. >> he's been in the idu, our segregation unit, disciplinary segregation unit, i think for 5 1/2 months now. and he's been conduct clear throughout that time. so that told me that he really is motivated. how you doing, man? welcome. >> thank you. >> they got you up today, right? >> wednesday. >> wednesday? >> bailey was recently transferred from idu to the residential treatment unit or rtu, where he's given more privileges and ongoing counseling. >> other guys like, yeah. we can do it like he did it, you know. >> well, yeah. remember, you're trying to change your path. you've been going down a certain road for many years. my only concern is we have to make sure that you have the skills in this initial part to not get suckered into something that's going to trigger your anger. >> everything is going to be all right. >> yeah, really, i'm excited for you. i think -- if you let us help you and support you, i think this is going to work really good for you. mr. bailey has done excellent in maintaining his behavior. when he got here, he decided that he's kind of done fighting, is done being d

. ♪ >> the segregation unit is a controlled unit.eople in here have assaulted staff in the past or they -- you know, you have overt sexual behavior. you have stealing, you have theft. there are some murderers that we have here. they are violent. you have chaos going on constantly. >> this inmate's rage in general population brought him time in segregation. >> i got in a fight. gave somebody 15 stitches in his eye. i got an anger problem and i don't really think before i act. that was the main problem. >> every anarchy of prison that you can think of with adults, we have the same subsystems here. >> with as many as 48 violent teens kept in a confined area of the facility, the segregation unit has a society all its own. ♪ where cell phones and ipods are replaced by a fast-paced secretive practice known as cadillacing. >> sometimes it takes a while. you have to mash your mat up and tear a hole in your mat and put a string all the way around it and get toilet paper wet, put cotton or paper around it. making it square, wrap a string aroun

leaving their cells only for showers and solitary recreation. >> some people will tell you that segregation unit is not the place for people with mental illness because we didn't design that particular unit for treatment. particularly for mental health treatment. we just didn't anticipate us having the numbers we have and going the way it's gone. >> although acute cases are referred to the psychiatric unit at a neighboring correctional institution, the staff in the shu deal with a variety of mental behaviors. >> there are those that are dangerous people, that you have to be very cautious of when you interact with them. >> inmate douglas mccombs, who is serving time for burglary, has spent three months in the security housing unit at wabash. >> since he's been inside the shu, he's been in a stripped cell. when you see a offender come out of the cell, and all he's wearing is his underwear, at that time he was on strip cell. we had trouble with him on about every range we put him on so far. >> say, i got a mental disorder, or they say i do. they say i got a mental disorder. they say schizophrenic d

he was housed in the prison's administration segregation unit. >> i had about five or six charges. my most biggest charge is dealing with a teenager which i was 16 and she was like 15 i believe. i ended up killing both of them, the mom and daughter. came in 15 years, and i got 15 more. >> originally convicted of rape and theft, wilson earned his second 15-year sentence while behind bars after he brutally beat a corrections officer. >> ended up, cracked his ribs, his jaw. think i did something to his hip and broke his collarbone too. to me it was no thing, it was prison. you don't come here and work here and think it's cake. no, he didn't die, he just won't be a correctional officer no more. >> despite his attitude, some at holman are trying to help wilson turn his life around. >> i have known him several years. he's a young man with a lot of anger problems. he acts out through his anger. that's what we're trying to deal with now. >> i have a bad anger problem, you know what i'm saying? i'm angry because i ain't with my family. i'm angry because of the way they treat you, the things

. >>> the most violent inmates are housed in solitary cells in the administrative segregation unit.son within a prison. >> these offenders are the worst of the worst for indiana. conduct's what's put them over there. they did assaults, brought drugs into the institution. they're troublemakers, the ones that go around extorting people, blackmailing people, they're the ones that end up over here in the administration segregation unit. >> inmates are confined to their cells for 23 hours per day, with only one hour allotted for exercise. built up tensions can sometimes explode. >> it's aggressive, it's dangerous, it's violent. you can come out on the range and he may have had bad news from home, from his mother and he tries to take it out on you. this is the jungle of indiana state prison. >> in this noisy, hostile environment, our producer spotted an older, white haired man serenely walking the tier showing no fear for his safety. >> i'm from south bend, indiana, notre dame and just sort of talk to the men. any that want to talk to me. some are catholic, some are not. i'm retired and d

