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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 hav...

That sort of thicng. the thing to keep in mind, president obama said himself that we couldnt ignore race, it should be explicitly talking about. i dont think that lets mitt romney or the republican party off the hook at all. i spent a considerable portion of the episode -- im 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 presidents physical code switching, shaking hands, have you seen this, with the u.s. dream team...

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 thats 95% of color across the country. have served about 6,...

When we go to work. for many of our young adults they havent had those role models in the existing networks to help them learn what is that attitude and behavior look like? how does it manifest itself? were proving they can learn that quite quickly and be very successful in those environments. >> one thing ive found in talking to those sort of young people is that code switching sometimes is a philosophical problem. they see it as akin to selling out. theyre asking me how can i do it without sel...