the goodness that makes this country great. a rekindling of that light lit from within that reveal america as it truly is. a country of millions of points of light. so thanks to all of you in this room. i would call you out by name but mom admonished me in church yesterday and dad just told me keep it short, so i won t. but thanks to all of you in this room who are points of light and everyone across the country. those that we recognized with the daily point of light award and the millions more who have not found recognition, but who are solving the biggest challenges facing our nation. to all of you, we say thank you. [ applause ] you re cutting into my time. mom s looking at me.
there s a failure, first of all there s a failure of education to prison pipeline that you could probably establish. education is something that s sorely lacking. especially in the inner city and the urban areas like detroit, chicago, fifth ward in houston, camden, new jersey, and so on. where there are failure rates for blacks. we have a country with a real frankly, a real crisis of epidemic proportions in certain communities. and its basis is economic and cultural. the prison system is another part of it, but not all of it. let me put a pause there. we could have an entire show, i think, on the issues of prisons in our country. i want to go back to specifically what s happened here with the 17-year-old who is gone and a man who innocent is gone because he s walking free. but he s a feared man. much more on our race in america special, including the question, i know, that is on the mind of so many parents in america with kids who are black, who are 17.
white. what s interesting about what ruben s saying, the research on this subconscious bias i was talking about, very frighteningly shows that not only white folks have internalized anti-black biased, but large numbers of latinos and asian-americans, here s an interesting one, about 40% of african-americans have internalized bias against themselves as black folks. that s how deep this runs. tim s only telling half the story. the other part of the story is that african-americans likewise have a negative perception of hispanics. we hear this all the time. certainly we write about the immigration issue. oh, sure. lectures about racial profiling, if the issue is immigration, we can write the book on that. we understand what it s like to be profiled and accused of not being of this country. gentlemen, forgive me for jurping in. i have to jump in and say i wish we had more time. we are going to have plenty of time next hour to talk about all this. for now i just have to say thank y
that. incredible. thank you very much. coming up here, what killed this young 31-year-old star, so talented, from glee ? an autopsy set for today as investigators piece together his final night. i m part of an american success story, that starts with one of the world s most advanced distribution systems, and one of the most efficient trucking networks, with safe, experienced drivers. we work directly with manufacturers, eliminating costly markups, and buy directly from local farmers in every region of the country. when you see our low prices, remember the wheels turning behind the scenes, delivering for millions of americans, everyday. dedication: that s the real walmart
he s acquitted over this past weekend. this is the same judicial system, as you point out. angela corey here. how does that happen? what a lot of fine legal minds are saying throughout florida and the country, angela corey has a tendency to overcharge. didn t work out well for her in the zimmerman case. tid work out well in the marissa alexander case. there s a third case. what s that? this is where she implicitly acknowledges she does overcharge. a 12-year-old boy named christian fernandez in florida accused of killing his younger brother. defense attorneys say it was an accident. angela corey s office say it was violent. they charged him as an adult. 12-year-old in an adult jail. solitary confinement. ultimately angela corey said i never wanted him life in prison. he s serving in a juvenile facility till the age of 19. she said, her office, we didn t want him to get life in prison, even though that s what he was charged with. certainly other attorneys are saying that was an ove