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Corporations but for some reason we are reluctant to make specific targeted gains for the black youth of america. i think president obama can have a profound impact on the youth of this country if he develops a targeted set agenda with targeted goals for black americans. joining me now, journalist and publicist karen hunter. thanks for joining us yesterday on our special on msnbc. i appreciated your work and also tamron hall anchoring with me, was just absolutely outstanding. >> as were you. >> do you see it the way some americans see it? what i just said? >> i mean, i hate statistics and i ha...

I also believe in being humanitarian, and can't get themselves up by their own bootstrap, but even with this motivation, people still were not accomplishing the goals. so people they're not raised with these ideals, they're not going to come through with them. >> i'm so sick and tired of this whole bootstraps myth. i've near seen boot straps. >> they can't afford boots. >> if i had bootstraps, i would hire poor people to lift me up. how can you lift yourself up? >> okay, fine. >> i'm just saying. i'm sorry, diana. it wasn't your fault. it's condescending your rewarding the poor to act like eve...

When our side gets knocked down we pick ourselves up by the boot straps and get back into the game begin this is the kind of attitude that won world war ii. not i'd like some free stuff please, because i can't make it on my own. you get kicked down, you stand back up. hey that's the idea that brought us the lightbulb. that tamed the west, that crossed the rookies. those are the people that are fighting for the republic. there wasn't anybody on the wagon train that said i need somebody to carry around my stuff. how come i don't have any free food? that person died on the side of the road. actua...

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Humanitarian impact. >> the policies on the border is certainly encouraging this behavior. >> they want children to stay in the united states. >> you cannot catch a train or bus or beat coyotes up here. >> we are able to detain people and send them back to our country. if you come to our country i illegally, you will be sent back. our nation, like no other, began as a nation of others. the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free, we are the sons and daughters of immigrants, immigrants who had a chance at the american dream. told if they picked themselves up by their boot...