leagues that supported hundreds of ballplayers and businesses when jackie robinson came into the white majors, african-americans went to see white baseball. within a matter of half a dozen years, the negro leagues were finished because most african-american fans wanted to see their ballplayers playing in the white majors. there's all kind of ironies attached to that because there were relatively few black players in the white majors for many years. the team sort of had a quota, maybe two. they didn't have one at a time. they had two. if you were really getting with the program you might have three or four, not more than that because then you would be known as a black team. you guys no a bit of jackie robinson story. you know he came up with the brooklyn dodgers. they automatically became african-americans favorite team in america. it didn't matter where they lived, what league they rooted for, they automatically rooted for the brooklyn dodgers. same thing happened here. with integration maybe these folks wouldn't be doing so well. bitterness and hay treatred bec dangerously close. the largest

are all kinds of ironies attached to that because there were relatively few black players in the white majors for many years. teams had a quota, you know, maybe two. they didn't have one at a time, generally two. if you really were, you know, getting with the program, you might have three. or four. but not more than that. then you'd be known as a black team. but african-americans, i mean, anybody -- you guys know a little bit of the jackie robinson story. you know he came up with the brooklyn dodgers. the brooklyn dodgers automatically became african-americans' favorite team in america. it didn't matter where they lived, who they rooted for, what league they rooted for, they automatically rooted for the brooklyn dodgers. sang thing is happening here with integration, folks may not be doing as well. and here's the other force, right? bitterness and hatred becomes dangerously close, perilously close to advocating violence expressed in the various black nationalist groups springing up across the nation, the largest and best known being elijah muhammad's muslim movement which included malcolm x w

white kept his own council. one of his first opinions, in fact, was a dissent from a decision invalidated criminal punishment for habitual use of drugs, which the majority of the court thought penalized a status, not an act. in violation of the due process clause of the united states constitution. the case was called robinson versus california. white wrote that the majority in the case was writing into the constitution its own abstract notions of how to best handle the narcotics problem, display placing the expert understanding of either the states or the constitution. the early dissent was an overture to his first famous opinion, another dissent, in a case now known to every american with access to a television set, miranda versus arizona. white viewed the majority opinion as inconsistent with text, precedent, and sound policy. his opinion closed on a raw note. widely quoted at the time. in some unknown number of cases, the court's rule will return a killer, rapist, or other criminal to the streets and to the environment which produced him, to repeat his crime wherever it pleases him. as a consequence, there will not be a gain but a loss in human digni

>> the year '42 where they talked about the white majority would be a minority. ere was a cover story. white of the end of america. there shall be no racial majority in the country. i said wait may not. it's not known for sure that this is beneficial because i don't know a country in this day and age whether there is no ethnic majority that is not in danger of coming apart. my question is why can't everybody else celebrate this and say it's wonderful and i can't even write about it without being blacklisted. >> sean: they say the end of white america, somehow you are saying that's a negative. meaning that would be an attack against minorities. what specifically though -- go ahead. >> well, all right, let me turn it around. i asked somebody on radio, why is this going to be a better country than the country i grew up in? when people like me are now a minority in a country where the majority rules? i don't know why they say this is going to be better when there is going to be a smaller percentage of white folks. they are the ones -- >> sean: i don't mean to interrup

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there's no major white roles in it at all. is that true? >> woodward was a bombadeer navigator. he rushed out of pilot's training, but he is proud of being an airmen. and he said, he knows how the airman should be remembered. >> christians will have to suffer for their faith. fighting the feds? over their frait why catholics in the bay area and the country are mandates. >> so we'll review that as a temperature yule grueling e feblgt. >> and more finger pointing and a big fight announced tonight on the last night's super bowl halftime show. >> have a good remembering. our first rain drops with our small form if he continues to move in. sane is not the only thing, a ring advisory for the wedman. >> for >> for tomorrow's rekrut, de tails on this story and what do you think. is >>> church and state will collide when the obama administration begins forcing a mandate ordering church-affiliated to provide free contraception. the policy is already providing political and political areas. george? >> well, i expect the catholic lobby to put pressure on congress to try and overturn the oba

