Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140111:21:39:00
Toward helping the middle class and not toward helping the rich. in order to stop that, we have to stop being divided by race. we're being divided by race by a new racial rhetoric that operates by code, things like welfare cheats, things like illegal aliens. these are terms operating like dog whistles. on one level you can't hear the race because there's no surface reference to race. on the other they're triggering tremendous racial anxiety. they're making people afraid of minorities but also afraid of government. as a result we have a lot of the american public who sees the takers in their li...