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To the community colleges and signing up for the course. >> you say people have got to say, there are things out there. you talk in your book about mentorship. not just that people should be ment mentors. people should look for their own mentor. bill, the reality is what ryan is talking about is not just policy decisions but that particularly in the african-american community or other communities there can be a closer to the ground solution that can help alleviate the high rates of unemployment. >> oh, without a doubt. in the national urban league on which i sit on their council of economic ad...

Soft life. no that's for sure. >> they went through hell -- to get a drink of water. >> bill: right. >> so they knew what was important. most americans don't. now, in a very, very small degree, we have an opportunity to bring people together, because i can intellectually understand racism. i think i have -- i have tried to. i think i can intellectually understand it. but i have never been banned because i'm -- >> bill: they're going to make this ben jealous and this guy the president of the national urban league mark morial they are going to make it racial. >> they are going to make it whateve...

No that's for sure. >> they went through hell -- to get a drink of water. >> bill: right. >> so they knew what was important. most americans don't. now, in a very, very small degree, we have an opportunity to bring people together, because i can intellectually understand racism. i think i have -- i have tried to. i think i can intellectually understand it. but i have never been banned because i'm -- >> bill: they're going to make this ben jealous and this guy the president of the national urban league mark morial they are going to make it racial. >> they are going to make it whatever it is. i ...

No that's for sure. >> they went through hell -- to get a drink of water. >> bill: right. >> so they knew what was important. most americans don't. now, in a very, very small degree, we have an opportunity to bring people together, because i can intellectually understand racism. i think i have -- i have tried to. i think i can intellectually understand it. but i have never been banned because i'm -- >> bill: they're going to make this ben jealous and this guy the president of the national urban league mark morial they are going to make it racial. >> they are going to make it whatever it is. i ...

In the white house she was a regular. she came by not once, not twice, 21 times, she stopped by the white house. took part in our discussion around health care reform in her final months. last february i was scheduled to see her and other civil rights leaders to discuss the pressing problems of unemployment. reverend sharpton, ben gellis of the naacp, mark morial of the national urban league, and we discovered that washington was about to be blanketed by the worst blizzard in record two feet of snow. so i suggested to my aides and i