>> atheast, white catholic is where senator mccain got his first majority. and he also got a majority with white mainline. as far as religion goes, 74%. when you look at this for 2008, if mit rom me is the nominee, or what have you seen so far in the primaries? >> this coalition has been stable. if we go back to 2004, 2006, look at 2010 midterms, these coalitions have been fairly stable. what we have is one way of thinking about obama's coalition is fairly diverse. he has the unaffiliated, people not affiliated with the religion institutions formally. he has nonchristian religions and then a block of ethnic christians. and on the other side, mccain has one group anchoring the republican coalition, and then we have the two swing groups in the middle. white catholics and white mainline prot stants. what is interesting, white catholics have been a democratic voting bloc but they have now moved over time to being a swing contingency. and now they have also moved into being kind of a swing contingency and has leaned republican in the last few elections. >> one mo

/minority state but there's been an effort to surpress the minority vote so white republicans main the majoritymocrats are disinfranchised, this is happening across the south. the south is getting increasingly diverse but the districts are being drawn in a way that white republicans are holding on and strengthening their majorities in there were states. it's creating a system where a number of minority lawmakers told me, that there are echos of segregation here. they believe the south is resegregating and that is what is disturbing this cycle. >> thank you for joining us from the sixth floor and sharing your wonderful reporting wisdom. arie's book, hurting donkeys is out in paper back. purchase a copy. new york niknicks guard jermey n wowed last night. we will have more next on "now." >>> coming up next on "andrea mitchell reports," iran's nuclear advances for real or for show? we will have a reality check from iran and talk to a top nuclear expert here and we will talk about terror attacks around the world, is iran responsible and what will israel do. my employees are like family. and, i want

and i think the white house is historical, we want old things in it. we love the very major collection of american furniture that the white house owns. furniture both that either belonged to other presidents or it represents the very best of american furniture makers. the seymores, duncan fife, bellter, all of those names, early furniture makers. but, of course, the white house goes on. and history continues to be made here. and so i always want the white house to reflect more modern presidents and more modern times. and i think that's one of the things the acquisition of the jacob lawrence does for the white house. >> so your best friend is here, and they say to you, take me to your absolute favorite things in the white house, where do you take them? >> well, many things, the mary cassad, i love this painting. that was actually the subject, this painting and this site of our very first christmas card an artist did for us. the red room is so elegant. last night, we had a dinner party in the red room for baseball players. every year we have one dinner party, where the preside

chuck todd is nbc's political director and chief white house correspondent and holds innumerable other titles. and major garrett is white house correspondent for national review. you poor man. >> national journal. >> you have a couple of titles. >> national journal. not national review. >> mitt romney's had a problem delivering a large message for what he'd do the next five years or four years. but he also seems to have a problem with the simplest thing of talking to people. he talked about the trees being the right height and everyone thought he was chauncey gardner from "being there." let's watch him. then he did it again today. his big economic speech at ford field in detroit. mitt romney spoke to an audience. well, we've got -- 1200 people. in a football stadium that holds 65,000 people. not the ideal message of a thunderous overflowing crowd you'd want to see heading into a critical primary. would you? and incredibly, he brought up the michigan trees again. and his family's multiple cars. let's watch. >> just feels good being back in michigan. you know, the trees are the right height. the streets a

according to a study by the los angeles times a majority of oscar workers are white in majority are male. >>mark: mother nature may have been kind to us this winter. those who suffer from tree pollen are already reporting symptoms. most spring allergies do not usually start until late march. recent studies have shown that warmer temperatures can prolong the ragweed season >>darya: the commute has been very light all around the bay. the bay bridge is open now. >>mark: they give for joining us on this monday february 25th. the big story, the west on upper deck of the bay bridge is we opened it 34 hours ahead of schedule. video on the left, a chp escort for drivers passing over the bridge for the first time last night. your drive in the bay bridge this morning, he should be aware of the change. >>darya: drivers seem to be having no trouble. yoli aceves is live with more. >>yoli: they seem to drive along smoothly. the other thing i am going to show you, it helps that they restrike to from the metering lights. it definitely directed. are it looks like drivers are managing this new detour quit

