I want to hear about candidates policies to make all lives better. So right now, there is a race going on a democrat side with the candidates to get socalled black endorsements. It is fast and furious, their meeting with al sharpton. I dont know about you john, but im a black woman. I speak for myself. You was a white man dont have white people telling you how to vote. Why arent Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders getting the endorsement of socalled white americans and so fault socalled white spokespeople . They should be talking that their agenda for black america and they havent. Hillary clinton supported her husbands crime bill which locked up and incarcerated more black men than any president in u. S. History. He created the disparagement between sentencing of crack and crack cocaine and cocaine. That led to the mass incarceration of black americans. I would argue that neither candidate has done anything in their decades of services to help black americans. In your bookue that they are voting against their own interests when they vote for democrats. Overwhelmingly you have over 90 of black americans the last two election the subtitle of the book is howe they gave us these divisions. So i wrote to expose to americas allies of the democrat party, and i have 50 pages of mostly Government Data to prove every point that ive talkedt about. Abortion is not a friend of womens health. So three out of 10 women by the time they turn age 45 will have had an abortion. You tell me how that is promoting womens health. We should be talking about if a woman comes into an abortion clinic, she should be getting counseling on you can have your baby, you can put your baby up for adoption, but none of that is happening in planned parenthood area they are given 40 government funding to fund their 1. 3 billion by saying that they may 2013. And oftentimes you see democrats th hitting one constituent against another. So there is no party that could the all people. That is the failure of identity politics. On one hand revco mcclinton and Bernie Sanders and barack obama talking about illegal immigration, which is actually the enemy of black employment in this country. So i could probably go on and on. We want to bring in our colleagues, phones are open. Please out the number. So james, hollywood, florida. You are up first. Please go ahead. Stick by your phone, lets go over to josh from kissimmee, florida. The line for the republicans. You are on washington journal. Caller i would like to ask about the narrative that all republicans are related to. My daughter, we were in orlando last weekend. And she was saying that how can we get around this false narrative . That is a great question. And that is why we want to break through the stereotypes. Because lack people were born with a certain skin color. We are relegated to this. If you go back in history, way before 1964 when the Democratic Party started owning the blackla vote lock stock and barrel because Lyndon Johnson actually sign this into law and he marshaled it through for political expediency. Before that you had republicanst championing all of the things that now the Democratic Party is giving lip service to. But i think that more importantly people like you and me are speaking out. You didnt have people calling each other names. And i do not believe that donald trump is a racist. I would have liked him to repudiate much stronger when hee he d came out with this support and white supremacist support and he says i cannot control who votes for him but he needs to talk in the vein of Ronald Reagan and say hey, if im elected president im going to bring all people together and recruit repudiate that trash talk. I have not endorsed a candidate or decided who i am going to court in the primary yet. But i will will vote as ai likea republican him and i like what Donald Trumps candidacy is doing for the political establishment because they aree tone deaf to to inclusion. And that is why we are in the state that we are. So i predict that they will do this even if 2 doesnt prevailwh in being nominated or elected. Your column about donald trump as well as this issue of the White Supremacists and his comments about that. You know some criticism for the republican establishment that they have done nothing to grow this beyond this white base over the past four years. I remember vividly when mitt romney became our nominee and i was a Newt Gingrich supporter. I tried at every turn to volunteer for mr. Romneys campaign. I never got responses. I was on television supported him, supporting his wife. He ran one of the widest campaigns in recent memory. What does that mean . One barack obama even though i do not believe perception becomes reality. President obama had people of color. He enlisted actresses in hollywood to go out there and te help him with this campaign. You did not have the surrogates looking like a whos who ofpe white america. The very opposite is true, not just in the people he was using to talk on his half of his campaign largely white male. He had a bunch of coalitions. But that is all they were in name only. And that was reflected in the votes that mitt romney won. He won dixie of the white vote, which is more than any president won in 1988. We see that the passport is not just a white vote. Our nominee today is going to have to appeal to minorities, women and independents. And so i thought it was really disingenuous as well as an affront for him to get up there and start blasting donald trump when he lost an election in 2012 that many people say that he should have won. So my party has problems on inclusion. Host we have a call from waldorf, maryland. Please go ahead. Hello, and good morning, cspan. Good morning to your guests. N i have a feeling that we would probably not agree on manye firt things. But after hearing her, i think that i might change my opinion. So the first is i do sincerely