welcome. i am ari melber in for melissa harris-perry. you may have seen this. a line of young black and brown men standing with president obama at the white house. this was moments before the president put attention on them when announcing a new policy. president obama did something pretty remarkable on thursday. he took on the undertow and he argued that systemic inequities should not be stuck below the surface of our discourse and politics. this was not an analysis about how all-americans will help other americans although that s fine or how all policies that deal with unemployment help all african-americans, this was an address for young men of color specifically, and the president spoke about two kinds of inequiti inequities. first those related to the historic impacts of jim crow and slavery. these are areas where black men started out behind and remained often behind. take unemployment. 5% for white men roughly but 12%