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Age? you are referring to the washington post study where where they said she was positively viewed across both race lines. i'm disturbed that people are shocked that a black woman is intelligent. it's the negative images that we see in these pop culture, that is the norm of what we see, so mrs. obama, even though she is on television every day, americans are still adjusting to that. intelligence is a word that probably comes to mind because it not one that we to not often associate with black women sadly. >> thank you so much. >> thank you.

Right way. they said president obama failed to pay attention to black unemployment in this country. is he right or wrong and should it be divided along race lines? >> it is absolutely right. you look at the statistics and the facts speak for themselves. the national average unemployment is 8.5% in the nation. in the black community it's 15.8 percent and that's down from 17%. for black adult males it's 16.4% unemployment and black teenagers 16 to 19% -- i mean 16 to 19 years of age it's 40.7%. as a matter of fact, the chairman of the congressional black caucus once said if anyone else was in th...

Wide at its base. that's like a train that wide, bearing down on your neighborhood. and so when you stand there in the center of it, what you see at first is just nothing. you see just absolute devastation. there are houses that literally seem to have been disintegrated, not blown over, not the roof torn off, just gone. but what you see soon after is you get to the shelters and you talk to people in the streets, they are cleaning up and gathering photos and so forth, is that folks are really coming together. black and white, working across old lines, race lines, class lines, to support each ot...

This is philadelphia, city of brotherly love, where our founding fathers met, wrote, and signed the declaration of independence while the people they owned waited outside anxiously awaiting to hear the news about how that document was also going to give them their independence. philadelphia is already a majority minority city. what does that mean in reality? west philadelphia. some of you are already singing the song in your head. a majority black residential area where about half the businesses are black-owned. it's one of the most ethnically diverse sections of the city, and 52nd street is t...

How -- >> don't break out in hives, rev. >> that's why i sat you next to him. but how different -- this is what a lot of people miss and i want to get this to our viewers. how different is the social justice policies of this administration even from traditional mainstream republicans of the past? because i've been out here a long time and i've fought the last two or three republican presidents. i cut my teeth when reagan was president. and then bush sr. and bush jr. and trump is far more radical right in social justice approaches than both bushes and reagan was. >> i don't think, rev, you woul...