so this unjustice is everywhere.nt is just one example and we need lots of loud, stubborn little girls, especially brown ones, to make a difference in this world. >> thank you for your witness, for your work oncoming on this program. good to have you on this program. up next a musician on his children's books. stay with us. >>> the fight for clean water is not just a battle in flint, michigan but around the world. the new children's book "touched the earth" brings a love for the planet and reading books together. the author is musician julian lennon. this is part of the work he's been doing with his white feather foundation. thank you for being on the program, sir. tell me about the foundation, first of all. >> well, it's a bit of a long story, but it initially arose from a meeting i had that came out of the blue while i was touring in australia. and i was in delayed and i got a phone call from the hotel saying, excuse me, mr. lennon, there is a group of 30 to 50 people down in the lobby of the hotel with an an origi

a fundamentally unjustice society, legal discrimination, jim crow, and also virulent racist attitudes among his fellow americans. that, too has changed and has moved in the right direction. in addition to striking down the legal barriers that existed, thanks to efforts of king and thurgood marshall and others. i -- the characterization of whether i -- i assume vote ever suppression laws or voter i.d. laws, -- is that what you refer to when you say voter supression? >> yes. >> in 2012 a higher percentage of blacks in america vote than whites. even in states with the strict voter i.d. laws. if voter i.d. laws is the cause of voter suppression, where is the evidence? polls have sewn that a majority of blacks favor voter i.d. laws, along with the majority of white and majority of liberals and majorie of conservatives and democrats and republicans. but if you want to characterize it as voter suppression, i think some people might disagree with that, with that characterization. again, there are barriers that remain in place. i'm not sure i would identify the same barriers as my colleague. i