but we don't need the extraordinary event of a trayvon martin or the many trayvon martins of the world to know that this happens. it happens every day in all sort of spheres. for example, i go to a store, happens to me all the time. and often i'm either ignored because the assumption is that i don't have the money to purchase an item, or i'm viewed as a suspect and, therefore, i'm policed. and i'm being told as we were 50 years ago, get out of the store. now i am politely policed. and they ask me, may i help you? may i help you? may i help you. i no go by the rule of two. the first time they ask me in a nice way, i'm just looking. the second time, yes, i'm trying to steal this item, i was wondering if you could give me some pointers, and the response. >> from the clerk is something like -- i didn't mean it like that. yes, you did. if you didn't mean it like that, your response should have been what are you talking about, yeah? i travel across the nation lecturing, and when i use z this example, many white members of the audience come and tell me when in my store what we do is this or t

joining me now is jordan davis' mother lucia mcbath and trayvon martin's mother sabrina fulton as wellg here. >> thank you. >> is a brin yeah, what are you doing to fight this law? >> what i'm doing is making people more aware of this law and how dangerous this law is and how this law does not benefit anyone, especially the victim.traveling the country and have been speaking out against stand your ground and racial profiling and profiling in general, because people need to be aware of what's going on in order for us to make any type of change. >> lucia in september, the original sponsor of florida's stand your ground law, state representative dennis baxley defended the law. >> i think most people in florida are with us, according to what we see. and the results are favorable overall. >> he said most people in florida agree with him. i was with you and sabrina at a march in florida. a lot of people there was against it. how do you respond to him? >> i definitely say that he -- i have deaf fit misgivings about that statement there. we know even within the state of florida justifiable hom

why not open up the trayvon martin case and deal with that? if we're going to deal with issues, let's deal with a lot of issues we have in san francisco. this is a small issue. we all make mistakes. we bounce back, we do the right thing and we move forward. we live and we build and we move on. but this right here is ridiculous. but i want to say to you guys is this. ask yourself if it was you, would you guys be going through the same situation juliet is going through? honestly ask yourself that. (applause) >> thank you. thank you for your comments. are you -- please. >>> hi, my name is jerry edmonds. i lived here since '89. [speaker not understood]. i'm a black gay, positive med, use medical marijuana. not crack addicted and this city has a lot going on. so, african-american people, we are really -- we're not getting the service. we're not getting attention. knowing that this lady is working out in bayview where it's 500, $100 million homes being built, when you're trying to take the project monday and i build those homes out there, knowing th

man months ago, a young named trayvon martin was killed , and the president stepped right up and said, "i demand justice for trayvon martin," and he said that trayvon look like his sons would look like if he had sons. so he sent people from the justice department down to florida to ensure that trayvon martin receive justice. and i watch that. a few months later, a young australian student was killed. you probably don't know his name. it's christopher lane. christopher lane was killed, and christopher looked just like my sons. i have sons. he is a little paler than my sons, but he has two arms and two legs. he has two eyes and a nose and a heart, just like my sons have. and so i waited. [applause] i waited to hear the president say, "i demand justice for christopher lane." and i waited, and i have yet to hear that same passion and fervor. and the only conclusion i can justicem that is that hinges on the color of one's skin. when the value of life is dependent upon this thin little in, weeter of melon are in deep trouble, we are a nation deeply divided, and we have to deal with the pres

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. >> we start tonight with the case in detroit being compared to the trayvon martin tragedy.cia mcbride was intoxicated and crashed her car into a parked vehicle around 1:00 a.m. she walked to a house to seek help, but the 55-year-old shot mcbride in the face through a closed door after she went on his porch. he claims self-defense saying mcbride was trying to break into his house. the defense has been aggressive, trying to question mcbride's past and pushing to get the judge removed for an alleged friendship with prosecutors. today a circuit court judge recused the judge from the case saying one of the prosecutors assisted with the sale of tickets to one of her frund raisers. there will be a blind drawing for a new judge next week. faith, the defense is playing tough, how do you read this decision today? >> i think this djudge was bein extremely cautionary with this ruling. it wasn't he deseeded the judge was biased because of his relationship with prosecutors but he wanted to avoid the appearance. and he was concerned because one of the prosecutors had worked on the campaig