. >> some tell you that segregation unit is not the place for people with mental illness, we didn't design that for treatment, mental health treatment, didn't anticipate having the numbers we had and going the way it has gone. >> acute cases go to a psychiatric unit at a neighboring institution, the staff deal with a variety of mental behaviors. >> there are those that are dangerous people. that you have to be cautious of when you interact. >> doug last is serving time for burglary, spent three months in wabash. >> since he has been in the schu, he was on split cell. you see the offender come out, wearing his underwear, he was on strip cell for resisting staff or trying to assault staff before. we had trouble with him on about every range we put him on so far. >> i have a mental disorder, they say i do, okay, they say i've got a mental disorder, schizophrenia disorder. i can't get along with people too much, especially when they're evil. >> the officer has been working here since 1997. >> average day in the schu can be mundane. you have sick call, so on and so forth. some days like today g

segregation. a 23-hour-a-day lockup unit for inmates who violate prison rules. >> i was taking him to north segregationck him up in our seg unit. >> when the inmate turns on him, morgan tightens his grip. but the situation would soon get much more intense. >> that's when he tried to pull away from me and turned around on me. >> he's grabbing on me. >> that's when i tried to secure him to the ground until i could get more security help. >> no, no, no. no, no, no. huh-uh. i'm going to walk. i'm going to walk. >> those particular charges that i charged the inmate with were insolence, disobeying a direct order, assault, he attempted to spit on me as well as turn around on me. and this inmate will go to an adjustment hearing, which is panel of hearing officers, and he will plead his case against my disciplinary report that i give him, and they will do whatever is just. >> while this inmate received an extended term in segregation, combative inmates always risk suffering physical consequences as well. wherever inmates congregate, common areas and cellblocks, the yard, or the cafeteria, there's usually an ove

over in the men's segregation unit, tony goodwin is dealing with bigger issues, currently on trial for murder. >> my judge told me if i were to lose trial my minimum sentence would be 23 to life and maximum 33 to life. >> goodwin, who was 16 at the time of his arrest is accused of fatally shooting a 20-year-old man. >> i was basically i want to speak from the heart. to the victim's family whatever part i played in the situation, i apologize for it and want them to know i'm sincere about it. >> what are you sorry for? >> the part that -- >> tell me what that was? >> no. i know what i'm guilty of. >> 18 months before his own arrest, goodwin's older brother was fatally shot while standing at a bus stop. >> people take losses different way. some people find god, religion, family. i chose the streets. i went to the streets when i lost my brother. people do things differently. streets helped me cope, i guess. the pain i was feeling. >> goodwin has at least one person who understands his pain. >> is it possible i can see tony now? >> yeah. >> my mother, she is a strong individual for the simp

. >> i was on the idu, the segregation unit, and a couple of guys up there that i don't get along withning to burn me up again. i got another one admitting to me that he's got hiv and hepatitis and telling me how he's going to mix up some hot water with feces and throw that on me so i catch the disease. so everybody that comes past my cell door, i say, these are the guys that are trying to hurt me and kill me. i said, i need to get off this unit. >> roll it back. >> we have another high number of offenders who will self-mutilate and cut to get their way. officers don't come to their cell fast enough, they want a tv, they are having a problem with something, so they will cut in order to get somebody's attention. >> i'll pull out a razor blade and i cut myself right there. can you see that? right there. them little circles is where i had the stitches. when i did that, oh, i got everybody's attention then, everybody and their [ bleep ] mama wanted to talk to me and find out why did i it. i didn't care win just wanted to make it home alive, man. >> we're going up to "g" unit to talk to off

. >> this is administrative segregation unit, this where the inmates come from, the gp yard whenever they are in trouble. >> clear. >> turn and face the wall. >> ever been in the hole before? >> no, sir. >> all right. >> we're all waiting by the bathrooms that are outside the yard. this guy comes strolling into the bathroom with a bloody pulp, like, bloody face. the officer came out of the office, whoa, what the hell? pressed the buzzer. took us all out in the yard, inspected us and here i am. i don't have a mark on me. how am i going to break somebody's jaw? i'm not even a violent person. i don't even know what to think really. now apparently they found something in my locker or laundry bag that ties me in with whatever happened? it is obvious i didn't pick a fight. there ain't a mark on me on my face or my hands. >> ironically, carlton was on the receiving end of a fight similar to this one not so long ago. >> i am in the 3a gym because i got in a fight on the level one yard back in march and wasn't willing to give up who i got in the fight with. i got beat up pretty bad. so they p

