citizens to the point that we have one now in the white house, but it has benefited women, the disabled, senior citizens, and even, of course, the white south, when it was invested in segregation, it was the poorest region in the country. you had never heard of the sun belt, and it has benefited tremendously from the psychological part of ending that. the doors of equal citizenship are really appreciated much more around the world than they are here in the united states. tavis: i am struggling try to recall the name of a major university, and i have forgotten what i am thinking of at the moment, but it made national news, because it discovered that this president, a beneficiary of all of the sacrifice and struggle, president obama has benefited from that, and he has talked less about race than any president in recent memory, and the study details what other presidents have had to say about race, and he has had less to say about it than others, including republicans. is him being black in itself making a statement? i ask because you, one, have done the work, and, two, you have had occasion to be there. he has talked less about race than any

paid enormous dividends for many move in, including the white south. when black people liberate theelf from racism, one of chief beneficiaries would be white southerners. >> that was the most area died read -- that was very nicely said. everything you put forth is usually nicely said. his book is called the king years. thank you for your life and legacy. taylor branch his friend is now a congressman and the last surviving speaker from the march on washington. stay with us. please be joined by the last surviving person to speak. his speech was so fiery they asked him to tone it down. tonightressman joins us from washington. i have been praying for you. they might kill him working him to death. they keep for making time. i really appreciate it. >> thank you for having me on tonight. give me some sense of how you have been handling it the past few days. blessed to have an opportunity to reminisce, to think about what happened, and to see all the interest on the part of the media and young people. they think about and reflect upon what happened and how it h

the ones pushing us forward. as a white southerner, i look back and say it was the best thing that happened to the white south. heard of the sun belt south when it was segregated. it was poor and trapped in the segregation. it libertied the white south too. and women from things young people today cannot have a hard time imagining. that black people couldn't go into public libraries or rest stops. that women couldn't serve on juries. they couldn't go to my university, the university of north carolina at chapel hill unless they were nursing students by state law. things like that. the movement opened up those things and is the gateway to really realize things. and so we all stand on the shoulders of this movement. >> and there was violence. i mean, dr. king led a non-violent movement. there was no violence during the march. but you were subjected to violence and violent threats every day in mississippi and birmingham happened that summer. >> every day. >> tell people where the resolve where you might get killed had to come from. >> i think one had to truly believe that america could become the kind of country th

the voice of the white moderates are stilled, because they fear social, political, and economic reprisals. the negro community in the southrns from brotherhood and respect from his white fellow southerners. this hour, says king, represents a great opportunity for the white moderate, if he will only speak the truth, obey the law, and suffer, if necessary, for what he knows is right. this is from march 1963. this was five months before the march on washington. five months before the "i have a dream" speech. voice of the white moderate needed. professor wesley harris was the student at the time who brought dr. martin luther king to the university of virginia to give that speech in march 1963. professor wesley harris. harris. as in melissa harris-perry, his niece, who joins us next. [ male announcer ] this is claira. to prove to you that aleve is the better choice for her, she's agreed to give it up. that's today? [ male announcer ] we'll be with her all day to see how it goes. [ claira ] after the deliveries, i was okay. now the ciabatta is done and the pain is starting again. more pills? seriously? seriously. [ groans ] all

it liberated the white south. you never heard of the sunbelt south when it was segregated. terrorized. it was all invested in this things. blessings flow when we deal with race forthrightly. it is a very, very dangerous thing to try to avoid it. to me, the central unaddressed question in america today is what degree partisan gridlock is driven by race. we don't talk about that. we all-- everybody says partisan gridlock is poisoning america, but nobody asks how much of it underneath is driven by race and racial resentment? in that sense we've gone backwards since 1963 because we're not recognizing how we got to all the bless that is people take for grant. >> dubois: ben, if you had one thing that you could say-- there are many things you'd like to see changed-- one thing you could see changed in the next year in this country, what would it be? >> we have to restore the voting rights act. the right to vote is the right upon which our ability to defend all of our other rights is leveraged, and the supreme court has did real sham in a shamefully activist way and we need congres

