Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180507:16:42:00
What's happened is we have had moments where we have had populist candidates who have worked and exacerbated racial anxiety, anxiety about immigrants, anxiety about broad economic and cultural change. but we haven't had one, at least in a long time, who rose to the pinnacle of power. strom thurmond in 1948. george wallace, who won 13.5% of the vote in 1968. someone who ran on a platform of segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever. and that's within the lifetime of most of us. my native region in the south, and the lifetime of anyone over 40, 45, we had functional apartheid....