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Biblical programming its a calling. >> any compunctions at all about profiting off faith? >> with affluence which we have gained affluence in this nation comes influence and how you can influence goodness and charity and influence what the world does is important. one of the huge things we have been doing is dealing with the persecution of christians in syria and iraq. isis didnt manage to kill all the christians. 500,000 of them escaped into the winter about to freeze to death. roma and i have ...

♪ ♪ these are students at a suburban high school in los angeles. they reflect the sudden sensuality and affluence which dominate life in southern california. the latest fad is the sunset strip. during the past year, it has become a playground for southern californias mobile, restless teenagers. it is the place to go. >> people would meet at clubs on the sunset strip and they would go to the trip or they would go to the whisky go go. it was a real happening. >> we changed from a culture of ...

Ki only speak for myself. my folks never talked about money expect to say dont spend it. my townhouse does not have air conditioning. try that in august. we had a preowned car, very preowned. fingerprints were everywhere. we ate canned tuna. my father never ordered an appetizer in his entire life. never. so when folks from that kind of a background acquire money, they sometimes lose perspective, hoarding it or spending it like crazy. theyre confused about how to process affluence. thats the expl...

Collegiate, locate ned the middle of park slope, one of the whitest, morest most affluence neighborhoods in brooklyn. >> we were in park slope but not there. >> its the old john j. school building. in 1963 it was at the center of the fight to desegregate new york city schools. race riots erupted on the campus in 1964. >> today, teachers at the school say the stigma remains. >> racial stereo typing from the neighborhood. >> a lot of -- animals and dont bring book bags and if they brought book bag...

Succeeded, and we gave up. that brings us to some original reporting our own chris hayes is doing on this topic in the latest installment in his all-in america series. this weeks theme is behind the color line. as part of his coverage, chris went to a school in brooklyn thats trying to reverse the segregation trend. >> i meet people, and they say, why are you at a principal at parksville collegiate in thats a great school. if you would have asked them a year ago, they would have said, i heard th...

His only opponent is a republican but they will do it holding their noses. the if there is a liberal alternative on the ballot they will be tempted to switch allegiance. this is startling and caught the national medias attention. cuomo as a problem with liberals. thats what the post declared. its more startling when you learn hes the son of mario cuomo. liberals begged and pleaded with him to run for president. an electrifying speech at the democratic convention in 1984 that made it synonymous w...

We knew what obamas world view meant for us long before he set foot in the oval office. america must lower its super power profile, he told us. settle for soft decide proceipl apologize for its colonial errors. how he felt about his fellow countrymen, the racist servants of his devoted friend the reverend wright, should have been the tipoff. so today in the cold frost of march, were forced to examine the every day results of the obama doctrine. how the follies of weak steward ship trickle down t...

Or represent to her a better way of life for her, it was a better way of life for her family. he sent money back to the family. helped her nieces and nephews go to school. >> michelle and jonathan married in the philippines, moved to the united states, had three children and lived a life of comfort and affluence. >> i know there was an age difference, he worked long hours, but other than that, basically, you know, you know, they are married with kids. >> but after 15 years of marriage, the walls...

And when you tonight have accountability, you just perpetuate the action. i dont think it should have been a mutually-exclusive type of situation where he got just rehab or jail, i think there could have been a combination of both. he can think about what he did and then address the substance abuse treatment problem that he has. i just dont think -- gregg: the judge here, and i think we have a picture of the state district judge, jean boyd. now, listen, she obviously entertained the argument by ...

Argument? >> right. its this uncomfortable fact. i think this is part of the same conversation. and this is not about blaming groups that are disadvantaged. the reason they are disadvantaged is slavery and discrimination. but there are still some people rising from very low -- you know, modest backgrounds to positions of affluence. >> and misery. >> and some groups more than others. there is a striking study in los angeles that, you know, children of vietnamese, chinese and korean parents, you t...