the ones pushing us forward. as a white southerner, i look back and say it was the best thing that happened to the white south. heard of the sun belt south when it was segregated. it was poor and trapped in the segregation. it libertied the white south too. and women from things young people today cannot have a hard time imagining. that black people couldn't go into public libraries or rest stops. that women couldn't serve on juries. they couldn't go to my university, the university of north carolina at chapel hill unless they were nursing students by state law. things like that. the movement opened up those things and is the gateway to really realize things. and so we all stand on the shoulders of this movement. >> and there was violence. i mean, dr. king led a non-violent movement. there was no violence during the march. but you were subjected to violence and violent threats every day in mississippi and birmingham happened that summer. >> every day. >> tell people where the resolve where you might get killed had to come from. >> i think one had to truly believe that america could become the kind of country t

hand, all the examples that hillary cited her speech and she did cite examples were in the south, mississippi, texas, florida, south carolina. she is suggesting that since 1965 and 2013 the white people in the south are irrevocably racist and cannot be trusted. half of the country below the mason-dixon line still cannot be trusted and this is a person who wants to be president of the entire united states and this is the basis on which she's going to run to turn out as jason suggested, black voter turnout. in 2005 the federal election reform commission headed by jimmy carter and former secretary of state jim baker said that voter i. dchlt laws should be promoted because they will enfranchise black voters. she's suggesting that no one could possibly disagree with her. well, serious people do disagree with her on this. >> let me ask a political question, jason. what is the benefit for republicans pushing -- that's what they're doing -- a lot of these states are pushing this are republicans. not universally, but in north carolina the government flipped. the republicans pushed some of these laws. are they getting much out of this if politically the main impact politically is to dri

including for the white south. at's why it was amazing you had two white southern presidents up there saying this movement liberated my region of this country which resents the blessings that was given to us from this movement. >> isn't that ironic? because what i know -- you know more about the history of all this, but you think it's like meals on wheels. you take big issues like social security. in rural areas of mississippi and alabama where there are a lot of poor people of both backgrounds black and white, they aren't on plantations. these are workers. and they really care about these basic social programs. and yet obama fights for them and they don't ally with them. >> they don't. and they think they will be better off on their own. >> i know you're friends with bill cosby and i in ways worship the guy. here's when the president didn't get away from delivering a tough message. he didn't sound like the lefty socialist his critics on the right portray him as. here he is. >> if we're honest with ourselves, we'll

the united states, not just race relations, end of segregation but as he predicted liberated the white southated all kinds of rights for women people take for granted, the disabled. basically race has always been the chief barrier but also the gateway when people deal forthrightly with race it pays other benefits. now 2013 we have benefits that make us optimistic we can tackle tough problems but our politics is in gridlock largely because we don't deal with race and acknowledge what we've done. >> it struck me. you said this. the first thing i thought of was eric holder's line from three years ago calling us a nation of cowards when it comes to the issue of race. lonnie you're building a whole museum you're hoping launches uncomfortable conversations. you think we need to have an uncomfortable conversation about race right now? >> there's no doubt race has been and continues to be the most important issue that divides us. for us we ought to take advantage of the fact the smithsonian is a place people come to engage and educate. so for us it's crucially important to craft a museum that forces

president was not anti-black, and he was quaker he turned in the '60s, saw his opportunity in the white south. southern strategy that went bananas. the republican party went bananas on race and blue it. democrats handed it to them because others changed history. >>> john speaking of history, nixon's record as we said is largely under discussed especially on civil rights. i want to talk about the speech itself. when king went into the refrain i have a dream it was not in his prepared marks. that was mahalia jackson saying off stage yelling to martin tell them about the dream. it was delivered off handedly. >> one could argue it was the holy ghost, it was incredibly inspired. but it was. mahalia jackson didn't think the speech was going very well. when you read the speech lincoln would be safe. the bounced check metaphor which resonates now was a little clunky. and he was about to go into a particularly bad passage. he then go into the i have a dream sequence. the remarkable passage came from his heart. it was not on the text. and as john lewis said he knew at that point it was no longer a poli

