their lives hang in the balance, and the white house is also agreeing some critics the white house doesn't telegraph its plans immediately. so really there's this huge and complex back and forth, john. >> before i get to josh and general hurtling. i want to ask you if there's been any white house response yet to the announcement that the united kingdom is elevating its threat level to severe. >> so far no. we ask for a response first to the threat level change and then to cameron's speech, that's still being work oud. we haven't heard anything yet. >> general hurtling, i want to ask you this. the president said we have no strategy now to deal with isis militants inside syria, is that telegrafg too much information to a group that you might be soon at a minimum bombing. >> not to run into a bad scene with the president, but yes that is telegraphing too soon. i think the strategy of the united states is to protect u.s. citizens and defend our values, and saying something like that, even though it's -- they are probably looking at a variety of options to deal with isis in syria, and a variety

time before the white house beat. in his book, he was saying that if you wanted to get information, and the president was a part of its and you wanted the presidential angle, what you did was you went to the white house and talk to the president. at that time, correspondents did not have a beat. they just went all over the country. instance, thee reporters were not given the specifics about a union battle that was one -- won. from is just a telegram the war department saying the union forces had one. failing to obtain that -- this ight talking -- at the department, since they could not get what they wanted at the department of war, several of the correspondence hastened to the executive mansion -- because it was not yet called the white in order to secure the desired information from the president. needings a cabinet going on when they got to the white house. officials were leaving the room, the representatives of the press had no sooner sent and their cards inhim that he welcomed them a loud voice. "walk in, walk in,

by northern whites.tainly it's different than the images of african-americans as animals. it's not necessarily better, right? other stereotyped white characters? yeah. completely useless. others. >> hannah. >> there's ashley. the true gentleman. live for honor. don't disgrace your family kind of person. >> yeah. in some ways ashley is almost one dimensional, right? there's not a whole lot to him. what about bell watting, right. so this is a trope. julia roberts made her career on that stereo type. pretty woman -- that notion of the prostitute with the heart of gold is this incredibly powerful but stock character. >> i felt like it was trying to skoez this hypocrisy within the white community. there's all of these useless wealthy white elderly women floating around the wilfilm as well. i felt like it definitely was not trying to make the white characters look good. >> plenty of useless white characters. >> it was interesting they didn't seem to have any poor whites at all. >> right. >> they talk about wha

it's not about whites. if you don't have nobody, no lobbyist defending and working for the blue collar people, you are not going to get nothing. there is no prejudice in the white house. it's all green. host: robert from south carolina, your thoughts on this. caller: the problem with race relations in my opinion is that the working white people have been convinced that the government is going to take from us and give to them, the blacks. host: why do you say that? caller: have you ever listened to rush limbaugh, the local right-wing pundits. host: robert, thanks for the call. good morning, where are you calling from? caller: washington, d.c. host: your name? caller: frank. host: go ahead, frank. caller: how are you doing? host: your thoughts on the state of race relations today. caller: my thoughts that this country is going all over the -- all over the globe trying to straighten out other countries and their race relations but what about the one in this country? we are all over the place. the. host: david

when the white -- you believe the white man is the source of all your problems, you must believe he isthe source of all your solutions. i don't get up in the morning thinking about the white man or the black man. i think about payroll, programming, real estate. the issue is that we give white people all this power until we begin to believe that they have power over us. then we have discussions like this. if i have the attitude that the white man was -- were to give to me, i would not be where i am. if i had added to the black man was against me, i would not be where i am. -- if i had the attitude the black man was against me, i would not be where i am. just because a police officer sought -- shot someone down like an animal, does not mean everyone has that thought. we get upset. we say this young black person committed a crime, then all black people must commit crime. we see people as individuals. we are not groups. we have to get away from group thinking. they have to put their pants on just like i do. they need us as much as we need them. we are in this experiment together. we met --

