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Last thing we will ever see politicians do is a real survey to determine if there is a mandate to continue spending on decolonization efforts.

"my brothers keeper" a special on this initiative. the presidents initiative comes two years ago to the week that trayvon martin, black 17-year-old teen was gunned down by george zimmerman. a number of parallels were drawn today between that case and another unarmed black teen jordan davis who was shot and killed for playing his music too loud by a white man. the president addressed both cases today and both boys by name. >> aftermath of the trayvon martin verdict and controversy that it spark...

>> if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than theyve been brought there by no fault of their own, i dont think you have a heart. texans voted on it and i still support it greatly. >> senator santorum -- >> those are boos, by the way, in case you could not tell. some cheers. some cheers and some boos. and lets give a little cheer to the people that were cheering. because the crowds at the gop debate have been getting scrutiny on our networ...

Death penalty can be completely opposed to the fact that we cannot administer the death penalty equally. >> weve been here before. when the supreme court -- when i -- i believe it was the brennan court, right, found -- suspended, found it unconstitutional and then reversed years later, found unconstitutional because it said the way were implementing it right now is -- violates peoples rights. now fixed, now constitutional again. so were seeing the same thing. you have to say theres something inh...

So many problems with the death penalty as it functions today. its carried out or its supplied in a clearly racist manner. it punishes the poor. its poor people who are on death row, not rich people. and, of course, it condemns innocent people to die. weve seen that demonstrated again and again. so, i think that, you know, troy davis put a human face on all of those things. you could wallpaper the supreme court with the studies that have been done about racial inequality, class inequality, all o...

Didnt recant his testimony and maintained it was davis. its a messy case. whats made it messy is recan tagss came out ten years after the fact. >> why do you think this case -- i was sort of struck by, first of all, how powerful the movement to sort of save troy davis was but also how galvanizing it was. why do you think this case captured peoples imagination or attention? >> clearly, the possibility of his innocence. i think that was very compelling to people, especially after weve seen 138 dea...

Entirely know because it was 20 years ago. you gave a pretty good summary of what people say about this case. what happened in 1989 was that mark macphail, off-duty police officer was coming to the rescue of a homeless man being beaten by a group of people. among -- within that group somewhere was troy davis, although its not entirely clear. theres obviously all of these accounts that have come out after the fact. the point is macphail was shot and killed. and at least nine nonpolice witnesses c...

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