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♪ amazing grace >> is it too big a demand that black people be given grace as well as justice? >> yes. how can we be in the face of such injustice? we've managed it so far, but why keep doing it when we have the outcome of that, why is it that injustice continues? even in that moment with obama in that church singing "amazing grace," that's the product of this new black rage, because he's been the moralizing figures that have talked about our shortcomings as people. any time he gets to talk about racism, it's always couched in these sort of politics of accountability and respectability and w...

Seeps away because we have, like -- we became invested in the institutional, right? the black rage sits on the outside, for the most part, and it cuts at the core of white supremacy. but what we've done in the wake of the civil rights movement in the advances that we had is we've run for office. this is not a bad thing, but what it does, then, is mean we have to compromise because that's what electoral politics is in this country. >> i'm glad you mentioned julian bond because snik versus scsc was was it going to be confrontation or work from power to get them to do what we wanted them to do an...

Limitations of what electoral politics can do, and the way we have to push our candidates, whether it' bernie sanders or jeb bush, and that's what black violence does is it gets people talking, even saying, well, we should get police body cameras. that's the biggest compromise we're willing to make instead of talking about the ways in which the laws and the policies put police in our communities and make them more aggressive towards us, and the things that are defined as crime in our communities where black people are policed far more. >> let me play this moment from president obama which has ...

Firsthand. he's now returned a half a century later. >> modern america had never seen anything like it. >> we're going to fire a few warning shots in the air to keep them back. we mean business. >> racial rage on a war zone scale. when the fires went out and the smoke cleared, watts became something else, a metaphor for black rage and white guilt. this was not supposed to happen in sunny southern california. suddenly watts was ground zero for millions of dollars for local and federal aid. a mandatory stop for activist politicians. i was new to nbc in those days. and these streets quickly becam...

Different players do this in different ways during this campaign. >> i want you both to weigh in you first, marc just on what we heard from the president on race yesterday in this eulogy saying something that really stood out to me. let's listen to that. >> we're guarding against not just racial slurs but we're also guarding against the subtle impulse to call johnny back for a job interview but not jamal. >> marc this is a president who some have criticized over the years, especially closer to the beginning of his first term for not addressing race enough head-on. is this the reaction that a l...