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About the fax. i dont like nick lecturing me like i dont know facts like some moron. >> tim. >> excuse me. according to the justice department, black men are six times more likely to be homicide victims, and seven times more likely to kill with a gun. so you can talk and try to be politically correct all you want to. the fact is like the president said, in his my brothers keeper speech that you played, brianna, young black men are coming from broken homes, not like intact homes that president ob...

>> brookings institute. >> do i get to finish? >> no, because youre -- >> my name is tim first of all. >> tim, sorry. >> let me finish. >> sorry, tim. i. >> i said im sorry. >> you said the reason that its important what mark cuban said was because black folks are seven times more likely to commit homicide. what i was saying is even though that number is true, a ridiculously small number of black men actually do commit it. >> so who is in our jails? who is in our federal prisons? >> the fact tha...

He apologized for using the word hoodie. >> joining me now to talk about this natalie jackson, who is an attorney for the family of trayvon martin, tim wise, the author of "color-blind", and crystal wright, a conservative blogger at conservative black chick.com. the trayvon martin family, he was wearing a hoodie when george zimmerman shot and killed him. it became a symbol of that case. did mark cuban cross the line using that word? >> i dont think its about the word hoodie. i think its about a ...

They want, and i have a right to be fearful of that dress. and if that dress offends me, i have a right to protect myself, walk across the other side of the street. you know, i dont think it was racist at all. and i think that if anything, what cuban said was, you know, he thinks we should control our bigotry through discussion and talking about these stereotypes. >> and i agree. >> i want to let tim jump in here, because i saw him shaking his head as crystal was answering the question. what is ...

Above 10,000 for peoples education. 80% of everyone. jail lacks a high school diploma. we need to change our priorities around. no state should ever spend more money on a prison than it spends on education. >> well, tim, we already saw a new demographic coalition electing this president both in 2008 and 2012. were seeing now that among children under 5, minorities actually make up a slim majority of all children under 537 so we have changing demographics in this country. over the next 50 years, ...

Its still double. i think that its important to focus on creating the dream now rather than simply having the dream. its no longer about having it. its about living it. and weve got to have some really serious solutions in order to do that. that means we have to pass some legislation. we have to, you know, repass the voting rights act. we have to have legislation on an american jobs act. we have to have legislation on creating more equity in education. so we have to do all of these things in ord...

Their own racial, narrow agenda. >> the rights hostility doesnt just stop with leaders and elected officials. on breitbart news, david webb asked where is sybrina fulton, trayvon martins mom? does she not feel for another grieving mother of a son who was hunted down and killed like a dog? joining us now is anti-racism activist tim wise, author of "white like me, reflexes on race from a privileged son." tim, that last quote about chris lane being hunted and killed like a dog really struck me beca...

Handguns. >> right. >> and youth who are dispairing and who have nothing to do and who have come to a mindset where they think killing is something to do when youre bored and they have the means to do it. all of that is a ripe area for debate and public concern, far more than the racial issue. but the same right wingers who are making this into a race issue want to distract from the cheap availability of handguns as the cause really of this problem. >> and its a mistake for those on the right or...

I think generally the -- you know, what were finding out throughout this whole thing is that conservatives want to deflect the issue. they dont want to talk about the fact that there is an on going issue about racial profiling and that black men are treated differently. theyre treated with more suspicion. and if youre a black man, youre much more likely to be stopped and to be arrested. >> and, tim, i think this still gets to the point. is it conservatives essential low want to have a conversati...

Can you expand on that. >> sure. people have been telling me to read the fourth amendment and i dont care about civil liberties. what we need to do is have a more comprehensive conversation. the reason the conversation has been privileged up to this point is because of exactly what tim wise pointed out. the people most joust raged by this are people who generally speaking, have the privilege to go through their everyday life without the kind of immediate and what i refer to as physical surveilla...