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Back now with my guest writer and film maker saaret yosef and also the chair of the sociology and criminal justice department professor gallagher and tim wise joins me here. before the break mr. gallagher said some white people in america were suffering from schizophrenia when it comes to racism and the denial of racism. >> right. well, the denial has been a long standing thing. there is sort of a schizophrenic element to it. on one hand i think what really, you know, we look at the history of w...

The temperatures for tomorrow. you can see some of the 80s across parts of the northeast. even the midwest theyre getting a break from the extreme heat. it gets even better for areas like new york as well as d.c. look at these temperatures as we go through the next couple days. new york on tuesday. high of 85 degrees. youll be seasonable. keep in mind in boston your temperatures were in the mid 90s as we move into monday and tuesday and your temperature is 78, 77 degrees. i think theyll take tha...

Here? after the break well get tims reaction. ♪ norfolk southern whats your function? ♪

Is it denial? what is it? hold your thought. tim wise joining us for the entire hour. other news now, its been one year since the aurora, colorado shooting but for at least one victim the pain is just as intense as the first hours. his story is next. later, the story of four men who say they were held captive and nearly starved. they were locked up, locked in a garage that turned into a prison. you really couldnt have come at a better time. these chevys are moving fast. ill take that malibu. yea...

Pitts who said he feels that in many ways african-americans, the older generation, has become complacent when it comes to race relations. what do you make of his comments? do you believe that? >> well, i dont think its complacent. i think that, you know, if the word, you know, a lot of this conversation seems to be if the word cracker and -- are linguistic equivalents. tim talked about this before. theyre not. the "n" word is being used as a way to blanketly always point to a racial hierarchy wh...

Of the statistics in our society, there is still a tremendous racial gap. its not really even about how far weve come in terms of peoples racial attitudes. we have to begin to deal with some of the systemic and institution institutional situations with racism in our society. >> thank you. we appreciate you coming in on a saturday. the ooth anniversary coming up and ill be covering that and im sure speedwaying to both of you as that happens. >> thank you. >> quickly, tim wise, what do you make of...

>> so lets talk more about race and a generation gap. i want to bring in now a writer for "the root" in washington. >> i was formerly for "the root." i wrote a piece in 2008 called gen-y for "the root" about the fact i dont believe gen-y is color blind. im happy to talk about that. >> thank you. also charles gallagher the chair of lasalles department who joins me from philadelphia and tim wise joins me here in new york. well go to tim first. so did my interviews with, did anything surprise you? ...

Given to him. even on the cover of the "daily news" here, to see the juxtaposition of the president, the young barack obama, next to trayvon martin. >> and drudge made a picture, put -- so drudge immediately, last night, made an image where they put young president obamas face on to -- on to trayvon martin in that hoodie picture. >> but a point i want to follow up, remember, ice cube had some lyrics that said, my skin is my sin. we need to understand that. and to tims point, dealing with racism ...

White. >> whats interesting about what rubens saying, the research on this subconscious bias i was talking about, very frighteningly shows that not only white folks have internalized anti-black biased, but large numbers of latinos and asian-americans, heres an interesting one, about 40% of african-americans have internalized bias against themselves as black folks. thats how deep this runs. >> tims only telling half the story. the other part of the story is that african-americans likewise have a ...

Do you feel you wouldnt be here for this interview if you didnt have that gun? >> no, sir. >> you feel you would not be here? >> i feel that it was all gods plan and for me to second guess it or judge it -- >> is there anything you might do differently in retrospect now that time has passed a little bit. >> no, sir. >> that was fox news replaying an interview with sean hannity that happened that got played in court, quite sympathetic interview. im here with karen desoto, criminal defense attorne...