of the doctor and buffalo new york 3 miles from where i grew up. the first thing i was briefed on won by a ride back

just as the segregation of people by race in the schools is unconstitutional and immoral, the segregation of people, the unnecessary segregation of people with disabilities in institutions, is equally illegal and must be stemmed. >> senator franken. >> thank you. mr. perez, part of your job is enforcing the freedom of access to clinic entrances act, which protect americans' access to reproductive service providers. i know that the attorney general and the u.s. marshals service's help protect reproductive service providers around the country after the murder of a doctor last year. how are you working with the u.s. marshals service to ensure ongoing protection for these providers, and are you and the attorney general still recommending increased protection, or do you believe that the need was temporary? >> we conduct regular threat assessments. we have an active stock get -- an active docket. the last thing i worked on in the clinton administration was the murder of a doctor in new york. the first thing i got briefed on when i returned 11 years later was a murder in kansas. the more things

. >> there's a sense built upon the brown decision, which had already said that racial segregation couldes. and it brought it within the context of those things that are in our daily lives. it was also followed with frustration. because we have the laws, but don't always have the enforcement. >> she responded, inviting black and white women to come together in meetings she called wednesdays in mississippi. bringing together people was familiar to dorothy. the daughter of a nurse who could not find work in white hospitals and a self-employed contractor, dorothy knew little of prejudice, but remembers its first encounters with a white classmate. what her mother told her set the stage. >> she said, you're a smart girl. you're a strong girl and so, no matter what has happened, i found myself not getting bitter, but feeling in the midst of all this, i have to stand up. >> by standing up, she has rallied against lynchings and rule poverty. she has counseled numerous u.s. presidents on civil rights. you can see her face in photos with presidents and first ladies. a recipient of more than 30 hon

i would say segregation is very nearly the opposite of the conservative philosophy actually.i mean, segregation was after all historically an invention of southern democrats, who were sore losers in the civil war and wanted to repress and suppress blacks and their legitimate exercise of their newfound constitutional right a