pennsylvania and co-founder of a long walk home, a non-profit that works towards ending violence towards women. and joy reed, msnbc national correspondent. nice to have you both with me. were you surprised by the verdict? well, no, because i did think that the case, by the time it got to the prosecution and i thought there was enough evidence, there s enough repetition of this act and the women had come forward. so the issue is sometimes it gets to the what it takes to actually even get to the prosecut prosecutor s desk and for the prosecutor to end up having a guilty verdict there are so many steps to get there. but while the verdict is unprecedented, this act of repeated violence and the repetition of picking on vulnerable women, extremely vulnerable women, black women who are working class, sometimes some may have been using substances illegally, or not. women who are there are all these ways in which we talk about these women. yet that i think is very common.
right? because then the only way to get a racially integrated class is if in fact those 10% are coming from these racially segregated schools which might in fact worse n the problem. the 10% plan was the response to the previous attacks on affirmative action in the state of texas. so it kind of gets around that problem. but it doesn t get at the fundamental problem of the funding of schools. that s true. but, as that tweet that you pointed out said, 42 of the 47 who were admitted with lower credentials than abby were white. 168 black and latino students with equal or higher were also denied. so this is really about the principle, i want roger clegg to actually bring a case against those other white students who weren t qualified so to speak and on behalf of the black and latino students. this is about entitlement. roger, he s giving you a case but i want to ask a smaller question. go back to the point joy made
amount of discrimination that s going on here. the asian-americans in the relevant group who are admitted to the university of texas were scoring in the 93rd percentile on the s.a.t., whereas programs in this group were in the 52nd percentile. so a significant amount of discrimination. we have no time but i m still going to give you the last word. i mean race does matter for constitutional purposes. i still didn t hear an answer to the fact that the framers of the 14th amendment believe that race mattered it s not in the constitution. constitution says equal protection. excuse me, sir. you ve already had a chance to answer the question, please give me a chance to answer your point. so the thought was that the framers of the 14th amendment saw no difference in between framing the 14th amendment and allowing requisition to all black schools. they saw nothing inconsistent between affirmative action and the 14th amendment. so if you were truly an originalist about this you wouldn
told their family members but no onefeld like they could do. women disclosing to boyfriends, fathers and mothers, yet no one felt like they could go to the police because it was the police doing it. for me this is the trifecta, this is the kind of case where you have all these hot-button issues. campus sexual assault reform going on. anti-police brutality protests happening all over the nation, yet this gets lost in that kind of vortex of violence that black women are so vulnerable to. i think your point about the sense of being unable to go to the police in this case because the police were perpetrating. but also we know black women often don t go to the police because because of that other part of the trifecta, that bringing police into black communities does not necessarily end in justice for those communities. one of the victims even said, what police do? call on the police. there is a sense of mistrust. i m glad you opened the show talking about rosa parks. because one of th
given this discourse about rahm emanuel as the great political animal and the idea this is a long-held problem, i got to say, i lived in chicago for a lot of years. it is not like having a mayor who has some corruption problems. like that s completely new to the city of chicago. so what is it about this case that is the last straw. i think it is a combination. let s face it, rahm emanuel wasn t elected by chicagoans because they liked the guy. they thought he was competent. they thought he was kind of going to be the adult in the room, the guy who pledged to make hard decisions. now you look at what s going on in the city over these last couple of months, you ve got increase in property taxes. a huge increase in property taxes. you have the city looking to go to illinois state government, which is six months without a state budget. the city needs $900 million in help with the schools, with transit, with other things.