constitution, we don't have something akin to the apartheid south african state where the white population rules the majority via policies that only benefit the white minority. things are a lot more nuanced in syria. the minorities, whether alongside the allawis who have developed an interest in the status quo, if not the regime. these are not regime-lovers, these are people who are very cognizant of the fact that they might fare better under a minority regime than a majority regime. whether this perception is true or false is another matter. then after that the question of sunni urban merchants and other social groups that are supportive of the regime because they have benefitted from the regime. you get a picture that is a bit more balanced. at the same time the hetero gl jenitity of the society creates problems, as we have seen in the case of syria. not so much inside sirria because under bullets and bombs, the opposition for the most part has been able to focus on the prize, focus on the main issues. whereas the opposition outside syria has actually been very divisive and is actually in my view, going to

but ron dellums, i am the first african-american elected to congress from a majority white district. some people said walsh of the brother be in the black caucus? he represents the majority white folks. he represents all these radicals, what about all this? it was interesting because he said -- not lou stokes interviewed me. [laughter] lou stokes became my friend because he actually was like some of my lawyers. we talked a long time and he apparently went back to the cbc members and said the guy is really a cool guy. is not some crazy wild-eyed crazy guy, you know. and intelligent person,, blah, blah, blah. that calmed everybody down so i am now the radical guide but remember, berkeley oakland in the 60s i've maintained was perhaps different from any other place in the entire country. in some places as was the civil rights movement and in some places there was the peace movement but in berkeley oakland, every movement of the 60s emerged almost simultaneously and in close proximity, so we all had to hear each other's pain and sense each other's rage, understand each other's analysis, e

i love the energy of holiday, but when some people started to notice this pga was majority white male, which is the highest privilege you can have in a society that constructed like our own. there were a lot of people who are the 99%, to look at these issues, issues that are most prevalent to time, issues that directly affect them every single day, that they are not they are at the part because they feel alienated or they feel their voices won't be heard, or the experience racism that some point. so, on october 1st, as tensions surrounding this feeling of alienation built, one woman stood at the general assembly and propose to the people of color working group. asking that anyone interested meet me at the red state now. though she had discussed the idea with many of her white allies and people of color, this earliest number of puc has nevertheless had to fend off to white men in order to get her proposal on the agenda and the first race. occupy while stupas and the diverse state they profess to be. i didn't expect it to be a movement. i didn't expect it to be she said. the movement wa

the majority of that decline has been borne by non-white majority groups. we have seen declines in exposure to arts education among those groups. host: let me show the viewers the numbers. that number in 2008, 49.5%. guest: the arts education is a key indicator of a variety of -- we have done studies. art participation -- people who engage in art participation are more likely to volunteer in their communities and take part in social events then non-arts participants. it tells us about the link between arts learning. that may extend to civic activity later in lfe. ife. host: the percentage of those who received arts -education- 57.9% for whites, and the number drops for african americans and hispanics to below 30%. let's go to migke. caller: thtankank god for c-span. i have been a working artist all my life, spending 14 years -- are you there? host: we are listening. caller: i worked primary with canvas and brush. i work with paint and canvas. it is national endowment for arts in this country is a joke. if i was registered in paris i wouldn't access to camer

but i am the first african-american elected to congress and in majority white district to go back. ple said, should the brother be in the black office to make your presence majority of white folks. okay. let me represent all these radicals. people, people, you know, what about it. they said, these folks were sent to interview me. he's supposed to be my friend because the exit was sort of my lawyer. came and we talked a long time. he apparently went back to the cbc members and said, the guy is really a cool guy, so it is now so crazy twilight crazy guy. you know, an intelligent, personable. that calmed everybody down. i no -- i and the radical guy. remember, berkeley and oakland in the 60's, i maintain was different from any other place in the entire country. in some places it was the civil-rights movement and in some places it was a peace movement, but in berkeley every movement of the 60's emerged, also of st. -- simultaneously and in close proximity, so we all have to hear each other's pain, since each of his rage, others stand each other's analysis done embrace each of his politi

