is that colin powell is willing to talk about issues that are relevant to the black community, like affirmative action. he's been very vocal about, you know, saying that we still need some forms of intervention that recognize that black people the not yet play from a level playingfield and i think that's a substantial difference. actually, i agree that i think there is -- one of the things that the republicans see and are taking advantage of is the fact that they can get black vote if they think about how they're reaching out to black voters. i just don't think a tim scott, particularly given some of the statements he's made about not wanting to talk about race -- >> here's what i'm hear which gets to an interesting complexity of american racial politics in the year 2012. two trends. in some ways our politics are becoming more racialized in the sense of look at the exit polling. it is increasingly the case that one party is a very multiracial coalition. one party is not a particularly