the white house. it is really the centerpiece of the white house visitor's center and it is an amazing tool to understand the white house. both from an architectural standpoint because you very rarely if ever can understand the whole totality of what the white house s you can see the main part of the house but also, too, it's wings as well. you can do a 360 degree walk around the white house and see the construction of it and see really one of the most important historic objects in our nation, the white house, and understand its story much more, plus with the advent of technology we have touch screens where you can actually go inside the rooms and see them, see the objects in them, and then also explore them lieu the various centuries that the white house has been here. >> i'm here today in the white house visitor's center. we're going to take a look at some objects that have been lent from the permanent collection of the white house for exhibition here as part of the new and vastly improved white hou

about white america. that lets us know, no, you are still bear sued as a black -- perceived as a black man. on the flip side, what president obama has done relentlessly is to chide and deliver tirades against african-american people in ways that have been called out by a number of figures as unfortunate. so his genius that professor butler talks about, let's not underestimate that. this man has existed in the midst of not only white supremacy by which i mean the conscious or unconscious belief that some groups are inherently inferior and others are superior. that does not have to do with individual existential assertions about the legitimacy or the lack thereof of black people, it's an institutional mechanisms that is self-perpetuating n. light of that, when we look at what white supremacy has attempted to do, it has attempted to unbirth obama, to retroactively abort him, to wipe his name clear, to legislate against him in the supreme court to make certain that obamacare would not succeed and legislativel

the problem was white supremacy. white supremacy has not been impacted at all. i love the president. brock obama, i have an action figure. whenever someone knocks it down, i stand it up. i love the president. so look, when he was elected, i don't think anyone expected that he would reverse 400 years of white supremacy. i do think, so i agree the old jim crow, the new jim crow. i think people people hope that he would make racial justice a significant part of his agenda and he has not. and because i have so much love and respect for him it's disappointing because if he applied his brilliant mind and his amazing political talent to racial justice as he has other issues like lgbt inequality, i think we could be further along than we are. we look at where we are now president obama took office the average was $18000. that was the average for a black family. for a white family it's $142,000. black family income has actually gone down during the time that president obama has been in office. white family wealth has gone up. if you look at places like ferguson in baltim

the whites don't want the blacks to vote, unless they vote as the whites tell them. they do not want them to hold meetings. southern part of the state, november 1867. he also said that numerous other is rumored to be discharged have not yet learned their names. here you see this struggle. elderly black man voting. sort of the next generation in a former union. he did not illustrate all of the back and forth that the bureau agents were discussing in their reports. the bureau also involved itself with family affairs of the recently freed. one of its greatest achievements was documenting the marriages of former slaves. in february 1866, the virginia general assembly enacted a law, which made it such that former slaves who married during slavery would be entitled to the rights and privileges of married couples. the superintendents created a register of color purple -- of colored persons cohabitating as husband and wife. to document these couples and their children, they were left with the cliques of court and retained in the records. surviving the cohabitation registers

two white students.one said the following: in my presentation i must admit it might be ashamed to be white. i don't want students to be ashamed to be white but ashamed of the things done in the whiteness that has been adescribe -- ascribed to them. the problem that white folk made with black folk was said the real error was putting behind them. black survival was dependent on how white people think. we know how they think, act, act nice and smile and behind go what is going on? and on the other hand, she said white folk don't know anything about our culture and as a result of that that ignorance has been lethal. if the president can invite us to have that kind of conversation his legacy would be bananas. >> we will take one last question because we are over time. >> if we get the questions, and write them down, i think we can do it. we can do it. >> yes, we can! >> we can do it. [inaudible question] >> thank you. i just wanted to pose the question that, you know, we are talking about legacy now for obama

