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I gave in selma, and the speech i gave during the campaign about reverend wright and that whole episode. and each and every time i tried to describe why it is that we are still not fully reconciled with our history. but the fact is it is a hard thing to hear. it's hard for the majority in this country, white americans, to recognize that look, you can be proud of this country and its traditions and its history and our forefathers, and yet it is also true that this terrible stuff happened. the vestiges of that linger and

Still is the embodiment of race. he is -- he was a president who just happened to be black. but his campaign and he knew if he went out there and talked about race all the time, he would lose out. when he talked about skip gates, he lost a certain segment of white america and never gained it back. he's keenly aware that he wrote about it in the book and he talked about it in this great interview with anderson cooper, but he talked about race with skip gates. he talked about race as he said in the interview with jeremiah wright but he also talked race when he went to selma, you know, with then ...

President, that you're going to believe other conspiracy theories. natural progression. >> i agree with you. i thought the anderson interview with the former president was excellent. obama talked to anderson about his frustration that he wasn't able to shift the conversation about race in america while he was president. watch this. >> looking back, as president, did you tell the story of race in america enough? >> i tried. you look at the speeches i gave in selma and the speech i gave during the campaign about reverend wright and that whole episode, each and every time i tried to describe why ...

Tra trayvon martin could have been me 35 years ago. >> president obama was both praised and criticized for that statement one of several reminders for the first black american president that how and when he discussed race was something he and his advisors had to think carefully about. in his book he writes that early on in his presidential campaign his advisors warned him about being boxed in as quote the black candidate. looking back as president, did you tell the story of race in america enough do you think? >> yeah, well, look, i tried. i think i told a lot of stories. you take a look at th...

Y'all know what y'all talking about. that's why i invited you on. good evening to both of you. bakari, let's start with you. anderson and the former president barack obama, they spoke a lot about race in this country. take a look, and then we'll talk about it. >> looking back as president, did you tell the story of race in america enough, do you think? >> yeah. well, look, i tried. i think i told a lot of stories. you take a look at the speeches i gave in selma and the speech i gave during the campaign about reverend wright and that whole episode. and, you know, each and every time i tried to ...