to black america and black america to white america in a way nobody else in american history has beento be in that position in the presidency of the united states. and i feel like he really sort of embraced that moment. particularly as that went on. but he's not done that with ferguson and it's been a much more uncomfortable situation for him and i think because it involves law enforcement. >> to some extent, isn't that sense of unfull tilled expectations, whether it's from the black community or people around the world thought it was messiah coming to fix -- >> never mind washington or the democratic party. >> make it a purple america. he was never going to live up to those expectations. >> no, and he came in with extraordinary high expectations. now, the biggest defenders of him will say, well, in his first year of his presidency, had he not had the economic crisis, had he not had to bail out the auto industry, had he not come in basically all of a sudden, it was all hands on deck, then he could have devoted his first year of his presidency, second year of presidency to changing pol

, explaining black america to white america, explaining white america's reaction to black america, this is the role he was made for. he has not felt the need to do that with ferguson. he has done what i would call the political minimum. enough to make sure people can't say he hasn't said anything. but i think they view this -- my gut is they view anything he does anymore than that as adding to the polarization and the last thing they want. >> likely a subject under discussion. >> we have a great panel, professor charles ogletree from harvard, ben carson from obviously johns hopkins. cheryl ineye mutliand tom cotton from arkansas. so pretty packed show for a holiday weekend. i feel pretty good about it. >> looking forward to it. thanks, chuck. and, again, you can catch "meet the press" here on nbc 4, sunday morning starting at 10:30. >>> doug is back with more on our weather forecast. cold tonight, but then getting better? >> yeah, and i think -- i think people are ready for warmer weather. we had a couple days nice and warm early this week but the bottom fell out just in time for thanks

. >> there is not a black america and a white america and latino america and asian america. there's the united states of america. >> president obama who cast himself as a symbol of hope for a post-racial america a decade ago saw that vision splinter again this week replaced by the split screen reality. >> we are a nation built on the rule of law. and so we need to accept that this decision was the grand jury's to make. >> on one side images of tear gas and protests. on the other, a cautious commander in chief who is running out of time in office. the president's reticence after a grand jury decided not to indict darren wilson in the shooting death of unarmed teenager michael brown stands in stark contrast to the personal comments the president made after another teenager, trayvon martin was shot two years ago by a civilian. >> if i had a son, he would look like trayvon. another way of saying that is that trayvon martin could have been me 35 years ago. there are few african-american men in this country who haven't had the experience of being followed when they were shopping i

the way white america and black america view this and look past this issue.ving the same conversation. this morning we have a different conversation. it's not where everybody is in their corner. much more frankly compelling conversation, stimuluses oriented and i think that what's interesting everybody i had on this panel they don't want to have a national conversation they want a national project. this is more than law enforcement issues. what got to the point where michael brown robbing a convenience store, what got to the point an education issue, poverty issue and law enforcement issue. so how do we tackle all of it holistically which is easy to say. the conclusion was stop being a conversation and start being a project. >> on the political side of things, why do you think it is that no politician at this point has really taken on this issue and ran with it? >> look, it's because it's polarizing. there's that fear -- look at the president himself. trayvon he felt comfortable stepping out. he was hoping to use that moment. look this is specifically an issu

i mean, our families are a metaphor for black and white america. >> guest: bright. >> host: and the details of their lives are only interesting to an outsider, somebody who is not a relative, right, who, as metaphors for a larger issue about race. and so when people -- one of the things that really shocked people is when i say, you know, the father of -- was a cotton picking sharecropper, it was not that long ago. >> host: yes,. >> guest: one generation removed. >> host: right. >> guest: first of all, 160 years or 150 years, right? and mean, emancipation proclamation his 151 years old. next year will be the 150th anniversary of the emancipation of slaves in texas, the last race in america to be freed. so 150 years is not that long, it is not that long. first of all, okay, 150 years is not a long time. >> host: right. >> guest: the second, next time you think, you know, that these issues are over and done with an hour and a distant past, you know, when you see -- when you read my book, you will see how the carpetbaggers who came from the north we're really america's first civil-rights activi

key. 20 years ago when you and i first started having these conversations, that was all about white americaning with the fact that nonwhite america in the form of multi culturalism and diversity was founding its voice. frankly, today when i hear the phrase "identity politics," i think about the politics of white, particularly white, working class anxiety and fear and how that defines so much of our politics. the anxiety of falling behind as a country. the anxiety of falling behind relative to other groups, economically and racially. and just the sense of people who used to think they were by default king of the hill, realizing that's not so anymore. and that reverberates throughout all of our politics. not just -- across the political spectrum. i think that is probably for the rest of our lives going to be something that americans as citizens -- i'm not just talking about elected leaders, that we have to learn how to see each other and talk to each other in a way that gets us past the conflation of american with white, with american not as whiteness. being american is something bigger and b