white people's lives.ttle finally ends about 2:30 in the afternoon. the battle's aftermath there will be a court of inquiry. general mead picks whose on the inquiry. if you want to know details we can discuss this later. there will be blame for ledly and edward ferrero who were drinking together during the battle. and just leave and get the wounded off the field even though it's 100-plus degrees. so they lay out there july 30th and all day on july 31st and finally they're picked up on the morning of august 1st. by that point, one of meade's staff members admits that he couldn't tell who was naturally african or european except from the texture of their hair. apparently not accounting for those bodies out there of mixed race black people. in the in between of this, henry bird, a native of petersburg wrote his fiancee as the men cried out nearby to the confederate line for water, the response from the confederates was -- [ speaking french ] you're not a french student. it was drink your blood, you'll have no

hite, >> we're talking white race.rac. >> we're talking white folks.pa. >> it's the commonality. >> commonality.civil we're not talking about civil war memory. up i thought i would put up a different sort of image. here we have the ku klux klan, right? this is the early ku klux klan of the post-civil war period but we also have the ku klux klan of the 1920s. this is a photograph circa 1922 when we talk about civil war oud memory, should we talk about the klan? i'm going to be suggesting that's a yes, but perhaps maybee i should frame it what would be the consequences of thinking whe about the klan while thinking about civil war memory? matt? >> when you talkbou about the ko you got to -- i'm thinking uctin reconstruction, 1876, 1877 where you got the federal government actually going out thereere an putting i forget the law that ac they actually put in place. >> it's the ku klux klan act. >> there you go. but basically going out to arrest and stop these types of violent actions against african-americans. >> yeah. t successfully. >> right.essf, >> for the most part. so the ku klux

disappointed in the white church. he had hoped they would have in the fights side against injustices. theas heavily critical of moderate approach to civil rights or the gradualist approach. what we are talking about here is dr. king is marching in the streets. ofs going to shed the light truth on the injustice of segregation. he wants to see segregation ended. he wants to see african-americans get their voting rights and have all right as american citizens. powerfule most passages within the letter from birmingham jail is where he critical he's highly of one person setting a timetable for another person receiving justice. one group saying you need to wait. what's interesting is the theme of why we cannot wait emerges from the letter. later builtis around the letter to birmingham jail that is widely published, the name of the book that dr. king helps right is "why we can't wait." you see some of the early type two versions of the letter and it's what it looks like. it looks like a letter. pages.out 21 typed it has the

about these whites. they are truly the world's wildest white sharks. and i'm really excited to get in the water with them. >> reporter: once you're out, what stops a shark from coming up and deciding that you're din center. >> yeah. that's always a factor to consider, that you will get a shark that wants to take a bite. i try to be really calm and zen about it because, you know, you can't be constantly panicked and frantic or the sharks pick up on that and feed into that energy. and they start bullying you around. >> reporter: just last year, the team came face-to-face with an 18-foot aggressive great white the locals nicknamed slash. today, andy and his crew were off the coast of new zealand, one of the largest populations of great white sharks on the earth. >> we may be coming face-to-face with the largest great white shark ever seen on this planet. >> reporter: they're on a mission, to find a group of massive great whites recorded in the area, and capture it on camera for discovery's shark week, airin

some northern whites and blacks and even a few white southerners joined this fight but it was mainly a fight of southern african-americans. again, the conservative white south lost the contest. they lost less decisively this time. there wasn't wholesale destruction and utter defeat as in 1865. the white south lost less decisively this time but more definitively and more lastingly and we're going to talk about that. so, in both cases you've got a backdrop of black people struggling for decades against oppression and then you got a challenge to the racial order in the south. the first time it come from the north initially with southern blacks joining in. the second time it's southern blacks themselves that changed the order. in both cases the conservative white south loses. in the first instance the conservative white shout rebounds and erases many of the fruits of the first reconstruction. the second time around more of the gains have proved permanent i'll argue as we go on. all right. now in more detail what can we say is true in both cases, in both reconstructions? first of all, as

