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Whose plan is best for the future and who has a better understanding of the problems that we face? we can't dismiss the growing gap in this country. it's a long-term trend exacerbated by the recession. at the end of the day, presidents and people who want to lead this very complex nation have to have more than a superficial understanding of the problems. and also i think the question is whose plan is better for the future. i mean, i think we're going to get to that part of this discussion and i think in new orleans i think the president just gave a great talk, great talk. >> marc morial, thank...

Businesses program holds its chicago graduation today. the program is designed to help small business onners leawners grow and create jobs. president and ceo of the national urban league mark morial. good to have you on. >> joe, good to see you. >> and we have one of today's graduating scholar, the owner of deer rehabilitative services, dennis deer. dennis deer, congratulations. >> thank you so much. i'm happy. i'm excited. >> tell us your story. >> my name is dr. dennis deer, born and raised on chicago's west side in one of the toughest communities. i have a business called deer rehabilitatio...

Life, how you build an economy one job at a time. >> are you going to be at the graduation today? >> i am. if one out of every american small business did $5 million or less added one job, we'd be at full employment. so it's not just a lot of red rick to say that small business growth can help the economy and create jobs. >> dennis deer, congratulations. >> thank you so much. >> you're going to flourish. >> since being in the program, i've actually created four new jobs. so i'm very happy about that and my revenues are up 7% and the first quarter of 2012 from 2011, we learned app astonishing a...

zimmerman. listen. >> we want justice. >> we want justice! >> we want justice! >> but it's not as if zimmerman is on the run. it's that police haven't arrested or charged him. this reward is being offered by the local chapter of the panthers. but we're reaching out to the group's national leader, malik shabazz. we're trying to get a comment from him. meantime, we're going to take you to new york. >> i don't care who thinks they in charge in sanford, put your hoodies on. put your marching shoes on. don't give up. don't give out, and your change will come. >> that's the reverend, al sh...

We're back. civil rights activists say black voting rights are voter i.d. laws and have shortened or eliminated voting and made absentee ballots more difficult. it is to restrict voting to blacks. mark morial is the president of the group that just released their state of black america group and eugene robinson is an msnbc political analyst. thank you for joining us. >> great, chris. >> mayor, i want you to come on here first and tell us, you are making a case here. do you believe the motivation is political in the part of these republican legislatures to deny democrats the right to vote or ju...