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>> niece a mixed marriage and his son is like president obama, half black, half white. and he went into his own personal story and how i tell my son how to act differently make sure you're not going to be a threat. so was that appropriate, in your mind, for a public official -- >> he wants to tell his son to act appropriately with the police, everybody should. black father, white fathers, hispanic fathers, mixed race fathers, we should all tell our children to act appropriately with the police. i was always told the policeman is always right. there is a good reason for it. he's got a gun. don'...

Especially in the urban areas. here is the missed opportunity. five years ago we elect ad partly african-american president, half black, half white. cohave been a perfect person to unite the country. i believe he had a missed opportunity he allowed himself to inject himself in racial issues which the president of the united states should not have gone there and risen above it to bring people together. the people hurting most in the economy are the people supported him the most. black community, 30% of unemployment, high incidents of welfare and food stampsth is the despair of our country our p...

Larger point of my book, don't, don't make the same mistake again, america. more white people voted for barack obama in the 2008 election than have voted for a democrat, than white people have voted for a democrat for nearly 40 years. so, obviously, white guilt was operating. people did like the historic idea of the first black president. i would have preferred that it was, um, a black president who came out of the american black tradition, by the way. i mean, his father -- part of the reason we care about this is because of the democratic legacy of slavery and segregation, something that clar...

Muslim. he responded to the allegations saying it's completely indefensible, there's nothing else to say. does it, frankly, help when people have a personal experience with prejudice or themselves have been on the receiving end of a witch hunt, that they are much more empathetic? we know this as people of color or minorities who struggle against the main stream lack of a kind of personal story and narrative, does this help? >> absolutely. look, there have been stories about for instance, elected officials even here in the state of new york who switched their vote on gay marriage because they h...

And we saw this on people who had one position on interracial couples until they had a half black, half white grandkid. it's really refreshing for once to see our politics united against hate for a change as opposed to united in hate. and i center to say, usually congresswoman bachmann is on my list with alan keyes and other for being some of the most entertaining, sort of wacky individuals in politics. she's crossed the line from eccentric wacky aunt to someone her own campaign manager said crossed over into evil territory. she's rapidly losing her entertainment value. >> dr. evil would have ...