attacked when he dedicated a song to florida teenager trayvon martin. this happened around the time george zimmerman was acquitted of the crime. >>> a bart train out of service this weekend after a rider said he found bed bugs on his leg. a bart spokes woman said it happened thursday as the passenger boarded the train in oakland. the train was heading to san francisco international. the passenger e-mailed bart with the bed bug finding. today bart said in a statement our vehicles are not conducive hosts for insect habitation or propagation but it is possible that insects can be introduced via the person or belongings of other riders. >>> more frustration over the search for the missing plane from malaysia. >>> looking ahead to a rare lunar event and the bay area mission that may run into problems because of the blood moon. >>> we have clouds rolling back into san francisco. sunshine in san jose. tomorrow we track a bit of a warming trend ahead that will put us closer to 80 degrees in some of the trivalley locations. we will have a look at your forecast w

minorities are made for the obvious reason, stop and frisk, voter suppression, unfair sentencing laws, trayvon martinbetes. >> jon: i got it, non-whites nos are mad but what about white people, larry, they seem even more angry yet they are not suffering from the racism? >> well, other than white people being crazy. >> jon: what? >> i think it's the fear black people are gaining something at their expense and they have well thought out theories about it. >> i want to tell you one thing i know about the negro because they were basically on government subsidy. what do they do? they abort their young children, they put your young men in jail because they never learned how to pick cotton. >> i want to tell cliven bundy one thing i know about the negro. our two choices in life are not between picking cotton and picking up welfare checks. the president of the united states is black sox (bleep) you. >> jon: reasonable statement. >> if you want to talk about government subsidies i'll good there cowboy. remember the homestead act where the federal government you don't believe exists told your ancestors could h

teeth into, to have some real conversations about this issue, whether it is donald sterling or trayvon martin. we punt every time. it is therefore is to have a national conversation and we can't seem to get it together. >> what makes this conversation that 80% of the people employed are black. this is a white owner with a slave mentality. with wealthy blacks. we are not talking about the sharecropper son. we are talking about chris paul making $24 million. and their dilemma of i'm under contract to play for this guy, but -- so, that is what makes the story different from all other stories. tavis: you have no idea how many conversations i have been in since this story broke about what responsibility chris paul and blake griffin and others on the team have. because if this were some decades ago, we know what mohammed ali would have done because he did it. we know what bill russell would have done because he did it. we know what jackie robinson would have done because he did it. and we know what curt flood would have done because he did it. there are so many conversations i have been in about wh

up and said, "i demand justice for trayvon martin," and he said that trayvon look like his sons would look like if he had sons. so he sent people from the justice department down to florida to ensure that trayvon martin receive justice. and i watch that. a few months later, a young australian student was killed. you probably don't know his name. it's christopher lane. christopher lane was killed, and christopher looked just like my sons. i have sons. he is a little paler than my sons, but he has two arms and two legs. he has two eyes and a nose and a heart, just like my sons have. and so i waited. [applause] i waited to hear the president say, "i demand justice for christopher lane." and i waited and i waited, and i have yet to hear that same passion and fervor. and the only conclusion i can draw from that is that justice hinges on the color of one's skin. when the value of life is dependent upon this thin little millimeter of melonin, we are in deep trouble, we are a nation deeply divided, and we have to deal with the president for his failure to protect justice an f. [applause] well

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became notorious two years ago in the state of florida when george zimmerman shot 17-year-old trayvon martin to invoke stand your ground in their case, but the law has redefined self-defense in a way that has dramatic implications for the use of deadly force in over two dozen states. and in the state of florida, stand your ground is about to expand even further. last thursday, florida's state senate passed the threatened use of force built, a bill that's since been named the warning shot bill. if signed into law, it would extend stand your ground protections to those who point a gun at an attacker or fire a gun as a warning shot. the bill also includes a provision to seal stand your ground records in cases where charges are later dropped. it would allow those granted immunity to have their records expunged from legal record. the bill picked up a steam when a florida woman named marissa alexander was sentenced to 20 years in prison after firing what she says was a warning shot at herr husband during an argument after she says he threatened her. with the support of the nra and a majority of la

