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Because the night when my son was walking down the street to go back to his house where he lived, they, four police officers with civilian clothes draw their guns to come after him and never thought in their head that ammidou may have lived there. h he was going about his own business, but they talked about him as being a criminal, and suspicious. trayvon martins case, i understood through the reports that he was also holding -- let me go back to say that amidou had only his keys and wallet. tra...

>> it does feel a little painful and icky that is it is dividing along the race lines and the illogical ones, and fun to exclusively blame the right for this, and professor, i want to ask you that it feels like what we are doing, needing to have a conversation about race and inequality, that an opportunity like this becomes a moment for us to talk about it in real terms, but then if the facts of the case somehow are not exactly aligned with our analysis, does the whole analysis go away? >> no, o...

1999, the diallo case, and she brings out sean bell and all of these other names, and what does this this do when you feel like the justices, and feel so hard and even the initiation feels like? >>le well, to me, it does feel like the diallo case, and i lived in new york under rudy giuliani as mayor. there was a constant fear of this, a young black man would be shot in this case, by undercover police officers and suddenly the victims past with law enforcement would come out and a total justifica...

Notion that in order to count as a victim, trayvon martin, though he was a 17-year-old boy needed to be perfect and angelic in some way? >> well, in part, trayvon martin has become a casualty of the overall cultural war that oddly enough is around barack obama. i think that once the president spoke about this case, you suddenly saw people divide into the ideological camp, and if you are conservative, you are supposed to dislike him, and supposed to be for zimmerman and couched in a political con...