. >> morgan was moved to the segregation unit pending an investigation into his role in the fight. but he denied any involvement, even when confronted by deputy warden jodi brown. >> hey. >> they said i was involved, jodi, and i wasn't involved. >> okay. but you know what i told you we caught it all on videotape. >> but i wasn't in the fight or involved in the fight or nothing. >> so you stood there, you watched them clean up the blood -- >> no, i did not stand there and watch them clean up the blood. >> well, the videotape has a little bit different take on it. >> the video doesn't like. you can clearly see peaches trying to clean up the aftermath of this crime. >> coming up -- >> i want to show you the video. >> okay. >> kenneth morgan is confronted by the evidence. >> and who is this? >> that's me. >> and then -- >> hi guys. >> by an inmate who just might take his place. >> mr. peach, you've got competition. >> i see. my mother made the best toffee in the world. it's delicious. so now we've turned her toffee into a business. my goal was to take an idea and make it happen. i'm ja

it's the cpsu, the central punitive segregation unit.his is where the toughest inmates stay for crimes that range from the most violent, murder, to the more unruly, violating jail orders, such as talking back to staff. >> close 2-7. >> here, inmates are locked in their cells 23 hours a day. >> if i wasn't spiritual, i think i'd probably kill myself. my goal is for the afterlife. i want to go to paradise. other than that, this is terrible. >> what we found, frustration and long periods of confinement can cause inmates to act up. >> inmate's about ready to charge. he was at the cell door with something in his hand this time. you guys ready? going in. >> officers had to restrain the inmate when he refused their orders to come out of his cell. >> cuff him, gentlemen, cuff him. >> watch your back. >> hold him there. >> 6510. >> today, the cpsu still houses the worst of the worst, but due to the re-arrest policy and its consequences, violent outbreaks are almost nonexistent. >> in the past when an inmate committed an infraction in the jail, ba

he has spent most of his time at holman in the administrative segregation unit. >> he's an impulsive type of a guy. he's violent. he's in here for violence, and apparently the time has not taught him any differently. >> can i be rehabilitated? yeah, i could be rehabilitated. if i could figure out how to get over the hatred. because i have a lot of hatred. i have a lot of hatred for people in general, for society. >> that includes warden culliver. >> he's a narcissist. he's super serious. he loves attention. he loves to micromanage [ bleep ]. and he loves to give everybody that's at his mercy a hard time. he's trying to be somebody. you know, he's trying to define his identity off the demoralization and dehumanization of other people. trying to boost his own ego up. >> how would you describe steven parker? what kind of inmate is he? >> crazy. he's a nut. i mean, no more, no less. he's not a person that's very intelligent. >> culliver combats predatory behavior and other problems by knowing his inmates well and enforcing his rules. even the smaller ones, like being clean shaven. >> tha

when an inmate commits any crime inside corcoran, he is sent to the administrative segregation unit, or asu, until his case is heard. >> this is a pretty secure unit, everything is controlled as far as any kind of movement, incoming, outgoing, whatever. so canteen, walking to see a visitor. here everything is controlled. for meals, we bring them. there is a set program that we go by. >> how are you guys doing? all right? good, good. >> today our producers are granted access to a case being heard by the institutional classification committee. >> morning, morning. i am here today to review your asu placement, to determine if your housing is appropriate, and to ensure that due process has been available to them. >> inmate ed duane smith and his cellmate are charged with prison murder. >> i've been trying for the past month to get my 115 heard. >> did you not postpone to the d.a.? >> yes, but it says, according to -- >> do you have your request with you? >> no, but i did submit it. >> who did you submit it to? >> i sent it to captain fields, one to grimsley. >> this is what we can do, sm