white mayor, white police chief, anything important is white. >> gregory's uniquely placed to provide historical perspective. he was shot in the leg in the 1965 los angeles watts riots, but he has not used violence to project his message. he has used comedy. he was a headline performer. >> when america goes to war they don't send no comics. they accepted folk who can barely read and write. >> at 81 years old, and father to ten, dick gregory reflects on his past and the legacy his children will inherit. we spoke in washington, d.c. >> you got into the civil rights struggle early on. could you have imagined, had i whispered into the ears of your 20-something-year-old self that six decades later we would till be having these arguments? >> let me answer it this way. 120 years ago if you were at a meeting and one day horses would be obsolete. we're the only group of people who have had to struggle through divisions that we've went through, and we offer education over liberation. george washington was fighting the british so he could find a colony. liberate. all the black folks you see in a

let's see if whites still win i want to see if more white folks vote. i want to see where those precincts come from. if you're 67% black if you look at those numbers you probably had an organized effort when it came to white folks who live in ferguson, so you don't need a large number because african-americans are not turning out. seize the power. >> let me ask you this, are a lot of african-americans who moved out of the st. louis city, to the county, they're republicanners in ferguson, missouri, as opposed to more white residents who are homeowners, does that make a difference in feeling connected to your community and showing up for elections. >> it does make a difference. homeowners pay property taxes. when you own a home you feel like you're a stake holder and you have a different view of the community as opposed to someone who rents. that play as role as well. one of the things i've been seeing when you look at trayvon martin, jordan davis and this case here at some point we have to go from a moment to a movement. i believe what this has exposed i

high white house sources confirm that to newsmen at the white house.president nixon has been closeted this afternoon with his speechwriter ray price, vice president ford after an 1:10 meeting with the president this morning and this afternoon met for two hours with secretary of state kissinger talking about foreign affairs and continuation of them as we understand it we have heard tonight that president nixon is planning to fly to san clem menty, and not in air force one but one of the vip planes made available to the white house staff. it all points to resignation tonight when the president goes on air about 15 minutes from now. tonight's events are being closely watched, not only here, of course, but around the world as well. let's call in some of our foreign correspondents, bruce duning, for instance, in tokyo, japan. >> most statesmen expert if nixon resigns, kissinger would remain as secretary of state for a few months and that continuity is the most important issue for asian governments. the most worried about mr. nixon's possible departure will

white tuinstitutions created it white society condones it talking about the violence that occurred. >> they are talking about the ghetto. >> yeah. but that's where the riots occurred. so they are saying that white institutions created it. they maintain it. they keep that status quo. i thought it's interesting that they basically define institutional racism in this report so it's pretty blatant that it's there. i don't really know why nothing was fully done about it. >> yeah. johnson actually shoved this report. he was not happy with this report. scott. >> this was a short quote that kind of stood out to me. he said this is our basic conclusion. our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white, separate and unequal. >> yeah. now this is 1967, right? the report comes out in 1968 we've had a civil rights act past, federal housing act past and yet we are here moving into two separate and unequal soci y societi societies. institutional racism, the whole process of metropolitan development. i mean it's interesting to hear this federal commission actually, you know? we learned

we walked from the capital to the white house. as we passed the national archives, i was testimonying stories all the time from the war of 1812 and i said if it were not for steven pleasanton, you would not be able to see those documents in the national archives today. of course i raised the money and we got an expert and he restored the tombstone, it's upright now and the man has now got the credit that is so long orr due. >>> now, i want to tell you about a woman who was equally as brave and fear leless and disregarded the safety of her own life. her name is dolly madison. she is, without doubt, the most beloved first lady ever to live in the white house. jackie kennedy was admired, but dolly was beloved. she was a marvelous woman. new year's day in particular, people used to pay courtesy to her from the president on downwards. steward's full-length portrait of george washington hang in the west wall of a large dining room. it had been acquired by the federal government in 1800 for the white house at a cost of $800. at that mome

