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On racism and change the perceptions that paint us as intolerant . Thats a good question. I hate the fact you feel the need to even ask that question because the principles that we so dearly believe in and behold are those Foundation Principles that are equality for all before the law. We are all equal in the eyes of god. Were all equal, whether you believe in god or not. That is the Foundation Stone of who we are and what we believe in in our party. What we strive for in our ideas and our princ...

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Bennett. >> i didnt want to do it, but then he told me what went down, what was going down and how some blacks were burned with gasoline thrown on them and they were burned. when i heard that i said, ill go with you. and that black/white divide. white faces would see your face. what do you think they thought about you? >> traitor. the spirit that we decided were just going to march right through it, no matter what. >> reporter: after a federal court affirmed the right to march against the govern...

Despite our deep differences on policy issues american voters have traditionally shared substantial agreement on the core national values and the vision of the unified america is at the heart of the statement of then state senator barack obama at the 2004 democratic nastiona convention. >> the pundits, the pundits like to slice and dice our country into red states and blue states, red states for republicans, and blue states for democrats. there is not a liberal america and a conservative america...

Birtherism is about, and saying that i just cant believe that this guy is an american because of literally what he looks like? >> yeah, exactly. i will put it one step further and it is what it is, because he took the american dream and made it happen. so i think a collective tourettes gasp of oh, my god, we have a black president and went to harvard what my white kid would have and we have all of the brown people crowding us out and completely freaked everybody out and that is why he is having ...

From the former confederate state standing up to tell the president he is lying, and that is old fashioned racism, but what president obama said when we pass health care we will not let latinos who are illegal immigrants and i cant remember the exact language, but illegal immigrants and we will not let them be part of it and he is in the moment raising the brown spector and then joe wilson says, you lie. there is a black/white divide and anxiety integration mushed togeth together. >> this is the...

Years, and what has changed is the widest of all of the goals that divide us are the political ideology, and the pugh researchers found that the gap between the political parties has doubled. and the increase of the divide happened in the presidencies of george w. bush and barack obama. still here with me anthea butler, professor at the university of pennsylvania and raoul reyes, and dorian lord, assistant professor of columbia university and rick warren who is a reporter for the u.s. world news...