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Safe and terrorism. this conversation in no way, shape or form takes away from the level of importance of that. but what i thought was interesting, and i think tim makes this point. i think you made this point. there is an entry point in here when were talking about being afraid of our government. that i felt like there is an entry point for people to say, it is not just stop and frisk. there are so many ways were being profiled and surveiled. one thing is housing where there is evidence of sign...

Cases? leading the charge is former united states congressman alan west. west wrote this. on a facebook post on wednesday. he said, three 15-year-old black teens beat up a 13-year-old white kid because he told school officials they tried to sell him drugs. do you hear anything from sharpton, jackson, the naacp, stevie wonder, jay-z, liberal media, or hollywood? cat got your tongues or is it that pathetic hypocrisy revealing itself once again? yall just make me sick. let me bring in antiracism ac...

Have to get other headlines. i have time issues here. this is your lifes work, tim wise. so as you go around to different organizations, different classrooms, different sim pose yums or whatever, you smart people, youre one of the smart people who i believe is not done. how do you see, what do we need to do next? where do we go from here? >> well, i think its fine to have a conversation about personal responsibility, but lets not forget that we also have collective responsibility. and as a natio...

Questioned by police. activist tim wise wrote this about the nsa leaks. >> those who were especially chapped about the program, about the very concept of their government, keeping tabs on them, in effect profiling them as potential criminals, as terrorists, are almost entirely those for whom stuff like this is new. people who have never before been presumed criminal, up to no good or worthy of suspicion. in short, they are mostly white and heal and middle class or above. and most assuredly, not ...

70s by half for teenagers. so theyre not even telling the truth. or with crime. chicago, yes, has been an outlier. and thats a horrible thing to talk about. violent crime nationwide, it is down significantly in the last 20 years. in the early 70s, it was three times higher than it is now. in washington, d.c. it is at the lowest rate in 50 years and black men had a greater chance of dying from homicide now than in 1950. so this indicates the folks them dont hang out with black people. and jesse l...

I think one of the great abuses of this modern time is we should have had such high profile artists, powerful celebrities but they have turned their back on social responsibility. that goes for jay-z and beyonce, for example. give me bruce springsteen and now were talking. i really think hes black. when he snatched the wigs he did so with experience. hes been on the forefront of movements for more than six decades. he was there 50 years ago with the march on washington alongside sidney poitier, ...

End sexual assault she was -- all of us in positions of privilege, and ipo going to accept that, have a normative identity, do have responsibilities around that. what all this has to do with beyonce im not sure anymore. tim wise, thanks for being here. coming up, the irony of a guy named cuccinelli being opposed to oral sex. wow, seriously? [ brent ] this guys a pro, herbie. [ herbie ] theres no doubt about it brent, a real gate keeper. heres kevin, the new boyfriend. lamb to the slaughter. th...

College, tim wise, blair kelly, associate professor of history at north carolina state university and author of "right to ride, streetcar boycotts and african-american citizenship." and talk show host with sirius xm right on the patriot net work. thank you for being here. blair, let me start with you. the only reason i know about theory of failure and social movements and the idea it takes longer to get there than we think is because of your work and scholarship. what can we learn about history ...

>> yeah. i think this is part of the color blind ideology is that were all -- were all equal which means i can equally be discriminated and profiled. again, getting back to science, it is just not borne out by the data. tim was talking about this earlier. i had never been profiled in my life. i grew up in a working class neighborhood. i lived in major cities before. and my skin color has never been a tax for me. as we talk about it, it is the wind on my back. so i think what happens is a preside...

>> and weed. >> when i was in college the biggest drug dealer in uptown new orleans lived right next to me. he was a white dude from long island. he would drop quarter ounce bags of weed in the hall. we very much appreciated living next to him but nobody ever thought to arrest us. >> what were you buying? >> i didnt buy anything. he would just drop them. >> the interesting thing to me as we were coming up with this segment and i was doing the "n" word segment and by the way charles gallagher jus...