seale: she died in the white house. anslover: she did die in the white house.eale: because he sent a note to the chief usher, and he said, "mother wallace has died. make arrangements for us to return to independence." swain: well, we're going to return to independence and learn a little bit more through their eyes of the story of how harry and bess met. (begin video clip) clifton truman daniel: when my grandfather visited independence, which is 26 miles from where he lived at the time in grandview -- this is in 1910 -- he often stayed across the street at the noland house, which is where his aunt and his two cousins lived. and one afternoon, he was over there with his cousins, with the family, and his aunt brought in a cake plate that my great-grandmother, madge wallace, madge gates wallace, had -- he'd given her a cake, and mrs. noland had cleaned the cake plate and was asking if anybody would take it back over. and my grandfather moved with what my mother once described as something approaching the speed of light and grabbed the cake plate and ran over here a

now some white people are trying to call out other white people. we went know these existed unless a white person called out another white person. i think that's the beginning of something, whether it gets big enough we don't know. somethings are beginning to happen that didn't happen 20 years ago. >> so i want to push back against a few comments. if we work under the assumption that water issue is teaching lichens how to read, like that is the fundamental problem is because black men aren't reading books a lot. we kind of miss, i'm, i'm willing to bet, i am a political science, i'm willing to bet the people doing the most reading are the black students wanting the most dexterity. while we have is an economy problem. if we focus on reading we will miss the fact that there are only three high schools that routinely send kids to hopkins where i'm at. the other thing i would like to push back in a different way is, we are are missing that there is not just a psychological way to whiteness, there is a material rage. so the fundamental issue that baltim

this is about the white house. and this is how you stop it.re a bullet. >> while senator mcgovern is out campaigning tirelessly trying to get his message out to the people mr. nixon gives the impression of staying above the campaigning, leaving the duty to the vice president. >> the role of watergate in the '72 election people want to trust the king. they don't want to believe this about their president. >> pennsylvania, a very important state for the democrats, going tonight for the republicans. kansas, connecticut, texas, michigan, delaware, arkansas, and north dakota. those are the states that we show for president nixon. >> that was one of the greatest victories any president ever had carrying every state except massachusetts and the district of columbia. >> i think the shadow of his victory is the watergate affair, and i think many people close to the president would like to have a move on that as one of the higher priorities of his administration. >> if he will persuade the country that the taint is gone, if there is a real taint. why do

in my home town churches were host for the white academy there was one white leader and one white preacher who's spoken out against school closings and he faced a back clashing and had to leave town so the others went along for the most part that is one thing that was said he was a deacon in his church and did do anything to keep the leaders from taking the education from have their community. >>. >> thank you both for your work i was born in 1981 my father born in 1945 so i grew up with some of the same racial inappropriate language that almost seeped into my generation. one thing that intrigues me that clash within christianity itself so those racist bellevue's but however that contrast with the caucasian so to have that to preach love and tolerance and forgiveness. not only the true people that teaches forgiveness is ovation. >> i guess seven throw up a caution flag. and now those that think they're defending christianity they think the other question is a coward the christian who will not stand up for god. i have to be mindful when i go back home to north carolina to go to church with

white american youth and final solution. >> white band has nothing racists have it all, we will get strungerwe hear the call. not very subtle. >> and 3,000 people would come hear me sing those lirks and lyd would get violent. >> that was your job. >> my job was to incite people, to market this ideology to them. >> what was its specifically about the music that you found so appealing? >> it spoke to me. it reached inside of me. it made my blood boil and it gave me reasons to understand why unemployment was high in my neighborhood. it gave me reasons to understand why crime was higher in my neighborhood. >> when you heard about the shooting in south carolina were you surprised that dloorn listenedylann rooflistened to t? >> no. it's the gateway drug into that movement. >> until he started listening to that white power stuff. before the killings, roof even wrote an online manifesto, saying he felt awakened by the music. that he once wrote about in his music. >> that our race was going to be killed off the face of the earth that there was a white genocide. >> roof is not the first mass shooter w

