running over a black man who was middle aged, 47 or 48 years old, deliberately with their pick-up truck. and they would go into jackson, mississippi, specifically to find african-americans to attack. i mean, there is tremendous racism in the society. and we just continue to tolerate it, even in new york with the police melissa was talking about the sean bell case. but you have 600,000 instances a year of the police stopping people on the streets, in many cases, frisking them, humiliating them in public. 90% have done nothing at all and the vast majority are african-american or hispanic. that is something to contemplate and that takes a lot of time trying to figure out the whys behind that. but you look at what the president did yesterday by stepping into the conversation. he struck the absolutely perfect tone her because he, while talking about this in the sense that trayvon martin could be his son were he to have had a son,
are african-american or hispanic. how can we raise that level? there s a lot that we can do to raise that level. one of the things that we can do is support alternate route to certification programs where you bring professionals from other fields into education. you can also support academic programs like at colleges and universities, where you want to encourage more and more african-american men to participate in education. of course, any thoroughly funded programming like the one we talked about with secretary arne duncan will also help. yeah. i had no idea it was that low. principal perry, thank you. thank you. we ll be right back. [ female announcer ] it s red lobster s
like you. exactly. this economy is the best it s ever been. you look at today. unemployment in the last 49 years has only been below 4%. nine months and four of those nine months we lived through this year. more jobs available. pay is going up. it s reaching every person across this country. if you just have a high school degree you are in a better position. if you happen to be african-american or hispanic, one of the best numbers you ve ever seen. we ve been able to turn this around in such a short time. the last administration, the party in power, history says the party in power lose seats on the off election. the last administration that had six quarters of economic growth and gdp gained seats. remember where we were in the presidential race at this time? people thought hillary would win. don t underestimate where we are. this election will be about results versus resistance. if you don t want more