so, quite frankly, i m not surprised at the anger from the students. and this is not just about race and not just coming from african-american students either. martha: well, it seems like the catalyst that pushed this over the top was the football team photo. suddenly, they said they weren t going to play which cost an estimated $1 million if they didn t play brigham young this weekend, and that seemed to make the president think differently about the move, and that s when he decided to step down, david. yeah. and, martha, if you look at the picture of the football players, they could have actually fielded a team. the football team is much larger than this, but this is the optic that got it started. you are right when you talk about what leads up to this story. it s more than just the protests and the alleged slurs. if all of that as alleged is absolutely true, it doesn t rise to the level of the resignation of a president and a chancellor. it doesn t. there are many other issues goi
coach, he had the ability to have this kind of power on campus. and i think in some ways, it s almost like we re back in the 1960s again. if you think about mohammed ali, billie jean king, we haven t seen this social activism in sports in a long time. now here it is on a campus in missouri and what a story line it is. but it took that college football team to get everyone to pay attention to this story. it sounds like you were listen to go our editorial call this morning, talking about the power of sports and football and sports on campus now because it s sort of at the top of social issues and making changes. ra rachel, you re not surprised at this president s resignation. no. he was on that hunger strike for eight days. it was 36 hours after the football team said they weren t going to play a game and all of a sudden this got down. there was a contract for them to play this saturday, a game where if they didn t play, they would have to pay $1 million, plus all the lost revenue fr
commemorating 9/11 by cheering. it didn t bring me to tears like the carly video brought jill to tears, but there was nothing offensive about it. do you remember when all-americans enjoyed the same things like all in the family and hee-haw ? exactly. can we show a clip of hee-haw. they did it up. they expressed their way of commemorating the horrible tragedy. very tasteful. it was gymnastics to the music. i thought they did a great job. jill, there was also we didn t play and i am a saw fist cet too. harvard grad, what are you talking about? also they played 9-1-1 emergency calls as part of it and some people thought that was tack key, but it is all part of the day. when we remember 9/11. the thing i am most upset about is i was prepared to argue all of you and say it
people, who thought that i wasn t respectful enough to this white woman, who really wasn t analoged. she gets it, and a part you didn t play, she said that she thought that the flag should come down. and chris, that made me think of, all these people who are doing the right thing, well-intentioned white folks in charleston, who are marching with the protesters to take down the flag, but, get this. the terrorists chose charleston because it used to be the center of african-american life in south carolina. in 1980, the city was 50% black. today, it s two-thirds white. black people got pushed out of the city, they got pushed out of opportunity. so i think a lot of the good, white people who think that the flag should come down don t understand their relationship with white supremacy. they don t get out they benefit from gentrification, from denying opportunity to black
this particular moment? i saw, it really did blow up, i think, because of the sort of frank honesty of it. have you been targeted for it? a tremendous amount of support, and again, a lot of people, who thought that i wasn t respectful enough to this white woman, who really wasn t analogue. she gets it, and a part you didn t play, she said that she thought that the flag should come down. and chris, that made me think of, all these people who are doing the right thing, well-intentioned white folks in charleston, who are marching with the protesters to take down the flag, but, get this. the terrorists chose charleston because it used to be the center of african-american life in south carolina. in 1980, the city was 50% black. today, it s two-thirds white. black people got pushed out of the city, they got pushed out of opportunity. so i think a lot of the good, white people who think that the