recently out walking into the white house and i saw people coming out of the white house as they looked closely. they do withilies and i said what are you doing we finishedey said meeting with the president. i found off with committees they were on, so i learned a little bit more. we always have our phones because our sources could tell us something that is going on. president. with the and being there, you get a chance to talk to the newsmakers, talk to the principles. it is about trust and relationships. candy bet you feel the talked to they will give you information and breaking news. it is important to be in the building. cost not a kind place it -- claustrophobic's need not apply. i am in a place that looks like a phone booth. the rhineland london phone booth, about that size. that when we started, a lot of times you filed your story from there. you would literally colin and dictate the story from a phone booth. and you have to pick a hand set up and you dial, did not have electricity. >> your point was about getting a sense of what is happening. april ryan: a lot of times they are

what did he do in the white house...crosstalk) beschloss: he taped his telephone conversations, as eisenhower and roosevelt had a little bit and as kennedy had a little bit more, but johnson about 650 hours over five years. and taped people in most cases without their knowledge, which would include jacqueline kennedy, whom at that point she had a very good relationship more or less with lbj. but i think she would not have been too thrilled to know that he was having this call taped. swain: this is a phone conversation from just 10 days after the death of her husband, jacqueline kennedy and the new president, lyndon johnson. let's listen. (begin audio clip) president lyndon b. johnson: listen, lady, now the first thing you've got to learn, you've got some things to learn. and one of them is that you don't bother me. you give me strength. jacqueline kennedy: but i wasn't going to send you one more letter. i was just scared you'd answer it. president johnson: don't send me anything. don't send me anything. you just come ove

white house in the television age.he white house decided how the presidential family would be use or not. i hope we get into this a little more. pat nixon did not have the opportunity to control as much as she would have liked. the way in which she was presented to the american people. >> was this precedence setting? the first white house to go to this extreme with the media? >> no. the kennedy white house had thought a lot about jackie. the very fact that jaclyn kenny went to dallas, she was going to dallas because the president knew he needed her help in what was supposed to just the apolitical tour. this was not the first time. jaclyn kenny -- kennedy was the first. eleanor roosevelt thought about her public role, but she pushed that. she is unilaterally responsible for that. the roosevelt white house pushing her in front. i think jackie kennedy was the first lady that is part of a media strategy. pat nixon did not play the role, the public role, that the white house wanted her to play. >> i think it goes further ba

or not only white. we've had to really take a good look at our identities and who we are and what makes us jewish. i think that also puts us in a unique place as leaders as well. >> i was going to say also brings an extraordinarily richness, an extraordinary richness to actually developing jewish identity in a greater authenticity for people who might struggle in it in that way. we're going to take a quick break and actually say goodbye to ilana and welcome another guest in a moment. but rabbi jackie will be staying with us. we thank you for staying with us and invite you to return to us at mosaic in just a moment. . >>> welcome back to mosaic. i'm rabbi eric weiss. we're in a wonderful conversation about race in the jewish community. joining us with rabbi jackie is diane tobin who is the founder and executive director of a community here in jewish. it means in every torng. tongue. and it's an organization that advocates for racial and ethnic diversity in the jewish community. welcome, diane. >> thank y

for the manipulation of white workers and white workers racism and adherence to white supremacy but for the manipulation of what web du bois is called the psychological wage of whiteness, it is okay. at least you're not black. without that the class system in this country would not be nearly as strong. the purpose of the book is to explore these connections and to explore how inequality gets rationalized , and it was, you know,was, you know, as you heard, happening within black space, internal to black space and is happening within white space and to all of us in the country because we have been conditioned to believe that where you end up is about you. we have this perfect ideological mechanism for justifying inequality. in the old european feudal systems if you are a peasant you damn well knew it. that was it.that was it. you are going to have to have a revolution to get a better deal. in this country we have an ideology. you are going to run this tomorrow. you can be president, ceo, millionaire, billionaire, nobody. poor folkpoor folk in england would not have believed that. that is

