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>> jason and tavis actually really have a good point. when you take a look at history in this president and race, he's reactive when it comes to race. his comments in 2008, he reacted to jeremiah wright. he wasn't proactively talking about it, whether the beer summit in boston when that happened a couple years ago and obviously trayvon martin. president obama is uncomfortable talking about race from the bully pulpit. >> wait a second. did you listen to him? did you get a sense he was uncomfortable? i didn't. i got a sense he was speaking from the heart, talking about personal experiences and w...

Even in the administration. you know, what i am sad about is yes, that they are black on black killings, and it just seems as though nobody gives a damn, and i would just wish if we're going to -- if the president of the united states is going to speak out about a beer summit in cambridge, massachusetts or if the president of the united states is going to speak out about trayvon martin, i would hope that he could be as vociferous about what is going on in chicago. bring people together to try to make a determination. >> i agree. >> about how we bring a met more morephosis about in this nation....

Home, a crazy episode, he wound up having to do a beer summit photo-op to smooth over ruffled feathers. he's got people out there ready tocuse him of racism. this is volatile territory. i deal with it all the time. that's my job as. >> do you have any problems with any of his stubstantive comment? >> i heard the criticism is that he should have said a few more kind words about the zimmerman family. i think it was important that he did say once again that we need to abide by the court' decision.

Challenges in his life. it's the dance between the public and the personal. that's what the president has to navigate. >> reporter: a year after his so-called race speech, president obama found himself in the middle of another race related firestorm, police arrested an african-american harvard professor in his own home after he showed i.d. listen to what the president said. >> i think it's fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry. number two, that the cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home. >> reporter...

Navigate. >> reporter: a year after his so-called race speech, president obama found himself in the middle of another race related firestorm, police arrested an african-american harvard professor in his own home after he showed i.d. listen to what the president said. >> i think it's fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry. number two, that the cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home. >> reporter: charges against the professor were later dropped. the president tried to smooth things over and save his pl...