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>> the attorney general continued to make the case saying this is like the brown vs. board of education. and he concluded by saying this. this is not brown versus board of education. this is the opposite of brown. it over ruled one of the maybe worse supreme court cases that was so fundamentally intentioned with our nations ideals. it said we dont leave that up to a majority vote. we get into the thicket and say this is off of the table. justice cavanagh was saying lets leave this up to the peop...

Testing measures. many elite colleges take in more students from the top 1% of the income distribution than from the bottom 60%. it cannot be those millions of students have no talent. its just that we dont have a good enough mechanism to find them. elite chejs should be taken it many more students anyway. endowments have grown, they the class sizes from expanded very slowly. this emphasis on access should animate politicians. the biggest problem with the american education is that is does very ...

The detroit public schools there as segregated as they were. equal is not e quail. >> you were the former superintendent of denver schools. what needs it be o done to fix the inequality? >> we need do deal with the fact we profound inequality. the federal government can play an important role. we need to face facts. it goes along with what you were saying to governor kasich. im not trying to run down the country. today i met with people in south carolina. there were people there whose parents fi...

Protection agency whose former job was working for a big chemical company to fight the environmental protections to cleanup diocson and other pollution. we voted on a judge that cant even bring himself to say that he thinks that brown vs. the board of education is law and that discrimination shouldnt be the law of the land. its just mind-boggling. >> people like senator joe bideb, or i should say former vice president joe biden have said that if he were president, he would find ways to reach acr...

Presidents show of a lifetime. we have seen another show and its been in our life sometime and it was through the eyes of children. when the supreme court was deliberating brown vs. the board of education. they psychological impact of brown children unworthy of a desk beside white counter parts. unworthy americans. they were asked to describe their feelings about each. black and white children thought the black dolls were bad. ugly, unworthy. the white dolls were perfection. the supreme court to...

Thats why ill be vindicated. >> hes done so many great things for civil rights. on this issue, im wondering if this is does he really want to standby what he is saying? should he be the one saying what you said and moving on instead of trying to clarify. some nuance position that most people dont understand. im not quite sure i understand it. >> ill tell you this, i i could get into that, but i will say there was an argument on both sides black and white academic and not. and activists. who stil...

Was clear by the next morning, like hes going to get every registered black voter there is in america which essentially happened. so i think kamala harris is banking on pulling off maybe a similar kind of break with all the affection black voters appear to have with joe biden. it is stunning to me he even made that statement that got him into all this trouble talking about eastlen who died in 1986. these segregationists were at the end of their rope. they had spent 20 years fighting against impl...

You cannot sit up here in 2019 and make an argument that it would have been okay with you to leave little girls like kamala harris at the tender mercies of local law enforcement, local school boards because it was 20, almost 30 years after brown vs. the board of education and schools still were not desegregated. im a ninth generation american, im a first person in my family born with all my rights recognized by this government. had we been waiting interest these local sheriffs to do right by us,...

Responsible and whos not. and for me i think that that second point is very important to mcconnell in particular who in this term in congress has confirmed more than a few judges to the bench who will not affirm the significance of brown vs. board of education. >> which is fascinating. this is an interesting point. most humans watching this would say that brown vs. board of education is settled law that we are not into segregation of our schools. and we have judges being confirmed who will not s...

Dawning. >> reporter: a year after the montgomery bus boycott, little rock became the stage for the next drama of the movement when local naacp leaders hand-picked nine black students and pressured the school board to enroll them at all white central high school. they were challenging the city to comply with the supreme courts 1954 decision in brown vs. board of education where the court ruled that all public schools must be integrated. >> ernest green, age 16, 12th grade. >> when they said, are...