some of the white house sales.so this chair became the model for reproductions that were placed in the blue room to try to recreate the monroe era. when these chairs arrived at the white house in 1970 they were up holstered in crimson, that's how the room looked. since 1837 it has been blue and that's why the name is now the blue room. it's a very high style french chair. this is the one that we discovered had the most original material still a part of its guilding and its surface features and so it has been restored to look like it probably would have looked in the monroe administration with some very beautifully burnished smooth surfaces to simulate metal. in fact, that is fwilded wood. and then the red upholstery fabrics were put on to recreate its original appearance so that this became, then, the specimen chair we could use at the visitor's center while we still have other chairs in the suite up holstered in blue that are in the blue room. since the arrival of this chair in 1961 the white house has upped its t

you woke up with white folks names on you. white people are very smart. they stamp you with themselves so they can recognize you. when you are stealing something in the mall -- i don't know whether you do anything like that -- when you are stealing something in the mall and you get to a certain point, the buzzer rings. you cannot get out the store until what is in your position -- possession is checked. white folks been knowing that you were their property. that's why they name you. when you go for your passport, what is your name, my name is larry wilson. lewis green. that's one of them. because you are named after your former slave master. you cannot be free walking around in the name of your former owner. your first active freedom is to take your name back take a name. that is an african name. that is the name of your people or an islamic name. why should you be named after god who is your creator -- shouldn't you be named after god who is your creator? i will go to them and they will say you have to go to court. you did not go to no court to name me.

they're white. sort of basic stuff that has to be fought, got to be understood, has to be seen structurally and has to be changed through collective action. so i want that genie to help me organize the white folks. thank you. >> let me build off of that. with the followup question. what would you say to someone like me, just a concerned citizen -- talking very high level policy and sometimes when we talk very high level, we talk policy, and we're often asked about policy -- it's much clearer for, say, a concerned citizen what one can do. so, let's say i -- this is -- we're done here and i walk off and say, incredible, i'm not a policymaker, i don't know any policymaker, i don't have enough wealth to influence policymaker. what are some things that i can do? >> each of us is going to work in ways that seem sensible to us and that are consistent with who we are, and we can't tell people, you know, that some people here might have been a year ago a man was selling loose cigarettes in staten island and

another time a white bully pushes her, and she pushes back, right? she believes she shouldn't have to be pushed. her political life starts when she meets who she describes the first real activist she ever met, and that's raymond parks. they will get married in 1932, and she will join him organizing around the scottsboro case. so that's 1932, and for the next 20 years she will be active. she'll join the naacp in 1943, for the next ten years will help to heed the montgomery naacp to becoming a more activist chapter, doing voter registration, working on legal cases, also trying to get justice for black women who have been victims of sexual violation. so by -- violence. so by december 1, 1955, rosa parks is a seasoned rebel, if you will. >> host: was december 1, 1955, the bus sit-down, was that planned? >> guest: no. it was not planned. but it is a process both in terms of her life, a kind of culmination of, again, many acts of rebellion. certainly, montgomery's black community is thinking about filing a suit. this is a year after brown v. board of educa

to the white house.le think of jacqueline kennedy as the person who did that, but it's really mamie eisenhower, after several decades of curtailed entertaining in the white house with the depression and world war ii, and the then the truman renovation of the white house when they were living at the blair house and couldn't entertain in the white house. so it's mamie who brings back really large scale, elegant entertaining... (crosstalk) ... to the white house. swain: and she has a period of exhibitions and presidential and first lady memorabilia. how significant a decision was it, and why was it made, that presidents after eisenhower could no longer keep the gifts they were given? mayo: i think they were afraid that it would look like bribery or some kind of, you know, prompting of a returned political favor for the gift. and so, that was -- that was made illegal. swain: and where do all those gifts go? because presidents still get lots and lots of gifts from the public and from world leaders. mayo: they

we think we're white, and as long as you think you're white there's no hope for you. what he meant by that was that when you allow yourself to believe that there is this thing called the white race, and it's real, and maybe biological or scientific or cultural, you're already lost because there's no such thing and never was any such thing, not such thing genetically or biologically, and there's not such thing culturally or politically, because the white -- at least not historically. there is now. the whiteraise didn't exist. european people spent most of our time killing each other. right? before we decided to kill other people and ex-appropriate operate that are land and labor, we were really good at doing that shit to ourselves, and the idea there was this team called white people, that europeans -- belonged to -- northern italians would never believe those in the south, who weren't considered part of their nation and part of their people and folk, were italian, let alone would anglos have thought the irish wore the same group. this idea is preposterous and only cre

