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Discretion on how the law and who the law will work for. and i think that is why this law is so unfair and unjust, is why people around this country are mobilizing. saturday well be in 100 cities with vigils saying that. the mother will be here with me in new york for a vigil. theyre saying wait a minute, you cant have a law if somebody is doing nothing wrong, you can use deadly force and you did not commit a crime, like human life has no value. >> a lot of commentators are getting it wrong on t...

Trayvon is coming towards zimmerman or zimmerman is coming towards trayvon, that appears to be confusion with the jury. >> but the interesting thing about rachel jeantel i thought is she didnt hurt the defense. she was a -- sort of a, you know, an interesting person on the witness stand but not atypical of all walks of life on the witness stand. >> i thought west was somewhat bullying to rachel jeantel and unacceptable. i thought he lord -- >> manners. but thats manners. >> horrible for a lawyer...

Trayvon is coming towards zimmerman or zimmerman is coming towards trayvon, that appears to be confusion with the jury. >> but the interesting thing about rachel jeantel i thought is she didnt hurt the defense. she was a -- sort of a, you know, an interesting person on the witness stand but not atypical of all walks of life on the witness stand. >> i thought west was somewhat bullying to rachel jeantel and unacceptable. i thought he lord -- >> manners. but thats manners. >> horrible for a lawyer...

Carry. i am, though, depressed by the reaction, the ignorance that im hearing from both sides quite frankly from liberal columnists and conservative commentators about the state of race in america and the presumption of guilt for african-american youth. >> we have a column about the talk she calls it, which is a conversation every african-american parent has to have with his or her young teenage son. its what joe, what youre talking about. we havent had a candid conversation about it. i do think...

>> is the president going to take any action? >> the president has called for echoing the statements of trayvon martins family, for calm reflection in the wake of the verdict. >> so no? >> you can editorialize all you want, i have no doubt you will. but thats a ridiculous statement. >> joining me now is joy reid and eric bowler, a senior fellow on media matters for america. i have to talk about this. the black on black crime thing, theres something about the invocation, the phrase that just real...

And i didnt notice any change but, in fact, they could be high on marijuana for the next days. binge drink something a similar problem. people who binge drinks are not alcoholics. i like to go out and party. im not an alcoholic. >> bill: when you see and particularly in the rap call temperature and pop music world all of these idols that the kids follow, cory monteith is a clean-cut guy i knew him. i said yesterday very nice to his young fans. the guy, you know, he is on heroin which is probably...

Change but, in fact, they could be high on marijuana for the next 30 days. binge drink something a similar problem. people who binge drinks are not alcoholics. i like to go out and party. im not an alcoholic. >> bill: when you see and particularly in the rap call temperature and pop music world all of these idols that the kids follow, cory monteith is a clean-cut guy i knew him. i said yesterday very nice to his young fans. the guy, you know, he is on heroin which is probably the most destructiv...

>> bill: do you have a stat on that, bernie? do you have a stat on that? well have it tomorrow. and here it is. according to the fbi between the years 1976 and 2005, the latest stats available, 91% of homicides on black americans were committed by other blacks. 91%. also, 14% of homicides on white americans were committed by blacks. twice as many as the other way around. so the truth is that black men are not being hunted down by whites. as some hysterical commentators charged after the zimmerma...

That she probably got some blowback about was her perceived insensitivity towards the family of trayvon martin. and i saw some commentators observe she gave too much sympathy to zimmerman and not trayvon martin or viewed them as equally tragic figures. i think in many ways shes trying to back pedal from the perceived position. i think its just her responding to questions. and this seems to me to be her way of sort of remedying that perception. >> does it speak to the wisdom of jurors speaking ou...

Im not just hearing this from richard, im hearing it from other commentators in print and on television and i wonder if any of these people who are by and large nice people understand the damage that theyre doing to their friends and colleagues by espousing this kind of argument. >> and, russ moore, you were talking earlier when we were talking off camera about how there does seem to be a completely different lens on this verdict from many people in the white community and many people in the afr...