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Cosby was mostly out of the entertainment spotlight but the accolades continued. >> bill cosby couldnt go off into the sunset unless there was something to happen to trigger a change. >> that trigger would be an up and coming comedian named hannibl burris. >> pull your pants up, black people. i was on tv in the 80s. >> last october, he called out cosby in a standup routine. >> i can talk down about you with a successful sitcom. great, bill cosby. but you rape women, turn the crazy down a couple ...

Care. >> i want to turn to you. when many hear that, when the president is saying this is ultimately up to you, why is the president talking respectability and pull yourself up by your boot straps. when you do that, you forget about institutional and systematic racism. >> he didnt say pull your pants up. >> pull yourself up -- but yes, in a way he is. when everyone gets into that pull your pants up, that is a metaphor for pull your attitude up. >> the president didnt just say -- >> what is wrong...

And i could either go at this guy head-on and probably prove everybody right that im this big, violent person that they marked me to be, or i could talk to him face up, and i came in one day from work. the dude was waiting outside. and i kind of seen he was antsy and everything. had something in his pocket. >> so you had the shank in your pocket? >> i had tied -- i had a shoestring holding my pants up, and it was tied to the shoestring, hanging by my right side. >> smith was convicted of killing...

Tore raw. >> not so fast, krystal. a black man like me showing up with a beautiful woman like you. if the goal is to mollify, you want to bring someone dorky, right ari? >> thats right. >> what you dont want to do is remind them about your moral/legal right to be in the store or black economic power, which recent reports put at $1 trillion and upward. dont point out these stories and the analysts who predict all consumers will spend less on gifts this year so them stores need all the shoppers th...

Marked me to be, or i could talk to him face up, and i came in one day from work. the dude was waiting outside. and i kind of seen he was antsy and everything. had something in his pocket. >> so you had the shank in your pocket? >> i had tied -- i had a shoestring holding my pants up, and it was tied to the shoestring, hanging by my right side. >> smith was convicted of killing harrisons cousin, but claims it was someone else. >> yes, i do have an idea of who did it. but i aint no snitch. >> you...

Thats when i got the shank. >> all right. >> shakir smith was the man that harrison was allegedly targeting. >> he already passed a rumor that he wanted to try to kill me or was going to kill me. and i could either go at this guy head-on and probably prove everybody right that im this big, violent person that they marked me to be, or i could talk to him face up, and i came in one day from work. he was waiting outside. and i kind of seen he was antsy and everything. had something in his pocket. >...

Eye on the prize, whats the prize, what are they working towards? all these issues that keep the black community down john lewis didnt include. i assume the prize was equality. but i actually agree with bob. i think dealing in hypotheticals, people that say if martin luther king junior were here, he would love obama care, i thought that was pretty presumptuous of the president to say. i bring up his niece again, alveda king, she said if her uncle were here, she knew him, she said if he were here...

Badly, neither of them have the largesse to need a bailout from the people. knowingly and recklessly squandering their resources. it sounds a little like pull your pants up, pull up your boot straps, sounds like you guys are morally and ethnically -- >> i wonder if the racial part of detroit is how people respond, look, new york was bailed out. the government came out and helped the city of new york. detroit deserves the same help that new york got many years ago. this is the city that put the w...

>> young black men often reject education and gravitate towards the street culture, drugs, hustling, gangsing >> he is right about that, too. but in my estimation, he doesnt go far enough. >> so professor, could you please explain to our audience how the needless shooting death of an innocent teenager now has more to do with hip-hop lyrics, soul food restaurants, than it does with a neighbor watch mann who shot him? >> yeah, thats utterly banal. i think its awfully misled. don lemon is a friend ...

This point and growing for hispanics and whites, we have a national problem, but maybe it is exacerbated. >> why does president obama decide to go the other way with it? >> i think part of the thing is also that other things in the news cycle get in the way. so president obama i think it was fathers day this past in june, he did give a speech, it was very -- i thought it was very well done, he got a little coverage for it, but not a lot. i think somebody like bill oreilly using his platform to d...