years ago. the question is, why is that? why have perceptions of black male criminality persisted for so many decades in this country? it can t be because we haven t made progress on race. he saying that as president. what s behind this perception? i would argue that it is hard statistical data showing young black males just like they did 35 years ago continue to commit a disproportionate number of crimes and that s what s feeding this perception. i thought he responded. you wrote a column making that point that was controversial in some quarters but got a lot of response. i thought the president was responding to you at one point in that speech where he said that doesn t mean the african-american community is naive. young black men are not. disproportionately and that was his words involved in the criminal justice system as victims and perpetrators. do you think he went far enough in that explanation? i think that needs to be the whole discussion. clearly i think president obama
as you mentioned, this is the field near mirro mar where he grew up, spent his time since he was 5 years old playing ball here and then when he finished playing ball when he went into high school he ran the concession stands literally up till the time of that tragic night. i m joined by coach carter. coach, you ve been here ten years you were telling me. so you knew trayvon pretty well. yeah, trayvon was a young handsome hard working kid. since his dad brung him to us, he trusted us to coach him and build him up and build his self-esteem up and just keep him, you know, doing the right things in school and he s always been a hard working player, ever since he left north dade and came to miramar. he gave you his all. that s all he knew, was to play his all. we had a super bowl. and we was the underdogs. north side was predicted to beat us to death. and this kid came to me and coach jerome and told us that, coach, you guys will leave super bowl champions today. i m not going t
you wrote it was shapiro. shapiro wrote a column ben wrote a column making shooting stanley could kubric down which means he has big problems. he is really rich. larry said, breitbart is calling in. we both call in. there was one point that breitbart would not shut up. i put my phone down and started checking my e mail. 2 felt like a half hour later and larry you finally got a word in and said something to me and i was like, i have been checking my e mail for the last half hour. i have no idea what is going on. it was beautiful. it was a classic moment. everything was an extension of andrew s thought process. honestly i believe when he came on my show, especially at that time, he took one deep breath and went. i waited for that breath to expire, and then it was time for me to chime in. it was all just one drawn out long run on sentence. i was always impressed he
ben wrote a column making shooting stanley could kubric down which means he has big problems. he is really rich. larry said, breitbart is calling in. we both call in. there was one point that breitbart would not shut up. i put my phone down and started checking my e mail. 2 felt like a half hour later and larry you finally got a word in and said something to me and i was like, i have been checking my e mail for the last half hour. i have no idea what is going on. it was beautiful. it was a classic moment. everything was an extension of andrew s thought process. honestly i believe when he came on my show, especially at that time, he took one deep breath and went. i waited for that breath to expire, and then it was time for me to chime in. it was all just one drawn out long run on sentence. i was always impressed he remembered whatever the question was by the time he got to the end of it. it was like so where were
why have perceptions of black male criminality persisted so many decades? he is saying that as president. what is behind it? it s hard statistical data showing that young black males, just like 35 years ago, continue to commit a disproportionate number of crimes and that is what is feeding this perception. paul: you wrote a column making that point that was very controversial in some quarters but got a lot of response. i thought the president was responding to you at one point in that speech where he said that doesn t mean the african-american community is naive. that young black men are disproportionately involved in the criminal system. do you think he went far enough in that explanation? i think that needs to be the whole discussion. he wanted to drag other