Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20111215:23:07:00
If i were a poor black kid, here's what i -- >> i wanted to talk about that. because i was a poor black kid. >> as was i. >> right. and the whole idea here, in fact, for plenty of people, they can know these stats, hear these testimonies, and the response to it is, well, kid, do better. rather than a response being as americans it is our fundamental responsibility to make sure that these children don't have these circumstances. >> now, congressman cleveland, to show you how callous, in my opinion, some of your republican colleagues are, in the face of this, in the face of one out of two americ...