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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20121006:14:52:00

to scratch it together. because you re part of the american family. what s happening down in new orleans? where s your dollar? where s your stafford act money? makes no sense. tells me the bullet hasn t been taken out. so there s the president doing what so many of us, as african-americans do, he s code switching. he s speaking to an mask american audience, he has the fire. just two days before the debate this dropped and the narrative is somehow the president s an angry black man. is that part of what we saw him pull back on wednesday? i don t think he had to attack mitt romney in order to make a good case for himself during this debate. he had so muches positive that he could talk about and he refused to do it. i i really one of the things that really, the most frustrating moment for me was when he talked about killing ben lad den, he talked about it in a context of a bipartisan kind of

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120825:13:17:00

dude, you know that you are, and you know that s why we elected you. we wanted to see one of us in office. and we re we are at the very we re the base of barack obama, we re his base, and i think you would see george w. bush talk directly to his base sometime in clear tones in way barack does through code switching but doesn t talk districtly to his base. sometimes as a black person that is frustrating. what other american president, when he tells the story of american greatness. they all do here is why america is great. what other american president has made the contributions, the life stories of black americans and black women in particular, the core of how he tells that story? on the night he s elected, he stands there in grant park in chicago and tells the story through the eyes of anna mai cooper. i hear you, okay, maybe he doesn t. for real like who else ever in the history of american politics, and they were just having a talk, made us the

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120825:13:11:00

policy when bill clinton signed the welfare to work act what he did, he made poor mothers have to go to work, reason to care for their children, at the same time the conservatives are claiming motherhood is more important than work. so bill clinton is let off having to do that, so there is a way when we call for president obama to speak specifically on race, we allow mitt romney off of it, we allow paul ryan off. the question, should a president who is going to bet president a diverse nation have to speak about it? and real quick, i guess i am so surprised that you don t see him doing it. you are such a beautiful reader of textual analysis and i feel like he s performing race talk regularly, in ways not just dog whistled, but the sort of code switching that allows him in his body to be doing race at all times. i do say it, i wrote about that in the piece. that was a significant subtext. talk about explicitly, policy,

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120825:13:12:00

that sort of thicng. the thing to keep in mind, president obama said himself that we couldn t ignore race, it should be explicitly talking about. i don t think that lets mitt romney or the republican party off the hook at all. i spent a considerable portion of the episode i m sorry, of the essay, keeping them on the hook. trying to put them on the hook. i want to point to my favorite example of the president s physical code switching, shaking hands, have you seen this, with the u.s. dream team. this is him, how are you, sir, good to see you. that s it right there. talk more about it after the break. [ male announcer ] this is rudy. his morning starts with arthritis pain. and two pills.

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120814:19:37:00

need in a knowledge-based economy. yeah, gerald, i commend you on your program. when you talk about soft skills and communication skills you really get at what i want to talk about. which is the extra skills that you see that your african-american entrants to the program have to deal with. the extra unique things that they have to learn to get ahead in the economy. well, you know, for many of our students we work with a population that s 95% of color across the country. have served about 6,000 young people since we started the program. for many of the young adults we face that haven t had the role models in terms of what professional work looks like, what are the attitudes and behaviors of that environment, indeed, many f of our young adults are the minority within the environments they re going into. that requires at times a certain amount of what we call code switching. going from how i might act and behave in my neighborhood to a different way to act and behave in a professional

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