disagree with you respectfully. But with your definition of tru. Racism versus i suppose you categorize it as not racism. I think that your definition should be broadened to include lookover versus overt racism which is really the definition that you probably should be speaking to. But my other statement is that i agree with you in some aspects and that the Democratic Party probably should not have a lock on this. And its not very informed of some voters. Myself, i suppose that i identified with the democrats because i voted democratically in every election. But as i get older i become mor, informed and i suppose i becomeu more active in the political process. I believe that i have changed my understanding of who i should vote for. I think thank you. You make some great observations of racism. And i think racism if i had more time, i dont want to dominate a short time i have, we are talking about the different types of racism, i experienced it from professors when i was in college, high school. We probably dont have enough time to go into all of that. Lets talk about her referred definition. Will, i believe that there is overt racism that we see and hear. There is covert racism with fortune 500 companies. Ap you have racism due to taxi cab drivers, man in a suit and tie. That goes to my point. Its all white people are racist like al sharpton wants to labell people, what happens is that you have a chasm of Racial Division because people like this, he was really interested in making the races come together and he would not jump into every scenario like baltimore, trayvon martin, he would actually take a step back. He flaps his loudmouth and he creates tension. Tension that doesnt produce anything but friction and violence and i think that i also wrote this book because i am not trying trying to convince all black people that they have to vote democrat. I am saying that she rented out that black people have no political influence. We gave that up over the last 50 years we have voted singlehandedly for one Political Party. No other race does that. Just because you have one of these letters next year name, every election cycle, politicians have to earn my vote. And i think that black people need to hold politicians accountable, especially those individuals that have not delivered on the policy. By now you have two candidates on the democratic side promising that lack lives matter and it is the same lipservice we have heard the last four years, the last eight years before that. I would argue sense over a halfcentury, black mines have. Not mattered to democrats, black education has gotten worse, black wealth has gone down. Everything has gone down the toilet when you look at lack lives. Bl one passage from the book are you you write that the book haso become nothing more than an excuse for young black man to get confrontational with police particularly white officers across the country. Th jeopardizing their own lives with another incident they will leverage into more rioting, looting and votes for candidate. Crystal rice wrote the book. Shes our guest for the next 25 minutes. Lets take another call. Good morning. Caller thank you for taking my call. Another comment. I dont think really is as simple as racism and racial economics. And they continue to vote for the same parties. More black babies are born into homes without a mom and a dad. And so whether you look at Brookings Institute or heritage which are polar opposites, one is on the right and what is on the left, all of the data shows that when a child is born into that situation and their chances of falling into poverty are expotential. It is over like 70 . So as we talk about this involving this problem how do w stop them from having on this one generation but many generations and it started happening in the early 50s when Daniel Patrick moynihan who was a democratic senator and the case for National Action is the form of it. He wrote to president johnson and he said well, im concerned here, he has been alert and you have 23 of black babies being born into homes without fathers and i am seeing a rising increase of black women on welfare. So that an amendment and into jail. So passport today and the problem has only gotten more acute. And this is basically a federal Government Program that was actually going to teach black men how to be men. We need to be teaching abstinence programs and personal responsibilities. I disagree that its about social economics. So their p and we have those individuals that are not taking responsibility for their lives. So they keep voting for a party that continues to keep them in a part of this. Book. Every time i present the issues the way you present them, i get called every name in the book. T you now, and i am not going to repeat that. I present that an ideal in data and fact. I cannot bear it. And i think that most of the discrimination we face is more heightened on a per capita to fall into the and i teach young men twice a week. How do we now teach those younger generations. Not to fall into the trap of the democrats and the holy grail. I do it twice a week with young adults aged from 18 are sold to 30 years old. I am talking about a group of 3. I worry guys. I dont care about racism. I know that it is in there. I worry about what i need to be personally to achieve everything that god wants me to achieve an. That is to be 100 of what i can be. Thats truly the key. Not the coddling, it is more about personal responsibilities. Good job, keep doing what youre doing, hopefully one day i will run into you. Thank you. The caller raises important issues. Solutions. I talked about the negatives, but there are solutions and i think that the solution iss, talking more about whats the Speaker Paul Ryan is doing. Bringing forward a policy on how to prevent poverty through personal as much ability and empowerment and a lot of this goes back to when he worked for jack