. >> if outrageous claims were his only issue, he would probably spend less time in segregation, the housing unit where problematic inmates are confined their cells for 23 hours a day and enjoy few if any privileges. >> inmate schmidt does not care about being locked up. it's obvious he doesn't car how long he's in a cell, so he's a harder inmate to deal with because lockup doesn't work. >> he is currently back in segregation for taking his cleaning duties in another housing unit to an unacceptable level. >> schmidt was sweeping around here with his broom and everything like that, and i had to talk to an inmate around the corner. i came back and seen him pull >> schmidt was sweeping around here with his broom and everything like that, and i had to talk to an inmate around the corner. i came back and seen him pull telephone wires out of the wall. what are you doing? and he told me that there was a bomb in the telephone and that he was diffusing the bob. >> schmidt, are you ready? >> he is charged with a 219, which is major disruptive conduct. >> while schmidt will not likely receive criminal charg

unit. >> [ bleep ]. >> all right? >> yeah. he's in a one man segregationafter damaging some phone cords. >> same old bull [ bleep ]. schmidt was arrested on a charge of inducing panic after claiming to have an atomic bomb in his car. he made other questionable claims in jail as well. >> my real parents are jfk and marilyn monroe. i was their love child so -- >> are we ready? >> now he has to meet with the jail psychiatrist, who will try to determine if he is mentally ill or just a trouble maker. >> any thoughts that somebody is following you, watching you, keeping track of you, other than the cos, that's everybody's job and they are paid for that? >> no. >> what was going on with the police ended up hauling you in? that's what i want to know? >> because somebody told them i had an atomic bomb detonator in my suv. >> who told them? who did you start yaking to about it? >> i planted this seed with one guy -- >> must like action? >> i do, i like action movies and like to see people look like complete idiots. it's kind of funny. >> you seem like a very bright

birmingham is probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the united states.ugly record of brutality is widely known. there have been more unsolved bombings of negro homes and churches in birmingham than in any other city in the nation. these are the hard, brutal facts of the case. you may well ask him a wide direct action? why citians? , and soitins, marches forth? isn't negotiation a better path? nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and force -- foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate .s forced to confront the issue you speak of our activity in birmingham as extreme. it was not jesus an extremist for love -- love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to those who hate you and pray for them what to do spitefully use you and persecute you? the preservation of injustice or the extension of justice? when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim, when you have seen hate filled police men curse, kick, and even kill your black b

segregation. a lockdown unit. >> that was part of the reason why -- that's part of the reason why we sent him overhere. >> that's part of the reason why we sent him over there. >> just his activity and his influence over the population being a leader with the stg group is enough reason to keep him over there. just at that. bu he can call shots and make things happen and stand back in the shadows. >> think i don't understand is they put me in here thinking i can make a hit. how does that save that person? he's still going to get hit. if i had the authority to do that, which i don't. but my past haunts me. and it's bloody. >> coming up -- >> as far as the extortion, i think he's lying. >> nick compton's story comes under fire. and later -- >> you miss your mother? >> yes. >> we check in on one of the most memorable inmates to ever appear on "lockup." @ñ >> not what they used to be. all of these guys telling on each other. [ bleep ] it's crazy, man. that's the worst thing you can do up in the joint, tell on somebody. >> one thing you don't do is snitch, be a child molester, or call somebody a name. t

. >> male inmates considered to be the greatest threat are segregated in their own unit, section 20. >> when they are -- when they use a lot of drugs, when they are aggressive, when they're risk for escaping, then they come to section 20. >> burack ersen is a section 20 inmate. awaiting trial for attempted murder of a wheelchair bound man. >> they say that i put a man through the window like this. >> in a wheelchair? >> in a wheelchair, yes. >> unlike most high-security units in american prisons where inmates are locked in cells 23 hours a day, burack and other section 20 inmates are given access to common areas. but less than 24 hours after our arrival, a fight breaks out between two inmates. surveillance footage would later reveal that burack ersen, shown speaking on a pay phone, was one of the participants. he's suddenly approached by another inmate who has just picked up supplies and food from the prison canteen and just seconds later they take each other to the ground. correctional officers swarm the two men and take burack into custody, while the other inmate picks up his suppl

unit. it's segregation. due to the fact that i'm on idu, i've got to have noncontact visits. i don't get to touch my loved ones. i got to see them through glass and bars. >> as he is escorted to visitation, billy groves has no idea the visitor internal affairs has received a tip on is his girlfriend. >> i woke up like at 5:00, got up, shaved, brushed my teeth, because i'm going to see brandy. she is like the love of my life. so i'm smiling. i'm feeling good. it's a good day. i know everything's going to be perfect. >> groves' girlfriend, brandy graves, has just been picked up on surveillance cameras passing through security. claiming to have a back injury, she arrives in a wheelchair. >> okay, here we go. he's checking her out. checking her shoes. she's moving those legs pretty well. i don't know what we're anticipating on the visit. we've heard anything from tobacco to cell phones to cocaine, marijuana. >> she's refusing to get out of the chair. >> unable to complete their patdown, officers follow prison policy and turn brandy away, throwing a wrench in whelan's plan for a b

