4yearold daughter in the backseat. 12 Police Officers shot and five killed at a peaceful protest in dallas. Some shot in the back. All i know is that this, this must stop, this divisiveness between the police and citizens. Not since the summer of the 60s and violence in detroit and chicago has the nation felt so hopelessly divided searching for leadership and scenical about the answers the leaders can provide. As painful as this week has been, i firmly believe that america is not as divided as some have suggested. Almost eight years after Barack Obamas election as the nations first black president , more than four in ten African Americans are doubtful the country will ever achieve racial equality while some political leaders call for unity. We must learn to live sisters, if not we will parish as fools. The blame game is also beginning. Of all the protesters last night, they ran the other way expecting the men and women in blue to protect them, what hypocrites. At a time of Widening Pol
How can either of our decisive candidates heal the nation . Joining me for insight and analysis, Michael Eric Dyson of Georgetown University and msnbc contributor and longtime republican strategists marry madeleine and Washington Post columnist michael gerson. Welcome to sundays meet the press. This is meet the press with chuck todd. Good early sunday morning. Too early to make comparisons but we live through a week that will stand out in vent history. Headlines in the recent newspapers tell the story of a nation divided and at times feeling as if were at war with itself. The shooting of two African American men and the subsequent protest, most peaceful but there were tense confrontations. Last night in st. Paul, minnesota protesters clashed with police injuring two of them as marchers pushed past state troopers and closed a freeway. All of it exposed racial divisions in the u. S. And comes at a time of growing Political Polarization of it all with americans becoming more table separat
Of 2014, race as an american flash point came up plenty. Not only in the shootings of Michael Brown, eric garner, tamir rice and others, but the Legal Process and backlash that followed. More than half a century after the final vestiges of jim crow were torn down, housing education, voting, it was illustrated again and again in in 2014 that there is more than one way to look at america. An opportunity and rights, personal safety on the streets. This was the scene earlier in december in new york city. Washington, d. C. Chicago, and oakland. In cities across the country people took to the streets to protest the decisions of two grand juries not to indict Police Officers in the deaths of two unarmed africanamerican men. What comes as weve seen in recent days in our criminal Justice System too Many Americans feel deep unfairness when it comes to the gap of professed ideals and how laws are applied on a daytoday basis. The grand jury decisions i am inflamed protesters. And the shooting of 1
One of the caricatures mocking the prophet mohammed. And it will be after ten Staff Members were killed by masked gunmen claiming to be followers of al qaeda. Now charlie can claim its own revenge of sorts. Take a millioncopy run in multiple languages. In all, last weeks violence in paris took the lives of 17 people. That has put a spotlight on french societys tensions within that countrys muslim immigrant minorities. French muslims are 8 of the population, thats the largest in europe, many are second and third generation, from families that originally came from french colonies in africa. Unlike in the United States, frances immigrants have not simulated as well into french society. They have stayed largely marginalized in the suburbs, which are anything but the bucolic settings that americans imagine a suburb to be. Such was the case with the suspects in last weeks attack. Their families came from algeria, and the brothers were raised in a suburb in paris, where violence is widespread
Of 2014, race as an american flash point came up plenty. Not only in the shootings of Michael Brown, eric garner tamir rice and others, but the Legal Process and backlash that followed. More than half a century after the final vestiges of jim crow were torn down, housing, education, voting, it was illustrated again and again in in 2014 that there is more than one way to look at america. An opportunity and rights, personal safety on the streets. This was the scene earlier in december in new york city. Washington, d. C. Chicago, and oakland. In cities across the country people took to the streets to protest the decisions of two grand juries not to indict Police Officers in the deaths of two unarmed africanamerican men. What comes as weve seen in recent days in our criminal Justice System too Many Americans feel deep unfairness when it comes to the gap of professed ideals and how laws are applied on a daytoday basis. The grand jury decisions i am inflamed protesters. And the shooting of 1