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But let me say this. jim webb's point is important and courageous. what he's saying is don't treat white america as a monolith. scotch-irish southerners, those folks never benefited from the waps ascendency in boston and new york, they were the victims of that form of discrimination and are today the victims of discrimination practice, affirmative action quotas, set asides and things like that. ask yourself, chris, what is the morality? what is the justice of discriminating against appalachian white folks whose father may have fought in vietnam, his father fought in world war ii in favor of fo...

Racial consciousness here. i think jim webb is on the cutting edge of a huge national issue. >> we'll see. thank you. final thought? >> yeah, final thought. there's another question. this nation as pat pointed out is becoming more diverse. the leadership class of the nation had better be diverse, as well. >> that's one of the things i began to realize in college. >> chris, take a look at the limited diversity you find in the ivy league. the scholar at princeton said no poor whites need apply. there's discrimination against people, future farmers of america, junior rotc. read his article. 2,500...

He said three at home, four on the road and five in the playoffs. so i think that was the -- >> you play the best players when you go to win. that's very american. >> you are such an american realist. i say that with a certain degree of roux. >> charlie scott started winning for unc. all of a sudden everybody wanted to get in on the act. here's senator webb. let's get back to the world besides sports. policy makers ignored such disparities within america's white cultures. when in advancing minority diversity programs, they treated whites as a fungible monolith. the differences in economic and ...

In congress. that's why we're here. >> congressman mcgovern, will you take the heat? will the president take the heat from the right? and it will come. you democrats cost us afghanistan by pulling the plug on this. >> the taliban are awful rotten people. but there are a lot of awful rotten people all over the world. we can't occupy every country. here's my hope. if we can set a timeline, if we can set an exit strategy, that will put pressure on the afghan government to either step up or not. the responsibility lies with the afghan government. we have been there ten years. we have spent hundred...

>> so i'll mark you down as having no problem with affirmative action for those who suffered under slavery. >> i think the original act to rectify the injustices of slavery and jim crowe had a real moral argument behind them. i don't understand the moral argument for discriminating against working class folks from the south or appalachia or tennessee who never had a break. >> gene robinson? >> pat and i agree on one thing, affirmative action, that there was a moral argument behind the original intent of affirmative action. to rectify slavery and jim crowe and hundreds of years of oppression. >...