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Going to get cheap labor if they lost the disenfranchised discriminated against african-american population who had noa9/.e)(q but to work for next to nothing? we know from historical records that the african-americans who left the south over the course of the great migration came from a whole range of socioeconomic backgrounds. but as it got on toward the 1950s, as we were several decades into that migration, the people who by then were leaving tended to be those who were at the higher end of t...

Of the great migration came from a whole range of socioeconomic backgrounds. but as it got on toward the 1950s, as we were several decades into that migration, the people who by then were leaving tended to be those who were at the higher end of the spectrum. tended to be those who had the benefit of education. who had the means to seek out and have a hope of getting new jobs in new states that they were going to move to. an education offered a way out, and a lot of americans who had that, who we...

Contributed to this. theyve overstepped it already, and i think theres a real concern. youre seeing this in the polls. although some people have some concerns about some of the issues, they want jobs. they want this economy focused on. one of the things that informs a lot of the way i look at issues is -- my mothers white and my fathers african-american. and i think that -- i grew up with the perspective kind of looking at things from both sides. both my parents grew up in the segregated south, ...

The hearing is going on. it could take some time. a number of experts are expected to testify. heres the reason why. the 911 call the one where you hear someone screaming in the backgrounds, then you hear the gunshot which ended the life of 17-year-old trayvon martin. what is crucial is that the legal thinking here is whoever is screaming for help is clearly the victim in the case and whoever is not screaming must be the aggressor. is one of the issues still to be determined at trial, who was th...

Of jury selection here. we will know as i understand it between now and perhaps sunday the judges decision on these defense motions. as get to the heart of this trial, what is on your mind. what do you expect down to the jury selection? weve seen this before. who will end up and their backgrounds. >> the jury selection will be a challenging effort on both sides because largely theres a lot of strong feelings on both sides of these issues. lawyers will have to try to wade through those, not so mu...

>> and there are not as many people of color who are in those positions. diversity is a wonderful thing for this country because what it does is it opens up the table of communication. the more people you have around this table, the more ideas youre going to have. theres much more creativity. it benefits our economy. so if you can have people who come from different backgrounds and experiences, gays and straights and christians and jews and blacks and whites and latins and they sit around. and p...

I cant give rhonda back to her family. but i can use every bit of my platform to get the squeaky wheel. >> do you believe the same argument with relation to media coverage applies, say, on the gun issue in chicago, for example? where all the time there are young black teenagers mainly in gangs getting shot dead, getting very little national attention whereas if you see a group of young white people getting killed perhaps they get more attention? i mean, that is i would think an undeniable fact. ...

Coverage applies, say, on the gun issue in chicago, for example? where all the time there are young black teenagers mainly in gangs getting shot dead, getting very little national attention whereas if you see a group of young white people getting killed perhaps they get more attention? i mean, that is i would think an undeniable fact. >> well, its a fact in terms of the numbers. but also i did a little research in anticipation of this conversation. and really what you find is journalists identif...

A bunch of guys from university of montana and hard scrabble backgrounds and one was so poor he sold a cow to buy his first car. they played poker in a bar and put it online and earning a million dollars a day and moved their frat to costa rica. crazy girls and things college kids would do there. the united states government it illegal and they are fugitives now. one turned himself and doing 14 months in prison doing an online gambling site. >> what is legal and illegal? >> it got very fuconfusi...

>> alec station was a collection of people who had backgrounds in everything from analysis to operations. when you think about the cia, theres two different cultures there. one is an analytic culture, people who try to assess things, figure out what is actually happening somewhere and project ahead, and an operational culture that is people who go out and collect intelligence, develop human spies, handle them, run them, if you will. the unique thing about alec station was the fusion of analysis ...