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You've done a series of shows on race and you travel around the country talking to people about race. and you hear that things are worse than they were before -- >> no, that's not true. >> and i think about your childhood in alabama and what was going on back then, and, you know, i wonder if -- >> first of all, anyone who says race relations aren't better, that's just idiotic. racism does exist and always will, but for people to say things aren't better that's just ridiculous. i mean i can actually enter a restaurant i want to, go in the same bathroom and drink out of the same water fountain. ...

Voted democrat our entire life and now we're starting like, well, how much has it really helped us? we know the republicans aren't better. let's get that out of the way. but if you're going to have us vote for you, we've got to start holding them accountable. our neighborhoods are not better. our schools are not better. crime is not better. so, we've got to start holding these politicians accountable. >> do you think he's right about the black vote? >> i don't think he's right that things aren't better. another part of the interview he said things are much better than when he was growing up in...

In fact they are worse for the middle class. they're worse for people across this country. things aren't better. you know that's what people are going to ask. they will ask whether hillary clinton is type of person we can trust to turn the country around. right now, people don't believe that she is. and she has been part of the problem, part of the obama administration. she represents a third term of barack obama. that is going to be a problem for her. then it will be up to us too to provide better vision for this country and have real adult conversation about what is happening with debt, what...

>> and things aren't better. >> no. >> 50 million on food stamps. >> i believe socialism breeds laziness. >> i agree with you. in 2012, the white house, there's this big gender gap issue. kind of exploded in their face. they paid women 18% less. now it is 12% less. what's your reaction to that? >> i don't know why he would do that. now he's saying he's going to sign something that's going to change all that when in 1963 john f. kennedy signed the equal pay act. employees shall not discriminate based on sex. there were nine people that opposed it. they were democrats. >> lyndon johnson, he coul...

Hollywood, you've got to be a liberal? >> i have no idea. i don't understand it. i want it to stop. it's important. so i think that more people like me need to voice our opinions. >> what to that do to you personally? because that is a hard thing to be in the middle of a huge controversy. you seemed to handle it with grace >> it gives me more power and makes me want to stand up more and realize more people are uninformed and ignorant. to me that is sad. >> you voted for obama the first time. >> i did. >> why? what do you think of him now? >> i voted for him because i believed we needed a black...