at least three of the white people killed were accidentally killed by white people. finally the national guard came in and restored peace but by that time, much of the city was just devastated. instructed they did not want a record of this. did not want east st. louis to be known as a place of this terrible riot. the mayor instructed the police to confiscate cameras and destroy film. very few photographs actually emerges from the riot. some of those that did, and fact all of those that did, as far as i was able to discern, were thrown away when one of the newspapers cleaned out its reference library in the 1920's. frommagery comes mainly drawings in newspapers of which there were several. i suppose the thing i learned that stuck with me most strongly when writing the book was the fact that the civil rights movement did not begin in the 1950's with the decision in the topeka school system case. it began the day after slavery ended. it persists until this day. i, i don't think i and i know most people i've spoken to are not -- thatducated people america erected in thes

>> talking white, talking white race. >> talking white, paul. >> commonality. >> so if we're going toalk about civil war memories, i thought i would put up a different sort of image. here we have the ku klux klan, right? this is the early ku klux klan of the post-civil war period, and also we have the ku klux klan of the 1920s. this is a photograph circa 1922. when we talk about civil war memory, should we talk about the klan? i'm going to be suggesting that's a yes. what would be the consequence of thinking about the klan while thinking about civil war memories? matt? >> when you talk about the klan, you have to look -- i'm thinking reconstruction, 1876. what, 1877. where you have the federal government actually going out there and putting, i forget the law they actually put in place. >> the ku klux klan act. >> there you go. basically going out to arrest and stop these types of violent actions against african-americans. >> yes. not successfully, right, for the most part. so the ku klux klan is very much a part of the post-war reconstruction history, right? but why might be think abo

white's friend. they said he could go home. he walked back home, but they kept victor white.they drove victor white to the sheriff's office for furthering questioning and what happened next is very unclear. much of this story is unclear. the next series of events are particularly woolly, then the following day on march 3rd, the louisiana state police posted this press release on facebook. it says, "once at the sheriff's office, victor white became uncooperative and refused to exit the deputy's patrol vehicle. as the deputy requested assistance from other deputies, victor white produced a handgun and fired one round striking himself in the back. victor white was then transported to a local hospital by ambulance where he was pronounced dead by an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound." apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. after he'd been searched twice, he miraculously still somehow had a gun on him or found one in the police car and used that to shoot himself in the back while he was handcuffed? victor white's parents tell nbc news when they arrived at the police station, th

when the white -- you believe the white man is the source of all your problems, you must believe he isthe source of all your solutions. i don't get up in the morning thinking about the white man or the black man. i think about payroll, programming, real estate. the issue is that we give white people all this power until we begin to believe that they have power over us. then we have discussions like this. if i have the attitude that the white man was -- were to give to me, i would not be where i am. if i had added to the black man was against me, i would not be where i am. -- if i had the attitude the black man was against me, i would not be where i am. just because a police officer sought -- shot someone down like an animal, does not mean everyone has that thought. we get upset. we say this young black person committed a crime, then all black people must commit crime. we see people as individuals. we are not groups. we have to get away from group thinking. they have to put their pants on just like i do. they need us as much as we need them. we are in this experiment together. we met --

such is the case for philip white. once an aspiring rapper, he was recently convicted of murder. >> look around like [ bleep ]. how did i just go from five star hotels room service to an 8 x 10 cell. i mean people's bathrooms at home is bigger than where i'm living. i don't want to die like this. ♪ ♪ i don't want to cry like this ♪ ♪ tell me why life like this >> after serving a six-year prison sentence in indiana for drug dealing, white moved to oakland for a fresh start and had made some inroads in the city's rap scene. [ rapping ] >> but his dreams of stardom ended after he fatally stabbed his 44-year-old girlfriend 12 times in the arm and hand. >> number one song trying to shake heads. now i'm locked in a cell. how could the lord forget me? don't cry. >> white was living with his girlfriend and her four children. on the night of the murder, he and his girlfriend were at a rap show where white was performing. >> crowd was loving me. females was loving me. i'm just chitchatting and the person i was involved with, you

