frisk than there are black and brown people. how do you address that? when they do polling, majority of white people say it s great. anna was trying to say something. how you address it is you ask all the people right now who are very heart broken about this verdict, white people, you ask them in their towns to do something about stop and frisk. we really ask right now for people to make a difference in their communities. and it can t just be about feeling badly or about heartbreak or what jeffrey canada alluded to before, the fact that our schools are more segregated than ever, and black and brown kids are being suspended at unbelievable proportions and being incarcerated for minor offenses. it s time for everybody to come out of their silos.
their children. today, eric holder put it like this. trayvon s death last spring caused me to sit down and have a conversation with my own 15-year-old son, like my dad did with me. this was a father-son tradition i hoped would not need to be handed down. but as a father who loves his son, and who is more knowing in the ways of the world, i had to do this to protect my boy. i am his father, and it is my responsibility, not to burden him with the baggage of eras long gone, but to make him aware of the world he must still confront. cnn contributor charles blow fred it another way. as heartbreaking as it is poignant, what pace should a young black man walk to avoid suspicion? charles blow is with us again. also, jeffrey canada.
other than it is policies like we have right here in new york city, which is stop and frisk, where you re literally hundreds of thousands of young black and brown kids are being stopped and frisked. only a tiny portion are ever arrested for anything. they re doing more stop and frisk than there are black and brown people. how do you address that? when they do polling, majority of white people say it s great. anna was trying to say something. how you address it is you ask all the people right now who are very heart broken about this verdict, white people, you ask them in their towns to do something about stop and frisk. we really ask right now for people to make a difference in their communities. and it can t just be about feeling badly or about heartbreak or what jeffrey
all the people right now who are very heart broken about this verdict, white people, you ask them in their towns to do something about stop and frisk. and ask themselves it s either stop and get robbed or stop and frisk. we really ask right now for people to make a difference in their communities. and it can t just be about feeling badly or about heartbreak or what jeffrey canada alluded to before, the fact that our schools are more segregated than ever, and black and brown kids are being suspended at unbelievable proportions and being incarcerated for minor offenses. it s time for everybody to come out of their silos. if we really say we re heart broken and do something about folks who live across town. i want to bring in the editorial director at the b.e.t. network. you ve been listening in on this. you have a child, as well. yeah. it was really difficult not to shout out, but i m on good
gone, but to make him aware of the world he must still confront. we ve been discussing what parents tell their kids about trayvon martin here on this program with jeffrey canada and charles blow. listen. i used to tell my boys, don t run because they would think you are suspicious, but now i say don t walk slowly because that also means you re suspicious. we have to figure out what is the pace a black man can walk in america and be beyond suspicion. that is a crazy conversation. there is a group of folks sitting here saying what do we do about this? how do we prepare kids to grow up to be a man but under these circumstances you have to act like it s 50 years ago, right? that s not where we want to go in this country. back again with tracy martin, sybrina fulton and benjamin crump. the idea that charles blow s question of, what is the pace with which an african-american man can walk is just a stunning one to me. i ve been thinking about it every day since he said it. is this a