just down pennsylvania safe from the white house is the white house visitor's center which offers a lookat how the executive mansion functions, both as an office and a home. we toured the center with curator william all man who shows us the desk franklin roosevelt used while broadca broadcasting his fireside chats and recreational items such as radios and bowling balls for the first families. >> my name is john stand witch and i am the lisa son to the white house and i'd like to we will come you to the white house visitor's center which is located a short walk away from the white house itself. for anyone going on a white house tour it will help them understand what they're seeing and bring much more context and meaning to their visit to the white house. for those who can't go on a white house tour this is really an experience in its own right as well. so you are here in the white house visitor's center which is theme at clee based around five different themes to understand the white house story. it is a home, so it's obviously home to the first family, it is an office for the president,

now i am at the white house. i think that one of the things that i said that is most unique about the way that is different from -- the way we covered the president is different than the way we cover any other politician in washington or anywhere in any statehouse, he is basically stuck with us almost all the time. any public statements, any public appearance, even a personal dinner out with his wife, a cough game -- a golf game, we are nearby. a small cluster of the press as representative of the larger pool of the press corps, it is not glamorous. looking for any sign we can of him, making sure he is where he is supposed to be, and giving a rhythm of his daily life. christi: we view say where you are from and what your academic past was. kathleen: i didn't do any journalism when i was in school originally, i didn't know what i wanted to do. i studied history, the classics. t wasn't a terribly useful major. i got into journalism later in life and went to berkeley for graduate school. i did internships at the l.a

house, joe biden making potentially his announcement to run for the white house and the white house where president obama is the current president. strategically, is that interesting to you, i would have thought he would have made this announcement away from the white house. >> i will make a prediction since there are four minutes to go i don't have to agonize over it. i believe he was going to run. i think it is something he has always wanted to do so i think he will decide to get in. i would be stunned if the announced in four minutes the white house is not the place to do it, not appropriate -- maybe he is going to announce national ground hog day. it would be a mistake for him to announce that he was running the day before the benghazi hearing. maybe he will announce he is not running to take the edge off. that is the possibility too. it would be more legitimate to announce that he is not running at the white house. >> he is hiding in his office at this point speaking of opportunistic, you hit the nail on the head to make an announcement at the white house, what a great presiden

you are still white even if you didn't have the exact no. we were taking it for granted in some way that this is your world , so the backdrop of the appropriate look was you belong to a people who many of whom hope are hopelessly beyond-- without this appropriate look and at any moment you're constantly working to strive to not have that look, so at any moment something about your looks, your face, your body might slip back into that absolutely irrefutably undesirable character. it was all very specific. at best, you looked essentially like a lost. there were also-- there was a lot of room for the kind of mediterranean. perhaps mexican or latin american, that kind of look. that meant you could have curly hair if it was-- sort of like jane russell's hair. there is a reference that some people still get. that was a very good look, but it's even nicer if you looked kind of like grace kelly. then your lips should not be-- the lips we now see that our soap popular, the collagen, no, those first came in with french movies. a nigro with full lips,

>> it was a gift from the white house staff. it was actually in the white house at one point.hen frequent years was president. >> how are they able to get white house property? >> because back to julia grant. she was redecorating the white house and the marble had fallen out of fireplace -- fashion. she had the marble fireplaces removed if you do put into storage. they were basically auctioned off. during the 50's the white house staff was able to track of the peace and presented it to the eisenhower's. it was in the lincoln white house and he was very important to president eisenhower. >> how would the eisenhower's use this room? >> is a big time of year it was used was christmas. them their christmas trees in front of the fireplace. they would have presence for the grandchildren spread across the room. mamie would be at the cano -- piano. that is really many room was used. >> when world leaders were come to see president eisenhower here, he would not entertain them here? >> even do it on the porch. >> we will see the ports the next time you come back to gettysburg. host: tha