the white house sent three officials.nd five members of the congressional black caucus also attended. the ceremony was peaceful, but emotional. >> there is a cry being made from the ground. not just for michael brown. but for the trayvon martins, for those children at sandy hook elementary school, for the columbine massacre, for the black-on-black crime, there is a cry being made from the ground! and god is hearing. >> and joining us now from washington, mary katherine hamm, ron williams both fox news analysts. what is the head line from the funeral service today for you? >> well, i think there was a lot of fear that this would become a platform, bill, for protests, racial rhetoric and language, invectives, even potentially for riots, more rioting, it would spark more rioting. instead what i saw was a deep show of faith. i was taken aback. you know, in the black religious tradition of, you know, moving on this far by faith, a show of belief even in the face of deep grief and loss over a child's life. i really was taken th

the young white mayor is white but he's also republican. the city council is primarily a white republican city council even though african-americans tend to vote democrat. what you have is that one institutional rule, having the elections being off years and it's going to basically maintain political power for whites. >> if you're a homeowner, a taxpayer, someone who works and lives in that community, if the garbage gets picked up, and nuisance calls get answered by the cops, is there a problem? is there by definition a problem when you end up with that mismatch? >> that research suggests that at least with african-americans, african-americans tend to get a lot better quality of a range of resources when people like them are actually in charge. like the political representatives tend to be more response sive. the police departments tend to be more integrated and we tend to have less incidents like this and a wide range of other services. just thinking about this case. if the mayor, for example, was african-american or the police department

valerie jarrett is best friends with both michelle obama and ha barack obamas she lives in thee white house.pies per i mean by that, she literally has a suite of rooms that she h occupies permanently in the fi white house.rs she has a secret service detail she eats with the president and first lady every night that .hey're in the white house she goes a on vacations with th. she goes to whatever meeting sho wants to attend, and she carrien the president's message to ones cabinet ministers and other people in the administration.wh there's been no one since harry hopkins who has this kind of power itches i write of her saying she watched overfe him a made him feel safe.evoted he was her special charge, the d chosen one. sheun focused, doted on him and she gave him the unconditional love that he never received from his mother, who frequently abandoned him as a child. >> that's right. they have been several lo biographies of barack obama. there's been a lot of left speculation about the fact thatt his mother was not a around a lot. she traveled a great deal, let him with his white grandpar

there was a white water fountain water fountain. you had to determine which you are going to drink from. it was already determined for us. there were times when as chase the --would taste teh white water. many times, it was cold. colored water was not. water was from a fountain that was probably cooled from electricity. everything here was segregated. right across the street from the is a temple where there were many black businesses and from the temple on down 18th street over to fifth avenue was the black business district. we would leave the lyrica theater many times running because we had thrown water down on the white kids and we would run to 4th avenue. fourth avenue was a bustling place at the time. we were having fun, we thought. now that i'm here and i can , it's a see this place different place. >> why? >> i've never seen it from the vantage point that i've seen it today. ofe never been in the lobby the lyrica theodore. our lobby was the sidewalk. ofn you come up the backside the theater. we never saw the glamorous part. y

northerners and white southerners. this is a place they are going to come and sort of shake hands over the bloody chasm but it's not a place that black americans visit. i found very little evidence that black virginians here in petersberg and elsewhere really spent much time on the battlefield. >> i got one question. i work with a couple of black guys. both of them are in their 60s now. they've never heard of the crater. they knew who crater today was. they said no, they had never heard of it because they were never taught it in school. they were never taught anything about the civil war in the black schools in the 50s and 60s. >> yeah. there are a number of very good sources that i could point you to. in the 1960s especially, the state of virginia actually ordered their textbooks to be revised and distributed throughout the state. the textbooks were authored and written in a way that was very much the reflection of the civil rights movement. if you actually look at the textbooks coming into the virginian schools at th