, and a president hesitant to jump into the fray. >> there is not a black america and a white americaasian america. there is the united states of america. >> as a presidential candidate, he condemned his former pastor for making racially inflammatory comments and insisted the country's old wounds could still heal. >> what we have even is america can change. >> but as president, the reality has been different. the response for the verdict of the man acquitted for murdering trayvon martin, while personal -- >> when trayvon martin was first shot, i said this could have been my son. >> it was viewed as inadequate by some african-american leaders. >> what's lacking in this moment is moral leadership. the koun trif is begging for it. they're craving it. >> reporter: but the president responded with initiatives like the my brother's keeper program. >> if america stands for anything, it stands for the idea of opportunity for everybody. >> the president's defenders say he can't do it all alone. the preside . >> the president can only do so much, h he can set a tone and provide leadership. >> t

there's no red america, no blue america, no white america, no black america.or his party to be doing this is a desperate attempt to salvage a few seats in the senate truly divisive but truly scandal louse. it is the ultimate leg gages of the promise of his entire presidency. it is shameful. >> we saw mary landrieu come out and suggest that the reason he is falling behind in the polls is his gernd and women have a difficult time if the south and race in the south and president obama's poll numbers there. today just before air time tom mar ki harkin senator from arkansas said don't be fooled because ernst is really attractive. i have been watching these ads. hear so much about joanie she is really attractive and she sounds nice. she goes on to say i don't care if she is as good looking as tail tore swift or as nice as mr. rogers if she is voting for michelle bachmann she is wrong for iowa. if republicans said that it would be national news. wall to wall news. in this case he will probably get away with that. remember in 2008 when hillary clinton lost the primary

out there is never an excuse for violence, a man who once said there was no black america or no white americabut only on the united states of america. it seems contradictory the deaths of auster grant and trayvon martin, john ford and michael brown, shot by men who faced no sanctions, came during the first black presidency. or the message is that american democracy have reached the .imits of its elasticity that comes from where within you? >> it was a deep place of despair. keening wail that michael brown's mother admitted darrene saw or heard wilson had not been indicted. we have been exposed to that despair consistently. it does something. it becomes difficult to maintain a sense of optimism about the ability of issues like this to be addressed. not long ago we were dealing with a situation with trayvon martin and his death. not long after that we were dealing with a situation with jordan davis and a circumstance under which he died. theseally revisiting situations where we see african-americans who are almost always posthumously put on trial and deemed to have done something to cause their

campaign when jeremiah wright was interviewed, he talked about people thee toward black america and white america both sides have prejudices that he canyou e administration is uncomfortable about the facts. like so many people just don't feel clear on what happened. almost imagine that compromise if he had to do photo op he clearly believes there are big systemic problems. maybe he goes somewhere that is not ferguson where community policing is working really well there is sort of racial working and talk about larger systemic issues while avoiding the fact of the case and avoiding the violence and looting that we've seen that they are very nervous. >> i believe you meant comity. >> o'donnell: back in a moment with pope frances first appoint american archbishop. >> o'donnell: finally sewed some are asking if he's america's pope francis. the newly appointed archbishop of chicago blase cupich is shun knowledge the mansion occupied by his predecessors and echoing the pope's call to care for the poor. i spoke with the pope's first american appointed archbishop earlier this week about how he plans to b

in many ways it exposed the p z prism that white america and black american see this. >> whites haveo acknowledge racist and see how differently we see this. whites can't say, does this look right, but does this look trustworthy to people in the african-american people? we have to understand that we're no longer in the civil rights era. this is not a question of good versus evil, right versus wrong. racial inequality has become entangled in disappearing jobs, family structure. this is mostly a question of good intentioned people trying to do the best they can with very naughty social problems which overlap with social problems. >> pharrell williams said something interesting. he said -- he was talking about michael brown. he said this -- are we focusing on the wrong part of this conversation? we're talking about law enforcement and the relationship between the black community and the law enforcement community when we obviously had a breakdown somewhere in michael brown's life. >> we have to talk on both of them. talk about michael brown and the police. there's no question about that.

