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Breakthrough, my friend. do not touch him, please. >> james took a slightly different approach to self development than so many other people in the industry. he was a little more direct about it. he didnt sugar coat a lot of things but he really made you stop and think. >> are you listening or you want to defend your position? >> i was going to agree, actually. >> well, listen, because so many people ask questions not to get the answers, they ask questions to prove what you know, and you dont li...

Steve? mom or dad? >> mom. >> mom a happy person? >> no. >> mom still alive? >> she passed away two years ago. >> mom is still alive. >> thats stuff i dont want to get into. >> i understand. but you are on the verge of a breakthrough, my friend. do not touch him, please. >> james took a slightly different approach to self development than so many other people in the industry. he was a little more direct about it. he didnt sugar coat a lot of things but he really made you stop and think. >> are y...

Ago. >> mom is still alive? >> thats stuff i dont want to get into. >> i understand. but you are on the verge of a breakthrough, my friend. do not touch him, please. >> james took a slightly different approach to self development than so many other people in the industry. he was a little more direct about it. he didnt sugar coat a lot of things but he really made you stop and think. >> are you listening or you want to defend your position? >> i was going to agree, actually. >> well, listen, beca...

Have done more harm than good for african-american societies over the past five decades. he has been with us all night. we will talk to him. first off, show the cover again. th is not you on the cover, is it? >> i want to thank sherrod for posing. >> you are welcome for that. >> i have been a hand model and face model for years. >> jason, did you want to be on the cover or not want to be on the cover? >> when i get as famous as you, greg, i will pose for the cover of my books. until then i will ...

To get over that and help people escape that century of built in bad behavior and government mismanagement, you needed something like the great society. >> what we needed was equal treatment inform the law, we needed the civil rights act of 1964, the voting rights act of 1965, those were needed, we got those, the problem is when the government tries to go beyond equal opportunity and ensure equal results, thats when you get into trouble. what im argue, is that black people must ultimately help t...

Lack of access to the voting booth, lack of jobs, to get over that, help people escape that century of built-in bad behavior and government mismanagement, you needed something like the great society. >> well, what we needed was equal treatment under the law. we needed the civil rights act of 1964. the voting acts right of 1965. those were needed. we got those. the problem is when the government tries to go beyond equal opportunity and ensure equal results. thats when you get into trouble. what i...

Graduates. >> so why is it that a helping hand however well intentioned, doesnt accomplish the purpose and may hurt? >> i think it just shows the limits of what the government can do. its got to ensure equal opportunity but when it goes beyond that, the risk is doing more harm than good. one of the points i make in the book is poor blacks need a black man in the home more than they need a black man in the white house. what im talking about is the family. it has to start with the family. so long ...

You claim that essentially all of this money that the government has thrown at poverty programs in this country isnt working. >> its not just the claim. i looked at the evidence. poverty was lower in 1966 than it was in 2012. after 50 years of great society programs trillions of dollars. >> $20 trillion or so. >> what i argue in the book is blacks must help themselves the way other groups have. they have to develop the types of behaviors and attitudes and traits that other groups who rose in thi...

The question is whether these biases prevent economic or social advancement in america. i think it is not true that they do. i think the left uses racism as an all-purpose excuse for bad black behavior in essence. what i think blacks need to do is focus on themselves. only blacks can help blacks succeed. thats the point of the book. to the extent, again, the government interferes with the black self-development that needs to take place, that other groups have had to do in order for them to rise ...

On his personality. >> are entitlements and other government lift up black americans actually doing more harm than good? our next guest says absolutely. here to explain is fox news contributor jason riley who wrote a book called "please stop helping us: how liberals make it harder for blacks to succeed." what do you mean stop helping us? >> i think what blacks need to develop as a group are certain habits, certain traits, certain sensibilities and attitude. to the extent a government program how...