african-american audiences, the morehouse speemeech, and in the second term, that hasn't change said. he's not doing this for politics, if he was, it would have changed. his rhetoric has always looked to some degree to transcend race, whether or not that works. that point was really well made and reported in the piece. the question i have is specifically on the area that we would call racial justice initialatives, because there are things that have to deal in the law as a factual matter, have to deal with race. that's where we have seen hesitance. you say in a meeting with civil rights leaders last year, the president urged them not to speak as if the entire voting rights act had been struck down by the supreme court, which might have led people to believe there was no way to defend their right to vote. you say that was for pragmatic reasons. i was speaking to the white house today. let me read your their starment on the new voting rights amendment act. he has called on legislation in