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Range of civil rights issues. it's interesting to note, which itch is the president going to scratch? and this is an itch, where he is from, and in terms of his own self perception, and that matters for a huge amount, and then on a wide range of other issues, it didn't seem as urgent for whatever reason. >> in terms of the general question of if you were to take the temperature on activists, i think from my reporting and i talk to these folks a lot, these are my people, the ltv activist has a warmer view of the president than the immigration rights people do. >> i agree. and they are looking a...

Brown looks, because the way brown looks looks really nasty for some reason, but i don't know what reason. that's all. >> that's part of my conversation with brielle after she had taken the test and those answers that she gave me matched what she said on the test. they're painful to watch. imagine how her parents felt, for them, like laura who you saw earlier, the test was a wake-up call. soledad o'brien caught up with brielle and her parents recently. >> reporter: this is brielle today. her parents, byron and latisha, focused on changing her self-perception, shocked at brielle's answers. >> i...

>> well, not really, but sometimes. >> sometimes. and they asked what color adults don't like. do you remember what you said? which one? >> that's right. >> why do you think adults don't like that color? >> dark. >> dark. >> and adults -- you think adults don't like dark? >> well maybe some adults do, but maybe some of them don't. >> what brielle said and also in the pilot study was a wake-up call for parents to try to change the way they talk about race at home. soledad o'brien caught up with brielle's family. >> reporter: this is brielle today. her parents changed on changing her self-percep...

Home. soledad o'brien caught up with her family recently. >> this is brielle today. her parents byron and leticia focused on changing her self perception. >> it made me feel like what are we doing wrong? we thought about some of the experiences she had where she has noticed her skin color at an early age and we thought that it was affecting her a certain way and didn't realize she realized it. >> her perception was that the golden hair or the lighter skinned kids got to be in line first for whatever or there was one incident in the way they cast even the christmas play. >> light skinned kids w...

Saying ah-ha? or did it just, did he just start to do the right thing? how did that happen? was there, was there a moment for george washington? >> i think it was a whole series of moments, but you know, in order to understand george washington, you have to understand his self-perception and his understanding of his role. we know of at least 67 occasions during the revolutionary war alone when he said that the american cause of independence would have come to a complete disaster except for one thing. and that was the direct intervention of god to save us. later on, after he was elected preside...