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We cant ask people of color to hold our hands through their shame, that needs to happen wit other white people. >> is this not a leap cold or what? somebody called the lifeguard because these people are off th deep end and drowning intel 50. the world is really upside down when suddenly the voice of reason comes from reverend al sharpton. >> if youre sitting around sipping lattes in the hamptons talking about whats going on i harlem, you may not know the progress that we have made in terms of go...

Same time. you can -- you can look to 1776, at many of the things that -- the promises of 1776 have been expanded far beyond where they were originally intended to be expanded and you can look at 1619 not disregard that simply because there was a misplaced tweet here or there. i think we have to get a lot better at doing what ure talking about. talking about the progress that has been made but also talk about the fact that we have a long way to go. and ask ourselves a question, you know, i was a...

Said he was going to, in large part because black voters came out and voted for him. so i guess the question is, its the balance. and as we always say here, two things can be true at the same time. as youve said, we as a nation, weve made great progress over the past 50 years, at the same time this is no time for us to sit back and congratulate ourselves because theres 50 more years of challenges ahead of us and we have to keep moving forward. >> certainly we should sit back and congratulate our...

Impossible to discuss progress. being cruel to people who are different is no longer acceptable, thats progress. and acknowledging progress isnt saying were done, we dont need more. and being gloomier doesnt make you a better person. in 1958 only 4% of americans approved of interracial marriage now gallup doesnt bother asking. the last time they did in 2013, 87% approved. an overwhelming majority of americans say they want to live in a multiracial neighborhood. that is a change from when i was a...

Year of the tulsa race massacre? higher than the years when the kkk rode unchecked and jim crow went unchallenged. high than the 1960s when the supremes and willy mays couldnt stay in the same hotel as the white people they were working with. there are a lot of americans trying really hard these days to embrace a new spirit of inclusion and progression. and this allergy to ignoring societal advances is self-defeating. because progress and the hope we can achieve it is the product were selling. a...

Harlem, you may not know the progress that we have made in terms of going from not being able to vote, in my mother and fathers generation, to electing a black president in my generation because you were never discriminated against. and i think that a lot of people have taken advantage of our pain rather than trying to ease our pain, whether it comes to race, whether it comes to gender, whether it comes to those in the lgbtq community. and really i think it is also antithetical to keeping moveme...