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He is wrong. russian aggression is strengthening our resolve and our confidence. we might all help mr. putin understand his grave error. we might show him the beaches of normandy where lingering craters and bullet holes demonstrate the west will to sacrifice to preserve our freedom. >> you know, willie, we usually after the show as everybody knows we put on a song. that reminds you of a couple beat nicks. >> exactly. the general is not going -- >> yeah. no, hes going to -- >> quietly into that d...

Incarceration of black folk. he would have to address the fact that the projected number that by 2053 the median income of black households will be zero, zero. in 1968 the median income for black households was zero. right? he would have to address the fact that our schools are as segregated today as they were in the 1960s. right? we can go on and on. theres a speech he gave in stanford in 1967 where he makes the pivot to genuine inequality and he talks about this is what were facing now and tal...

That we as a people will get to the promised land. >> that was 50 years ago last night when the reverend martin luther king jr. was in memphis to help striking sanitation workers. he was asked to speak at the mason temple where thousands of people had gathered hoping to hear him. the sermon he delivered there would be his last and he would be assassinated the next day. 50 years ago today. with us now, host of msnbcs politics nation, the president of the national action net work reverend al sharp...

Would come bubbling up. >> peter, we have -- we as americans have this ideal, this martin luther king. and it seems like his life ended for so many americans in 1963 with the remarkable speech and march on washington, and we look through, boy, when he walked through the valley alone, being attacked from the far right and from the far left, talk about just how difficult those final years were for dr. king. >> you know, were all taught about the "i have a dream" speech. its been so overplayed that...

That has come to honor memorials with me in new york. i wonder if he will put on the face who was trying to befriend hip hoppers in new york before he was a politician or is he going to keep playing this kind of racial playing to a crowd but dividing to a crowd. i wonder, mr. president, can you find at least the moral strength to memorialize mr. king and what he stood for. >> and what will it mean if he does tweet based on what hes done over the last several years. last night i watched the mount...

Died -- this is one of the things we try to rez rukt in this issue, this idea that people would like to forget that martin luther king at his death was one of the more unpopular people in america. my question is was when it pivoted against vietnam, when he made militarism, was that the moment when a lot of white liberals and white democrats said, oh, this guy has gone too far. lunch counters are fine. dont question some of the great priorities of our democratic government? >> i think that was th...

War it could not win, and blacks were the losers, measured as a percentage of adult males, blacks were dying in vietnam at a rate twice as high as whites. >> in order to atone for our sins and errors in vietnam, we should take the initiative in bringing a halt to this tragic war. >> everybody attacked him. >> what was president johnsons reaction after the riverside speech? >> well, after the riverside speech, i dont think we talked to him anymore. >> he was angry? >> yeah. >> on that day, april ...

Instead, this speech at riverside will become kings moral watershed over vietnam. by 1966 the u.s. was mired in a war it could not win, and blacks were the losers, measured as a percentage of adult males, blacks were dying in vietnam at a rate twice as high as whites. >> in order to atone for our sins and errors in vietnam, we should take the initiative in bringing a halt to this tragic war. >> everybody attacked him. >> what was president johnsons reaction after the riverside speech? >> well, a...

Were the losers, measured as a percentage of adult males, blacks were dying in vietnam at a rate twice as high as whites. >> in order to atone for our sins and errors in vietnam, we should take the initiative in bringing a halt to this tragic war. >> everybody attacked him. >> what was president johnsons reaction after the riverside speech? >> well, after the riverside speech, i dont think we talked to him anymore. >> he was angry? >> yeah. >> on that day, april the 4th, 1967, as king spoke at r...

By 1966 the u.s. was mired in a war it could not win, and blacks were the losers, measured as a percentage of adult males, blacks were dying in vietnam at a rate twice as high as whites. >> in order to atone for our sins and errors in vietnam, we should take the initiative in bringing a halt to this tragic war. >> everybody attacked him. >> what was president johnsons reaction after the riverside speech? >> well, after the riverside speech, i dont think we talked to him anymore. >> he was angry?...