now the white house is proposing major cuts making it harder for us to know if a tsunami is on the way. len ramirez on the budget cuts that could impact safety along our coastline. >> reporter: that's right. here in santa cruz, at the santa cruz harbor, the harbor itself as well as many individual boat owners are still feeling the effects of last year's tsunami. so they can't understand why the federal might want to cut early warning system that could have prevented loss of life here. >> i lost my favorite boat. >> reporter: damon meyer survived the santa cruz tsunami but lost his 22-foot sailboat which sang to the bottom of the santa cruz harbor. >> i probably took 1,000 pounds of mud out of that boat including a live fish. >> reporter: this is how it sank. the tsunami rolled into the santa cruz harbor with wave after wave in all 13 boats sunk and the harbor suffered $22 million in damage. santa cruz got off lucky. >> this could have been lives lost if we didn't have the necessary warnings to prepare. >> reporter: the harbor master is talking about noaa's tsunami warning system which

most early on in studying t white southerners did not own slaves. the majority did not, yet they strongly supported the confederacy, and researching my own past, i found that my direct descendants, none of them owned slaves. yet all of them, who were of military age and actually younger than recognized military age, served in the confederate military. i also collect civil war documents, and i've read literally thousands of soldiers' letters. and never once have i read a northern soldier letter that wrote back home and said "i'm fighting to free the slaves." no, they always wrote, or usually wrote back and said "i'm fighting to preserve the union." i've read hundreds and hundreds of southern soldier letters and never once have i read a letter that said "we're fighting for the south to defend the institution of slavery." what they usually said was "we're fighting to protect our homes. we're fighting to protect our families." so, what i thought would be a magazine article has turned out to be a book. and it became a book for two basic reasons. one reason is, i was

they are the non-violent majority, black and white, who are for change without violence. these are the people whose voice i want to be. >> as candidates campaign for president this year, we look back at 14 men who ran for the office and lost. go to our website c-span.org/thecontenders to see video of the contenders who had a lasting impact. >> can you remember in the depression, those of you who are my age, when times are really hard and we left the doors unlocked? now we have the most violent crime-ridden society in the industrialized world. now, i can't live with that. can you live with that? >> c-span.org/thecontenders. >>> this is c-span 3 be politics and public affairs programming throughout the week, and every weekend 48 hours of people and events telling the american story on american history tv. get our schedules and see past programs at our websites. and you can join in the conversation on social med sites. > discusses u.s. ballistic missile defense plans and potential threats from iran. speakers include former police department officials, physicists and m.i.t. p

. >> it has been disconcerting at times for long-time reporters on the white house beat that there have been some major or semi-major announcements on presidential scheduling and other matters, steve, that have come from most often the white house communications director dan fifer on twitter. reporters are used to getting it more directly, but the white house feels it should chair this kind of information with everyone at the same time. i think the argument can be made that not everybody in this country is on twitter, even though during the third quarter, the last three minutes, i should say, of the super bowl, we're told that there were 10,000 tweets per second. but i think that there are a lot of people in this country that don't even know what twitter is. we know, of course, what it is here inside the beltway. i had the occasion recently to interview don bayer, who was the communications director for president bill clinton and talked to him about social media, and he said it is a tool, but it's only one tool. and i think that there is a lesson in that simple statement for the white house and for all

majority. black and white, who are for change. without violence. these are the people whose voice i want to be. >> as candidates campaign for president this year, we look back at 14 men who ran for the office and lost. go to our website, c-span.org/the contenders to see video of the contenders who had a lasting impact on american politics. >> can you remember those in the depression when times were really hard and we left the doors unlocked? >> yes! >> now we have the most violent crime-ridden society in the industrialized world. now, i can't live with that. >> c-span.org/the contenders. >> more than 100 million adults suffer from chronic pain. the senate health committee recently invited medical doctors to capitol hill to provide recommendations for treatments. iowa senator tom harkin chaired this one hour and 35 minute hearing. >> the senate committee on health education will come to order. chronic pain is a significant public health challenge that has yet to receive adequate attention. given the tremendous impact it has on people all across our

