you can't just say, oh, the right is racist and then go after unionized teachers that primarily teach black and brown and poor students in this country. you can't just say, oh, the right is racist and then fail to sort of set up a real policy initiative. and by the way, progressives on the left have to have a real clarity about the fact that we are in a two-party system. a two-party system that often doesn't offer all the options we want and this kind of hand wringing anxiety that it's not perfect on the left, now, that's a problem of progressive voters. it's a problem of the party, itself, when it does not offer a platform, substance that in fact challenges the racism on the right. >> melissa harris-perry, princeton professor and msnbc contributor and person from whom i most regularly learn the most by talking to on tv. thank you so much for your insight. appreciate it. last night delaware republican christine o'donnell's comments on the separation of