matter. he sense has apologized. but you talk to people in baltimore about what he did about what he was saying all these lives being taken and his incredible crackdown on civil liberties and incarcerating a lot, a tremendous number of people, sometimes arresting a lot of people and the prosecutors not even being willing to prosecute the cases because they re like, this is just too much. and him trying to stretch all violence that is happening within black communities to kind of overlap with what is happening specifically with state force against black people. ariel, you were watching those exchanges as well. your reaction? you know, what disappointed me about clinton s statement and the way she answered the question that was thrown her way is when we sat in the meeting with clinton last week she called racism america s original sin. that was important because we know the language around racism and white supremacy in america is important when we re trying to find strategies and w
that. ariel, do you disagree? i think it s much more important for candidates to look at the way they can diversify their platforms. diversify how they mean to seek, look out and take care of america that is in fact diverse. i don t think you have to be a black woman to advocate for black women. i don t think that you have to be a black man who grew up in america to understand what it means to create policy that protects black men. and so when we re looking at solution-based policy, to protect and to eradicate rather racism in america it s not database policing. it s not, you know, what hillary says on her website, we need to urge americans to deal with hard truths. no, we need to create. we need to institutionalize eradicating racism in a way that creates a safe and protected diverse america. ariel marie, charles, thanks for getting here from syracuse after big talk this morning. thanks to the two of you. i appreciate it. thank you, brooke. coming up next, this