from alice, the president of naacp. if the alleged allegations are true, we are disappointed in mr. sterling. recent remarks like these remind us racism is not a footnote in our past, but a reality of our present we must take head on. investigation is in progress. we urge the l.a. naacp to withdraw donald sterling on the list at the gala. they should honor his request and not attend the games. okay. there you go. so the naacp was going to give him an award. it s true. it s official. they are withdrawaling that. do what he said, don t go to the games. ben ferguson? don, look at the corruption
known racist? i m not going to let you are taking racist dollars. i m not going to let the corporations off the hook, either. i m not letting the naacp off the hook. we have a level of culpability if this because we have allowed him to continue on in this position and haven t done anything to try to change that. i said it earlier and i ll say it again, follow the money. i m sure he s good for business. if that s the question, if that s the way it is, then, i can t get that mad at donald sterling. he s doing his thing and no one is challenging him on it. lz, you are scaring a lot of people when you say follow the money. you are opening up an entire can of worms here. it s a big market. l.a., big tv. it s a huge market. you need to get the president on the line and talk about how he
walls of voter suppression that are being built across our country right now is with a tide al wave of voter registration. you can look at a state like georgia where the tea party governor won by 258,000 votes or so. the president lost by about 310,000 votes. there are 830,000 unregistered people of color there right now. 600,000 black, 230,000 mostly latino, and asian. you can go up to the next state, the tea party governor won by 60,000 votes. she may win by 100,000 this year. there are 300,000 unregistered voters there. if they were signed up, a candidate like her could never win again. that s what we need to be focused on. at the end of the day, small peanuts for people in this country who really care about insuring that our country moves in an inclusive, fair, and just
suppression with a tidal wave of voter registration. and that s what we need right now. you re seeing people across the south standing up and saying, we re not going to take it this time. in florida, in 2012, the president won by 70,000 votes. that was only possible because the naacp signed up 120,000 voters. our folks were threatened with jail time and new fines because a new law was put in place. for instance, if you had the full amount of the clerk s office to sign people up to vote, for more than two days, you would be charged $50 per voting rights form. on the tuesday after martin luther king day with an office closed more than 48 hours, we had sheriffs across the country and it was enough to scare a whole lot of other groups from signing up voters but we did it anyway. from we recall, you can crush voter express with a tidal wave
submitted written questions to adegbile asking how he would use his section 2 power or decide which voter i.d. laws to fight. since the supreme court gutted section 5 of the vra, five states that used to be covered under preclearance are moving forward with laws that have been on hold. those laws restricting voting, that s what republicans appear to be trying to protect. the other man was just a way to sell it. joining me now, benjamin jealousen, partner at social impact and former president and ceo and president of naacp. ben, where do you start on this case? i find myself even angrier today than i was yesterday about the raw injustice of this. i really do think this is not about the voting rights act. this is part of a right-wing attack on the civil rights division of the doj going back 20 years into the clinton administration. oh, no, that s exactly right. in fact, it really goes back further. i mean, reagan, bush, bush, have