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Is excellent or it is a public charter or magnet school and it is excellent. that's my commitment. an example in my own home town, there is a baylor middle school, baylor school of medicine. it talks about medicine and it's in a historic neighborhood. i want the children in that historic neighborhood to have first brass at those seats and then of course open the opportunity to people from around the community. that's the kind of message in school choice, choosing going to school in your neighborhood or beyond but being able to have a seat of excellence where you are. >> to those cynical folks ...

Happened there. why did it go wrong? there's obvious things. the city has been run by democrats unchecked since the last republican mayor was 1957. okay. you've had that, that town has been a petry dish of everything the democratic party loves, massive pension, pay people long after they've stopped working. the math doesn't add up. you have massive welfare states where citizens are given things left and right in order to buy their votes. you have no opposition whatsoever. then in the case of detroit, you throw race into the mix. and you bring on mayor coleman young who causes riots and mayor c...

Democrats unchecked since, i think the last republican mayor was 1957. okay. you have had that town has been a petri dish of everything the democrat party stands for. everything the democrat party loves. massive unions, massive pensions, pay people pensions and healthcare long after they have stopped working. the math doesn't add up. you have massive welfare states, where citizens are given things left and right in order to buy their votes. you have no opposition whatsoever. then in the case of -- you throw race into the mix, and you bring on mayor coleman young who causes riots in 1967 in det...

Trying to use the federal housing law in order to keep people as separate as possible, by subsidizing white flight, by zoning areas in a particular way, by destroying minority neighborhoods. and so it's -- there's an incredible history of basically almost all-out war in the united states about who lives where, and why and who's allowed to go where. >> because all the questions of that are all connected to them. thank you, i wanted to have a little bit of a complicated question around race and conversation, and i appreciate you all for being here. you are going to hang around, uncle wes, becaus...

Particularly in the republican party. they're caught between this rock and a hard place, pleasing their center base kind of core constituency, and appealing to the people who they know they're going to need to win future elections. that is the same thing that franklin roosevelt, that harry truman, that lyndon johnson and that all of them were trying to figure out in the 1930 through the 1960s. and and what's so amazing about this analysis is that it moves us away from thinking of racism as like holding the sign that says, you know, president obama is a muslim immigrant. i mean, okay. whatever,...