white america is shrinking. they know that. which is why your party has to rool i realize -- >> worth noting. though the minority share of the vote declined from 12 to 14. higher in 14 than 10. in the midterm and presidential. >> the democrats have lost 60% of white voters in three consecutive elections. >> and white men. >> even more. [ both talking at once ] >> to van's point the what you have a congressional party which is the republican party. and a presidential party which is the democrating party. >> which is exact opposite of when you started. >> david? >> an interesting question. of whether when president obama departs. whether in fact the democrating party can be as strong with t n latino community and young. and the millenials, going in was 44%. that was very low. in the politics. >> vote. >> the millenials. >> the, the voters yesterday were compared to the 2012 electorate, whiter, older, and more male. is that a problem for the republican party. >> first of all as the the party got annihilated isn't that a problem fo

white mother. the president has talked about race before. >> there's not a black america and a white america, there'sthere has been a running thread throughout this campaign, first was i black enough, then am i too black. i don't know what the margin of black vote is that is the optimal, not too black but black enough. the profound mistake of reverend wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society, it's that he spoke as if our society was static. i don't come out of central casting when it comes to presidential races. i am african-american, i was born in hawaii, i spent time in indonesia, i do not have the typical biography of a presidential candidate. the cambridge police acted stupidly. be mindful of the fact that because of our history, because of the difficulties of the past, african-americans are sensitive to these issues. we should all make more of an effort to discuss with one another in a truthful and mature and responsible way the divides that still exist. we've got no time for excuses, not because the bitter legacy of slavery and segregation have vanished entirely, they h

this is going to lead to a very serious conversation in white america. this is not a black problem. this is a situation where white americans recognize this as a problem have to confront white people who are bigots. that's the only way that real progress happens. as long as we stay focus on what the minorities can do to fix things, nothing really changes. >> thanthank you for joining us. we'll talk to you later. that's the situation on the ground in ferguson. a calm day after another rough night. people hoping that the worst of the violence is behind. police presence on the streets has increased. the anger is still very strong and promises a more non-violent action. at least coming ahead. >> i'm curious. you have a very interesting backdrop behind you. it looks like there are burnt out cars or something. >> absolutely. the devastation here happened on the first night after the announcements of the grand jury decision not to charge officer darren wilson for the shooting deaths of michael brown. there were 12 buildings, 12 businesses that were burnt to the ground and a number of other

because america is no longer white. because america is no longer english-speaking only. because we're all in this together. and the day that america fails we all fail, all of us. >> mm-hm. >> you write about this in the bock book as well. you talk about success in career, to some degree success in life. we have not talked about how you've learned to be successful in relationships. tell me something about that. >> i think for example nowadays girls get married for reasons like oh, he's so cute, he dances so well. i love him. he's got ripped abs, and you know what, i see marriage as a journey, okay. and if you want a marriage that lasts, the whole trip of life, because getting there is not important. the trip is what's important. and my husband and i have been married for 31 years. we have three grandchildren, and he's 11 years younger than i am. and he's a musician from miami sound machine, "the conga." he went on that tour. i was an editor. print journalist in chief. and everybody told me don't marry him. i saw the eyes of his soul. and i told him, babe, what do you expe

is white america you dig yourself a whom where you areed got to be on the dole to support your kids and you are dependent in all of that and you can't develop a career or a talent, you are done all right bernie, very instructive. when we come right back, the navy seal says he killed usama bin laden will enter the no spin zone. don't miss this one moments away. for those kept awake by pain... the night is anything but good. introducing new aleve pm. the first to combine a safe sleep aid. plus the 12 hour strength of aleve. for pain relief that can last until the am. now you can have a good night and a... good morning! new aleve pm. for a better am. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . >>> thanks for staying with us i'm bill o'reilly in the personal story segment tonight. millions of americans saw a two part "special report" on fox this week about senior chief petty officer robert owe neil a navy seale who says he killed usama bin laden. fascinating shedding light on the seal operation and dramatic events that took place. the downside is that

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likely to be the first of many issues where the people here find themselves with the man in the white house. america hasyears been undergoing profound change. by 2013 that figure had more than tripled to 17.1. they will be just shy of a third of the population. is introducing the president in las vegas tonight. >> president barack obama. >> astrid silver seems to become the poster girl of immigration reform. the president has to sell the policy. bbc news washington. ago withe a brief time alan gomez, immigration reporter at usa today. you have been following this story for years. how will it benefit the people you have been talking to who have been calling for this reform? is hard to summarize but it covers so much of their lives. new educational opportunities will be open to them. walk out ofy can the house and be confident they are going to come home that day, i spoke to undocumented immigrants who have written out living wills so somebody can know what to do with the money they have accumulated. this is really such an emotional moment for so many of them. left with a lot of uncertainty because th

