public parks. an anti-government idea ol disinvests from those common goods and those things that draw us towing and that in part contributes to the fact that there is less opportunity for our kids. obviously, the man has said it went to the best prep school in hawaii and went to the best private colleges in the united states, his children who i don t think it s anybody s business where they send their children but if the president is going to criticize people who send their children to private schools,b he has to recognize, obviously, that he sends his children to the best schools in walk possibly america. how does he is there a self critique against himself, the mistakes he s made? what was the president trying to get at there? joe the pointed the
christian in the same way these folks were christians. martin luther king jr. said this. i sometimes look at their churches and go what kind of god are you serving? if that s the god you re serving, don t count me in. when he heard that george wallace was supporting school prayer said i had to be against it. that s martin luther king, reverend dr. martin luther king jr., because he knew about dressing up your bigotry in the garb of religion as opposed to exposing yourself so that all peoples who oh fall above god recognize they re sinners and therefore in the need of love. i don t see the self critique among these christians on the right. where is your self criticism? what would god be distressed with? what would oh god be disgusted with? how would god be critical of you? they are so righteous. everybody thinks if jesus were to come again, they would embrace him. no, they all are the kibld putting jesus on the end. we don t want anybody who is snotty-nosed, black, gay. these are the pe
critique because that s what you do when you trade on inside knowledge, but at the same time asking as if white folks study hard but black students don t. as if they re he didn t say that. i said when he says i m trying to talk about something sensitive. he s gone before the naacp, some people said in the urban league and he said you have to study hard. he says that in a way directed toward a black audience you have to turn off the reality television shows and you have to pay attention to your books. a lot of people have been irritated. i want you to speak to that. a couple things. number one, i actually have heard him say that to young people in general, mixed audiences, white audiences. i get what you re saying in terms of the sensitivity in the black audience. let s be real about something. it is harder if you re an african-american, particularly if you re a young african-american male in this country. you have to be two times better if not more. there s a little bit of a re
to people s lives. this is the reality of what organizations like the naacp, like the urban league, doing work in our urban centers and black communities understand very well and deal with. and nobody just like we re not talking about the poor, we have not really talked about crime and violence. again, i think it s important for this audience in particular to say, i get it, that this is a major problem. and i will keep doing something. let me follow up with you, karen. i have been getting texts from people who say, why does the president when he goes to these major black institutions and organizations show our capacity for self-critique, because that s what you do when you trade on inside knowledge, but at the same time asking as if white folks study hard but black students don t. as if they re he didn t say that. i said when he says, i m trying to talk about something sensitive. he s gone before the naacp, some people said in the urban league, and he said you have to study h
crime and violence. again, i think it s important for this audience in particular to say, i get it, that this is a major problem. and i will keep doing something. let me follow up with you, karen. i have been getting texts from people who say, why does the president when he goes to these major black institutions and organizations show our capacity for self-critique, because that s what you do when you trade on inside knowledge, but at the same time, acting as if white folks study hard but black students don t. as if they re he didn t say that. i said when he says, i m trying to talk about something sensitive. he s gone before the naacp, some people said in the urban league, and he said you have to study hard. he says that in a way directed toward a black audience, you have to turn off the reality television shows and you have to pay attention to your books. a lot of people have been irritated. i want you to speak to that. what do you think the perception is? a couple things.