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The black middle class doubled since 1970, black upper middle class tripled. why? because of something called affirmative action. we have the biggest black middle class in history, we have a black president, we have more black elected officials, over 40 black people in the black caucus. what is the black caucus? we have so many congress people, they have an organization. you say, wow, what happened? was there a revolution? you say, well, in a sense there was. he would say, that means poverty was obliterated, right? he died and poor people -- well, it didn't happen that way. how did it happen? ...

Americans, and african-americans, we within our own people, within the race, have the largest class gap. called the gene co-efficient. the door opened for some of us and slammed shut. it celeste peopleft people in a self-perpetuating cycle. martin luther king couldn't believe that, over 800,000 black men in the prison system, huge percentage of the prison population, 6.5% of the population, and 33% of the incarcerated. >> president obama was just beginning to make some inroads in. >> absolutely. a black man has a one in three chance of going to prison. one in three. think about how many black ...

Against ronald reagan. only a third of them voted for them. and that's probably why michigan and pennsylvania and wisconsin toppled. she expect to do poorly among uncollege educated men. but the waitress moms who voted for her husband, i think if any single result is going to get most discussion after tonight is going to be that. >> i agree, because there was a gender gap in the gender of women. >> a class gap. >> it wasn't about gender, it was about class. you know, you talk about a woman getting so close. what was remarkable to me about this race was that jenlder was never really an issue. >...

Was subsumed. i think she thought that donald trump -- she and a lot of us, quite frankly, thought that donald trump was going to create her gender gap for her by his own behavior. >> right. >> and that -- so it would be about the gender gap, would be about his behavior and not about women having to feel like they were voting for a woman just because she was a woman. in the end, it turned out to be about class, not gender. >> the gap between college and non-college white women was bigger than the gap between men and women. >> right. >> the class gap among white women was bigger than the gender...

Polling was off. why the predictiveness was off. how a candidate who had fundamentally divisive appeals was able to match among the latino vote and not do worse. the rule of class were all things. >> and that he could overcome such division in the electorate. the things that he said about women. and his own past with women, that "access hollywood" tape and yet, he did very well among noncollege educated white women. the gender gap was not as big as the class gap that he exploited. he understood something about the electorate that so many of us, i didn't think he could win, that his path was sk...