restaurant of coal miners drinking after work. the patron argued that because some people might think the coal miners who were covered in coal dust were instead in blackface, it was offensive and it should taken down. what to make of this? we decidewn to ask robert, the president of the woodson center and he joins us now. thanks very much for coming on. what does this story tell us? tells us that race grievance is just triumphing throughout country. that i am upset as a civil rights person that we would spend so much time being concerned about a picture hanging of a white man and coal dust and somehow that s offensive. it deflects attention away from her critical issues facing black americans. tucker: exactly. we have more blacks killinge other blacks in one year and we did in the 70 years of lynching
lynchings. a 9/11 every six months of blacks killing blacks and they are going to tell me our problem is a picture hanging. tucker: so is it possible that let s say you are in charge of a society or a big city and your policies weren t helping at all, people were still dying young, shooting each other, for example. maybe you would encourage people to be mad about irrelevant things like coal dust pictures so they wouldn t be mad at you for mismanaging their lives. that s true. because many of those killings that are occurring in cities run by black democrats over the past 40 years. so if politics and race where the issue, the question is why are not blacks succeeding? if we look in other words, at a time when whites were at their worst and blacks were at their best between 1920 and 1940 during segregation, the education gap in the south was three years, five years for blacks, eight years for whites. within 20 years we closed that gap within six months because we
from last year. meanwhile, another slap in the face to law enforcement. this painting is now hanging in our nation s capitol depicting police officers as pigs. steve is a former west chester county new york police officer and retired police sergeant and he joins us now with reaction. good morning to you, sir. thank you for being here. good morning. off the top you say police officers naturally have a thick skin your reaction to that picture hanging in our capitol. best way to describe it hate masquerading as art. it s deplorable. it s horrible. especially to the families this past year that have lost their loved ones. we have reached out from lacy clay from missouri. they have not yet responded to our ask. what does this do overall to the morale to the upand coming police officers. it s already diminished what has been a diminishing morale for the past eight years. so you have got this representative fro that has gone and endorsed this horrific scene that s
becomes. make sure there is no open wires. open wires means can you die. leave it alone. call an electrician. probably ought to have dry hands. yes, dry hands, but normally one of your breakers is just switched the opposite way and you can go in and just flick it back on. it s that simple. your main is always your largest electrical breaker right here. and it s a quick switch back on. if if you are home alone, leaf something plugged in like a radio or a lamp. that way you know he if it comes back on. nothing too complicated. turn the air dryer to the off setting though? exactly, yeah. nicole, thanks so much. hanging the perfect picture we don t need a man to do this. you know, let the man take the trash out. that s what i always say. you know, easy things like picture hanging, there are so many little tools and gadget and everything. it s really simple. i mean, just getting the right, proper tools to use. picture hanging kids are like 4 or a dollars at a local hardware stor
the sailors who came before us. the 17 who lost their lives, allowed us to sail on this mighty ship. may 2000. this picture hanging in the commander s cabin captured a moment before any of the history that changed everything. before the twin towers were attacked, 11 months before 9/11. we came back resilient, a strong force. and a force ready to go back into battle. resilient. just like the men and women of new york. the determined warrior, named for darryl cole will ship out for another long deployment this summer. now, the two things that are really interesting about it, the stars, the gold stars that you see there are in the lunchroom. the lunchroom lined for the cole because that s where the attack was. no one steps on them, despite the fact that they are right underfoot where they get their trays. the other thing that s amazing is all the placards around the ship. it s so touching to see the