The Oscar-winning actor starred in films like In the Heat of the Night and To Sir, With Love, and helped pave way for other Black actors in Hollywood. He died Jan. 6. Originally broadcast in 2000.
accept the nomination this week. there isn t much time. this week, regular seasonal starts. the clock does start now. the republican party is now one day away from making governor mitt romney its official nominee. is mitt romney ready for his big moment? can he connect to the american people? i m doing my very best. does anyone know who mitt romney actually is? all i can do is be who i am. the romney campaign is filling out its story trying to breakthrough. can mitt romney catch a break? this is an opportunity for him on thursday night to reintroduce himself. the people that i m talking to say they ve got to be nimble. this should be a winnable race. this is going to stay a pretty close race. anything can happen. so it is my privilege to proclaim the 2012 republican national convention called to order. good evening from tampa, florida where the republican national convention will reconvene and officially nominate mitt romney tomorrow after tr
romney can t catch a political break. it s important that romney accept the nomination this week. there isn t much time. this week, regular seasonal starts. the clock does start now. the republican party is now one day away from making governor mitt romney its official nominee. is mitt romney ready for his big moment? can he connect to the american people? i m doing my very best. does anyone know who mitt romney actually is? all i can do is be who i am. the romney campaign is filling out its story trying to breakthrough. can mitt romney catch a break? this is an opportunity for him on thursday night to reintroduce himself. the people that i m talking to say they ve got to be nimble. this should be a winnable race. this is going to stay a pretty close race. anything can happen. so it is my privilege to proclaim the 2012 republican national convention called to order. good evening from tampa, florida where the republican national convention w
0 in this election, will we rise above the ugliness? will we rise against the blame game? the class warfare, the race warfare. and allow those that are cynical to bring us back to the past. or were we serious four years ago and try to grab the best and build a great future. that s our quest. thanks for watching. i m al sharpton. hardball starts right now. it s getting dampa in tampa! let s play hardball. good evening. i m chris matthews down in tampa. let me start with this republican convention down in tampa. i came down here with one thought in mind. this could be the game changer for mitt romney. here comes romney s chance to show his human side. i ve seen it done before, in 1988 when george bush sr. came into the new orleans superdome and gave the speech of his life that certainly got to me. but here i am in tampa, hearing a message that troubles me as an american. it started with that joke, so-called, that the republican candidate told friday about no one having asked him
for mitt romney. here comes romney s chance to show his human side. i ve seen it done before, in 1988 when george bush sr. came into the new orleans superdome and gave the speech of his life that certainly got to me. but here i am in tampa, hearing a message that troubles me as an american. it started with that joke, so-called, that the republican candidate told friday about no one having asked him about his birth certificate. here s a guy, born to a famous family, mocking a guy born with none of his advantages. had to weather the endless ethnic attack. imagine the president of the united states having to produce his papers, just to prove he s in office legitimately, and that s how funny this birther thing has gotten. then i put it together with this new romney tv ad attacking obama for passing out welfare checks. and just to rub it in, to ensure that no one missed the point, did you catch romney following it up by saying, this was obama s effort to excite and shore up his ba