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For those of us who do radio should know, that she continued to go become to that word almost like she wanted to have a platform in order to do that. >> reverend sharpton, we appreciate your time. >> up next, one childs struggle to accept his skin color. we first met marcus in a pilot study i mentioned, and he told his mom he would rather be white. his parents say that the study was a wake-up call and we will discuss how they have changed things in their home. and also, a serial killer is capt...

Thick-skinned black man. >> reporter: marcus spends summers with his father ray who focussed this summer on breaking down stereotypes and building up positive role models for his son. >> i said, do you foe who the president of the united states is? and he said, yeah. he asked, why did you ask me that? and i said, because he is just like you, and he is the president. i said now, what do you think that you can do? he says, i can ki can do anythi want to. >> reporter: ray and molly are optimistic t...

They prefer and also you will see how some of the parents are dealing with what they learned from the pilot study and how it might help you address the subject with your child. and crime and punishment, the police say they have their man who stabbed five people fatally, and authorities caught him last night, but turns out authorities in virginia caught him last week, and authorities in michigan caught him last month but in both cases he was let go. so we will look at how an alleged serial kill...

Thank you for joining us tonight. you probably heard the scare story of getting people trained here to be sent overseas to come back to kill us. the fbi says it is not true. tonight, we will ask a republican congressman who is spreading the story if he has any facts to backup the claims. we are keeping them honest. and also, dr. lauras n-word rant and what she said to an african-american on a phone call and the use of the n-word. >> i will say it again, [ bleep ], [ bleep ], [ bleep ], is what...

And to give him that feeling of you have to be the strong thick-skinned black man. >> reporter: marcus spends summers with his father ray who focussed this summer on breaking down stereotypes and building up positive role models for his son. >> i said, do you foe who the president of the united states is? and he said, yeah. he asked, why did you ask me that? and i said, because he is just like you, and he is the president. i said now, what do you think that you can do? he says, i can do anything...

"up close tonight," kids and race. in the past few nights, we are following up on the pilot study we asked researchers to conduct when they interviewed 130 children, black and white, and the results are giving us an interesting look at how young kids form ideas on skin color. tonight, we want to revisit a child who took place in the study. his name is marcus, and he is biracial and his answers stunned his mother. she, too, has made some changes. soledad obrien caught up with his parents. >> hi, ...

Apologizing for what? apologizing in the contextt again in my feeling of hearing the take today is that if she was really understanding, and apologetic to whom she may have hurt, she could have responded to that when the caller brought it up. she kept going on, and she kept going on, and then she went back to it later and suggested that maybe the person was too hypersensitive to have an interracial marriage, so based on her feelings when she said it, continuing throughout the show, that would be...

Wrong. it is wrong if blacks use it, as you know. we have fought, our decency initiative and others have fought black artists of using the word, but she at no point said using this word was wrong, but she said you are being hypersensitive to your husband and relatives and even they use it on hbo and that is what compounded the insult, because she was in my judgment just going at a whole thing of you are just black and being oversensitive and blacks voted for obama, and many because he was black....

Son. >> i said, do you know who the president of the united states is? he said yeah. he said, why did you ask ple that? i said, because he is just like you and he is the president. i said, so now what do you think that you can do? he says, i can do anything that i want to do. >> reporter: ray and molly are optimistic they can teach marcus to love themselves just as they do for exactly who he is. soledad obrien, cnn, atlanta. more from the pilot study tomorrow night on the program. a suspecte...

Concerned about someone who freely using this word over and over again and the cover is talking about what i see on there. >> she has apologized and said clearly she was wrong. >> well, apologized a of the outrage and people have to take the apologies at face value, but apologizing for what? apologizing in the contextt again in my feeling of hearing the take today is that if she was really understanding, and apologetic to whom she may have hurt, she could have responded to that when the caller b...