the white vote.in incumbency, not only ea incumbency advantage but one associated with race. more white folks are like he's just regular and then go ahead and end up with a higher percentage of the white vote. this president ended up with the lower percentage of the white vote in his re-election campaign and lower percentage of the african-american vote. i wonder if the presidency is unique as an office, as compared to other offices. like black mayors and congressmen. i mean, in other words, wouldn't it just be better to have a white president because then we wouldn't have to do this? >> couple things, melissa. one, i think what happened in 2012 is kind of a reversion to the mean so to speak. 2008, remember, a very unusual year. a great year for obama. >> you're telling me. we elected a guy named barack obama from the south side of chicago for presidency. >> number two, the incumbent president in 2002 george w. bush the lowest rating president in american polling. not just a great year for democrats,

it's the white liberal that can't stand the white conservative because it's the black conservative who poses a direct threat to their ideology. the ideology that has poise ended their communities with high taxes and crappy schools. >> how do you respond? >> you made a few comments. >> listen, here's something to be said, though, about the black conservatives. you know, i was -- what's the guy's name -- what's his name? >> rand paul. >> rand paul. sorry. i'm sorry. >> rand paul went to howard university to give a speech and took a lot of courage to do it. i think these black conservatives ought to go out and do it. you don't find republican into communities. there are plenty of black churches out there that would love to have a white politician up there talking to them. but they don't want to go. they not only don't have the courage to go -- >> do you think ben carson has ever been to a black venue and spoke about black issues? of course they have? >> what i'm saying is there needs to be more of that taking place. this is an example here but i can guarantee there's lots that have not be

>> could the white troops be better prepared?the answer is, no, making these last-minute changes on july 29 and the battle is the next morning right at dawn. there is no prep time. >> david rosen. against the background of the circumstances and what you described a little bit of humaneness compelled, i wonder if you could tell us something about mahone. >> yes, i am not sure with all you want. i will start with a brief biography. mahone is a native of virginia which is growing up in the era of the imagery of nat turner's slave insurrection and graduates from virginia military institute. in the beginning of the war, not do anything superb. he really knows how to manage a division. his troops accidentally shoot james near where jackson's mortal wound had been which anderson moved up and mahanta -- mahone moved up to division. lee praises mahone's ability to recapture the line. he will be division commander until the surrender. >> what about the showing of humaneness? >> several people commented on that. he stopped his soldiers from

what are whites -- white people supposed to think when stores?ft in what are they supposed to think when they see the spectacle in new orleans and st. louis, with stores andking into taking things and saying they deserve it? really? you deserve it? what are they supposed to think? it goes to reputation. you can talk about rights up and down the line. if somebody comes to me and says my rights were violated, i want to hear about it and i want to know all the details, but i'm a you know what, you never get all the details that -- but, you know what? you never get all the details. host: david, you are on "the washington journal." caller: how are you doing, sir? i think a big problem is white folk, they don't know anything. a lot of them know nothing about black history, nothing. completely nothing. folk -- black man invented the combustible engine. it takes them to work and it was money in their pocket. when you stop at a light, a black man did that. like, they don't teach black history and a lot of schools, especially white schools. they don't teac

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they're being marched, two white, two black, two white, two black, until you run out of black troops. the generals that had been captured, the highest ranking officers at the front of the ban. a 9-year-old girl at the time, recalling years later, i remember swinging on the gate as they brought the prisoners up hyde street. i hollered, kill them everyone. 9 years old. remember that. her mother told her, come into this house or they'll be killing you. captain beacham of the 23rd gave us a really good comment about it. the prisoners formed in columns by force consisting of alternate files of colored soldiers and commissioned officers. highest rank, as i said, going on down. as there were about 500 colored prisoners and about 1,100 white officers and soldiers, the greater part of the column presented a fantastic and variegated appearance that i am free to confess was amusing. many white troops sent to prisoner of war camps including at andersonville, but captain beacham and lieutenant bowley who survived their prison experiences won't be going to, you know, the more famous places. beacham