i think has more recently after the trayvon martin verdict, with the my brother's keeper initiative that he talked about tonight. because he is a second term president is feeling more the weight of history on his shoulder. >> i watched him with henry lewis gates, it's hard to get it right without looking like you're coming in as the judge to solve the problem and also advocate. it's hard to play both roles. >> chris, what is happening across the country in these republican-held legislatures and republican governors trying to curb -- suppress the vote, that is disproportionately affecting black voters and it's going to hurt the democratic party in 2014 and possibly in 2016. he has every reason pragmatically -- >> john boehner ever going to own up to the fact he has bad people in the party using race, i don't deny it's rational, michelle, i think they know what they are talking about the president and eric holder and talking for the people from some of these very rural texas districts where people have bad attitudes about blacks and he is playing that card. like most politicians do, but in

well look what happened this "stand your ground" law and since with trayvon martin just to take one case. the whole attention of the nation became distracted by what happened with this "stand your ground" law, young black men killed. we have seen others killed. we have seen again black woman who is looking at life in prison because she shot in the ceiling but what we see is this energy and focuses on these kinds of things on the ground that we might ask ourselves why the koch brothers funded organization, why with ap at all concerned about "stand your ground" law's? the koch brothers and people in that class are never threatened by anything or anyone. they have armies of bodyguards. why? they do it because it distracts us from looking at their practices. it distracts us from looking at the koch brothers is one of the 10 greatest polluters in america we don't look at what's going on with the keystone pipeline. they support this keystone pipeline and they are saying that it's because of jobs and american needs jobs. we don't see that from 1.1 million acres and is estimated around the keyst

look what happened with trayvon martin, just to take one case. and the whole nation became distracted with what happened at the stand your ground law. we've seen the young black woman who is looking at life in prison because of this. and what we have been as energy and focus is on these kinds of things on the ground. so why is this something that would be of concern? the koh brothers either and they are never threaten anything or anyone. they have armies of bodyguards. and they do it because it distracts us from looking at their practices are looking at them is one of the 10 greatest polluters in america. they support the keystone pipeline and they are saying it is because of jobs in america needs jobs. you can see that they own 1.1 billion acres and their estimated to make between 50 and $100 million if this pipeline is brought to fruition. and that's one reason that they use race to distract us from looking at what is being done in another reason corporate capitalism is uses race as a strategy, it is disempower working people. so they can't eff

. >> the death of trayvon martin is an american tragedy. often, violent acts resulted ,n the murder of trayvon martin they are repeated in the streets of our nation. allplaud the young people across the land who are making a about hoodies and the natihoodlums in this on. racial profiling has to stop, mr. speaker. just because someone wears a hoodie does not make them a hoodlum. -- bible teaches us >> the member will -- >> we will show the man what is good, what does and does not require you, love mercy and to walk humbly with your god. testament, it teaches us these words -- the spirit of the lord is upon me because he me --ointed >> the gentleman will suspend. >> i urge all to hear these words, to heed these lessons, may god [indiscernible] >> the member is no longer recognized. the chair will last be sergeant at arms to enforce the prohibition on the core -- on decor. clause five of rule 17 prohibits the rule of -- the wearing of hats when the house is in session. members need to remove their hoods or leave the floor. >> find more highlig

there were times in his administration when he was saying too much about the trayvon martin case or thevard professor versus the boston cop. but mostly this is a president who seeks to calm down the rhetoric and it just reminded me that people would say, do you think that people won't vote for you because you're black? and he would say, yeah. i also think there are people who are going to vote for me because i'm black. he sort of took that temperant way of moving on rather than adding kindling. >> candy crowley, good to see you. thank you. >> thanks, fred. >>> the fallout surrounding the racial comments allegedly made by l.a. clippers' owner donald sterling. next, we'll go to the site of today's playoff game. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ gigantic, gigantic, gigantic ♪ a big, big love ♪ gigantic, gigantic, gigantic ♪ a big, big love ♪ ♪ at your ford dealer think? they think about tires. and what they've been through lately. polar vortexes, road construction, and gaping potholes. so with all that behind you, you might want to make sure you're safe and in control. ford technicians are ready to find the right t