one day stefan, sean was in the white house.nd he bumped into the negro president who barbara ross had predicted would be in the white house. [applause] the president asked what he was up to. he said,to. he said, i have just been hired to be a technical advisor to the butler. and i stopped in the white house because i wanted to get a little gift for the writer for we will be a good wrote the story. the negro president who barbara ross predicted when turned on his heels and went back and his officer came out. he said he did something in the blue other case encased in velvet. he gave it to stefan's sean who said, thank you, mr. president. i know for a fact will love this. the president said, think you will love it, too. they gift that the kid born in the year of thurgood in 1954 perceived from the negro president who barbara ross had predicted is the presidential a pen that i have taken from out under lock and key in my home and brought here tonight and signed every book that you will leave here with this evening. [applause] nothi

could not entertain in the white house.ie who brings back entertaining to the white house. >> she is a curator of exhibitions. how significant of a decision was it? >> i think they were afraid that it would look like bribery or some kind of, you know, prompting of return for political favor for the gift. that was made illegal. >> presidents still get lots of gifts. >> they usually go to the state department or the national archives. through the archives, they often turn up at presidential libraries. they are not owned by the president or first lady. >> one statement that the president and first lady can make is by who they did not invite. one person they did not invite was joe mccarthy. >> actually, mrs. mccarthy was invited to tea and receptions. she did not attend. >> what is a significance of that? >> she was making a political statement on her husband's behalf to not cross the door into the white house. >> some people do not know who joe mccarthy is. a quick snapshot of who he is. >> he was -- he was the senator that we

my m >> and did you spend it at camp david or at the white house? >> no, at the white house.s pageant for him. she was very clever. she cut sheets out and did cardboard angel wings and put garland on the neck and then foh halos she took coat hangers and put garland on the coat hangersw and putit them on our heads and strung them with lights and ey r attached them to a "d" battery with a button on the bottom that we could push and the halos would light up. one of my favorite things -- of course i was always in the reard because i was the youngest. she did it by height. i remember going through the third floor -- rather, the out second floor -- it goes ground, first, second. and with all the lights out, there was a huge corridor and we were singing "silent night" and we ta had our littled halos lit up ar all of that when the pageant was over he gave us a standing ovation, came running over and gave each of us a dollar. said it was much less expensive than the theater.bein >> i would like to follow this up. anne and i have a funny story between us about the white house being nor

>> raised me as a raceless humaa being in a white neighborhood.. and it didn't work out so well. >> raceless, well, you're much young ir. >> for me i felt completely unprepared, because i thought i was a person and got to school, kids were calling me the "n-word" and had to ask my dad what it meant? always curious about parents growing up in "negroland" and haveut moments like that they're shocked. >> most things, you are. constantly being prepared but some of ith is not spoke r spoken. it is just the intensity of youu manners and demands placed on you. this is part of a many littleook shocks. not all huge but to a child, they are. not the "n-word", subtler things because of particular protection. there were always a series of shocks. >> great question. >> how much do you tell your parents or when do you decide to hide that yourself and grapple. >> any other questions? >> piggybacking on that you were raised with two sisters. >> two sisters, yes.eren >> would the script be different if you had a brother? they would be more frightened for him. the.

josh earnest, white house press secretary at the white house press briefing.mphasizing united states and iraq are fully committed to partnering with the international community to degrade and ultimately destroy isil. they also reaffirmed their commitment to the strategic partnership between the united states and iraq. this is part of the discussion that, part of this discussion was some of the efforts that the united states will begin to undertake to intensify those elements of the u.s. strategy and our coalition strategy against isil, that have yielded some progress. i know there has been some reporting on this already today, i anticipate will be subject of some discussion with all of you today so, kathleen, we can go ahead get started whatever topic you like. >> i think we'll start there. >> okay. >> so, you, the white house is saying fewer than 50 forces going to -- [inaudible] so, initial reaction call this tinkering around edges, bandaid on gaping wound. what exactly do you think 50 special forces can accomplish? >> well i certainly wouldn't underestimate