we walked from the capitol to the white house. as we passed the national archives, i was telling stories all the time from the war of 1812. i said if it were not for stephen pleasonton, you probably would not be able to see those documents in the national archives today. of course, i raise the money. we got an expert to restore the tombstone. it is up right now. the man has got credit that is so long overdue. i want to tell you about a woman who was equally as brave and disregarded the safety of her own life. her name is dolly madison. she is without doubt the most beloved first lady ever to live in the white house. jackie kennedy was admired, but dolly was beloved. people said when she wore her jewelry, it was outshone by her personality. she was a marvelous woman. look at how she risked her life or captivity to save a painting. none of us would do that. i certainly would not. but she did. paid not surprising people .alls to her until her death new year's day in particular, people used to pay courtesy calls on her from the presid

47% of white adults say you bet. but among african americans, only 18% of black adults say race is getting more attention here than it deserves. 65% of blacks say police have gone too far in responding to the shooting's aftermath. that's in contrast to a third of whites who are divided. 33% saying too much. 32% saying the response has been about right. and about the investigation itself into the killing of the unarmed 18-year-old, 52% of whites polled say they have a great deal or fair amount of confidence in the investigation. but among blacks, 76% saying they have little or no confidence in the investigation. these numbers paint a picture of a deeply divided america. and the fine line the president must walk as he bridges the gap between black and white. >> as americans, we got to use this moment to seek out our share of humanity that has been laid bare by this moment. >> reporter: i've seen a lot of raised eyebrows in here when the numbers came out. but if you can believe those numbers, this inside even as divisiv

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or i think it's an assumption white men of a certain age. >> white men of a certain age. the men, the people i believe that barack obama referred to years ago when he said people get scared and they cling to their religion. >> i'm trying to narrow this down, michelle. what does it mean? >> it is -- it is working class whites and probably also very wealthy whites over $100,000 a year that vote republican and feel that the republican party understands their plight and understands the plight of those for whom they see the country as a disaster because people of color are taking away what they believe rightfully belongs to them. >> throw this in if you can to the general woodpile of attacks on this president, which is he's deserving of removal, delegitimization, he's smoulz something else, because he's against whites, he's got a problem. there's an awful lot of them, and it's a strange thing to be against politically if you want a majority vote. >> it goes back to the fact so many whites voted for him. >> it goes back to the very beginning of the administration, the very begi

and what the white house did do, as white houses always do, is to reach out to their friends, their surrogates, if you will, to go after dr. king publicly. now, the president said a few things here and there. it was a little snarky, a little coy. lyndon johnson, from time to time, when asked about dr. king. but they went after their surrogates. they went to their sur dates to go after dr. king. and that's where the story gets sordid and, quite frankly, disappointing and just depressing, that the white house engaged the head of the naacp, the head of the urban league, went to these black leaders. and they were saying to martin, have you lost your mind? lyndon johnson is the best friend that the negro has had since abraham lincoln freed the slaves. because onjohnson is the one who has passed the civil rights act and the voting rights act. why are you going to bite the hand that has fed us? you can't anger, get on the wrong side of the president who is our friend. so these black leaders came after him even in a way that the white establishment did not. but everybody sort of piled on dr. king. now

they were excluded from the white hotels and cafeterias, excluded from white dormitories and the spaniards were very angry about that. they mobilized and engaged in anarchist movement. as a labor as to when i'm in the archives i'm interested in moments of tension between the workers and the officials so you are looking in the archives for evidence of any strikes or anything like that. for a long time i saw nothing about that until finally one day i came upon a big box titled labor disturbances. excitedly i opened the box and the box is filled with spanish disturbances, strikes, walkouts, riots, all sorts of things. >> host: were their unions for the workers? >> guest: that's a good question. not really. unions were allowed to exist, but they were not allowed to strike. early in the years there was a strike of steam shovel man. i should add the unions were adjusted for the white workers. there was no union representation for the 35,000 or so black west indian. early in the construction period period the steam shovel man went on strike and the chief engineers took a very hard stance against

