have a voice and a say when racism really is an issue. i m not done. un momento. the dog whistle has turned into a megaphone, a microphone from the bulliest of the bulkheads. i know you are chiming in. when the president, over and over again, says things that are reminiscent the fact that he is an equal opportunity insulter doesn t mean he doesn t insult people of color along color lines. is not a crime to be insulte insulted. tucker: do you feel, since you are on television, a lot of people are watching, and the responsibility to be responsibl responsible, , and fact-based or
i think mr. trump should while he was the law and order candidate, he was much more than that. president-elect trump tapped into a frustration, a frustration in my opinion that crosses color lines. it crossed socioeconomic lines and regional lines. he tapped into a frustration that the american people from all walks of life are facing. they felt left out. they were in fragile communities, and they felt this system that the government had forgotten about them, had failed them in many cases. when you looked at the educational system, when you looked at the violence in some of the inner cities, when you looked at the joblessness and the unemployment and wage stagnati stagnation, and you look at the rise of terrorism both abroad and at home. the frustration that republicans felt, democrats felt, that african-americans felt, that latinos felt, it manifested itself somehow. a lot of times you see that acting out in protest. so we can say that they want to be protesting president-elect
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so is there any reason to trust the integrity of this process at this point? no there isn t. we need loretta lynch. we need the federal government to come in and take over this investigation. neil, to that question of this department and how fair they can be. we showed a picture of sheriff smith who s undergone his own controversies around race. there is a contention he made today that jail members, jail staff, supervising sandra bland on the day of her death were either black or hispanic as if that somehow ensures nothing bad could have happened. it is worth noting three of the six officered charged in the death of freddie gray were black. just because one has a certain skin color does not bar violence and inappropriate violence. i want to talk to you just in your experience about color lines and the division between police and community. the systemic racism we have within the criminal justice
of fear and what follows, the violent education of a christian racist joins me now here in new york. tim, thank you so much. listen i read much of what you wrote this morning, and you were incredibly candid and you talk about how through the years you re pushing through your feelings, but take me back. you grew up in the deep south in louisiana in the 60s and 70s as far as color lines were at the time. tell me about the community. right, well thanks so much forring are me. i wish it were for different reasons but it s great to be here as the conversation we need to continue. we should have. yeah. i grew up in a very segregated society. i remember black and white rest rooms and water fountains. my family were really good hard working, working class people and christians except for this gigantic flaw that our church voted not to have african-americans in and, you know there was a lot of vitriol towards african-americans and i didn t have an african-american kid in my class un