>> yeah, impacted wanted to as about that. i remember standing in grand park. there was this sense that this barrier had been shattered and it was a huge leap forward for the country and i think it was, but how much of what followed was essentially a backlash to it, a reaction to that progress, president obama talked about it just recently. >> he did. marvelous speech. >> progress doesn't just move in a straight line. there's a reason why progress hasn't been easy. and why throughout our history, every two steps forward seems to sometimes produce one step back. >> i remember that night in grand park. i remember coming early to chicago that day so i could go to my old neighborhood on the south side and just sit quietly on the stoop of the place where i lived and place, in fact, where i was born and just experience what it was like to be from that place and -- on the