not exactly climbing out on a political limb. but a college degree has everything to do with economic mobility and who gets to be in the middle class. and right now only about third of students in the poorest families go to college and only about a tenth graduate. now, the president has been ridiculed as an elitist for suggesting that more people go to college so, if you think there s no political risk, maybe you haven t been paying attention. also, you misunderstand the place that michelle obama occupies as the first african-american first lady. you seem to think she s trying to steer clear of the angry black woman stereotype. when she calls herself mom in chief, she is rejecting a different stereotype, the roll of mammy. she is saying that her daughters, her vulnerable, brilliant, beautiful black daughters are the most important thing to her. the first lady is saying you, miss ann, are going to have to clean your own house because i will be caring for my own.
we re back and talking about the continuing legacy and the rollback on issues of civil rights and voting rights here in america. sort of if we re still living in what was left of johnson s america. these days we talk a little about the voting rights. the other piece is the civil rights questions. specifically sort of housing and sort of how we are or not together in a more equal country. we re a more equal country in the sense we don t believe it s okay to be racist. we are not a more equal country if we look at being able to share in the benefits and burdens of public policy. that s what we re talking act when we talk about things like house, even voting rights. we re saying it s okay if we were talking about the safety net earlier and one of the
mace, and nightsticks. ? they hit me. i went down. trying to fend off some of the blows. i came back up and they said get out of here and i said i m trying to, in which case they hit me again and hit me again. there must have been at least a dozen of them. it was about 4:00 in the morning and several delegates from the convention joined the demonstrators in a candlelight parade down michigan avenue. end? whitney young, director of the urban league, said today in new york that last night s police action against anti-war demonstrators in chicago should prove to whites that the use of excessive force and brutality by the police is not something negroes imagine. young pointed out that most of the terror demonstrators were . 45 years after police violence against peaceful demonstrators marked the end of johnson s great society. we are still living with the legacy of a nation that is still afraid of its young people and still willing to overuse the
fight this battle, that we have already won with black and brown bodies, bruised and broken. it s it s saddening. it s morally outrageous. but it also means that we can go back to history to remember what s important. and president johnson said one line so beautiful the right to vote is a basic right without which all others are meaningless. it gives people as individuals control over their own destinies. that s what we have to take up now in ohio. let me come back to you far moment on this because there is something a little odd about it. i m not talking about my state, louisiana, or even about the madness that is north carolina these dais, but ohio, free country. you know, our people were crossing into we were trying to get to ohio. right. absolutely. so talk to me. do you think there are republicans with whom you can form coalition in ohio to push back on this? well, i m not sure. i wish. in the legislature, there are very few.
civil rights attorney and founder of the center for inclusion, julian zelizer, history of public affairs and valerie core from auburn seminary. nina, always lovely to have you. ? thank you, professor. it does feel to me these days we re trying to strip away some of the accomplishments that were bought with the blood sacrifices i was talking about p what happened do you say ta to that in ohio? i think reverend dr. otis mau summed it up saying the strug sl forever with us so we are forever in the struggle. that is what s going on not just the state of ohio but across this country. there is a lack of consciousness that the president spoke about it is gone. these acts are being conducted by republicans who control statehouses across this country to regress us as a nation. and everybody, as president johnson said, all of us bear the burden of making sure that that