That toxic combination of legal segregation and secondclass status for africanamerican citizens. The brilliance offing kings nonviolent protest movement was his combination of lofty, almost utopia ideals matched to concrete political goals. King supporters marched for the right to sit at a lunch counter, to swim in a de segregated municipal pool, to pick any seat on a bus, or to attend an integrated school. That was then. This is now. Reverend king would be amazed by the transformation over the past 50 years. Today america has its first black president. I Barack Hussein obama do solemnly swear and African Americans do routinely hold top posts like secretary of state, attorney general, National Security advisor. Top corporations like merck, american express, mcdonalds and xerox have had or have now black ceos. Oprah winfrey is americas second black billionaire, following in the footsteps of publishing mogul robert l johnson. African americans are among the countrys top sports stars and
That toxic combination of legal segregation and secondclass status for africanamerican citizens. The brilliance offing kings nonviolent protest movement was his combination of lofty, almost utopia ideals matched to concrete political goals. King supporters marched for the right to sit at a lunch counter, to swim in a de segregated municipal pool, to pick any seat on a bus, or to attend an integrated school. That was then. This is now. Reverend king would be amazed by the transformation over the past 50 years. Today america has its first black president. I Barack Hussein obama do solemnly swear and African Americans do routinely hold top posts like secretary of state, attorney general, National Security advisor. Top corporations like merck, american express, mcdonalds and xerox have had or have now black ceos. Oprah winfrey is americas second black billionaire, following in the footsteps of publishing mogul robert l johnson. African americans are among the countrys top sports stars and
Almost utopia ideals matched to concrete political goals. King supporters marched for the right to sit at a lunch counter, to swim in a de segregated municipal pool, to pick any seat on a bus, or to attend an integrated school. That was then. This is now. Reverend king would be amazed by the transformation over the past 50 years. Today america has its first black president. I Barack Hussein obama do solemnly swear and African Americans do routinely hold top posts like secretary of state, attorney general, National Security advisor. Top corporations like merck, american express, mcdonalds and xerox have had or have now black ceos. Oprah winfrey is americas second black billionaire, following in the footsteps of publishing mogul robert l johnson. African americans are among the countrys top sports stars and celebrities in fields one restricted by racing, swelling the ranks of black millionaires. Yet in other ways america is far from kings dream. Racial divides persist in income, educatio
Citizens. The brilliance offing kings nonviolent protest movement was his combination of lofty, almost utopia ideals matched to concrete political goals. King supporters marched for the right to sit at a lunch counter, to swim in a de segregated municipal pool, to pick any seat on a bus, or to attend an integrated school. That was then. This is now. Reverend king would be amazed by the transformation over the past 50 years. Today america has its first black president. I Barack Hussein obama do solemnly swear and African Americans do routinely hold top posts like secretary of state, attorney general, National Security advisor. Top corporations like merck, american express, mcdonalds and xerox have had or have now black ceos. Oprah winfrey is americas second black billionaire, following in the footsteps of publishing mogul robert l johnson. African americans are among the countrys top sports stars and celebrities in fields one restricted by racing, swelling the ranks of black millionaire
Ties, and the president pushing back today on all of that as, quote, fake news. Meanwhile, the immigration front, the travel ban coming out as early as this week, and the New York Times reporting today dhs getting tougher, reportedly, emboldened by Donald Trumps policies. The white house starting to pick the contractors i mentioned to build the border wall. Well explain all of that. Lets get right to it with howard dean and kristen tate, conservative columnist for the hill and author of government gone wild. Richard stengel, former top diplomat of the Obama White House and msnbc analyst and joe conson, author of it can happen here a book about the risk of authoritarianism inside the u. S. , a ton to get to. Let me start with governor dean on a republican here in darrell issa calling for an independent investigation of russia. Most interesting thing about that, darrell issa, one of the previous chairs that delighted in the benghazi investigation and all this other stuff. So what has hap