Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100409:17:24:00
>> you interviewed john lewis and he said -- but how did this young, this child in hawaii raised by large by white grandparents who came from kansas, in a multiracial community in hawaii that was not predominantly black. so, how did he come up with this way of self-identifying? >> well, i think race is something that is largely given to you. you look at yourself in the mirror and there's a lot of the story right there, but it's also something you have a say in very often. certainly in barack obama's case, his self-identification and pursuit of an identity had a large part of forming who he was...