Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130722:11:15:00
Have been trayvon 35 years ago" knowing that the president grew up in some of the most exclusive prep schools and colleges in the world? >> well, i thought about him at age 17. and even though he did go to an exclusive prep school, i don't think that was the key thing. in many ways, he was as complicated at age 17 as trayvon martin was. his looks, he was a black young man in a society where there were very few blacks. he had a bushy afro. he smoked dope and played hoops. there was things about obama that were parallel to trayvon martin. and of course, the main thing is the color of his skin. a...