. >> trayvon martin he made those comments. he's made plenty of comments. >> you guys don't believe that people get targeted because they're black? you don't believe when they go into a store to shop -- >> i get targeted because i'm sho short. >> people have a serious issue with the way he doesn't do his job, not his skin. >> people aren't targeted because they're white? people are targeted. >> no, i don't think so. >> we were getting along so well in the a-block. now it's just falling apart. >> it's over. >>> coming up, what made al sharpton turn into an fbi mob informant? the smoking gun in the stunning new theory revealing what could be the real reason the rev became a rat. details directly ahead. >>> in an intent to explain his work as fbi mob informant in the '80s, al sharpton claimed he turned into a rat after, after, his life was threatened by wise guys. >> my life was threatened by people who claimed to be mobsters. a guy who calls himself sal actually flew to new york from l.a. and said that if i didn't stop interferin

this is not trayvon martin, people out in common areas. they entered his house. and it's not like he set a trap. he didn't like leave the window open a bag of cash sitting there. >> he did leave food around and hid his car. i hear you. go on. >> so, it's so tragic, it's horrible. nobody knows why they're in there -- >> the there to rob him. >> well, according to him they'd been there so many times. maybe they were there to hang out. if you listen to help 29 minutes they're some things that don't appear he was playing with all the cards in the deck. but doesn't matter to some degree. one thing is consistent, yours house is your castle. >> when the girl is lying on the floor bleeding and still alive and she said, you're dying, was the threat gone before he fired the kill shot? >> absolutely. >> that's what the prosecutors say that makes this premeditated murder. are they right and. >> that fan of time. that's up to the jury whether they're right. the jury indianas to see the house -- >> by the letter of the law, you have stood in this forum and said premeditation i

but it follows a string of similar protests like the miami heat wearing hoodies following the trayvon martin killing. >> protests are not trivial. they do matter, even if people are looking for something substantive to come out of them in terms of policy changes, that may or may not be the case. >> reporter: fans seem to be satisfied with the commissioner's announcement today. >> i think the protests would have been good if there was not a lifetime ban. but now that there is a lifetime ban, there's no call for a protest against the nba. >> reporter: this goes way beyond basketball. the fans i talked to here tonight just want to see a basketball game tonight. reporting live in oakland, cheryl hurd, nbc bay area news. >> cheryl, thank you. the players and coaches are in a tough spot having to deal with all this. let's bring in gerard moncure who joins us from our studios. we just saw doc rivers on the podium. what was his sentiments? >> his sentiment was that the whole issue has been very draining for his team, and that he found that one thing he asked of his players was to respond to the whol

when trayvon martin happened in the media, we will talk about it. it's tougher for us in the media to have the sustained kind of dialogue around institutional racism that's actually required to root it out. you do a great job on your show. i'm not pannering. you do a great job on your show in doming in politics how race comes up, the race ard card is used oer people use racial situations. the whole conversation around entitlements is racialized. so in the media, we've got to focus more on systems and broad based things that matter and a little bit less on the sensationalized, easy to cover individual incidents of racism. >> yeah, well, it's going to go on. this is america. the best thing about it is we've gotten better. the past ain't so pretty. thank you. please come on again often. bill maher skewers house republicans as only he can. that's coming up in a minute or so. the day we rescued riley was a truly amazing day. he was a matted mess in a small cage. so that was our first task, was getting him to wellness. without angie's list, i don't know i

i could be the next trayvon martin or the next jordan davis or the next marissa alexander for that matterk that's an issue that seems to reassonate with a lot people. but also the shop and frisk or the stop and frisk. specifically with shop and frisk, when that happened, president obama had even admitted that's actually happened to me. >> being followed in a store? >> exactly. so those types of instances where people sort of, they know that they're not being treated fairly are instances where i think there's that opportunity. >> and it's important to remember the history, it's important even as you said to update it, give it that interactive vibe, so people can rel to it today. whabl proactive steps, do you see a lot in the museum when you went down there, went down to memphis. the sort of places that civil rights has expanded to, are those activists and those guys trying to move in that direction or are they really trying to give people more of a view of what happened 46 years ago? >> i think it's a little bit of both, i think the hope of the museum is to not only update what we know abo