the man who once told us that there was no black america or white america but only the united states has become a president whose statements on unpunished racial injustices are a genre unto themselves." what do you mean by that? >> what i mean is the president spoke in a very evenhanded way about this. as he tends to do in these matters. but not everything is even. there's not an even which his death seemed almost, if not predictable then not shocking and so in that regard we can't make a property offense the equivalent of a person losing their life. i won't defend attacking someone's business but these two things are not equivalent. >> and what's mystifying to me is why they did anything they did. why would you not have -- >> talking about the grand jury. >> why not have a regular grand jury proceeding and go to an open trial where you have a defense lawyer and a prosecuting lawyer and all the evidence is out there with a jury and everybody can hear it. this way it just seems that they were fixing it and that's, of course, how the community feels. and it contributes to the sense tha

and white america had turned on him. 75% of the american people thought he was irrelevant in the last year of his life. inside a black america, almost 60% of black people thought he was person non grata. the last year of his life, the media turns on him among the white house, white folks, black folk, the naacp came out publicly against him. the urban league came out against him. powell junior blasted him publicly. ralph, the only black nobel laureate comes out publicly against him. he is on the board of the naacp. the naacp passed a resolution to condemn dr. king. ralph saw it before it went out and he toughened the language. it was not tough enough for him against dr. king. he is even tougher on dr. king. a nobel laureate like dr. king was against a war but a peace prize recipient is going against him and i cannot quote on c-span what is in the book, what thurgood marshall, i cannot even use the language what thurgood marshall said and felt about dr. king. >> that was on the year when he was on the supreme court. i made a note, what was it that thurgood marshall disliked? >> he did n

you are a young black man doing something instead of white america realizing this is what police officers have been doing since the beginning of time. it is fact. it is part of the klan. they are probably still officers undercover. it is sad no one is seeing the bigger picture. host: what you base those accusations on? caller: on fact. back in the 1950's and 1930's, police officers have been killing black men with a badge. host: mr. yeomans? guest: there is no question that in our country, we have had a problem with police officers killing african-american men. we still have a problem. one of the broader lessons we have to take from this incident is we need to figure out ways to stop the killing or at least minimize it. i think there is no question there is a racial element to much of what goes on here. we see in ferguson a very stark contrast between the police department and community. i think bringing diversity to the police department is hugely important. i also think it is important, as the caller suggests, that we focus on broader issues that are olored by our history. host: judy fr

interesting piece in "new republic" in which she writes one of the reasons he was so lionized in white americas television show such a bomb to white audiences. and when he was out there was all too real. it earned him sharp criticism. so you were really focused on that at that time, right? >> i was. and, you know, i'd been writing critically, you know, about bill cosby. all the way back to 2004, before the allegations came up. and i zeroed in that sort of way and presented the story that i was going to write for "the atlantic" in that way. it's interesting, that actually bothers me more. there's an entire population of journalists who had to do the work of, you know, sort of realizing bill cosby may not be, you know, just some dude that hustles pudding pops or may not be cliff huxtable. in many ways looking on it now, i feel like i was really, really positioned. i already had the skepticism intact. you know, to tackle the issue a little bit more effectively. >> there's a difficulty of something that in some cases happened decades ago that you don't really have. it's difficult to advance a stor

the man who once told us that there was no black america or white america but only the united states has become a president whose statements on unpunished racial injustices are a genre unto themselves." what do you mean by that? >> what i mean is the president spoke in a very evenhanded way about this, as he tends to do in these matters. but not everything is even. there's not kind of an even distribution of concern here. people became very upset about the prospect of property damage in ferguson. but the people in the community were saying, we are concerned about not only michael brown's death but the context in which his death seemed almost, if not predictable, then not shocking and so in that regard we can't make a property offense the equivalent of a person losing their life. now, i'm not going to actually defend attacking someone's business, but these two things are not equivalent. >> well, but and what's mystifying to me is why they did anything they did. why would you not have -- >> you're talking about the grand jury. >> yes. why not have a regular grand jury proceeding and th

