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And the photo stayed up on instagram. now, i dont know why or what happened or any of that, but thats kind of troubling to me. i mean, the fact that heres this photograph that should be obviously offensive to anybody and its still up on instagram? it didnt come down until we started asking questions. >> yeah. listen, its interesting. we keep saying -- i hear people say all the time, well, all of this stuff is going to change. all this race stuff is going to change with the youth and then you see...

Estimation? >> well, i mean, theyve handled it the way theyve handled it. obviously suspending the students you would say thats a step toward, you know, punishing what we see in the photo. and then -- but, you know, there is also some troublesome aspects to this, and not to cast blame, but ole miss got this complaint back in march. and the photo stayed up on instagram. now, i dont know why or what happened or any of that, but thats kind of troubling to me. i mean, the fact that heres this photog...

Arc of that last week where it almost looked like the white house was through with this when the president went to the rally, and then you had that send her back chant at the rally. the president initially distanced himself and was critical of the lawmakers again, and it seems like his position now is somewhere close toing a n -- agnostics on that chant. >> i think it will be the focus for a long time given it might be in the campaign in terms of ideology. were going to focus on it with our disc...

Assumption that african-americans or minorities can experience the histories that theyve experienced and come out as if we have this moral gene and can just love and sing kumbaya and all this other stuff. i grew up with a father who has a deep seeded skepticism of the moral capacity of white folks and has everything to do with his experience. its not articulated but its part of how he was socialized, its part of what i was raised in. its a common sense, a racial common sense thats reflective of ...

Havent been able to give the knicks a win and he has. it is not a racial thing. we are not rooting for lin because he is -- rewith not rooting for him because he is not black. we are rooting for him because he is an underdog, a chinese player and there are not many. he comes in and kicks butt. he is sinking jump shots and kicking butt. let him have his day. >> when you said chinese you looked both i whats like, she chinese, like you are not on television. >> by the way, -- his parents are not fr...

It is not a racial thing. we are not rooting for lin because he is -- rewith not rooting for him because he is not black. we are rooting for him because he is an underdog, a chinese player and there are not many. he comes in and kicks butt. he is sinking jump shots and kicking butt. let him have his day. >> when you said chinese you looked both i whats like, she chinese, like you are not on television. >> by the way, -- his parents are not from here. >> jedediah, isnt he right though what terry ...

Theres great documentary about it as well. its an important piece of our culture and history. here its being used as a political football to put the administration, at least in the eyes of their enemies and opponents as pandering to the african-american community. we all know nothing could be further from the truth. this administration has been fair and balanced across different demographics and different populations. the outreach to the black community here is warranted when you look at the num...

And you dont know my struggle. all right? because youre not white. but after 9/11, we pretty much dropped that race stuff, did we not? we pretty much were all americans there, right? all right. i hear yes, i hear no. but to me from my perch, there were blacks killed in that tower. all right? all right, look, if you dont think we dropped it, i do. >> i mean, maybe the guy needs to go to an ear, nose and throat doctor. i hear yes, i hear no. dude, they were booing you. what do you think of oreilly...

And dance. theres great documentary about it as well. its an important piece of our culture and history. here its being used as a political football to put the administration, at least in the eyes of their enemies and opponents as pandering to the african-american community. we all know nothing could be further from the truth. this administration has been fair and balanced across different demographics and different populations. the outreach to the black community here is warranted when you look...

Americans but it didnt change the inequality that we still have to deal with in the country because still were dealing with unequal situation. people of all races died in the twin towers. >> bill: thats what i said. >> but they all were people that came from different parts of american life. didnt make them all -- >> bill: im still not getting. this my central point which was very, very easy to understand because i wrote it, was that race stuff can recede during certain times in history. >> righ...