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The same structural impediments to their flourishing. if we segregate them according to gender, we reproduce the pathology thats always existed in black america when mens problem become the race problem, as opposed to all members of the race have to be dealt with. what do you say to that? >> im sympathetic to those arguments. i think i would rather have had the president start this initiative than not have done it. i think its okay. we wouldnt be having this conversation at all if he hadnt start...

Editor in chief of the campus newspaper, the daily mississippi an. hello to you. how is this received on campus, are racial problems still heavy? are. >> thanks for having me. i would say that ole miss has a race problem, but i also dont think its limited to just our university. i want to be clear about that. the universities across the southeast are just more prone to these kinds of incidents because of the past left at the universities. at ole miss with the race riot when meredith was admitted...

>> all right. >> ill get you an officer to get you some clothes here in just a minute. >> with a white suspect and a southern hispanic victim, officers are wary of retaliation that could explode into a race riot. >> hey, step outside for me real quick. >> youve got two south siders over there. whats dude that came from level one? is that him? >> hes right here. white boys right here. >> yeah. and then the dude to his right is a south sider as well. >> whats his name? >> thats -- thats a white du...

The issues that he stated that he cares b immigration, job inequality, when youre talking about the disproportionate about of black and latino young men in jail because of pot violations compared to young white men, he can only have these conversations if he starts actually saying, look, we do have a race problem and proportionately these issues were talking about, income inequulty has to do with the fact that were not talking about race in its wholeness. until we have that conversation, we cant...

Of communist infiltration in the muchlt was already on thin ground from the start. then, one of kings trusty advisers, and i think this is really brillbrilliant, that he himself had renounced to communist party earlier, because it wasnt doing enough to renounce the race problem. so the very reason for the fbis justification for going after king in the first place was discredited by their own investigation of his primary adviser. and therefore, by 1963, according to this task force looking back, ...

Therefore, pending investigation, youre going to administrative segregation, because right now if we keep you in the gym, you jeopardize the integrity of the investigations. >> so im being written up for the fight? >> yep. so thats whats going to happen. >> all right. >> ill get you an officer to get you some clothes here in just a minute. >> with a white suspect and a southern hispanic victim, officers are wary of retaliation that could explode into a race riot. >> hey, step outside for me real...

Minutes. >> shes got -- she is in public relations and there is no excuse. i dont believe it is white guilt. i think she has a race problem and deserved to be fired and probably deserves -- well, let her go on. you dont say something like that. aids have devastated that country and the idea that some p.r. person would say something like that is beyond comprehensive. im mobbing up against her. >> she wasnt a low-level staffer, she had a lot of responsibility and clients and paying her money for h...

Doesnt matter what the skin color is. the idea that aisha harris had was to denigrate the religious value of christmas. we are going to do away with the mans ethnicity and make him into a penguin. its ridiculous. >> somehow that didnt get any attention. lets change san to to a penguin. instead what i said got attention. >> right. they were looking for you. what we are dealing with now is people are explosive. they would rather talk about what you are saying in a ideological kind of format instea...

Embarrassed even though they were darker than i am. and so someone said earlier that you know america was the last ones to recognize that mandela was not a terrorist but he was a freedom fighter. >> only a few years ago, we took him off the watch list. >> still they said so nelson really gave more appreciation to the castros and to the other people. i said thats not so. thats not so. nelson mandela knew racism in its rawest form and he recognized that our great country had symptom of it. >> let ...

According to a recent gallup poll, for the first time ever, a majority of americans now favor legalizing marijuana. 58% of americans say pot should be legal. thats up 10 percentage points since last november. now, this public surge in popularity comes after both washington state and colorado legalized the sale of marijuana for recreational use almost a year ago. yet this new found interest in decriminalizing weed has failed to address the continuing racial disparities in marijuana arrests. in a ...