they are the nonviolent majority, black and white, who are for change without violence. these are the people whose voice i want to be. >> as candidates campaigned for president this year, we looked back at 14 men who ran for office and lost. go to our website c-span.org/contenders to see video of the contenders who had a lasting impact on politics. >> can you remember in the depression, those my age, when times were really hard and we left the doors unlocked? now we have the most violent, crime ridden society in the industrialized world. i can't live with that? can you live with that? >> c-span.org/thecontenders. >>> portion now from today's washington journal, representative hanson clark, a michigan democrat on tonight's gop primary and also democrat's prospects in 2012 election. >> we want to welcome congressman clark from michigan, michigan arizona primaries today. let's focus on your state of michigan. >> sure. >> mitt romney, massachusetts governor was on sean hannity on the fox network asked about the auto bailout issue and what it means for the state. here is what

i love the energy of all of it, but with some people started to notice was that the ga was majority whiteand male which is the highest privilege and have a society like our own. there were a lot of people who are the 99% who look at these issues, issues that are most prevalent to them, issues that directly affect them every single day but they are not there at zucotti park as they feel alienated or they feel their voices won't be heard hurt or they experience racism at some point. so on october 1, as tension surrounding this feeling of alienation built one woman said at the general assembly and proposed the people of color working group. asking that anyone interested meet me now. though she discussed the idea with many of her white allies and people of color that early earliest member had never the last try to send up to what men in order to get her proposal on the agenda the first place. all you by wall street she said was not the diversity of earth is to be. i didn't expect it to be a movement. i didn't expect that she said. the movement was created in a racially hostile society for ind

in california is playing a high stakes game of poker with major banks and the white house. at stake machine homes facing foreclosure. why state leaders rejecting a deal that would put cash in the pockets of struggling homeowners. >> reporter: the president had hoped that the settlement with leading banks on foreclosure abuse who have been wrapped up in time for his recent call for a homeowner's bill of rights. >> no more hidden fees or conflicts of interest, no more getting the run around when you call about your loan. >> reporter: then the state attorney general of california and others balked at the 25 million-dollar nationwide settlement calling it not enough. >> nobody knows all the terms of the settlement but we and our allies have been supportive of the attorney general. >> reporter: reports of the deal have leaked out. among them, the call for a 20,000 mark down on the principle for homes under water and a $2,000 payment to the hundreds of thousands of people who actually lost their homes to foreclosure. critics say it needs to do more. >> not 20,000. our house is wo

they are the nonviolent majority, black and white, who are for change without violence. these are the people whose voice i want to be. >> as candidates campaign for president this year, we look back at 14 men who ran for the office and lost. go to our web site c-span.org/the contenders to see video of the contenders who had a lasting impact on american politics. >> can you remember in the depression those of you who are my age when times were really hard and we left the doors unlocked? now we have the most violent crime-ridden society in the industri industrialized world. now, i can can't live with that. can you live with that? >> c-span.org/the contenders. >>> when president lincoln was shot on april 14, 1865, he was wearing a black great coat made especially for his second inaugural by brooks brothers. the coat is cared for by the national park service and periodically displayed in the ford's theater museum lobby. "american history tv" documented the process of removing a replica coat and placing the original coat on display for the public and learned how the artifact

they are the nonviolent majority, black and white, who are for change without violence. these are the people whose voice i want to be. >> as candidates campaign for presidents this year, we look back at 14 men who ran for the office and lost. go to our website, crmbing span.org/thecontenders who see video of the contenders who had a lasting impact on american politics. >> can you remember in the depression, those of you who are my age, when times were really hard and we left the doors unlocked? now we have the most violent, crime-ridden society in the industrialized world. i can't live with that. can you live with that? >> c-span.org/thecontenders. >> the british house of commons returned this past week after a short recess and prime minister david cameron fielded questions on a proposed health bill during weekly question time. members also paid tribute to london's sunday times war correspondent marie colvin who was killed last week when forces bombed the media center. mr. clyde beck. >> number one, mr. speaker,. >> tran one. i'm sure the whole house will wish to join me

