retail stores, then you put the police overlay on it. so it s the aggregate of all the data that we can command here to suggest there are tremendously difficult things that black people and brown people and other poor people have to deal with who are people of color. and i ll tell you what else, chris, which is amazing to me, is that what many of our white brothers and sisters don t understand again is that the same kind of arguments they re making now were made against martin luther king jr. you re an interloper, you re exaggerating, you re addicted to the media, you re coming into places where black people get along with white people without your kind of intervention, there s not much racism here, you re making it up. the same thing was said in the 50s and 60s and 70s. i know. i ve done the history. i know what was said. martin luther king jr. had a letter written to him by, what, seven protestant clergy and a rabbi. you know, you re creating trouble, you re creating tension, this
racial realities in this country that have to be dealt-w poor schooling, horrible neighborhoods, the way in which people are racially profiled in retail stores, then you put the police overlay on it. so it s the aggregate of all the data that we can command here to suggest there are tremendously difficult things that black people and brown people and other poor people have to deal with who are people of color. and i ll tell you what else, chris, which is amazing to me, is that what many of our white brothers and sisters don t understand again is that the same kind of arguments they re making now were made against martin luther king jr. you re an interloper, you re exaggerating, you re addicted to the media, you re coming into places where black people get along with white people without your kind of intervention, there s not much racism here, you re making it up. the same thing was said in the 50s and 60s and 70s. i know. i ve done the history. i know what was said. martin luther ki
i know. i ve done the history. i know what was said. martin luther king jr. had a letter written to him by, what, seven protestant clergy and a rabbi. you know, you re creating trouble, you re creating tension, this is a problem here. so dr. king said, you know, what we have to do is to understand that america is so deeply infected with racial bias, both conscious and unconscious, that we just can t even begin to understand how deeply indebted we are to certain kinds of racial logics that make what many white brothers and sisters think seeing common sense and what black people think is paranoid and invented and made up. michael eric dyson, always a pleasure. thank you. thank you, my friend. all right. attorney general eric holder got before a microphone today and dropped some jaw-dropping truth about the police department in the city of cleveland. the worst parts of that, ahead. hands up, don t shoot! are all the green lights you? no. it s called grid iq. the 4:51 is leaving at