country. unless you think this whole poverty thing is a joke, the conservative heritage foundation this year questioned the whole idea of poverty. the overwhelming majority of the poor have air-conditioning, cable tv and host of other amenities. they are well housed, have an adequate and reasonably steady supply of food. reasonably steady? and have met their other basic needs including medical care. the latest republican argument is the poor have no one to blame but themselves. they re not really poor, they re failures. don t blame wall street. don t blame the big banks. if you don t have a job and you re not rich, blame yourself. it is not a person s fault because they succeeded. it is a person s fault if they failed. herman cain is now leading in the polls for the republican nomination. just barely. but herman cain is the front-runner. and herman cain is winning in part because the republican base loves the idea of getting tough on the poor. herman cain, i got to ask
stop and frisk, don t stop the crime. stop and frisk is the crime. stop and frisk is the crime. a few dozen protesters around t precinct. some even using the occupy protest traditional people s mic to tell their stories of police harassment. and after protesters blocked the precinct, arrests began, including my colleague, cornel west. what happened not only flies in those who claim that occupy wall street has no policy goals, it challenges another criticism, that it is largely a monochromatic movement. it is not very diverse and not interested in questions of racial inequality. you just don t go to harlem and march through the projects protesting stop and frisk if you re not interested in dealing with racial bias on some level. but questions still remain about how a broad-based global movement like this has and will
white as opposed to when you are black and brown in this country. tim, it is always a pleasure to talk to you. i so appreciate your work as an anti-racist advocator and educator, and appreciate you being here tonight. the next new thing is tonight. i don t want to use words like armageddon or apocalypse, but we ve still got a couple of hours to go, so don t get cocky. that s next. i needed more customers,
you, you said, quote, don t blame two weeks ago, you said, don t blame wall street, don t blame the big banks. if you don t have a job, if you re not rich, blame yourself. that s two weeks ago. movement has grown. do you still say that? yes, i do still say that. and here s why. wall street didn t put in failed economic policies. wall street didn t spend $1 trillion that didn t do any good. wall streetson going around the country trying to sell another $450 billion. they ought to be in front of the white house taking out their frustrations. i do stand by that. woo-hoo! blame yourselves poor people of america. do it for herman cain, do it for the nice middle class people applauding in the audience. well, this is the face of poverty in america. this is who s poor in our country. children. particularly latino and black children. last year, a year after the great recession, one in five kids in america lived in
at the end of the day, that dysfunction begins to be this cancer that spreads through the entire democracy. chris hayes, from msnbc, from my favorite magazine the nation. make sure that you watch up with chris hayes this weekend and thanks for joining us tonight. i really appreciate it. when you talk about occupy wall street with your friends, do you have the same take on the protesters goals? bet you don t. we re going to dig into that a little later. does that in one daily dose. citracal slow release. continuously releases calcium plus d for the efficient absorption my body needs. citracal. for the efficient absorption my body needs. we re centurylink. a new kind of broadband company committed to improving lives with honest, personal service, 5-year price lock guarantees and consistently fast speeds.