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White neighborhood where you have the level of crime. show me, and i think we should go there. >> i can show you a lot of -- >> i think muggings, murders. >> i grew up in a very wealthy white neighborhood. i can tell you the number of parents who were popping pills and doing all sorts of illegal stuff. it wasn't the stuff that is being prosecuted. >> and ironically -- >> let me make a point here. i was -- one time i was here at cnn getting ready to go home from evening, and i had a nice gentleman walk me out, a black security guard here. you know what he said he's afraid of when he leaves cnn ...

>> well, you show me a wealthy white neighborhood where you have the level of crime. show me, and i think we should go there. >> i can show you a lot of -- >> i think muggings, murders. >> i grew up in a very wealthy white neighborhood. i can tell you the number of parents who were popping pills and doing all sorts of illegal stuff. it wasn't the stuff that is being prosecuted. >> and ironically -- >> let me make a point here. i was -- one time i was here at cnn getting ready to go home from evening, and i had a nice gentleman walk me out, a black security guard here. you know what he said he'...

>> let me make a point here. i was -- one time i was here at cnn getting ready to go home from evening, and i had a nice gentleman walk me out, a black security guard here. you know what he said he's afraid of when he leaves cnn at night? he's not afraid of the white kid walking around, he's afraid of his own people. the reality is, when you go to the ghettos and the public housing and cities in urban environments like washington, you go to predominantly black neighborhoods. that is where the violence is occurring. it's occurring. black lives and hispanic lives are being saved by stop and fris...

With that a thousand percent, but beyond that, whether they are the young men who are an abject poverty living on the corners wearing their hoodie or a middle-class kid walking through a middle-class neighborhood at night wearing a hoodie, the one thing they have in common is they're still black. >> yeah. >> and it speaks to systemic issue within the country that as a nation we refuse to face. that is how uncomfortable we are to look each other in the eye and have a honest, down to earth discussion about how we feel about race, what we want to do about the feelings and how we move beyond those...

17-year-old kid walking home. >> that's what he was. >> none of us, including myself know how the altercation began and how it was. it's what took place in george zimmerman's mind when he discharged the weapon and if he perceived he was in danger of great bodily harm or death he's justified under law to discharge a firearm. >> this cuts to the quick of the trial that so many people feel must have been another option than just shooting this boy dead. >> right, and to your point, i mean, no one knows but trayvon and george zimmerman whether or not george zimmerman exposed a weapon prior to the e...