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congresswoman, looking at that package that we just saw from pete williams, it s almost as if that was a different country looking at that black and white footage. i want to read you three sets of statistics that sort of show the best of times, worst of times aspect. we have our first african-american president. and yet when president obama was inaugurated in january of 2009, 79% of people believed race relations in the country are good. now it s only 52%. the african-american poverty rate, in 1966 when the statistics were first kept for african-americans was 41.8%, four in ten. in 2011 it was 27.6%. still high, but enclosuclearly lower. and the black high school graduation rate in 1964 was only 25%, only a quarter. in 2012 it was 85%. give us your assessment, congresswoman, of how far we ve come or how far we still have to go in terms of dr. king s dream. well, thank you very much. obviously we ve made tremendous

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