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Continue. the truth is when i tried to tell that story oftentimes my political opponents would deliberately not only block out that story but try to exploit it for their own political gain. i tell the story in the book about the situation where skip gates, harvard professor, who is trying to get into his own house, gets arrested and i'm asked about it. >> i don't know not having been there and not seeing all the facts what role race played in that, but i think it's fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry. number two, that the cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebo...

It's hard for the majority in this country of 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 and that, you know, the vestiges of that linger and continue. and the truth is that when i tried to tell that story, oftentimes my political opponents would deliberately not only block out that story but try to exploit it for their own political gain. >> the former president -- david axelrod mentioned this last week on the show. he said after he spoke out about pr...

Reconciled with our history. but the fact is that it is a hard thing to hear. it's hard for the majority in this country of 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. and that, you know, the vestiges of that linger and continue. and the truth is that when i tried to tell that story, oftentimes my political opponents would deliberately not only block out that story but try to exploit it for their own political gain. i tell the story in the book about t...

The platform. >> i don't think it was a signature issue back then. more broadly something he says in his book, that we talk about. is it every time he talked about race, his poll numbers plummeted. something i found revealing, he says you remember the incident where the police arrests harvard professor. skip gates on his porch. and obama says the police acted stupidly. something he says that nothing in his presidency no event in the entirety of the eight years drops the support among white voters as that single moment. and never gets some of the support back. >> help us. waiting to unfreeze. h...

No matter how skinny I made myself – and I shrunk into an anorexia of sorts – in society’s mirror I was still not small enough ‘Every person of color in this city has to deal with the very real possibility that to call for help can mean that you are the one who gets killed.’ Photograph: Amy Harris/Rex/Shutterstock ‘Every person of color in this city has to deal with the very real possibility that to call for help can mean that you are the one who gets killed.’ Photograph: Amy Harris/Rex/Shutterstock Tue 25 May 2021 05.29 EDT Last modified on Tue 25 May 2021 05.36 EDT