. >> trayvon martin he made those comments. he's made plenty of comments. >> you guys don't believe that people get targeted because they're black? you don't believe when they go into a store to shop -- >> i get targeted because i'm sho short. >> people have a serious issue with the way he doesn't do his job, not his skin. >> people aren't targeted because they're white? people are targeted. >> no, i don't think so. >> we were getting along so well in the a-block. now it's just falling apart. >> it's over. >>> coming up, what made al sharpton turn into an fbi mob informant? the smoking gun in the stunning new theory revealing what could be the real reason the rev became a rat. details directly ahead. [ male announcer ] at his current pace, bob will retire when he's 153, which would be fine if bob were a vampire. but he's not. ♪ he's an architect with two kids and a mortgage. luckily, he found someone who gave him a fresh perspective on his portfolio. and with some planning and effort, hopefully bob can retire at a more appropri

as you know, being who you are, it's always bubbling under the surface so it takes an o.j., or trayvon martinn it explodes but it's always under the surface. >> when you hear somebody say this stuff it's easy to identify. there's structural forms of racism -- >> institutional racism. >> that's harder for people to point to. look what this guy said is reprehensible. >> i'm glad that even though i don't really care for how the thing was obtained, who is trying to make money, he got outed. this is who se. he's been like this for 30 years. and for people to say well, alleging this stuff. we have to have him in a picture with a hood and a cross to make us understand who this vile individual is. he has to go. if i was a season ticket holder of the clippers -- >> you wouldn't go. >> i'm not saying i would turn my tickets in but i wouldn't be at that game tomorrow night in the staple center. >> you think it's important to send a message. >> very important. this stuff, again, i think -- i know you got time. we're never is going to be the great country we can be until we deal with racism. honestly. we

the death of trayvon martin is indeed an american tragedy. act that this violent resulted in the murder of inyvon martin is repeated the streets of our nation. i applaud the young people all across the land who are making a hoodies, about the real hoodlums in this nation. particularly those who tread on our laws wearing official or quasi-official clothes. racial profiling has to stop, mr. speaker. just because someone wears a nutty -- a hoodie, does not make them a hoodlum. the bible teaches us, mr. speaker, in the book of michael. >> member wilson -- >> these words. >> the member will -- >> it will require you but to do justly and to allow mercy. in the new testament, luke teaches us these words. the spirit of the lord is upon me because he has anointed me. he has sent me to proclaim freedom. set the oppressed free. i urge all to hear these words to heed these lessons -- may god bless trayvon martin's family and his soul. >> he is no longer recognized. the chair will ask the sergeant at arms to enforce the prohibition. the chair must remind

last time it happened in the nba was when the miami heat team posed with their hoods on when trayvon martinas killed and george zimmerman was still not arrested. these kind of statement are important because what they do is push the discussion forward. that is all you have to ask. the only thing you do not want them to do when faced with something like this is to do nothing. when you look at the amazing comments on social media by athletes, like david west of the pacers, who said the shows that we cannot live in a post-racial america -- that is an important discussion to have and it is a way that athletes can leverage their position. this month, switching gears slightly, critical flaws emerged in the handling of a rape case involving the star university of florida state university player jameis winston. the local prosecutor said he lacked evidence to charge winston. one week later, winston won the heisman trophy. now there are reports at there weren't virtually no investigations either by the police or university. police closed the case without interviewing winston, obtaining dna, or follow

congratulations on the best seller "suspicion nation, the inside story of trayvon martin." >> thank you. >> and now back to the trial of oscar pistorius, and we are not used to defendants taking the stand here in the united states, but with the legal system there, and given what the prosecution p presented, did he have to? >> yes, he almost had to. this is not a whodunit. it is that he shot and killed his girlfriend through that locked door. and the question is why? did he think that there was a burglar, and acted too quickly thinking it was a burglar or filled with rage and killed her. and so that is the issue, and he has to testify. what happened today is an emotional apology, as you say, and lot of discussion about how hard this has been for him since that shooting. he has been emotional, and sad, and he could not sleep, et cetera. and most of that would not come in, in an american courtroom, but it is clearly designed to generate sympathy for him. >> and that is interesting part to me, because when he has been talking about what it is like for him since the shooting, and talked abou

