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Me let me finish. here s the difference between going to a lunch counter and getting arrested. because you should have the right to go to a lunch counter in the first place. these players, none of us, we work for cnn. we couldn t just decide to walk out of here right now as a protest and not face consequences from our employer. so why would they be trying to do a brave act and then when they face the consequences of it, they re up in arms about it. they re not up in arms about it. the president is up in arms about it. they did not want to go. if the president was serious about this and let s just get the bs, he would have malcolm jenkins in the white house talking about criminal justice reform. real serious people in the white house talking about criminal justice reform. everything single thing he does is calculated chess move in a cultural war, a larger cultural ....
But it s going to take everybody putting pressure and we can t just rely on our civil rights leaders to carry this, alone. every single one of you has a responsibility as a citizen to get involved and say something. can i just jump in on this? because the part of the the excerpt that you just showed is actually from a film that stanley nelson has created that s going to be released tomorrow. this is something i thought was really important because i fear that we may not recognize how long this struggle around how black people are treated in the public space has been with us. this is a core element of the civil rights movement. if we think about the freedom rides, if we think about lunch counter sit-ins, rosa parks on the bus, the essence of the struggle was about our kdignity in the public space. and right to be treated as full citizens and this is on a continuum with that. one of the things that s been fascinating about this cultural moment, and i think frankly for a lot of whit ....
And everyone should have the opportunity to have that benefit. so it s not even just about our feelings. if i have paid for something in that store and purchased thinged, i should also be able to eat my lunch at that counter rather than go someplace else because i also have meetings. every time a cab passes me by in new york city with the light on, it means i m late for a meeting that i need go to and i m a person who runs an organization. so in some ways we want to make sure internally in the family we talk about the way in which it makes us feel but i think we have to quantify that this is about dollars and cents. this is about our ability to function in society, our kids and what they have access to, about your ability to write that paper someplace, your ability to raise money and so forth and i think sometimes we get away from that and i think it s important to ground ourselves in the reason for those battles. the reasons for the lunch counter sit-ins, freedom rides, wasn t just ab ....
Raise money and so forth and i think sometimes we get away thefrom that. it s important to ground ourselves in that the reason for the freedom rides and the lunch counter sit ins, it wasn t just about our feelings and dignity but about what does it mean to be a full citizen with all the benefits, the privileges of that. sherrilyn, appreciate you being here. sherrilyn eiffel, thank you so much. rev and valerie, stay with us. up next, we explore the psychology behind why people call the cops when no crime is being committed. as we go to break, we went around the country listening to stories of bias in everyday life. here s one. it was surreal, looking around and seeing all this activity and understanding immediately what was happening. when did things go wrong? we were packing our vehicle, we are driving out, out of the blue police cars swoop down in front of us and behind us and cops are jumping out of their vehicles, hands on their hols r ....
Shir ly sherrilyn said, like an other, or threatening when you re trying to go about your day to day life. it s dishearting but i give starbucks credit. they stepped into the fray and they said what they were going to do and they made not a one-time commitment but a long-term commitment and hopefully they re leading by example and other companies will see they have to do the same. disney did that today and hopefully we re beginning to change the tone. but it will take everybody putting pressure and we can t just rely on our civil rights leaders to carry this alone. every single one of you has a responsibility as a citizen to get involved and say something. can i just jump in on this? because the part of the the excerpt that you just showed is from a film that stanley nelson has created that will be released tomorrow and this is something i thought was really important, because i fear that we may not recognize how long this struggle around how black people are treated in the public ....