rights movement will play a role in the first republican presidential debate tomorrow. joining me, the host of nerding out on msnbc s shift. also a senior fellow at the roosevelt institute. we heard ben carson there talking about political correctness at work here. he mentioned martin o malley getting booed at net roots nation. jeb bush basically made the same point about that martin o malley comment. he said we re so upsight that you apologize for saying lives matter in i know in the political context, it is a slogan, i guess. so it is really striking to me when you ask a republican presidential candidate or a democrat presidential candidate, you re getting two different answers. one is through agenda settings. at the national urban league
we heard ben carson there talking about political correctness at work here. he mentioned martin o malley getting booed at net roots nation. jeb bush basically made the same point about that martin o malley comment. he said we re so upsight that you apologize for saying lives matter in i know in the political context, it is a slogan, i guess. so it is really striking to me when you ask a republican presidential candidate or a democrat presidential candidate, you re getting two different answers. one is through agenda settings. at the national urban league conference last week, all three of the major candidates on the democratic side, former secretary of state hillary clinton, martin o malley and bernie sanders all gave speeches addressing the demands of the black lives matter movement,
you re getting two different answers. one is through agenda settings. at the national urban league conference last week, all three of the major candidates on the democratic side, former secretary of state hillary clinton, martin o malley and bernie sanders all gave speeches addressing the demands of the black lives matter movement, around police accountability, around incarceration, disinvestment and black communities and communities of color. it is as if the movement could have written the speech that s those three democratic candidates gave. now on the republican side, you re right. they think this is silly to use ben carson s phrase. but let me tell you. you pointed to polling data. this is the second way in which movements have power. they influence public opinion and the public opinion among americans and particularly among white americans and independence has shifted dramatically in the last year cynic mike brown s killing. so you have now a majority of