your critiques are objective. i think with tavis spending three years chasing down the president, unlike anything i ve ever seen before, i don t think that he can say he s an objective evaluator of the obama administration. at the end of the day you talk about the black agenda, there are three key areas we have to focus on, education, economics, mass incarceration in the criminal justice system. we don t understand. they re all connected. you don t educate these kids, put them out here without job, effectively they re more likely to go to prison. that is undermining the integrity of the black family. black women don t have men to marry because they re all locked away in the american prison system. i think president obama understands that. i hope he does. we have to hold america accountable to make sure our issues are on the table. this next block, we re going to talk about exactly this problem within the black community. i want to have you talk about this in response, reverend. in th
education than the white kids and you ve got all these kids that aren t graduating, these kids going to schools that don t have the same resources as the schools in the suburbs, that s a problem. that is jim crowe in the flesh. take the next step, mr. eric holder, you ve got to realize we ve got modern-day slavery in the prison system. the united states incorporates excuse me, they incarcerate more of its citizens than any country in the world, most of those citizens are african-americans. that leads to the deterioration of the black family because all these kids are growing up without their fathers. when you marginalize these men once they ve been released from prison, you re further adding to the marnlalization. so, economics, education and incarceration all equal together. that s what i m saying. you ask for one thing to focus on and the fact is that it s all tied together. nothing wrong with your answer. it s all good. reverend al sharpton and boyce watt k watkins, thank you.
schools because of the rate dropout rate that dr. boyce watkins talked about education, something wooif been committed to. am i going to say to the president in a meeting he made very public in the oval office, i don t care about the dropout rate of black kids and that you re giving us billions of dollars. i don t care about health care, i don t care you ve given more to the historic black college. i want you to put your fist up and say black power. then i m really more interested in symbolism than i am of the st substantive problems of our community. i understand commentators like mr. smiley who have been critical of the president to do their job. our job is to deliver something tangible. our people are in very, very serious conditions. they need a president that includes them in the change and not just gives them some retorical good feeling without results. dr. watkins, what is the