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Gender resentment, on and on. >> i know of a study where they said black vice presidents are not able to get further in their corporations because they don't personally identify with the corporation the way many white men do. but you couldn't possibly get to that level of personal identification with the corporation or perhaps with america as a nation because you know that it's not there for you. you still feel like a second class citizen, and when he you see what happens with shirley sherrod or skip gates, then you start to say, yes, this is true. >> but how much of it is a self-fulfilling dr...

They were talking about it at the white house. when he was asked to address it at a press conference that's when he took skip gates' side. it was later he realized he made a mistake by doing that and showed up at the briefing room in a surprise appearance, if you will, to announce this beer summit. clearly there was a personal connection when it came to that story and realized he made a mistake and he had to come out and correct that mistake. this go-around with mrs. shirley sherrod is mark ed edly different. he doesn't have a relationship with her, dunce know her. he wasn't involved with this...

Let's bring in cnn white house correspondent suzanne malveaux. what's the filter process? how is it decided whether the president gets involved in a race issue or not? >> reporter: first of all, in covering the president during the campaign, it is very clear that this president does not want to talk about race. reticent to jump into it. he was really forced during the campaign to talk about it in a way because of his reverend wright controversy. once he did it, however, he tried to do it in a thoughtful way, a way that would make people take away their own prejudices and think about their own ...

Different. think there's probably more of a teachable moment about race with the skip gates, professor crowley incident. i think there's -- everybody wanted to be ahead of the story. fox news wanted to be ahead of the story. i don't think they looked at what's going on. the administration wanted to keep haefahead of the story. i don't think this is so much about that tape in particular. remember, fox was flogging this new black panther, there was a secret memo going around in the doj saying that blacks were not to be tried the same way as whites. i think there was, within the administration, t...

Discussion to try to start to get over the tensions that pull us apart every time one of these racial hurricanes come rolling through. just a year ago we were talking about how you know, skip gates and jeff crowley situation was a teachable moment. before that it was something else. so she sees this she say h she viewed the president was running away from the conversation, rather than looking at it as an opportunity to move toward. >> mark, how do we protect ourselves? we didn't cover a given hurricane, real or not, over a couple days we would all be fired. with e know how does fox does busine...