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about blame when it comes to america s inner cities. take a listen. what we have here is 50 years of liberal policies that have not worked to help the very people that we want to help. this morning s washington post has this headline. why couldn t $130 million transform baltimore s poorest places. $120 million was poured into this community. are we not spending the money correctly? what are we getting wrong here? money has been there. what do we get wrong? that is just not true. we haven t had an agenda for american cities at least two decades. money but no agenda? no. that s not what i m saying. we have not had an agenda probably since jimmy carter and that era. we left cities to fend for themselves. because of the dedication of a lot of mayors and good people throughout cities in america, cities have been actually coming back.
potential presidential candidate here declared candidates hillary clinton, senator rand paul, have weighed in on these issues facing the big cities like baltimore. so do you see baltimore and the related issues becoming an issue in 2016? i do, especially baltimore. each one of these incidents ferguson through staten island and baltimore are different. baltimore underlined this is not just about race. first of all, three of the cops are african-american out of the six that were accused. you have black prosecutor bringing the charges. to say race has nothing do with it would be ridiculous. but the big issue sheer poverty and opportunity. and i think a lot of this is the unfinished business of the 60s. one of the things i was pleased to see is that there were white kids in the street at these protests. not throwing stuff through the cvs window but the vast majority of these protests were peaceful black and white, coming
the reason why i say that, president obama was the president, this will be a legacy piece for him. he started talking about it in his first term. we got a little glimpse with him and gates, with the situation of the racial profiling issue. then the beer summit. move to trayvon martin. let s move down more to other cities, north charleston, ferguson, baltimore. baltimore is so close, yet so far. 40 miles away and this is happening. i believe president obama should go and it sends a powerful message. there are going to be more of these situations. people really need to know the leader of this country is there. tom, it s interesting. she said it s a legacy issue. this is one he didn t expect. no. i don t i think it is a legacy issue. i think the two legacy issues as he closes out his term is what s going on in the middle east and this country. the fact is we are spending a hell of a lot more money in the middle east and making a bigger commitment in the middle east
vent their anger over the death of freddie gray. as we ve been discussing, the city s problems have deep roots that go back decades. an op-ed for the new york times caught our eye by baltimore native d. watkins, a writer and professor and by his own admission a former drug dealer. he wrote about the toxic relations between baltimore s police and african-american residents. we invited him to put those thoughts on camera. baltimore city police officers are out of control. i can t remember having a positive experience with a police officer ever. if you are a black person and in a black neighborhood that s poor, they speak to you like you are not a person. it s never like, hey, how is everything? you mother f. a lot of what the f are you on the corner? they see me as an animal or thing. they pull their guns out and make everyone lay on the ground and crack you on the back of your head.
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