we've had trayvon martin. constant outcomes that are unsatisfying. >> you think we're looking at the wrong things. >> in this rush to judgment on donald sterling -- >> rush to judgment? >> it's a rush to judgment in that three hours -- three days after the tape was revealed, they threw him out. >> wait a minute. he's been around 30 years. been doing business for 30 years. >> they had to confirm that was his voice which was due diligence. >> due diligence on what a private conversation between a man and his girlfriend. >> you're not bothered by what he said. >> i'm also bothered by the process because that process protests you and i. today it's donald sterling. you takeaway half billion dollar property he earned legitimately, he broke no laws and now you takeaway his property because he's unpopular. the outcome -- >> nba bylaws and he knew that going in i assume -- >> governed his private conversations with his girlfriend? >> i disagree. i want to applaud commissioner silver for his quick action. you know as we

often this results in the murder of trayvon martin is repeated in the streets of our nation.e allhe young across the land who are making a and thet about hoodies real hoodlums in this nation. racial profiling has to stop, mr. speaker. just because someone wears a hoodie does not make them a hoodlum. these wordsaches us . must resend the. mercy, as you walk calmly with your god. testament, luke teaches us these words. the spirit of the lord is upon me because he has anointed me to proclaim the good words. to proclaimme freedom. it to set yourself free. he'd these lessons. may god bless trayvon martin's soul and his family. >> the chair will ask the theeant at arms to enforce the core. the chair must remind people prohibits the wearing of hats. the donning of the hood is not consistent with this rule. members need to remove their hoods or leave the floor. >> more highlights from 35 years of house coverage on our webpage. we were created 35 years ago and brought to today as a public service wire local cable or satellite provider. "washington journal" continues. host: now joining

if you think about trayvon martin.nd other ifrn stance instances where he has had a strong reaction, here he has really put his print on this as a kind of moral leader to say, look, this viewpoint is still there and we must denounce it and call it out and let this ignorance play out. i now think this is a very important moment for the nba, for society, because the investigation isn't that difficult. all you have to ask is is it your voice? if it's your voice, the nba has brought authority to take some action. especially a league that is predominantly african-american. i expect things to move pretty quickly here. >> we've seen a lot of that starting first thing tomorrow morning. want to turn now to the president's trip in asia. he is on this four-nation tour there, and, yet, we have been talking much more about, of course, what's happening in ukraine, what is not happening, in fact, in the middle east. how much of those other issues and distractions are affecting potential accomplishments for the president on this trip?

during this administration, the president is forced to address race and has more cently after the trayvon martin verdict, the my brother's keeper initiative he also talked about tonight. because he is a second-term president is feeling more the weight of history on his shoulders. >> it's so hard to do those things. i watched him with henry lewis gates. it' so hard to do it right without it look like you're coming in as the judge to solve the problem and also an advocate. >> but chris, what is happening across the country in these republican-held legislatures and republican governors trying to suppress the vote, that is disproportionately affecting black voters and it's going to hurt the democratic party in 2014 and possibly 2016. he has every reason to -- >> is john boehner ever going to own up to the fact that he's got back people in their party. -- i don't deny it's rational. i think they know exactly who they're talking about, the president, and they're talking for the people from some of these very rural texas districts where people have bad attitudes about blacks. and he's playing that card

if you you look at the image of trayvon martin, it was the hoody. this kid it is a bow tie.ds and family wore bow ties. a sweet kid who gets called by his girlfriend says come to my house, i will sneak you. in she does sneak him. in and then one of her siblings says dad, i hear someone in the house. dad comes. in and she denies him. obviously i'm not saying this facetiously. her denial of him was actually worse than when jesus christ was denied by his disciples. >> what? >> direct cause his death. all she had to say was daddy, he is my friend and he would have holstered his weapon. >> here is the direct cause of his death. the bullet that came out of daddy's gun when daddy thought this was intruder. if she had said to him daddy, shoot him, shoot him, is he trying to hurt me. then i could say criminal liability on the daughter's part. if she is tries not to get grounded i don't know who he is, dad. basis of american law. in all 50 states is the castle rule. if someone comes into your castle. you can blow them away. and even though i'm not a big gun guy and all that i do agree