i think the 50-year blink, we have suspendous progress for not only black people, for the white south, for women, for all kinds of groups, but that our politics has atrophied and we're paralyzed. we don't see that. we have this, in my view, race-based partisan gridlock that denies the possibilities of what america can do which we proved we could into in the 60s, tackle our partisan problems. >> ifill: you think the gridlock is race based? >> absolutely, there's no question. the average republican district has 50% more white people. the average democratic district in the congress has twice as many non-whites. partisan gridlock is racial-- the biggest unexamined question in american politics is why and what we're going to do about it? we just accept partisan gridlock as part of our cynical inheritance. we shouldn't do that. we should say, "is it racial, and if so, why, and how can we get around it?" i blame both sides. i think both sides don't-- are gridlocked right now is basically saying the only solution is for the other side to drop dead and that's not going to happen. >> ifill: i'm

and now that the real problem is that some people in the south, whites in the south are being treatednfairly in things like the voting rights act. so the supreme court's decision, it is brutally ironic that it came just two months ahead of this amazing historic anniversary. congress now has a real challenge and it's going to be very telling what they do. i think it's going to be huge -- it's going to be extremely difficult to actually get section 4 of the voting rights act rewritten, their efforts to get that rewritten, but i think there are a lot of political headwinds and i think the outcome will be reflective of where the country is and where we're going from here. >> congresswoman waters, what are the chances that the house of representatives will even take up a bill that will address the supreme court's concerns on section 4 of the voting rights act? >> well, we have a moral obligation to take it up. it's not going to be as easy as a reauthorization that we did. we have a tea party element that are obstructionists that are opposed to everything and not inclined to be supportive o

basically obama got maybe 10% to 20% of the white vote in all these states. then as you leave the southite vote grows until you get to the northeast where he's winning a majority. midwest, where he's winning a large majority. the west coast, winning a large majority again. one of the clearest ways to figure out someone's views on the welfare state on redistribution to the poor is just to ask them their racial views. it's a consistent finding of political scientists, which i think points to something very important. while i think a lot -- it's not a lot but some of the opposition to obama is shaped by his race. i'm not sure it's necessarily rooted in barack obama in particular, and more the many larger, longer, broader dynamic of whites being suspicious of redistribution to nonwhitnonwhi. in particular, the black underclass. >> the democratic party represents -- >> right. look back 100 years and you find people willing to distribute private charity to italian immigrants and irish immigrants. not really liking them but saying they can be reformed and brought into mainstream society but re

the status quo in the south. >> this land is composed of two different cultures. a white culture and a colored

years and decades the center of power within the gop centered from the north and the midwest to the south. to the whiten southern strategy, of ronald reagan's infamous trip to philadelphia, mississippi, now to the dismantling of the voting rights act and restricting voting laws we're seeing. is it disappointing that republicans weren't part of the march on washington anniversary? of course it was. but is it a surprise? not really. it's the story of the last 50 years. real football fans love a good snowball. if you are the governor of the state hosting the first outdoor cold weather super bowl ever, are you really supposed to say that's what you are hoping for? we'll tackle that next. we believe it can be the most valuable real estate on earth. ♪ that's why we designed the subaru forester from the back seat forward. the intelligently designed, responsibly built, completely restyled subaru forester. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. and this park is the inside of your body. you see the special psyllium fiber in metamucil actually gels to trap and remove some waste. and that gelling also helps to