kemp. And he had these ideas of enterprise. He said that if they going tong places like baltimore where you have torn down buildings and theres opportunity for young by people who are trying to break that generational michael then he said that we are going to get tax credits to the businesses to set up shop where there is no economic opportunity. And if you have a job, you are able to buy things. Youre able to get a High School Education and youre able to empower this. Baby wh and so telling them how this works when you have a baby auto wedlock, in the book i talk hight the best friends Foundations Program which Elaine Bennett started and this is a program that was teaching young girls to graduate from high school, not to engage in premarital sax. It was a Curriculum Program taught in about 14 Public Schools including the district of colombia. So they have that program for almost 20 years. She started a program about 10 years ago and the current president , barack obama, once he got elected, hed be funded all of the federal government moneym for abstinence Training Programs and i will just leave the caller with this other example. My mother is a tutor through he, sh church and she said she was tutoring a young grade schooler and this black child to know what husband was. And she was explaining that she was going to send valentines cards for her kids and husband and the little girl said what is a husband. My mom explained and she responded back my mother that husband, boyfriend, they are all the same. They are not all the same. If anything, the black race needs husbands and fathers. Caller hello. Good morning. Crystal wright, you are talking out of two sides of your mouth. One of the problems or what i see is that for one thing, African American people dont look at all white people as being racist. I look at the way that you act. Not because of your skin color but how you treat others. Whether however it is that you want to put it, people like al sharpton are out here to bring it to your attention. A lot of white people and i have a lot of white friends, that doesnt mean that it doesnt exist. So whether it is al sharpton or you, bringing it to the attention of the national media, i do want to jump on this issue about unwed mothers. There are africanamerican communities that do have fathers. So lets not try to sugarcoat this as an africanamerican thing. Planned parenthood serves every Community Across america. So when they have discussions like this, you need to put it out there. Make your call. Y. [inaudible] ask what the republicans are not doing for the Africanamerican Community where the latino community. Because you do not want to use this as a platform. Do it 100 . Do not sugarcoat it and tailor it to the black community. Host lets give her a chance to respond. S guest like americans represent 13 of the population, 72 of babies are born out of tr wedlock. Black men are being killed much higher than any other race and according to the Justice Department blacks are six timesk as likely to commit homicide and seven times as likely to be homes that victims. The number one cause of death ages 15 to 34 years old is homicide. 93 of those deaths are due to homicide. So we have a pathology that is disproportionate to white americans. And when you look at welfare peb capita, more blacks are black women are living in Public Housing because they are having babies out of wedlock. In the book con job ho democrats gave us crime, sanctuary cities, abortion profiettering and Racial Division, the Washington Post says there was an article inia e 2010, where in 2010 or 2011 the District Of Columbia wanted to reduce them, the number of people that could be on welfare assistance. So reference about 45 black women. They didnt just have one baby out of wedlock they had two of them, three of them, for them, one woman even at five or you by different men. At the time the mayor, the black mayor of washington dc, said that he felt that this was a problem. This is a black mayor talking about a black problem. One of the young woman said when she was told that she was possibly going to lose assistance, who is going to pay for my campers. You talk about what republicans are doing. Republicans want to end the cycle. Whenever they want to reform welfare, republicans lead onack programs which barack obama defines every chance that he got in every budget that he has admitted. Charter schools, vouchers, they have been under assault in favor of the Teachers Unions and these help minorities and black hispanics. Host richard, you are on a crystal wright. Are you there . Richard . Okay, lets go to paul in virginia beach, virginia. Caller yes, thank you for taking my call. I have to wake points to take care of. G down my first is i kept hearing thiso list of reasons why africanobas americans should not vote for democrat. That is talking about president obamas program, all of these other things, why we should not vote for democrats. My problem with that is that there are no reasons why we should vote for the republicans. I havent heard one fingered myt second point is even though and i agree with you that they have not done everything correctly for the Africanamerican Community going into the voting booth in november and voted for this nrtys frontrunner [inaudible] and a white separatist as well. And during the debate, your republican candidates are on stage telling jokes. So do you really think that the democrats that we should vote for that clown show do you have on the Republican Party. Guest i think that its really sad that you are voting for the clown show called the democrats. And i think its sad and all of your diatribe to me about the democratic target you never told me once while you are voting for them but you laughed saying whyy should i vote republican. Frankly, you should give the Republican Party a try because the democrats have kept the blacks poor and dumber and mor