united states. monks' campaign for religious segregation. religiousampaign for segregation. >> buddhist principles like morality and purity. alsoasingly, they are getting a message about religious intolerance. according to some, buddhist and muslim should not live side by side in the same town. >> it is unacceptable to us. it would be problematic if we ask them to live together again. the capital in western myanmar where more than talented people were killed last year and was the 100,000 were left homeless. most of them were muslims who were attacked by groups of s.iss -- groups of buddhist some fear that the conflict could spread to neighboring buddhist countries like thailand. that the concerned people are dissatisfied about a situation in myanmar and they attack the muslim people. reality where communities are being destroyed and town segregated. the only muslim area left in tact is closed off. we were unable to get in. the villages where muslim homes were burned down are now into wastelands. >> there have been some cases of buddhists bei

history text books, and it requires a good teacher, but it's the complete united states text, constitution, courts mob violence segregation, all are things that we do have done and continue to do so obviously it's a valuable story. >> michael: yeah, and we're going to continue hearing this story, and i'm going to let you minijean when we come back from the break, tell us a little bit about the part that you think is under taught, and how we can change that and how we can get people to continue learning. we'll take a quick break and then we'll have more with minniejean brown trickey after this. >> "viewpoint" digs deep into bs'ing them with some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. when the democrats are wrong, they know that i'm going to be the first one to call them out. they can question whether i'm right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. >> "viewpoint" digs deep into the issues of the day. >> has the time finally come for real immigration reform? >> with a distinctly satirical point of view. if you believe in state's rights

division between north and south was the fact the united states at that moment was until the brown decision in 1954 contained 17 state that mandated racial segregation with missouri and south carolina, et cetera, et cetera. 17 states, 34 united states senators. in 1940, every single one was a democrat. 34 united states senators veto blocking a senate of 96 seats. the south had disproportionately high representation in the house of representatives because we count for constitutional purposes. every person who lives in the population of a given state as the basis for political representation. but the south had an electoral system in which half the majorities of citizens did not or could not vote. example, it's an extreme example to be sure. but 1938, mississippi has seven members of the house of representatives and a population of 2.3 million. collectively, the seven members of the house elected in november november 1938 secured 43,000 votes. seven people, 43,000 votes and not end with an opponent. so the south had a one-party state, low franchise and that of course gave a nervous advantages to members of congress for not reaching. they got seniority

units of pnm. most recently, he's been put on disciplinary segregation for possession of dangerous contraband. >> which one was that? >> shank. >> yeah. >> it was a little piece of plastic about three or four inches long, sharpened at one end, with no handle, no nothing. what are you going to do with it? >> we have to shake down your house and make sure you don't have anything in there. >> as a rule, you shake down whatever cell you go live in. on a major shakedown, they find something in my cell, they write me up, so now i'm stuck here another five years. >> what was found? >> allegedly a shank. >> a piece about this big. i laugh at that. you know what i mean? what am i going to do? piss someone off with that? if someone was coming at me like that, i laugh at them. yeah, i'm going to feel it, but it is nothing that can damage you. it is nothing to worry about. i would be more scared about a fist in the face than with that. >> today alejandro finds out if he completed his segregation time. >> hi, alejandro. >> hello. >> you know you're off disciplinary status today, right? but you also know you're goin

segregating. when an individual comes, the first in the asking, where are you from? what is your nationality? that is how to divide and conquer. that is the way the united states is made up. that is how you work. north and south vietnam, for instance. they divide people so that the pressure will not be on them. that is how i see the system. i see it in prison, how they divide inmates. it is scary if inmates unite, and ty do not like that. when i first come to prison, it will be a big thing if i went and sat with the blacks. it would be a big think if they caucasian sat with the asians. we only did that one time, where everybody got together, and we got what we wanted. when you unite, you can conquer. [applause] >> next question is for the commander. how can they community-based organization contact the task force for speaking engagements? >> if you call and ask to speak to jim miller. >> is there any effort to formalize the relationship with a community-based organization? >> right now, we do not have that effort in place. it is a good idea, it is something that we have talked about. it is important for us to understand what the cbos are doing. it is im