you can see just turning the ground white. into the southavy rain turned the street into a river in colorado springs. four inches of rain fell. the storm dropped about two inches of rain at denver international airport. >> it's so odd. >> frightening sight to see. >> yes >> need to bring up a snow plow. >> unbelievable. >> nothing like that here. >> calm, cooler than average. here is a look at live doppler 7 hd. low clouds locally over the bay today. some areas still looks gray but mainly sunny skies. you can see looking westward, the reflection of the sunlight off the bay waters. spotty drizzle near the coast and bay. this pattern will last throughout the weekend. warming continuing to approach seasonal norms but not yet. we're looking at forecast animation at 11:00 this evening. notice low pressure system with attached cold front approaching pacific northwest and helping to inland. tomorrow afternoon, it will be cooler than average because of the affect of the low clouds and fog near the coast and reenforcement of the cold front sweeping a

the other hand, the south was very democratic and very segregationist. he was walking the line of wanting to help the movement but also not lose his white constituents in they came around after the speech once king delivered it and everybody was talking about "i have a dream." incidentally the point is that cbs news and nbc started covering king. they started moving in 1963 right around this time to half an hour news broadcasts. just weeks after the "i have a dream" speech, he started getting coverage on television. it wasn't quite that intense in august of '63. after that speech, the media made a big difference on behalf of the movement. >> and it took time. because i understand the next day it wasn't even -- the speech wasn't even quoted "i have a dream" speech, but it grew. and networks started making more and more notice of dr. king. dr. peterson, three days before the march, martin luther king appeared on "meet the press" with fellow organizer roy wilkins who headed the naacp at the time. and the moderator asked wilkins about the possibility of riots at the march. listen to this. >> mr. wilkins, there are a great many people as i'm sure you know that

compared members of the tea party to white crackers and said they can be defeated the same way segregation was years ago. rangel said, quote, it is the same group we faced in the souththose white crackers and the dogs and the police. right on the money, andrea? >> that's outrageous. unfortunately i think charlie rangel would like to deflect attention from him as well and his ethical troubles. what do you do when desperate, go into the decks, pull out the race card. it is pretty shameful, especially if he really knew the meaning of the word, and i think he does, and he knows he will never be called on the carpet for it. >> he says house hoips did more damage to american competitiveness than al qaeda would do. what is happening is sabotage, dana. >> he noticed other grown men were getting attention, fighting against one another, he wanted to up the ante, get more attention by saying something. >> even though he is a marginalized sullied congressional figure, isn't it outrageous he gets a pass on this? >> we're in error, says rangel's cracker comment. >> i wish i knew more about slang negative terms. >> i remember watching someone say on tv -- it is not a racial term.

the status quo in the south. >> this land is composed of two different cultures. a white culture and a colored culture and i've lived close to them all my life. but i'm told that we mistreated them and that we must change and these changes are coming faster than i expected. >> reporter: in the 50s, change wasn't just coming it had arrived. blacks were risking their homes, their jobs even their lives for freedom and equality for a taste of america's democracy. >> i was hit in the head with a wooden crate. knocked down, bloodied and i was going in and out of consciousness. i thought i was going to die. >> reporter: georgia congressman john lewis was a young man in 1961 a student when he boarded a bus and enbarked on a journey to desegregation. known as the freedom ride, they organized it in 1961. seven blacks and six whites left washington, d.c. on two buses they headed south. at first, only minor hostility greeted them. but when one bus arrived in birmingham alabama, a mob surrounded them and beat the freedom fighters. >> i was on the greyhound, that was the bus they set o

the colleges of the south. >> changed the course of civil rights examined the groundwork which eventually led to the first ever game between historically black college and university and the all whiteool of the south. >> the game of fordham against tampa in 1969 was so controversial and so scary to people in the south there were so many fears it would cause a race riot what happened if a black team beat a white team? >> validate the ability of players in black colleges how much was that game pivotal in the black movement? >> that game plays a huge role in a couple of ways. first of all it demonstrates to skeptics that black players were the equal in this case the better of the top white players. >> eventually that integration led to the demise of greatly historically great black football programs because now all the best players are going to the traditionally white schools as opposed to traditionally black schools. >> integration was a real mixed blessing. certainly as proud educated dignified african american men they wanted to see the legal structure of white suppresscy -- supremacy end end. >> their influence on the game of football is still felt today. even if most fans, player

