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my brother s keeper a special on this initiative. the president s initiative comes two years ago to the week that trayvon martin, black 17-year-old teen was gunned down by george zimmerman. a number of parallels were drawn today between that case and another unarmed black teen jordan davis who was shot and killed for playing his music too loud by a white man. the president addressed both cases today and both boys by name. aftermath of the trayvon martin verdict and controversy that it sparked, i spoke about the need to bolster and reinforce our young men. and give them the sense that their country cares about them and values them and is willing to invest in them. i m grateful that trayvon s parents, sabrina and tracy are here along with jordan davis parents, lucy and ron. all right. we ve been covering the davis case very closely on the show and joining me now is jordan s ....
if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they ve been brought there by no fault of their own, i don t think you have a heart. texans voted on it and i still support it greatly. senator santorum those are boos, by the way, in case you could not tell. some cheers. some cheers and some boos. and let s give a little cheer to the people that were cheering. because the crowds at the gop debate have been getting scrutiny on our network here. i want to play you this clip which is a reaction shot from franc lutz. he s asking, what was the worst moment in the debate and this is someone answering that question? absolutely disgusting thing to say, when you hold up free health care or free education to people who want to get their children served in their lives ....
Death penalty can be completely opposed to the fact that we cannot administer the death penalty equally. we ve been here before. when the supreme court when i i believe it was the brennan court, right, found suspended, found it unconstitutional and then reversed years later, found unconstitutional because it said the way we re implementing it right now is violates people s rights. now fixed, now constitutional again. so we re seeing the same thing. you have to say there s something inherent as opposed i think that s where the interesting wedge is becoming on the issue. i think you re right that it s sort of like communist. if it doesn t work, it doesn t work. the death penalty has remained in this country for decades. when saw in the davis case was the beginning of a sort of wedge question which is, well, maybe you do sment the death penalty in theory but like you oppose it ....
So many problems with the death penalty as it functions today. it s carried out or it s supplied in a clearly racist manner. it punishes the poor. it s poor people who are on death row, not rich people. and, of course, it condemns innocent people to die. we ve seen that demonstrated again and again. so, i think that, you know, troy davis put a human face on all of those things. you could wallpaper the supreme court with the studies that have been done about racial inequality, class inequality, all of these things. when you have a human face, a name and a case that people start to recognize, i think that s what really drives this home for people. so, i think that was really what was behind this energy around this execution. it s important to remember also this was actually the fourth time troy davis had faced execution, that had come within an hour, within minutes literally of execution. so, i think it s really opened up, i hope it s opened up, a discussion about the death penalty. ha ....