publishing houses and they said no book exists with a black female protagonist that s a crime solver in a wide spectrum and when i heard this character does not exist in the literary world of thrillers, it was inspiring for me to keep going. and, you know, this is so personal for you. you tragically did lose your older sister to a crime of domestic violence. so you take very personally these stories of loss and you do such a brilliant job in interviewing victims on your show, the tamron hall show. talk about this issue of missing black girls and trying to get their stories out because that is what, you know, this incredible crime fighter jordan manning is trying to do. she is following this case but really, joy, she s inspired to something in 1997. i was in dallas and 1997, i covered the death of an 11-year-old child then i moved to chicago, another 11-year-old
gave his speech back in 1963. so i think that s another step we should take. so a lot of you are responding, as you just heard josh mention already, to what we re attempting to here on the blog. got a comment to share from frank. the problem is that it seems to be human nature to want to feel superior. let s keep the conversation going here. i don t think it will be difficult to do that. you can still weigh in. go to the blog page at cnn.com/tony. we re also on facebook and twitter. you can hit me up and you can hit josh up as well. of course, josh is going to have an opportunity to trace the comments for us and we ll get back to him in a couple of minutes. a man expresses his love for his brother by giving him a portion of his liver. it is the ultimate sacrifice, but he d do it again. but sadly the story does not end there. and, rob is tracking weekend
you understand where she is coming from. she goes by dr. laura, has a phd from columbia and certification in child counseling. and she has a huge reach. her show is heard on more than 400 stations and she reaches about 9 million listeners weekly. so even if you re looking at how many people heard her the first time before it got caught on the news and everyone is watching online. we re talking about a huge audience, tony. josh, thank you. dr. laura s on-errant presents another opportunities for us to look at the bigger picture, how america can start a national conversation on race and racism. we re going to try. i will talk to william cob associate prefer of history in spellman college in five minutes. ou, sir. as we all know, geico has been saving people money on rv, camper and trailer insurance. .as well as motorcycle insurance. gecko: oh.sorry, technical difficulties. boss: uh.what about this? gecko: what s this one do? gecko: um.maybe that one. dance music
business official a couple of days ago who told me the reason why he thinks they re sitting on cash is they are, frankly, nervous, uncertain as to whether the recovery will take hold and he thinks we will be in this state of affairs for up to four years. i was stunned when he told me that in this private conversation, and that s one business official. there s a lot of uncertainty and angst out there in the business community and among consumers. we ve seven that. yesterday in the democratic pollster said he thinks this is the jetblue election where everyone is screaming and running for the emergency exits. that s trouble for the people in power. ed henry, thank you. we will be monitoring the white house briefing and bring you some of that when it happens. ed mentioning at the top of the hour.
boy, this is a really heart-breaking story. those stories and your comments right here right now in the cnn newsroom. on the explosive issue of race, again, radio host laura schlesinger uses the n word on the air in her conversation way black female caller complaining about her white husband s sounding friends disintegrated into this. yeah, i think you have too much sensitivity. it is okay to say [ bleep ]? it depends how it s said. is it ever okay to say it? black guys talking to each other think it s okay. you re not black. my husband s white. i see, a word is restricted to race. got it. i can t do it. i can t believe someone like you is on the radio spewing out