. >> in those early days of military integration, the eyes of white america were fixed on by nam and for them to prove their inferiority. >> i was determined not to fail. i thought that if we performed well enough, we would be recognized on the same level as the white marines. >> reporter: bynum would go on to serve in the pacific in the 51 is the defense batallion. mum forward point marines distinguished themselves on balance fields all over the world for years to come. bynum became a successful businessman in philadelphia. he owes that success to those two months at montgomery forward point. >> i think the marine corps gave me the push, the courage to say i'm just as good as any other man. >> in the summer of 2012, bynum and other montgomery forward pointers were awarded the congressional gold medal for their service and their sacrifice. his commander in chief, the nation's first african-american president. >> it was a joyful feeling. it was -- it was -- it was awesome. >> but benjamin bynum's greatest thrill may have come on the day before this vet dance day. he joined gathers of

role on these race discussions as a calming voice to african-americans and as an interpreter to white america. having basically saying, he has one foot in both worlds. half black, half white. he is in a unique position to do that. i think he saw that that is -- i don't know if the country is mature enough to have race conversations right now. i don't know if we are, but i think on the specific context -- >> you don't know if the country is mature enough? are not.litics our political system, because we turn it so quickly -- look at the media coverage. oh my god -- >> ferguson. >> it become so easily -- >> we do so much to engage it. at is not the politics, but it is -- >> i think we need to do more. you can't say race has not had some impact on the president. i think that is part of the conversation we have had. >> what do you think she will do? --i think about this as a she sacrificed her career for his career. no. she had a successful career. i'm not going to try to get into that. he is very sensitive to her needs. he is well aware that she sacrificed a lot. i know people are going to say, i

i am not saying black america versus white america or anyone else, and i am saying we are america ed too. rose is saying we are america too. now you say it, we are america too. it's feels good. we are america too. our jewish friends and atheist friends say we are america too with our ancestors and elders said we are america too. king did and every time each and every one of them did america was made better. this is one of the things barack obama taught me in his constitutional law class. every major tenet of our democracy tell me if i'm wrong, every major turn of our democracy of the legal system, our constitution, the right to a fair trial, the right to vote, right to free speech, labor rights, philip randolph, agencies like the e d s e came out of the african-american struggle. we did so much, created so much, now we are at -- gave it our way. you know what that is light? you can help me with this too. you court somebody for weeks to be a friend and send flowers, remember what that was like? team knows what i'm talking about. you do that and the big day comes and take it to the dan

. >> and amy, you are sitting there, but before oprah, bill cosby did more to bridge black and white americaway that seemed to be inclusive and not exclusive. >> i'm a child of the '80s. >> and the "cosby show" and my kids watched "little bill." i grew up with "fat albert." and "the cosby show." >> and thele allegations coming out of the university of virginia and the fraternity system there, and it is almost like everyday there is another element here, and female on the panel here, where you feel as if all of these institutions that we are supposed to protect women, and the people that we saw as icons that were out there as, you know, the people we looked up to, it is rt sort of crumbling away, and so i think that it is a broader statement to culturally on why people feel so disconnected and so frustrated with what we want to call the establishment, because it is not doing what it was supposed to do. >> and the expression "say it ain't so, joe" came from shoeless joe jackson, and the part of the media not wanting to cover it, joe, is because people don't want to believe it. >> well, he is a

and in those early days every integration, the eyes of white america were fixed on them, waiting for the men to prove their inch fear or at this. >> i was determined not to fail. i thought that if we perform well enough, we would be recognized on the same level as the white marines. >> bynum would go to serve in the pacific in the 51st defense battle john. to 2012, bynum and friends con grated with gold medal for service and sacrifice. bruce god or met one him, as you can see. he works out three times a week. he's 91 years old now, successful businessman, as well. >>> breaking news, fatal crash in northeast philadelphia, looking live now at the scene of cottman avenue, right outside northeast high school. bob kelly trading-in or selling your car, truck or suv? webuyanycar.com takes the hassle out of selling in just 3 easy steps. one, get your free online valuation. two, drive to your local car buying center. and three, walk out with your check in as little as 30 minutes. buying used cars is all we do... all makes and models... no dealership pressure. we'll even settle your loan or le

for white america.enerations of american, bill cosby was the first black man they saw with a tv series of his own "i spy" whichly debuted and then he goes to to go to do fatale better which is when i saw a cartoon of black kids and they were fun and all these different archtypes and then he does the cosby show and completely mainstreamed the notion of black american family. it wasn't good times. >> successful black americans. >> and bill cosby, when the idea was pitched by carsey and warner they were going to make him a blue collar cosby and it was camille cosby who pushed them an upper middle-class family that could be like any other part of americana. that changed this country and made it possible for people to conceive of barack obama. that is all true and for this to also be there in that narrative with a different world and the cosby show and what that meant to us as people to me as a black girl growing up, it's devastating. >> so much of the relationship of cliff and claire huxtable. you have a ve