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"my beloved friend martin luther king had a dream and jackie robinson has a debt. i have a debt to young people. >> you have to look at the full context of the mans life and jackie robinson as a civil rights icon was someone who, yes, sometimes was angry about a lack of progress in america but at other times as i show in my book "42 faith" felt like a lot of progress had been made in this country and we shouldnt forget that so maybe at a time of great division people reach out to leaders like ja...

There is only four. so there you have it. right? >> dana: im going to give ben the last word if thats all right. ben, how do we all move past this? if you had your prescription pad and you could write a prescription for america for moving past this, how you do we do it? you have talked about how the culture wars are driving us apart and i did think of you this weekend, i knew that you were observing the jewish holiday and i thought my gosh, when he gets back online hes going to see this cascade ...

Jesse owens did it. martin luther king did it. when they did it, it was unpopular. protesting a lot of times is unpopular but our first amendment right alous us to be unpopular so -- >> dana: here is something i wonder about, ben. the original protest from kaepernick had basically, in my opinion, i dont watch a ton of sports had been dying out, we werent hearing about it, he wasnt picked up by a team and the president made it an explosive thing and the left tends to overreact to president trump ...

Anthem. this is not a left or right issue, wadonald trump said this weekend is he race baited. he called colin kaepernicksing mother an s.o.b. and engaging in this type of destructive, racial baiting in front of a group in alabama which is his base he framed an argument that set up a situation where he would upset a group of americans -- african-americans, right? that got us to this place where people -- white people and black people -- said -- not left or right, white african-american -- white ...