. >> we historically, whether it's donald sterling or cliven blundy or trayvon martin, we look at a tipe iceberg and we ignore the mass underneath it. >> what is the mass underneath this latest flash point of race here with donald sterling? >> look, i think what bryant is talking about is the fact that, you know, even when you're talking about affirmative action, other issues, there's still a lot of racism in america. we look at these instances and get repelled but there are voices out there, and it's a harder issue than it was in the past because people are expressing private thoughts. but a donald sterling actually has the power to affect people's lives because his housing discrimination case in which he was actually accused and had to pay money because he was discriminating against african-americans. i think the issue is racism is harder in some ways because people are communicating thoughts that are hard to -- you know, african-americans, asian-americans, latinos feel sometimes that they're not getting the jobs that they would have gotten otherwise, but people aren't saying, you kno

as you know, being who you are, it's always bubbling under the surface so it takes an o.j., or trayvon martin then it explodes but it's always under the surface. >> it's also when you hear somebody saying this stuff, it's easy to identify. there's structural forms of racism in this country where it's -- >> institutional racism. you can't vote and you can't do this or that. >> that's harder for people to see and point to and bet -- get behind. look what this guy said is reprehensible. >> i'm glad that even though i don't really care for how the thing was obtained, who is trying to make money, he got outed. this is who he is. he's been like this for 30 years. and for people to say well, alleged and this stuff, we have to have a picture on him with a rope and a hood and holding a burning cross is that what it's going to take to make people understand who this vile individual is? he got to go. he's got to go. >> spike lee, it's good to have you on. >> if i was a season ticketholder of the clippers -- >> you wouldn't go. >> i'm not saying i would turn my tickets in but i wouldn't be at that game t

i was upset in the trayvon martin case.hat happened necessarily. the point, as lis said, we don't know that's what happened. >> the prosecutor saying this is martial arts expert, not these two. night but we do know that someone died and we do know it's punctured 25 times in the head with a stiletto heel. jenna: forensic pathologist did say something interesting. she said i did not see any one injury that would have been fatal to dr. anderson. does that support the theory this was just self defense? it wasn't intentional. >> lis and i were discussing that. that's a very cagey, either intentionally or unintentionally cagey move. that goes into causation, simple english, they're saying he might not have necessarily have had to have died because no c.p.r. and no emergency medical technicians administered to him. >> the defense argument wants you to believe he would have lived, therefore, logically it can't be a murder charge. from the prosecutor's point of view, i go back and say, look. i don't care what kind of health you were

second term in addressing issues of race, it was about a year ago where he addressed the topic of trayvon martin that the commissioner of the nba will be addressing this topic. here's some of that tough talk from president obama a short time ago. >> i don't think i have to interpret those statements for you. they kind of speak for themselves. when ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk and that's what happened here. >> reporter: president obama also acknowledged there are a lot of african-american basketball players in the nba and he said it is the tradition that is steeped in african-american culture. he ee lab rated quite a bit in his responses, clearly something that's he has been paying attention to. >> peter alexander from malaysia for reporting. >>> the racially charged comments respect just strong harsh criticism from the president but the nba. >> the audio recording posted by tmz is truly offensive and disturbing. and we intend to get to the bottom of it as quickly as possible. >> nbc's joe fryer has the latest from l

i suggest that this is much more like the zimmerman case, the trayvon martin zimmerman case, becausehis is a self defense case. in a self defense case, there's really only one thing that matters, the state of mind of the shooter. that's all that matters. all of the rest of it is circumstance. the judge has to decide what was oscar pistorius thinking at the moment he pulled the trigger. >> what do they need to do next in order to prove that? >> the prosecutor? >> yes. >> it's very, very difficult to prove what anyone was thinking. the only person who knows that is oscar pistorius. it's a story of credibility, who does the george believe oscar pistorius or the prosecutors and prosecutors can never prove what someone was thinking. he's been very credible on the witness stand so all prosecutors can do is drill down on the facts and so far, they've been drilling down on the emotion, the very wrong strategy. >> so far, does oscar pistorius walk from what you've heard. >> that's really about the judge. this is where their system is very different from our system. this is a judge, not a jury