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very spot the civil rights movement saw one of its darkest hours and now a symbol of both triumph and the long road ahead. joining me now from selma, msnbc melissa harris-perry and joy reid and charles ogle tree, a friend and adviser to the president and the first lady. thank you all for joining us today. pleasure. thank you. melissa, what are you expecting to hear from the president? again, you know, we don t know precisely what the president will have to say today. i think, joy and i have been talking about what we hope we hear from the president today. we hope we hear a connection back to history. an idea on which the ways his own presidency is a bridge between the moment that selma. when the president was here just after announcing he was going to run for president. when he was still a young senator and presidential hopeful in 2007, he laid out this notion of the joshua generation in
actually pay the salaries of the police officers who were then, i mean, it is, i don t want us to forget the embodied nature of what those sacrifices were. we can start thinking of it as, oh, they all knew it was going to turn out well, that there would be 565 voting rights act and there would be a president obama some day. but people were walking out there on faith believing some of them that they might not ever live to see the other side of that bridge. very good points. i want to bring you and charles. you know the president very well. what role has the civil rights era played in molding his world view and the type of leader that he is? well, let me just say a couple things. i m so glad that melissa harris perry and joy reid are on the show. they are the example of exactly what we re doing. and you re the example, as well, that we are diversifying the opportunity for people to be journalists. i m thinking the importance of oprah winfrey. what will obama say? i think he ll talk a
down in seattle and louisville and high court invalidated section four of the voting rights act of 1965, which was a companion to the civil rights act. and since 2010, 21 states, including almost all of the former confederacy have enacted new voter restrictions which disproportionately affect people of color. 50 years on enforcing the constitutional right to vote, those first seven words of the civil rights act remains a challenge that we ve seem less prepared to tackle nearly half a century later. joining me now, charles ogle tree and mark morial. justice roberts in 2007 famously said the way toe stop discrimination on the basis of race is stop discriminating on the basis of race. have we forgotten why we have a civil rights movement in the first place? i don t know if we have but chief roberts has forgotten why
we ve seen the rhetoric becoming increasingly ugly and nasty. i think these kids are a pawn in the bigger immigration debate. the longer the republicans look like they are the anti-hispanic party, the harder it s going to be to deal with it. less than 24 hours ago in california, the raging and bitter fight over immigration reached a new low. three buses of migrant women and children had to be flown to california to alleviate overcrowding at texas border stations. before they reached their destination, they are barred from entering the designated facility by flag waving anti-immigration protesters. protesters whose message was clear, we don t want you here. go home! go home! usa! usa! those chants were accompanied by others, including we want to be safe and deport, deport. the anti-immigrant pro testers were blocking buses at the urging of the town s mayor, alan long who posted what he termed an illegal update on his facebook wall. acongress cording to the update