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Like that and they may be black, they say yeah, im having a problem with the police. i dont really go by these types of polls. i dont think they show any truth in the system. >> its an opinion poll. so it shows what people think. if one-fifth of a community feels as if theyre being targeted, the fact that one-fifth of them feel that way, the numbers havent gone much differently in 2000 when we did the same study. it hasnt changed much over the past 15 years, that suggests theres a problem. i wou...

>> thats trite. shes play to get heartstrings and the emotions. it will take a more than a few words, blowing a few kisses and saying i love you. because the economy is bad. and because the justice system needs balancing, of course the job market opportunity access all of that needs to happen. >> yesterday, alveda i dont know if you know what i talked about on the show but i talked about your uncle, martin luther king jr. and a speech that he gave back in 1964 during the nobel peace prize. i gue...

I thought we should remember what he did say in 1964 "the quest for peace and justice." heres a piece of that. violence never brings permanent peace. it solves no social problem. it merely creates new and more complicated ones. violence is i am practical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. it is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than winning his understanding. it seeks to annihilate rather than convert. violence is immoral because it thrives o...

Back to be a city councilman but going to be mayor again. i said, oh, geez. you had power in the seventh, eighth ward, in the black community. what was it about the mustnt that stuck by you through all this hell? >> could see through all of it, the barry haters. they could see through all the trials and tribulations that were -- but also could see marion barry, the person who had persevered, who had changed washington from top to bottom for the good. who had moved minority businesses from 30% to...

Enough for you because you love the story more than the al apology? >> he responded yes, but. and im saying, yes, but we have to move on. well talk more. free freshmen will probably be arrested at ole miss after a noose was found around the statue of a civil rights icon. is this a sign of a bigger social problem? well debate that, next.

Said, but at what point does this give way to other controlled substances? >> chris, we were having this conversation with the attorney general at a veterans drug court in roanoke, the second such court in the country, and there was some moving testimony there yesterday that the attorney general wanted to highlight of veterans that struggled with substance abuse and his point is these veterans who serve and come back, if they have a personal problem, a social problem, we should first try to trea...

And ask my panel a question as well. dorian, part of the thing i love about this story is how often can we just say, theres a social problem. oh, look, here are some people who have solved it. not who have founded an organization, but, just, yeah, they figured it out, they solved it. they made sure the folks had housing and wraparound services. is this a model, given everything we spent the top of the hour talking about, how difficult it was to get things done, is this a model for getting things...

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Avoid certain people when the odds are this group might be more dangerous than another group. jesse jackson said when i hear footsteps at night, i turn around and see white people, im relieved. >>steve: where do we go from here? how do we wrap this up? >> the problem with the country, the number-one social problem are kids raised without fathers. in the black community 75% of kids are born outside of wedlock. 85% of black kids at some point will be in a home without a dad. name your social probl...

>> well, its an impossible slope because if you bail out detroit, youre going to be bailing out every city. this is just something that its going to be a natural progression. things will probably happen, but its going to be a rough time. you look at their unfunded liability, their unfunded pension liability, its so high that michigan would have a hard time with it, and michigan is not having such an easy time anyway. so detroit is really -- the governor of michigan is doing an excellent job. hes...