just like the united states saying you know, we believe in life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and the freedom of all people. at the same time, we want african-americans to be a segregateand marginalized and we want women to be subordinate to their husbands. they're not permitted to have equal standing in society. well, those are conflicts. and in fact, what i love about the united methodist discipline is it opens by narrating our history and it reminds us of the mistakes we made in our history. so it tells us that we know that our rules are not perfect. and therefore, we must constantly be prepared to correct mistakes, to overcome failures and we're now in a new issue that where we're struggling to do just that. those of us who are seeking to bring about change. >> john: sir we've only got about 20 seconds left. you were a civil rights protestor in the '60s. you were there doing sit-ins at segregated lunch counters. >> that's correct. >> john: how do you think the lgbt civil rights movement compares with that? >> there are clearly differences. because the segregation rules were oppressive in a broadway. but what is being denied here are marriage rights. not colored pe

segregation. [inaudible] >> at the close of that spoken black version of the letter, king and actions freedom bells ringing from every mountain in the unitedstates. from red mountain in alabama, and the imagines the days where blacks are able to sing "my country tis of thee," sweet land of liberty. and i'll just close with this thought, with this celebraticelebrati on of the american nation, after all, a few months later he repeats this. this is in anticipation of i have a dream, when he sings "my country tis of thee." hardly. his pronouncement in that church, that great sacred church, 63 baptist church, if america is to be a great land was a top, it wasn't yet a great land. if blacks were to be able to sing with new meaning "my country tis of thee," if they were singing, able to sing at all, came less a series of deaths. if we will protest together get it will go to jail together, then we will be able to sing. in short, the nation most white americans thought they lived in wouldn't exist until black people, and especially the black people of birmingham, help create it. thank you. [applause] >> welcome back i should say. i want to just rec

units? >> they're saying because a community is white de facto it is segregation and discrimination which isculous. we will never put up with discrimination. i won't. the county won't. but skreupblgs and -- discrimination and zoning are two different things. zoning says what can be built and where, not who lives this. zoning says the barrier is economics like where th clintons live in chappaqua. >>alisyn: your point is anyone who can afford it can live this. >> absolutely. if there is a real estate agent who is discriminatory, there are laws against that. the county itself is not. what they want us to do is attack local zoning and have any restrictions -- and they put these in letters. i beg people to go to westchestergov.com. you see what is happening in washington, the overreach and control? we've been designee with that. we're the -- we've been dealing with that. we're the epi center in westchester koepbt and they're using housing as their opportunity. there are laws in new york and westchester, plan and zone for themselves. if you take away these rules on height, zoning, environmental is

united states, eric holder? >> eric holder, america's first african-american attorney general, stirred controversy from the moment he took office. at a black history month event holder said the country remained voluntarily socially segregated. >> though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and we, i believe, continue to be in too many ways essentially a nation of cowards. >> america's first black president stood by holder, a man he nominated as the nation's chief law enforcement officer for his toughness and independence. but some republicans take issue with how holder demonstrates those traits. >> i believe eric holder is one of the worst attorneys general in the history of the country because he selectively enforces the law based on his own ideology. >> two years ago republican congressman peter king called for holder's resignation, upset because holder favored civilian criminal trials rather than military tribunals for the 9/11 terror suspects. king wrote in a new york post quote, the guy just doesn't get it and because he doesn't he should resign forthwith. >>> there was also anger over holder's assertion arizona's tough immigration law would lead to r

united states as i said i want to make somebody's life or. i remember my mom and my dad. i remember once like in the '50s and segregate chicago for the.body here to raise their voice for the. and i said do you know what? somebody fought and died to give me a voice, and i think i'm not going to wait -- waste that opportunity and the congress of the united states. and i think we should inform our political leadership in terms of -- that's the best guy. he could be this and he could be that. why can't he just be somebody like and i know i hope he doesn't -- like dr. lee making sure that everybody is healthy. i want to put that that's what makes it. and another thing i want to say before we finish yes, they are argument though it's important friends and important allies. every member of the black caucus voted for the dream act when it was proposed in 2010 and we passed it in the house of representatives. [applause] in spite of the fact that unemployment among black youth were higher and unemployment in the community and the devastation of the recession was there. in spite of the fact that there were those who wanted in the past to get one