all people. but the supreme court doesn t seem to think this way. sherrilyn, this is fascinating. connect it back to what tremain was saying, what we saw if 2012 and 2013, some interesting new coalitions being built around prominent african-americans taking pro marriage e equality stances, particularly in space i they hadn t previously, for me the moment when phil robertson is talking about experiencing african-americans laboring next to him as happy read to me more as i mean, that s strategic on the part of black folks living in the deep south. a lot of times we present happiness or contentment when in fact we re mad because it s not safe for white folks to roll up on jim crow. that s a bad idea. yet i do wonder if there is at least in the reaction, like in the public reaction, a sense that racism or racial angst is not meant to any longer be addressed but questions around lgbt equality are and if that then starts to divide a coalition that is knowledge just nascent in coming toge
has been an emotional year. actually kind of ridiculous how many times i ve cried on this year in 2013. at this point, i m basically john boehner, but, you know, with braids. look, time and again i have sat at this desk and told you about the struggles of progressive movements great and small. there were the moral monday protests in north carolina which attracted thousands of people to protest a republican legislature s agenda of cutting federal unemployment benefits, making it harder to vote, and refusing to expand medicaid among other things. hundreds were arrested. we visited the statehouse one monday in june, and the movement s leader, reverend william garber, explained why so many were risking arrest. what do you do when you have insurance and you see people making it harder for people to get insurance, harder for children to get educated, harder for people out of work to get some help, but easier for people to die, easier for schools to be reseg regalted, easier for t
movement in for privatization has enabled school choice to transcend its tarnished history as an escape route for southern whites who sought to avoid court-ordered desegregation in the 1950s and 60s. we ve been talking about the state of public education with diane ravitch. joining us is pedro cabrera at new york university s stein hart school of culture, education, and human development and author of creating the opportunity to learn and unfinished business. and tremain lee, a national reporter for msnbc.com who s reporting on zis parties in mass school closings across the country. thanks for joining us. peter, talk to me a little bit about this notion of charter schools as the salvation for what is wrong with our traditional public school system. well, the history is actually interesting because charter schools are presented as a way to produce innovation by freeing schools up from some of the regulations that public schools were saddled with.
0 but it ll be very unpleasant if the death panels go into effect. you bet this can happen. that is what i m worried about. this is literally an issue of life and death. republicans seeking to stop the aca share the same inability to learn their lesson as our friend, wile e. coyote, neither ever actually succeeds in their plots. but here s the thing about the coyote. no matter how many times he gets squashed under a boulder or catapults himself into a wall or just blows himself up, he just keeps on trying. which seems to be one less lest son the republicans have learned, because they have been trying and failing again and again and again for a long time. remember the summer of 2009? town halls to inform citizens in democratic districts about the aca were disrupted by tea party mob protests that erupted sometimes in violence. late they re fall, they resorted to good old-fashioned heckling. that was when south carolina republican joe wilson was moved to shout, you lie! when preside
so far 226 murders. the hope is that by the end of the summit, they will have come up with practical strategies that can be applied, not just in chicago, but in cities across america. joining is me now, msnbc.com national reporter tremain lee. hello to you. they re trying to figure out practical applications, practical strategies to make this work and look at the ones that haven t in the past. what are you hearing so far? so far, as you see behind me, the crowd is just filling in. we re supposed to start at 1:00. we re a little behind. speaking to people here on the ground, they hope to walk away with real, practical ways in which they can try to stem some of this senseless and stubborn violence. from clergy and community activists who have worked with young people to give them job training and job skills and give them access to education to clergy who want to use their houses of worship to funnel messages out to the community what strategies might have worked from more policing on s