anyway, i see obama as a radical guide raised by a white mother, white sole mother and community, withrk skin. that's what i see. i also see liberals, you know, they can only be judged by their intense and not the results. give you an example, johnson's great society, they paid women who have babies whose fathers left the home. [inaudible] that's the problem right there. i appreciate your response is not a plan that newt gingrich and bill clinton pushed her in 96. i'm sorry, are you still there? >> host: are you still there michael? >> caller: yes. >> guest: how did you like the welfare reform bill that bill clinton and newt gingrich pushed her in 96? >> caller: i liked it but obama's taken the work requirement out of it and there's a problem there. >> guest: that's the problem we have to do is misinformation because obama has it taken the work requirement out of welfare. that ms. is out there, and that's there. it's up to president obama to sell his program. it's not my job in the media to sell his programs. and i think he has undermined his own, both the aca and other programs by not

they are all white.he wants unemployment and she has quit six jobs in the last two years because she is always a victim. we never talk about the whites. the ones who do not finish high school. she has two adult children. boys. they did not finish high school. they do not work. she doesn't work. you can only teach her children what you know. we do not talk about the white women. when i was young, white women on foodre, selling their stamps because we never talk about the whites. i am from michigan. we have a bunch of white people of north, on welfare for several different reasons, who are the i have everts talked to. we never talk about the whites. host: let's talk about it now. just thing the majority of poor people in the united states are non-hispanic whites. there are 8 million more nine hispanic -- non-hispanic whites who are poor than african-americans. even more than latinos. in terms of proportion, a smaller proportion of the white population is poor. , asbsolute numbers, today in the 1960's, a lo

up over the last hundred years that have proved for the best interests of both, the colored and the whiteeople. >> it was almost 100 years after the emancipation proclamation, and america is still rigidly and racially segregated. black people couldn't vote in the south. they couldn't even go into the public libraries. the public libraries were segregated. the churches were segregated. >> frankly, as others have said, i don't know what the future holds, but i know who holds the future. >> he was frustrated because he had obama famou-- become famous. he's preaching all over the country. he knows that's his gift. but he says, people cry at my sermons, and the next morning it's still segregated. >> martin king called about 50 ministers from across the south to start a non-violent movement. the understanding of teaching non-violence was clear, but there wasn't anybody that could teach it like jim lawson. >> james lawson has been to india and comes back with this storehouse of gandhiian tactics. >> martin king said come to nashville now, we need you now. so i went to nashville and organized oth

>> white people are doing pretty well. by almost any standard, income, wealth, incarceration rates, unemployment. white people are doing compared to latinos, blacks, real well. >> he has nothing to stand on with his claim. >> if obama has a war on white people, he's losing. the white people are okay. >> enough said. thank you so much, ellis. >>> just ahead, hollywood's highest paid actresses, the big bang getting some big bucks and a very sweet taylor swift incident. stay with us. when salesman alan ames books his room at laquinta.com, he gets a ready for you alert the second his room is ready. so he knows exactly when he can check in and power up before his big meeting. and when alan gets all powered up, ya know what happens? i think the numbers speak for themselves. i'm sold! he's a selling machine! put it there. and there, and there, and there. la quinta inns & suites is ready for you, so you'll be ready for business. the ready for you alert, only a laquinta.com! la quinta! ♪ fill their bowl with the meaty tastes they'r

the white house is used to this.re started discounting some of the criticism knowing they're going to be attacked from either side. in ferguson, the police have made a point in saying they are not hiring live ammunition at protesters. there has always been tear gas. there has been use of rubber bullets. but in terms of gunshots, it is been coming from the crowd. there is been other activity coming from the crowd. but again, this is one problem the white house has is president the local police chief. the president can only say so much and do so much in terms of the technical response. this is the justice department job. he has put them in charge since ends eric holder down there. the criticism or what people are 'sying or missing from obama reaction yesterday was that personal connection. it was striking because he has made that personal connection previously. host: we're talking with dan berman about foreign policy and domestic challenges for this president. the president breaking away from his vacation on martha's v