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Profile and this can go back to the uva rape case falsely reported at stone, the new york city subway system. i think it s important to put both things in perspective while liberals sometimes rush to judgment on the other side. joining me now charles blow, l.j. grammarson, and john mcwarter and contributing editor for the atlantic. it s great to have you all here. l.z., let me begin with you. we heard there was so much attention given to this one case and not nearly enough on the shootings in chicago or the other hate crimes borne out in the country. but you ought to recognize two things. ....
Related to all black folks, maybe you re not citizens. when you attack george w. bush or bill clinton, it does not reflect on white people s contributions to the american oh, no, i think justin bieber set back white people 500 years. right back to 1514 when ka person cuss found saturn. doing it all over again. jonathan and jalani, john, and laura will hang out a little bit longer. when we come back, why to understand the immigration debate in washington you first need to understand what is happening in the state of arizona. an incredible look at what is happening on the ground is up next. if you ve got copd like me. .hey breathing s hard. know the feeling? copd includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis. spiriva is a once-daily inhaled copd maintenance treatment that helps open my obstructed airways for a full 24 hours. ....
Recently by sherman himself. just because you hear it, compton, you hear watts, you just think thug, he s a gangster, he s this, that, and the other, and then you hear stanford, and oh, man, that doesn t make sense, it s an oxymoron, and you fight it for so long, and to have it come back up, and people start to use it again, it s really frustrating. back with me is laura flanders, host and founder of grit tv, and jonathan, msnbc contributor and opinion writer for the washington post, and joining is jalani of the university of connecticut and john mcwarter, columnist for the new republic and time magazine. all right. less about whether or not we want to defend a seattle seahawk who beat the new orleans saints twice. because who wants to do that. and more about whether or not in this moment, we learn something about the continuing realities of race in america. well, we absolutely did. ....
Or any of it, and still get us ratings. the other part of it was that he was also loud. he was also screaming into the microphone, which i think for a lot of people found, as one person said to me, frightening. a minute after the game. right. and that s the thing. he s just off the field. he did this incredible play. you could hear the crowd cheering in the background. of course, to him, it s loud, he s trying to get his voice heard over the stadium audience, which we all we ve got microphones on right now. i don t have to speak as loudly as i m speaking for the audience at home to hear me. you know, the thing about what richard sherman did, i didn t find frightening at all. i don t blame lebron james for bringing up richard sherman s stanford degree, because for what john was saying, thug has such a negative connotation. very negative. i agree with sherman, it s a new way of saying the n word. and when i heard him say that, i thought, oh, my god, he s ....