house, nixon white house in many ways was a model of the modern white house in the television age.he white house decided how the presidential family would be used or not used. and we -- i hope we'll get into this a little bit more -- but pat nixon did not have the opportunity to control as much as she would've liked the way in which she was presented to the american people. susan: and was this precedent-setting, the first white house to go to this extreme with media? mr. naftali: no, i mean, after all, the kennedy white house had thought a lot about jackie, and the very fact that jacqueline kennedy went to dallas, she was going to dallas because the president knew he needed her help in what was supposed to be just a political tour. no, this was not the first time. jacqueline kennedy was really the first. eleanor roosevelt, of course, thought about her own public role, but she pushed that. i mean, i'd say that she's unilaterally responsible for that. the roosevelt white house wasn't pushing her in front. i think jackie kennedy is really the first first lady that is part of a media s

write letters to the white house.people started flooding, flooding the white house with wonderful letters. some of these letters were hateful but there were a good many of them that were very poignant. >> well, a justice served on the bench in 1967-1991. based on all that you gleaned from your very extensive research, do you think i've enjoyed his time on the bench as much as he enjoyed his time as an advocate? >> okay. well, i think that's a good question because i just been motioned we have to wrap up for the book signing. i think that thurgood marshall knew how important it was to have a gifted, wonderfully talented lawyer on the supreme court who was black. now, what is he happy on the court or happier in his job with your style the around the country winning those cases? the court turned right shortly after he got on it, and so no, i don't think they were the happiest years of his life. he wrote a lot of dissents in which you can read those over that awful lot about thurgood marshall's legacy. he really was a gia

that is white supremacy.ave a black we president has done nothing to ease the condition of black americans because, as the pointed out yesterday, these politicians are bought and paid for by special interest and lobbyists, who are obliged to promote their own agendas. disappointed by the level of media coverage over the event yesterday and the number of black leaders that attended? caller: of course, but i was not surprised. i was disappointed but not surprised. event, iay up to the was looking for coverage, and did not see it. the mainstream media, and the other cable networks, they are afraid of the message of .inister louis farrakhan it is also not in their interest to have that message resonate with the populace. has a way of dismantling the status quo. host: all right, we hear your thoughts this morning. our next caller is lawrence from washington, d.c. did you attend the rally yesterday or 20 years ago? or both? caller: i attended both rallies. 20 years ago with my uncles and cousins. i also attended th

some for whites. in addition, there were six projects that were so-called integrated but the buildings were segregated. some for blacks, others for whites. they demolished neighborhoods throughout the country in the grounds that they were slums. and instead substituted for those integrated neighborhoods segregated public housing projects. in that time in the 1930s before everybody had automobiles, there were many metropolitan urban areas where both european immigrants, african-americans, other whites from rural areas had come to work in factories. they all had to live close enough to the factories to be able to walk to work. so the neighborhoods were relatively integrated. that wasn't to say there weren't clusters of different ethnicities and races in neighborhoods. but overall they were integrated. i like to talk a lot about st. louis because it led to the segregation of ferguson. in st. louis, the downtown area a neighborhood called the solo car in the 1930s was 55% black. the federal government sub

the white house has two challenges. with an answer for why they have said no boots on the ground and you will hear that from the press secretary today saying that what the president always meant was no large-scale military invasion of ground troops. the second thing is that the president has said that these folks who are sent into iraq and syria are not going to be in combat. well, obviously that's not the case. but the interesting thing about this is that the president has made this decision and in the last two weeks has also announced that he's going to keep troops in afghanistan and has taken that provocative action against china and south china sea. so you see him taking these steps involving the military that he has not wanted to do since taking office. he's ramping up in ways when he thought he would be toning things down, so this is all just happened in the last two weeks, but make no mistake. this announcement today is a major significant reversal in certain things that he had said initially at the outset of thi