in chicago, demand thagt guys inside be taxed on their trades. and a lot of you dismissed it as the occupy wall street movement that never went anywhere. here s where you went wrong this is the stuff of initiatives on ballots all over the country.
you, what do you think of what happened today? i think it was ridiculous. i think they should have listened. i think what hillary clinton has been saying is exactly the things they want to hear about. john lewis said the same thing and john lewis was on the front lines, john lewis has been beat up, arrested, so has my dad and so was i. i just find it, i think it s time for them to be quiet and listen and then have their say but i just think to sit there and to be little somebody for saying the things they want them to say is just crazy. historically, douglas brinkley, you know, the civil rights movement obviously happened but historically, has there been anything that you can see that equates to sort of the black lives matter movement and the presidential campaign? well, i think all this is an out growth with the occupy wall street movement.
she clearly does have a lot of support from traditional civil rights leader but not clear if she has it from young black leaders and supporters which she ll need to get a victory. let s talk about this now with someone there. joining me now is avery jackson, a group with hashtag acu shut it down. he was at the clinton event. let s talk about the last thing suzanne talked about. how they said people there were disappointed to hear john lewis say what he had to say. why would they be disappointed with that? i think we were disappointed because senator john lewis is someone we do look up to. we do pull on the spirits of people that have organized on this movement prior to us to guide us and he is someone who used our tactics and he got the push back that we got from people who had that generational divide, as well, and hopefully, we were hoping it would be an understanding there for him to
another period and they were trying to make a point to dramatize what the concern is about. i think the movement need to continue reaching out and addressing the concerns and needs of people. it is unfortunate that they didn t listen to the secretary because i think she would have answered many of their questions that they are concerned about. several of the black lives matter organizations, the groups, protesters there were disappointed to hear congressman lewis say that. they said what else are we supposed to do here? we want to go beyond the rhetoric. we want to get something done. they felt they really wanted the support of those in the room with them and clearly, that was not coming from the traditional civil rights icons and i think don, it illustrates demonstrates what hillary clinton is dealing with here.
of her platform, so it is perplexing, you know, some of the tactics black lives matter has taken when it comes to hillary today. well, i think that s true. it was silly when they interrupted bernie sanders like that, too, but look, we re talking about these issues. it s not clear we would be running hillary clinton tonight on cnn at the naacp meeting except they created a bit of controversy today. this was the tactics used in the 60s where yippees would come and protest and cameras would come and made news. the story is how well hillary clinton handled all this today. she did a marvelous job in the afternoon continuing into the evening and she s really just the clip use just played is tackling big issues for african american and does concern the black lives matter movement. it s been a good day for hillary clinton. and it was live. stand by, everyone. we ll take a break and come back and continue the conversation. don t go anywhere.