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reports say california leaders are closer to taking a deal reached between major banks and the white house on foreclosure abuses. it would force the five largest united states mortgage lenders to reduce loans for one million households. a few weeks ago the state attorney general called the proposal not enough. >> nobody really knows all the terms of the settlement but we and our allies have been supportive of the attorney general. >> reports say that part of the deal would give people whose homes are under water a 20,000-dollar mark down on principal of their loan. more than 40 united states states have already signed off on the plan. >> it's getting more dangerous in syria the united states closed their embassy. how the government playing hard ball. >> reporter: rebels are preparing for the fight they know is coming. they call themselves the syrian liberation army though they have no military training. they claim to be in control of large parts of this city. there is been a hot bed of unrest since it started nearly a year ago. >>> is the goal of your group, to protect the people in

and if you guys will stick around, i want to bring in major garrett, national journal's white house correspondent. so i guess the big question is what is this going to mean for the race overall? rick santorum says that it's him, not mitt romney, who can beat barack obama. let me play a clip from this morning on "morning joe." >> mitt romney is not the best choice to go up against barack obama in the central issue of the day which is government and taking away our freedoms, our economic freedoms and as we saw in the case of obama care, our religious freedoms, our first amendment rights. >> so what happened in the last 12 hours besides obviously shaking up the republican race, major, what's the conversation in the white house this morning? >> well, look, the conversation in the white house is always this campaign goes on on the republican side, look at them devour each other, picnic on each other. the white house is general ly content with this sentiment that they are dissatisfied with romney, the democratic national committee and obama for america have been running against mitt romney for the bett

to look at the numbers chuck todd, the chief white house correspondent, and political director for nbc news, and major garrett's the white house correspondent, two of the smartest guys in the business right now, smartest people, no, really. really. i'm not always sarcastic. >> i know. i'll take it. >> i want to know if the white house has happy feet over this. >> cautious happy feet but they do. number one, i think we know why the numbers have improved. it's because the economic data has been coming up positive. >> objective reality. >> three straight months. we've seen these blips up and down for the last two years and every time i remember our own pollsters would say let's see if the country will feel like it's getting better on the economy for three straight polls and they couldn't do it for the longest period of time. now you have the combination of you see the jobs reports, the stock market is up, and in a weird way. >> yeah. >> i have this -- i think the european disaster if you will economically what's going on over there is having a weirdly positive effect. you know what? things aren't as bad

chuck todd is nbc's political director and chief white house correspondent and holds a number of other titles. and majorrett is white house correspondent for national review. >> national journal. >> you have a couple of titles. >> national journal. not national review. >> mitt romney's had a problem delivering a large -- but he also seems to have a problem with the simplest thing of talking to people. he talked about the trees being the right height and everyone thought he was chauncey gardner for being there. let's watch him. then he did it again today. his big economic speech at ford field in detroit. he spoke to an audience. well, we've got -- 1200 people. in a football stadium that holds 65,000 people. not the ideal message of a thunderous overflowing crowd you'd want to see heading into a critical primary. and incredibly, he brought up the michigan trees again. and his family's multiple cars. let's watch. >> just feels good being back in michigan. you know, the trees are the right height. the streets are just right. i like the fact that most of the cars i see are detroit-made automobiles. i drive a

white house officials tell us, can you just get greece fixed? jobs might not be the only concern of people in the heart of the united states. they are in the midst of a major snowstorm. a foot of the white stuff is expected to fall but that is nothing compared to europe where the cold is both bitter and deadly. in the past week, 100 people have been killed in the ukraine and 40 in poland. most of the dead are homeless that froze to death. >> southern russia is looking more like the north pole. heavy snowfall blocked the main highways. dozens of cars and lorries are stranded. this ambulance driver says that heat urgently needs to get his patient to intensive care but they are stuck in snow with no idea when they will reach a hospital. there are travel problems and the russian far east where temperatures in places have fallen to -50. the big freeze has placed the problems for anyone needing a ferry. -- the big freeze has caused big problems. the pacific has frozen over here. the ice, more than a meter thick. you need to sit and wait for the icebreakers or find another way across, if you are brave enough. the cold is more than just an inconvenience, this is c