the 3,000 pound bond is just on african and south asian countries. but many are from australia, the united states, new zealand, south africa, and they are white. but they are not being treated the same. that is why it has become a race issue. >> we are going to have to leave it there. thanks very much. you can find this program and many more ads bbc.com -- at aljazeera.com.

it is the same group we faced in the south with those white crackers and the dogs and the police. white crackers, it's not only redun still, no official statement from the office. he must hate short people. with me now, fox news analyst, it seems like this has been going on for a long i'm. it's got to work, right? >> tea party activists, and i'm a tea party activist. these are freedom loving americans who oppose the establishment, they oppose big government, and they stay spying on us. the irs intimidating us. that's what the tea party is all about. so how dare charlie wrangle make these kinds of statements. >> hoe's in been in office for how long? the jobs, the schools, the crime on the streets. he's only enriched himself with his own. >> i still don't understand the phrase, white cracker. it seems to be redundant, right? >> i'm outreach director. get active in grass roots. and hold these politicians accountable when they make these comments, it's not helping race relations. what he has said has done nothing for jobs in the black community. unemployment is 14% among blacks. i sup

the redeemer movement in the south. back in the early one nine hundred six when actually democrats of the time redeemed the south. in favor of white people and white dominance. that seems to be how these guys are doing things today yeah and john these protests are now you know being monday today there was a large protest being organized in asheville so it's obvious that these protests are or are expanding far beyond just charlotte where they were isolated before they were in other parts of the state is that the goal with this movement to kind of make it a statewide movement. yes so after the last moral monday our mission became to localize this effort and so what we're going to be doing in boone north carolina as well as asheville charlotte raleigh chapel hill everywhere else across the state is to focus heavily on voter registration drives and then secondly on voter information we want to inform people of the decisions that have been made and let people know that this is what happens when you don't show up to vote and state elections we can't just sit by idly and only vote in presidential elections we need to realize the importan

another problem they faced was that the white band members performed on stage with black members something that was against the law and the jim crow southo white members wore dark mag up and permed their hair to pass for black. toward the end of the war this week hearts performed for troops in europe and refreshingly had problems with race. lena horne performed with uso during the war. when she prepared to step on a stage for a show in a southern state she asked someone why there were no soldiers in the audience. she was told she would sing for them the next day in a separate show. the next day as she prepared to step on the stage to perform she saw the black soldier sitting in the back rows and white men in the front seats. now who the hell are they lena asked. they are german p.o.w.s she was told. leno walked down off the stage to the back rows and performed facing the black soldiers with her back to the german p.o.w.s. this summer will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the march on washington. we generally think of the 1960s as the beginning of the civil rights movement. however the changes that came about in the 1960s may not have

the fifth district in south carolina. my home state great place. >> i was recently there. stephen: okay. but he's a democrat. you are a white democrat from south carolina. is this the show that's got the dragons in it too? because this seems like fantasy to me. i'm from there, buddy. who dreamt that up and what were they smoking? >> well, i don't know what they were smoking. but i hope they smoked at least two of them to get there. look, it's obviously a fictional show because it's also a congress [bleep] gets done. >> stephen: is your character focused on the important stuff like repealing obama care? is there any votes on that yet? >> in our first season we passed an education bill. >> stephen: yeah. amazing. stephen: did this make politics appealing to you all in anyway? >> do you have a bucket? stephen: are you going to drop in all the reasons why? the reason i ask is that i'm not an actor but i know some hollywood folk. and i've met a lot of washington people. and which do you think is is more self-centered hollywood or washington because it's been said that washington is just hollywood for unattractive people. which d